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Thunderbird Club

#24,161
Drestakil said:
I know this post was from a few days back but I wasn't comfortable posting this response then. I wanted to make sure my idea would work first and even now, my only claim is that it works for me. In the ten's of thousand's of posts that have been made on here, this idea has probably been posted before.
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This is not the best picture but I didn't want to bother taking another one. The strap really doesn't sit on my neck. I just didn't bother to adjust it first.

It took about 30 minutes of playing to get used to it and maybe another 30 minutes to know I wouldn't be going back. Rigging the strap like this not only totally gets rid of neck dive (I know, it's just a myth) it brings the headstock a few inches closer to my body for an easier reach to the first position. It also seems to keep my right wrist straighter and more relaxed since I'm not fighting the mythical neck dive. I am going to redo my strap (again) and add a Magpul quick release for a straplock.
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That never even occurred to me.

That's brilliant, like a Guinness commercial
 
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#24,162
hillerup said:
So, how are those OLP Stingrays compared to the real stuff and a Thunderbird?
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You talkin' to me?

I own a mint '77 Sting Ray which I got in a straight for my first white '77 Bicentennial in '84. It's lived under my bed ever since because it weighs 12 lbs but it's a GREAT sounding 2 band active ALNICO pickup bass. My late 90's OLP Stingray OTOH is very light, plays well and sounds totally generic. I have an original 70s Stingray preamp I've been planning to install in it along with a Seymour Duncan repro pickup so I can sell the pristine '77. Too many projects.

As you know, I own a replacement '77 Bicen, it's also expendable...and the black butchered one is going on the blockwhen I restore it.

I'll be perfectly happy with my '60s TBirds and the retro'd OLP.

Thanks for asking! :laugh:

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#24,163
Bent77 said:
That never even occurred to me.

That's brilliant, like a Guinness commercial
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Thank you. It only works if the strap button is on the horn. If you want to try it just take the strap button off, run the screw through a washer and screw both end of the strap to the horn. If you don't like it, no harm. Just put it back like it was.
 
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#24,166
godofthunder59 said:
I finally got my Cardinal Red 66 Thunderbird gone over and set up the way I like. This thing sounds amazing! Big and wolly, louder than some of my others and sustain for days. Love it through my Orange rig.View attachment 1039090
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Nice looking bass. Are those Orange cabs the 2 x 12" "isobaric" ones, with the speakers mounted one behind the other?
 
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Gaolee said:
I was surprised that I could do it, because I'm not the world's best coordinated person. Playing both helps both. I probably play bass like a drummer and drums like a bass player.
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Similar here- it's definitely a perspective broadener and lends a little wisening to your musicianship. If you can sit at a kit you should def do it.
 
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Count Bassie said:
Similar here- it's definitely a perspective broadener and lends a little wisening to your musicianship. If you can sit at a kit you should def do it.
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I bet. I have the sitting at the kit part down. The challenge is the getting all four appendages to work independently in creating something rhythmic.:thumbsup:
 
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Stevis said:
I bet. I have the sitting at the kit part down. The challenge is the getting all four appendages to work independently in creating something rhythmic.:thumbsup:
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You can get a lot out of it doing simple stuff. If you can learn a couple basic approaches, like a surf-rock pattern or a simple blues feel, that can set you into a groove. Keeping it real simple will get you there.

Terry Bozzio, I ain't trying to go there... ha.
 
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bylar13 said:
So, I saw a nice Pelham blue, TB on Reverb and was wondering (since I am new to Thunderbirds) if the NR feels significantly different than the reverse body stylefrom a playing perspective? There is nothing wrong with one of each....right?
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It is nice to have both directions of TBird. The room is kind of a mess but so am I.

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There was a lot of terrible music around when I was young - which at the time obscured all of the truly great music which was also around.

The best we had was a 'light entertainment' program on the telly on Saturdays with a house band playing covers of top 40 hits, which at the time were guaranteed to be middle of the road sludge, or an occasional original band on one of the Sunday talent shows.

And then this happened:



It seems so tame now and yet my grandfather was looking for his bayonet...
 
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kat888 said:
There was a lot of terrible music around when I was young - which at the time obscured all of the truly great music which was also around.

The best we had was a 'light entertainment' program on the telly on Saturdays with a house band playing covers of top 40 hits, which at the time were guaranteed to be middle of the road sludge, or an occasional original band on one of the Sunday talent shows.

And then this happened:



It seems so tame now and yet my grandfather was looking for his bayonet...
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There's always lots of terrible music.

Sturgeon's Law is timeless.

Luckily, we usually forget most of the crap, because it's... well... forgettable.
 
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I was a child of the 60s, most of my early recollections of music were of the Beatles, then the Stones mixed in with all the other Mersey beat acts like Billy Fury and good ole Gerry and the Pacemakers etc. It wasn't really my thing so I wasn't an natural music lover but then I heard "Coz I luv you" by Slade and all of a sudden I was a lifelong Slade fan, then I saw the Quo with Slade and that really fixed me on my preferred musical genre, to this day my favourite music is of that era. I didn't have any great ambition to play a guitar, I had done a couple of years of violin before giving it up because every bugger took the piss. I was very aware that the bass line in Coz I luv you was epic even through the transistor radios that were popular at the time; then Golden Earing appeared on the UK music program Top of the pops and I was blown away by that simple bass line. Then mid 70s punk hit the UK with a bang and well that was right up my street, a good mate of mine was in a band that regularly backed up some of the more well known bands in London at the time so that was my introduction to that scene. Well that's were I did my gigging years, raucous, loud and fast and then for reasons that to this day are still unknown to me I jacked in and joined the bloody navy :roflmao:
 
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