Thunderbird Club

[JJR58]

After trying DI and now a mic, I found it much easier to get the bass to cut through mic’ed. Or maybe it’s the B-100r.

What ever you are doing is working.

 

[WillyW]

Just waiting on the headstock decal and pickups.

then wire it up and play..

 

[JJR58]

Time to play a few notes.

 

[MCF]

Yours is pretty sweet too Marshall.

Thanks Jeff. It is. I owe our friend George a ton of thanks for passing it on to me.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

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Scofield is amazing at all he does.

totally agree….smart too, knows his audience, literally “owns” the bay area….was playing Birds and Jerry Garcia tunes to a pretty happy audience…

 

[semiprohooker]

Just waiting on the headstock decal and pickups.

then wire it up and play..

That's really cool

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Time to play a few notes.

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[GonePlaid]

First gig in quite some time. Venue was really cool, converted railroad maintenance shed.

Took the Ric instead of the T-Bird but have to say, I missed the T-Bird’s punch and having to use an undersized house amp did not help. Still really fun.

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[Bassmike62]

Now why would one of these be headed to my domicile?

Whoa !!! I would totally know what to do wit dat

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

My phone makes these videos.........I don't even have to ask it.
It was a lovely Summer, I will have my memories of you all. Thank you!

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how cool is that! the GTG in a nutshell….thx for sharing

 

[semiprohooker]

Whoa !!! I would totally know what to do wit dat

I've got a couple of ideas

 

[Stealth57]

Time to play a few notes.

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Tough to play that side.

 

[Engle]

Just the "normal noises" here at the asylum!

Some very nice Canadians visited Seattle, I dragged a "local miscreant" out as well!

It was great getting to hang out! And checking out the royal bass collection was also awesome.

 

[Gaolee]

Now why would one of these be headed to my domicile?

I can think of only two reasons. Fenderbird or cutting it up for model railroad parts.

 

[Gaolee]

You miss 12 hours in this group and you might as well pull up a cold drink and kick your feet up cuz it's gonna take you a minute to catch up. Lolol

No kidding. I have been on the road and in meetings, which means I missed about a zillion comments. Declaring club bankruptcy and just going to the latest page is how I keep sane after missing three or four days.

 

[TBird1958]

I can think of only two reasons. Fenderbird or cutting it up for model railroad parts.

I'll make an HO Scale railroad bridge out of it!

 

[Gaolee]

So I could ask this question in the luthiers chats but we seem to have quite few "get 'er done" types in here. Looking at a bass with an "almost but not quite stripped truss rod nut. Takes a 90° hex key at the heel to access it and it's welded on so it's not getting replaced. At least not without a fight (did somebody say roasted maple?). Any ideas to deal with that?

My brain says a torx driver might be a good ticket. I've heard of those "grabbers" from Stew Mac. Maybe notching it somehow for a flathead? JB Weld an extension of some sort in it?

It would depend on how knuckleheaded I felt at the time. One thing that comes to my mind, depending on whether you can thread a new trussrod in or not is an EZ-out. I used (and broke) a bunch of those getting rusty cars apart as a kid.

 

[dagrev]

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Ahh, much better.

Yeah, the new strings really make it pop.

 

[dagrev]

Scofield is amazing at all he does.

Yes he is. Some of it I really like and some of it I don't really care for, but it's all definitely amazing.

 

[dagrev]

Geesh. I take a 3 week vacation and only 115 pages behind.

And it's been kinda slow....