Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

yeah, smooth sailing for me till I took a Boundaries class….talk about uphill…was recently talking to a colleague who runs our GaN group and we were talking about his dissertation on fluidic semiconductors and how it was the MEs (instead of the EEs) that did the physical prototype work when the EEs just did the GUI…he went on to mention that Thermodynamics is not even required for core EE curricula these days….

That's why I've seen PC boards self de-solder...

 

[D.M.N.]

When I started with Seattle Lighting 20 years ago my first assignment was to the downtown Seattle location for training. Perilously close to Bass Northwest I soon walked the three blocks and found a beat-to $#%^ '76 Thunderbird for 999.00, it was almost too much for that bass as it almost no finish left on it and had a Bartolini in the bridge position. Still, I couldn't resist as it the first Bird I'd seen in Seattle in 15 years.I of course met Even and he mentioned that he'd owned many Thunderbirds and Victorys during his time in TKO and it was he that put me in touch with Mike Lull when I decided that old '76 needed a refin. By that time I had met some cool folks online that really got me into Birds with chrome bits, an expensive love affair that continues today.

First pic I ever posted on TB with that old '76.

I was just sorting thru some old boxes in the garage and found an old BassNW bumper sticker, saving it to put it on the right spot! Played my first Sunn 2000s there, though unfortunately it needed service very badly, squealed horribly. But it sent me off to find a properly working one.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I love the history of Link Wray’s Rumble.
It was banned in several US radio markets, because the term 'rumble' was a slang term for a gang fight, and it was feared that the piece's harsh sound glorified juvenile delinquency.
The record is the only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the United States and originally called "Oddball".
It was an instant hit with the audience.
Wray said the band struggled to replicate the sound live they made in the studio so He punched holes in his guitar amplifier speakers. The effect was to produce distortion that set the world on fire in 1958. Kinks guitarist Dave Davies says he used a similar method of slitting his speakers to fuzz up the group’s guitar sound (this was just before the invention of the fuzz box). So much behind the scenes music history!

amps were originally designed for linear operation in Hawaiian music….never occurred to anyone that overdriving them would yield a completely different sounding musical instrument….

 

[Gaolee]

Just remembered the time I sat in a brand new black 1989 Lotus Esprit Turbo with charcoal gray interior at the dealership where my parents bought their pine green Volvo 740 Turbo-

The Lotus was just a dream but at least I got to sit in one!

I thought about buying a ratty Lotus Europa at one point. It was a little odd looking, but it was a Lotus. So there was that. It was also a clapped out British car at a time when I didn't have a garage for working on a clapped out British car every time I wanted it to start. Which would have been every day. Since my first car was a 1954 Triumph, I am very well acquainted with the magic smoke and the Prince of Darkness. No Lotus for me. I bought the Camaro not much later.

 

[Gaolee]

I had a pbass with one and it's the only thing I miss about the bass....

I'm almost tempted to build a Gene Simmons-ish EB-0 with one..... but it's a good thing I have enough instruments... and don't need it....

My EB-2 had one when I got it. It still does. It sounds great.

 

[Gaolee]

When I started with Seattle Lighting 20 years ago my first assignment was to the downtown Seattle location for training. Perilously close to Bass Northwest I soon walked the three blocks and found a beat-to $#%^ '76 Thunderbird for 999.00, it was almost too much for that bass as it almost no finish left on it and had a Bartolini in the bridge position. Still, I couldn't resist as it the first Bird I'd seen in Seattle in 15 years.I of course met Even and he mentioned that he'd owned many Thunderbirds and Victorys during his time in TKO and it was he that put me in touch with Mike Lull when I decided that old '76 needed a refin. By that time I had met some cool folks online that really got me into Birds with chrome bits, an expensive love affair that continues today.

First pic I ever posted on TB with that old '76.

That is about the color the fretless 'Bird will be when it is refinished. I hope sometime this spring or early summer. As I recall, that one is not metallic. This is the color the fretless will be:

There's probably something intrinsically wrong with my urge to paint Thunderbirds GM colors, since car Thunderbirds are all Fords.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I almost bought one in my 20's...until my insurance agent laughed at me and said hope you can self insure.

love the angular styling……Giugaro is one of my favorite designers by far…

 

[BklynKen]

I thought about buying a ratty Lotus Europa at one point. It was a little odd looking, but it was a Lotus. So there was that. It was also a clapped out British car at a time when I didn't have a garage for working on a clapped out British car every time I wanted it to start. Which would have been every day. Since my first car was a 1954 Triumph, I am very well acquainted with the magic smoke and the Prince of Darkness. No Lotus for me. I bought the Camaro not much later.

Fun trivia about Lotus is that most model names started with E.

 

[Gaolee]

Fun trivia about Lotus is that most model names started with E.

The Lotus Elvira only comes in pale and has eye shadow around the headlights.

 

[BklynKen]

The Lotus Elvira only comes in pale and has eye shadow around the headlights.

And the Lotus Excellent was, well, excellent.

 

[dagrev]

yeah, smooth sailing for me till I took a Boundaries class….talk about uphill…was recently talking to a colleague who runs our GaN group and we were talking about his dissertation on fluidic semiconductors and how it was the MEs (instead of the EEs) that did the physical prototype work when the EEs just did the GUI…he went on to mention that Thermodynamics is not even required for core EE curricula these days….

A friend at church and I happened to be talking Sunday that when he was at J.B. Speed School (25 yrs ago?) for his Computer Science in Eng (CSE), he had to take classes in virtually all fields to have an understanding of connections and basically to teach thinking. Even had Thermodynamics, which I suspect has little, maybe nothing to do with Comp Sci. Maybe at some really deep level it would be needed.

 

[Funkster]

Hi Henry!

Long time

Hi Veronica, I'm around alive and well. Well at least alive anyway lol.. Always great to see you.

 

[MCF]

love the angular styling……Giugaro is one of my favorite designers by far…

I had one of these which looked pretty nice for the time. It was a POS for the most part though.
https://bringatrailer.com/wp-conten...c31-6Cv9VP-47227-47228-scaled.jpg?fit=940,627

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

A friend at church and I happened to be talking Sunday that when he was at J.B. Speed School (25 yrs ago?) for his Computer Science in Eng (CSE), he had to take classes in virtually all fields to have an understanding of connections and basically to teach thinking. Even had Thermodynamics, which I suspect has little, maybe nothing to do with Comp Sci. Maybe at some really deep level it would be needed.

it does indirectly, keep in mind he could potentially be writing code for thermostat/temp control applications..

 

[TBird1958]

Just because lol
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Hi Veronica, I'm around alive and well. Well at least alive anyway lol.. Always great to see you.

Is that a new Epi Rex Brown in your pic? How is it?

 

[TBird1958]

That is about the color the fretless 'Bird will be when it is refinished. I hope sometime this spring or early summer. As I recall, that one is not metallic. This is the color the fretless will be:

There's probably something intrinsically wrong with my urge to paint Thunderbirds GM colors, since car Thunderbirds are all Fords.

Your car, my bass!

 

[WillyW]

That is about the color the fretless 'Bird will be when it is refinished. I hope sometime this spring or early summer. As I recall, that one is not metallic. This is the color the fretless will be:

There's probably something intrinsically wrong with my urge to paint Thunderbirds GM colors, since car Thunderbirds are all Fords.

one of my friends mom's had a maverick....

 

[dagrev]

one of my friends mom's had a maverick....

I love it! Willy, I'm glad you showed up this Thursday.

 

[dagrev]

it does indirectly, keep in mind he could potentially be writing code for thermostat/temp control applications..

Good point. He largely designed and oversaw the servers and systems that held all the flight info for UPS.

 

[ectoflanger]

When I started with Seattle Lighting 20 years ago my first assignment was to the downtown Seattle location for training. Perilously close to Bass Northwest I soon walked the three blocks and found a beat-to $#%^ '76 Thunderbird for 999.00, it was almost too much for that bass as it almost no finish left on it and had a Bartolini in the bridge position. Still, I couldn't resist as it the first Bird I'd seen in Seattle in 15 years.I of course met Even and he mentioned that he'd owned many Thunderbirds and Victorys during his time in TKO and it was he that put me in touch with Mike Lull when I decided that old '76 needed a refin. By that time I had met some cool folks online that really got me into Birds with chrome bits, an expensive love affair that continues today.

First pic I ever posted on TB with that old '76.

Nice!!

Yes I remember him mentioning in our phone conversations that he currently played a Mike Lull Precision and a Jazz. Nice guy- we talked a bit about the music industry in the 70's and he mentioned meeting Kiss at record company office in Manhattan. But one of the spicier accounts was of TKO members brawling with those of April Wine on the way in our out of the football stadium passageway during a tour with them. I won't go into the details as two why- perhaps you can connect with Evan again. I had heard that he sold the store after a bout with cancer and was spending time in Europe doing reunion gigs or something similar.