Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

saw that in one of your clips…thing sounded great..

He's a helluva player. Prolly could make a uke sound good.

 

[dagrev]

Was the same age when i started playing, i chose bass cause my brother chose guitar.
As it turned out, he was able to play bass down the road like he's been playing it forever.
Put a guitar in my hands and i'm clueless.

I was later teens when I began tinkering with bass. As much as anything I heard bass live and just loved that big sound. Still love to hear a bass being played and feel that power. I can play some guitar, poorly. If I needed to learn a typical song I generally could, but I don't practice mainly because I don't care to play guitar. Just doesn't have any magic for me like playing bass. I find chording difficult because all those little sissy strings are too close together. Maybe I need a classical guitar. (Not going to happen.)

 

[Stealth57]

Only one amp and 4 basses here.
And i think 4 are too many.

Talking amps, right?

 

[dagrev]

hadn’t had a driving ticket in over 40 years and just got two in six months….. not happy at all….. first one was at night….. the CHP SOB revved his Charger behind me on an on ramp (should have guessed he was a cop from the headlights) and I took off hard in my Camaro thinking he wanted to race…..WRONG!…was so pissed…second time on the highway during the day doing 82 in a 65 he was right there off the side of the road using LIDAR that muy escort detector failed to pickup…..
wrote me up for 75 instead of 82….apparently there have more highway deaths in CA since before COVID so the troopers are on a mission…..heck, I barely remember seeing a a cruiser on the highway during all of COVID…..now they’re everywhere…the iPhone GPS actually warns you but I had it off that day….…..​

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I was later teens when I began tinkering with bass. As much as anything I heard bass live and just loved that big sound. Still love to hear a bass being played and feel that power. I can play some guitar, poorly. If I needed to learn a typical song I generally could, but I don't practice mainly because I don't care to play guitar. Just doesn't have any magic for me like playing bass. I find chording difficult because all those little sissy strings are too close together. Maybe I need a classical guitar. (Not going to happen.)

ever notice people (other muzos) seem ok with a guitarist who plays bass but not the other way around?…..or is it me?…
myself, a bass player and only that from day one…

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I would have told him to F*** Off.

so inconsequential…..yank the bassist from any lineup and see if it’s still worth listening to…..
you may say; “all the more reason”….myself, I couldn’t give a toss…

 

[MCF]

I can’t play guitar at all, but I think if I were to get guitar lessons, it would seriously improve my bass playing, because there will be a lot of crossover information, and having an understanding of guitar chords and what the guitar player is doing, would help with coming up with interesting basslines.

I played some acoustic in the eighties and early nineties for my own amusement. Mostly Neil Young. I wasn’t all that good and hardly pick it up now. But you’re correct. Knowing it can help with bass playing.

 

[Ringhammer]

I have several basses up here and the SVT rig in the basement. They’re all fine.

You leave a few basses up at a house you have in the mountains? Does this mean that you have instruments left at a place that is unoccupied for periods of time on the winter (and summer?) which will get down to freezing temps (and 100+ in the summer)? If so, how do you store your basses?

 

[godofthunder59]

My latest toy Joyo British sound pedal. I'm just exploring it but I'm pretty obsessed with it.

 

[Stealth57]

You leave a few basses up at a house you have in the mountains? Does this mean that you have instruments left at a place that is unoccupied for periods of time on the winter (and summer?) which will get down to freezing temps (and 100+ in the summer)? If so, how do you store your basses?

Thought you were going in a completely different direction. Like, when, again, won’t you be there?

 

[bobyoung53]

Amps:
Late 70's Lab Series L2
Late 70's Lab Series L2
Late 70's Lab Series L4
1977 Hiwatt DR103
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Cabs:
Ashdown ABM115
Ashdown ABM410
EBS CL210

Combos:
Hartke kickback (can't recall the model...)

So I basically am one cab down. The L4 is in need of some mending so there's no hurry thankfully...

Years ago I used a Lab 4 x 12 cab with an SVT and an SVT cab (8 x 10), pretty sure it was a guitar cab owned by someone in the band but it sounded great with the fridge.

 

[MCF]

Someone is here most times. Except like the last three weeks or so when the storms were happening. The basses are in their cases when I’m not here and stored in a bedroom closet. The amp head and cab are in their covers. When we’re not here in winter, the heat is set at 50. It rarely gets above 85 in the house during the summer and we have central air that we use if we’re here and it’s hot.

 

[bobyoung53]

I had to look it up. It was ‘75. And 511 were arrested over five nights. “Seventy-five officers were deployed during each of the Pink Floyd performances, according to police. Of the arrests made, 209 were inside the Sports Arena and 302 were outside.”

Man! Talk about putting a damper on live music. Could you imagine being stoned and grooving out to 'Us And them' and all of a sudden you hear directed at you: "Hey you $#%% hippy! You're under arrest!"

 

[Ringhammer]

Someone is here most times. Except like the last three weeks or so when the storms were happening. The basses are in their cases when I’m not here and stored in a bedroom closet. The amp head and cab are in their covers. When we’re not here in winter, the heat is set at 50. It rarely gets above 85 in the house during the summer and we have central air that we use if we’re here and it’s hot.

So the house is always at a good temperature. I asked because my family has a house/cabin in the sierra hills (4200ft) up here, above Sonora, and while it is used often, it is unoccupied for weeks or a month or so at a time, and therefore the house gets very cold and very hot. I have a little combo amp I leave there but I won’t leave any basses there, as much as I would like to. I always bring along a couple of basses when we go there. Plug in the little Combe and play out on the deck, or, in winter, play in the living room with headphones. I get a lot done when we get to go there and I’m (mostly) dis-connected from work.

 

[bobyoung53]

Amps:

Mesa M2000 650w tube/fet hybrid

Ashdown 550 Spyder Twin-Tube Pre

TC Electronics BG250 ss head

'76 Ampeg 30w tube 'Portaflex flip-top' head

Cabs:

Carvin 1x18

Eden 2x10

'76 Ampeg B15N

Combo amps:

Acoustic B20 1x12 combo

TC Electronics BG250 112 combo

Basses:

no info

It's amp day? I may have forgotten a few.

1959 Ampeg Bassamp 835
1966 (?) Ampeg B-18
Two early 70's Ampeg SVT flatback 810 cabs -avatar
1970's Ampeg V4-B cab (monster, same size as SVT cabs but twice as deep)
1977 Ampeg B-15S
1970 Ampeg 6146B Ampeg SVT head (screamer)
1977 Ampeg SVT head -avatar
1978 Ampeg SVT head - avatar
(2) 1990's SS 100 W Ampeg B-15T's
1967 drip edge silverface Fender Bassman 212 large cab
1967 blackface Fender Dual Showman head
1970 Marshall Major 200 watt head
Late 60's Alamo Fury 25 watt tube combo amp (SS preamp)

 

[JIO]

Status Quo did it right. Bass player in the highest corner. Mind you, the late Alan Lancaster was a short arse and needed the boost.

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Great location for a band pic!

 

[JIO]

I keep hearing people discuss this concept, but I am unfamiliar with it. Is it one of those things that people talk about in theory but can't actually occur - like using a cell phone for a phone call?

You're saying that like it's bad thing! (right Mike?)

 

[BklynKen]

Got my Seymour Duncan Custom Shop pickups in today and a quick setup done.

I did look at some of the more "boutique" options, but after converting to AUD and shipping here this was the most economical method by a long shot and I've had three other sets of regular Duncan's and been happy with all of them.

I have never played any Tbird apart from my own which had the standard 2009 pickups in it since I bought it new, so it was perhaps silly to spec something different from stock, but I figured if I was going Custom Shop I was going to get custom, so I asked for "Bright, vintage wind on the neck while bridge to be hotter and more gnarly - but not to the point that they don’t work in tandem as a set."

Standard DC resistance according to the website is 12.3k, 12.5k while these are marked as 7.89k, 9.49k and wound by MJ. I don't really know what that means or how they differ from stock, but they sound great through my Ampeg. For the first time ever I am rolling between bridge and neck and messing with the blend and tone pot, just like I do on my (also SD loaded - Pearly Gates) Les Paul.

Still the honeymoon phase but really, really happy so far.

That's really cool! Please tell us more about it. What did these go into? Do you still have the 2009? Comparisons would be great.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

sauerbraten mit pommes frittes….
hmmm…..wonder why you can find that here……

 

[dagrev]

ever notice people (other muzos) seem ok with a guitarist who plays bass but not the other way around?…..or is it me?…
myself, a bass player and only that from day one…

I think your observation is correct.

I think bass players are more satisfied and fulfilled and don't seem to have some kind of P envy thing (Freud), to make up for, and thus don't need to play guitar.