Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

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Very cool.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

@JIO 's request, I mixed I'm a Man with all three birds. Definitely has a richer feel to me, but then I have no ear...

Sounds really PHAT! And with a loose groove.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

When our little brother was a kid, my sister and I would pay him to chug fizzy tonic water. More potent than soda pop for gaseous belching. He could say a sentence in one continuous burp. But you could see he hated the nasty stuff.

In retrospect - it may have been the dry heaves and not simply belching.

Somewhere there exists a cassette tape we recorded him on. He's worried I will play it for his wife.

We used to see how much of a song lyric we could belch like that. It was a blast! (sic)

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I learned palm muting playing guitar to The Ventures when I was a kid. The drummer was Canned Heat's bassist Larry Taylor's brother, Mel Taylor, great drummer.


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The Ventures was one of the groups whose songs I learned guitar to! Not that I was ever that good.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I read both - MAD was more 'high-illustration/cold-war/beatnik' comparatively. NL was 'college' sophomoric humor, or at least that's more how I 'read' it. Although, The National Lampoon's "Animal House" was pretty... sophomoric.

Agreed. Even when MAD humor was sophomoric on the surface, there was usually a more serious subtext.

Also, AL Jaffee died on the 10th of this month. 8^(

 

[Miles_ONeal]

So students, here’s the math problem for the day…
If Bobby started reading one hour ago at 16 pages back, during which time he posted at least one message before 9 more pages appeared, how many more pages will Bobby need to read to catch up to the latest post and how many hours will it take him to do that?

The correct answer is "All of them". To both.

 

[Stealth57]

Sounds really PHAT! And with a lose groove.

First read was “screw loose.” Maybe decelexia brings you closer to the truth.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Word.

A man who knows his stuff and why!

I just thought they made better wood back then!

Ahem!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

N+1?

"How many Thunderbirds does each of us need?"

 

[JIO]

Lafayette was a competitor to Radio Shack. Most of their gear was better quality than Radio Shack. The instruments I wanted tended to be three color bursts or, e.g., bright green sparkle, with 3-4 pickups. Bling bling bling!

Thanks for clearing that up Miles - it was a long time ago and I assumed Lafayette was associated w/Radio Shack.

 

[JIO]

Agreed. Even when MAD humor was sophomoric on the surface, there was usually a more serious subtext.

Also, AL Jaffee died on the 10th of this month. 8^(

I know - I read all about it. MAD was more of an adult comic-magazine posing as something for kids. Rocky & Bullwinkle (same time period) was like that too. Both from a '50s bohemian political/intellectual sensibility.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

You can do no wrong regardless of how you play.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I know - I read all about it. MAD was more of an adult comic-magazine posing as something for kids. Rocky & Bullwinkle (same time period) was like that too. Both from a '50s bohemian political/intellectual sensibility.

Yeah! I love things that work well on kid and adult levels. Both of those were master classes in the art.

 

[JIO]

Yeah! I love things that work well on kid and adult levels. Both of those were master classes in the art.

I can't imagine what kids are exposed to today...

 

[Gaolee]

Thanks for posting that Ken.
It's one of those things that is obvious once someone points it out: the largest point of string deflection moves as you shorten the string length by fretting. Even more of a mind bender when you think about setting the relief on a multiscale bass!

Get it pretty flat and don't worry. That is my take.

 

[JIO]

Get it pretty flat and don't worry. That is my take.

How the action is on a bass (related to the flatness or amount of bow) is the most subjective part of playing and everyone has their own preference. From what I've read, James Jamerson - who also played upright, had his strings a mile off the fb.

 

[bobyoung53]

The Ventures was one of the groups whose songs I learned guitar to! Not that I was ever that good.

I still remember all those tunes, I couldn't play anywhere near as well as Nokie Edwards so I had to simplify some of them, I was too lazy to try to learn them the right way, I'm talking the lead breaks not the bodies of the songs. He was a very good player.

 

[Engle]

42 is just fine on the upright.

I'm also really enjoying my 38" scale upright.

 

[Engle]

How the action is on a bass (related to the flatness or amount of bow) is the most subjective part of playing and everyone has their own preference. From what I've read, James Jamerson - who also played upright, had his strings a mile off the fb.

Just a bit works for me. I'm very unscientific with my approach. I adjust to the point where I can just tap the string against a fret in the middle of the board when I'm holding it down at each end. I have never used a gauge to measure relief, even though I have feeler gauges handy.

 

[MCF]

That looks kind'a cool. Is it medium-scale or short-scale? The Original short-lived Fender Rascal had 3 lipstick pu's.

I had the hots for a Fender Rascal when they came out. Not sure why I didn’t pull the trigger. Then I got the ‘15 Thunderbird and never looked back.