Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

So it was bassist Tiran Porter who wrote and sang the song- that’s why I didn’t recognize who it was-

would have sounded better on his Bird....

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

not bad for a foreign high tech company….seems like they got their priorities right…

 

[dagrev]

I had to deal with an electrical installation company what went bust on a project back in the early 1990s. The guy whose company it was came originally from somewhere in the Middle East and his name was Najib. We started calling his company Najib's NaLectric. That led to putting Na- in front of pretty much everything that didn't go right. Or if you just said something was Na, everyone on the jobsite knew exactly what you were talking about. It was a mess. I ended up taking over managing the work for him, which was pretty funny since I'm an architect and sometime carpenter, not anything like an electrician, let alone a specialized electrician like that project required. We got the project done, but every time Na anything comes up, I think of the Wilson Pickett song and Najib. I was commuting with a carpenter to the jobsite and we would occasionally sing that at the top of our lungs on the way home when things went completely sideways for a day. On that project, it was a regular occurrence, but that's a different war story.

Liquids involved as a precursor to the top of the lungs singing?

I think I mentioned before, but I was doing a funeral here for a friend's mother and while standing in the chapel (which was a mausoleum), right beside me at eye level was Wilson Pickett's crypt. I didn't even know he was buried here. Took be by surprise to be standing right next to such an important and famous person. The funeral was here because his mother was buried here. I don't recall why she was here.

 

[WillyW]

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/gibson-tb-thunderbird-pickups.1625519/

 

[Bent77]

Sometimes my travels provide interesting things

 

[Engle]

I like the switch label. My SG might need something like that.

I was browsing through 3D printer files of guitar parts and came across this:

 

[Mvf]

Congratulations!

Thanks!
I must have done something right...

 

[Stealth57]

I was browsing through 3D printer files of guitar parts and came across this:
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I could add that to my '68 National pickup switch...just need it in tort

 

[ectoflanger]

I was browsing through 3D printer files of guitar parts and came across this:
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A Ginger man myself, going against the flow, I know, given that most I've known prefer Mary Ann.

 

[Ringhammer]

not bad for a foreign high tech company….seems like they got their priorities right…
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I’d guess the fast and furious phenomenon as the influence.

My introduction to the 69 Charger (still a top 3 all time favorite car) was Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.

 

[Stealth57]

A Ginger man myself, going against the flow, I know, given that most I've known prefer Mary Ann.

 

[ectoflanger]

I’d guess the fast and furious phenomenon as the influence.

My introduction to the 69 Charger (still a top 3 all time favorite car) was Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.

I like that one too- although my dream car would be a 1970 Hemi-Challenger RT with four on the floor-

Btw, back in 1980 when I was a senior in high school I saw a 1970 Hemi-Charger listed for 10 grand in an Auto Trader magazine. Way out of my budget at the time, though I was thinking what I cool thing to have-

 

[ectoflanger]

Danger indeed, I've dated a few- a couple of which turned me every which way but loose, until they decided to turn me loose! But I still love 'em!

 

[ectoflanger]

I gots some others and need to make a few more…. and here’s my other treble geetar electronicles simpleficashuns..

Forgot to ask- just what is it on board the pink V?

 

[Engle]

Danger indeed, I've dated a few- a couple of which turned me every which way but loose, until they decided to turn me loose! But I still love 'em!

Dave is actually referring to this thread getting shut down when people posted too many pictures of ladies.

 

[Stealth57]

Danger indeed, I've dated a few- a couple of which turned me every which way but loose, until they decided to turn me loose! But I still love 'em!

That's not the danger...that comes from the moderator. Something happened long before me. Maybe an old timer can elucidate.

Update: what Irv said...

 

[WillyW]

Forgot to ask- just what is it on board the pink V?

pickup-wise?

those are just gibson 57's in both positions. vol/tone/kill probably a .022uf cap.

 

[TBird1958]

A Ginger man myself, going against the flow, I know, given that most I've known prefer Mary Ann.

I always liked Ginger better, but then I wanted her clothes too

She almost always wore a pretty, long dress, they're fun!

Happy Thursday

 

[Gaolee]

Liquids involved as a precursor to the top of the lungs singing?

I think I mentioned before, but I was doing a funeral here for a friends mother and while standing in the chapel (which was a mausoleum), and right beside me at eye level was Wilson Pickett's crypt. I didn't even know he was buried here. Took be by surprise to be standing right next to such an important and famous person. The funeral was here because his mother was buried here. I don't recall why she was here.

No liquids were involved other than water and coffee. Maybe Coca Cola, but that would have been the hardest stuff we got into. It was a long drive and loud singing made it shorter. It kept me awake, which was always important on a 2-1/2 hour each way commute on the ends of a 10+ hour work day. That was a really tough job for a lot of reasons.

 

[ectoflanger]

Here's a post I hope some of you may find helpful- bought one my self a couple of years ago after having the means to get some really 4, 5, and six string axes-

Say goodbye to buckle rash or having to take off your belt-

No Scratch, Leather Belts for Musicians

I really like mine-- word to the wise, although they say to order by your pant waist size, and that the middle posiition fits that, I found that it was at the last detent (the loosest) of the six holes that fit me.

With that said, after losing about twenty pounds since the purchase, I'm at the second to tightest, to tightest position out of the six positions-

Here you see the dual prong retention system-