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Thunderbird Club

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dagrev said:
Great, great pic!:thumbsup:
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It was a fun weekend Donnie. Hopefully we can have a great event next summer in Seattle.

We kicked things off with pizza and Thunderbird playing at Chucky’s Friday night. Saturday included six and a half hours of playing Thunderbirds and assorted other basses through some vintage amps at More Music in Santa Cruz were host David Haniloff and his guitarist assistant Becca made us feel at home. We has a great dinner at Ridgemark Golf Club in Hollister (I highly recommended the Cowboy Burger). We had a pleasant Sunday Breakfast at Flapjack’s in Tres Pinos. We went to Damn Winery in Hollister for the better part of the afternoon where we enjoyed listening to Becca play her guitar for a couple of sets with Chucky and the John Michael Band. We adjourned to Chucky’s for more Thunderbird goodness and conversation. We capped off the evening with a late supper at a local Mexican grill. A few of us stragglers are meeting this morning for breakfast before loading the cars and heading home.

I want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended and Chucky for their friendship and generosity.

Is this a great club or what?
 
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JJR58 said:
The host with the most.
@Chucky Stiletti
This year was even more special than last year.
What a great group of people and such an honor to be with you all.
Sad this will all end for me Wednesday morning.
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For those that don't know, Jeff is the cool kid everyone wants to hang with. Chucky is the pied piper of the bass. When he starts playing, everyone is drawn in to listen.
 
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MCF said:
It was a fun weekend Donnie. Hopefully we can have a great event next summer in Seattle.

We kicked things off with pizza and Thunderbird playing at Chucky’s Friday night. Saturday included six and a half hours of playing Thunderbirds and assorted other basses through some vintage amps at More Music in Santa Cruz were host David Haniloff and his guitarist assistant Becca made us feel at home. We has a great dinner at Ridgemark Golf Club in Hollister (I highly recommended the Cowboy Burger). We had a pleasant Sunday Breakfast at Flapjack’s in Tres Pinos. We went to Damn Winery in Hollister for the better part of the afternoon where we enjoyed listening to Becca play her guitar for a couple of sets with Chucky and the John Michael Band. We adjourned to Chucky’s for more Thunderbird goodness and conversation. We capped off the evening with a late supper at a local Mexican grill. A few of us stragglers are meeting this morning for breakfast before loading the cars and heading home.

I want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended and Chucky for their friendship and generosity.

Is this a great club or what?
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Glad to hear it was such a great time, and everyone made it there and back safely!
 
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If it weren’t for our Queen…..
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semiprohooker said:
There's not really anything project about it. Couple little details that would make it prettier, but it's fully rocking and rolling. I can go turn it around and play it right now (But those tubes will create extra heat and my AC compressor took a dump tonight and it's 86°F in my house right now with anticipated temps of 110 tomorrow. Yay!) and it'll sound great. That's how I was able to make my profiles of it.
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It would probably like living in the Northwest. Do I really need another amp, especially a heavy one that I wouldn't be too thrilled to pile into the back of the van under a boatload of other PA stuff and stands and whatnot? Hmmm....
 
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Stealth57 said:
@MCF thanks for tweaking the bridge on my 2015. That change really lowered the setup. I’ll take your suggestion and lower the pickups as I am now hearing some chorus.
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2015s are truly a different kind of beast from the usual Thunderbird. They couldn't be mistaken for anything else, of course, but their care and feeding is different.
 
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