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Thunderbird Club

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Gaolee said:
I always got along well with ox-cart SU carburetors. The amazing intake hiss they make was a big part of my enjoyment of the TR-2 I had as a kid. And the Austin Healy my dad had and the MGB I had in the late 1980s and early 1990s. By 1992, I had to grow up and more or less be an adult because I had a kid. Now he's out of the house, so I can revert to wrestling with English machinery. It hasn't happened yet.

I think of Gibson basses, especially Thunderbirds, as the same kind of quirky and not for everyone that English roadsters are.
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GonePlaid said:
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Highest point in Florida is like 300 and some change feet high............:laugh:

Washington Rules! :roflmao:

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kyral210 said:
Don’t get me wrong, I play an epiphone pro because of its woods and construction. I installed custom 12k RDC humbuckers and pushed them into a Darkglass Tone Capsule. However, I do this with vanity because I want the body shape. If I loved the P shape as much, I would throw these pickups in and use the same preamp.

Quarter Pound™ P-Bass 4 String Pickup | Seymour Duncan
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great pup…..got one on an SD Curlee
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….can’t really compare to one of these however…
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Chucky Stiletti said:
interesting opinion, one we don’t share however…..for me it’s about the (sometimes illegal) mahogany and high output (over 9kOhm RDC) humbucker…..if any of my Ps could get closer to this, they would be gigged more often…..:cool:
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Love that slide! I tend throw that in where I can - think I learned it watching Entwistle.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Who’s this “we” person you’re talking about.

I gravitated to humbucker equipped basses because after years of playing jazz and P basses and other single coil variants I came to realize I just really like the sound and heft of a humbucker. Then I got my hands on a Tbird and found the ergonomics just fit me better than my Fender shaped basses. So now I play Tbirds almost exclusively and have even gone so far as to clone the last remaining Fender bass that I frequently played (because it had glorious humbuckers) into a Tbird body.

Do Tbirds look cool? Sure, and so do a number of Alembics and Warwicks and Spectors and Fenders and… you name it. I choose my basses on sound and feel, looks are a distant third. If you choose your basses on looks alone because all basses sound the same to your ears that’s cool too I guess, but don’t assume everyone is standing on that hill with you. I’m certainly not.
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Was certainly the ballsy sound that got me to get my NR. Just happens that it looks really cool too so a win win haha. @TBird1958 video playing one was one of a few that inspired me to take the plunge and I'm really glad I did. Plus found out about this sub forum on talkbass which was a real win too. Just seems really sound here, other sub forums I like are nowhere near as friendly/nice just a cool place to lurk and sometimes randomly post drunken murmurings :roflmao:
 
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JJR58 said:
A little something special made by the man himself. @Engle
Will be applied to also something special.
Once it’s all done.
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Fancy...........

I'm a bit less formal, so the 7enderbird will have this little fellow.

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kyral210 said:
My Hill to die on: We choose our basses more for their looks than their sound as in a mix almost all basses sound the same. We play Thunderbirds, probably, more for their awesome look than their tone.
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Years ago when i bought my epiphone bird, now ungothed, it was something different than my sole pbass at the time. I loved the feel of it, the tone at the time was meaty in compsrison to my mids forward pbass.

Over the years, ive acquired more pbasses, & built a variety of other basses for myself, that the bird took a back seat for a lot of things. Now, all my basses have a clarity to them, & its what i'd want in mine to balance, because its deep sixx pickups are too dark. I'd rather play any other bass that i can darken, vs one im struggling to brighten. So replacing the pickups in near future.

Looks were dead last in my purchase, & i knew it would dive, i knew it had an unbalance, that the tone was darker. At the time, the darker tone worked. I've grown up tone search wise, & i know what works for my music.

I love thunderbirds, they're iconic to me as a pbass is. Just Rare to see vs the Pbass flock.
 
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