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Thunderbird Club
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Uh oh.
I’ve had some stuff listed for a long time, this in particular has been up for 5/6 months. Maybe I’m asking too much, or the right buyer for this just is not in the Bay area. Granted, it’s not original, but:
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I suppose I could part it out and maybe even ultimately get more, but it is a great playing, great sounding, good looking lightweight bass and it would be a shame to tear it apart.
So now when u want to have guests, they need to park at the local mall and Uber in?
So, what's authorized?
Gaolee
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The painting on the wall is pretty great.Love you man!I hung out with my dear friend Haroon today who is a musician (guitarist) and singer/songwriter. He asked if I had a bass he could borrow/use for recording and I said - for sure! He has a very cheap (?) bass that makes bass sounds, but I offered him a few from my collection. A couple short-scales (solid & hollow-body) and a full-scale solid body. He went back & forth on a couple and chose my 34" scale P-bass clone/parts bass (that I call the "Dano P") as he is a dedicated Fender (Strat) guitarist but he also has a nice SG style Gibson. He was drawn to the way it sounded - the tone. It's basically a P with a Dano 'lipstick' B pu - you can get a variety of tones. Very light ash body, maple neck/maple fb - bass weighs about 8lbs. I devised a built-in tuner for it - the chrome stomp-knob switch on the upper pg. I am happiest when what I do translates to who I do it for being happy!
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Gaolee
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A friend just told me she could make her self motion sick by driving too fast. Amazing. I didn't think I could get motion sick until going out in a choppy Caribbean in a little tiny boat to dive on a reef. I was fine under water. On the surface, not so good. I feel really bad for people who get motion sick easily because it sure isn't fun.
I was explaining to Chuck not long ago why i can’t handle any sort of distance driving anymore, whether it be driving or a passenger.
I start to get extremely disoriented being on the road to long, even with breaks in between. It actually makes it worse.
2 hours at most in a car is about all I can handle these days.
A part of getting old that bites because I used to love driving.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Or maybe the fact that it is a '63 has been lost in time, along with the serial number. It's "just" another repaired first gen Thunderbird.
At our first HOA meeting at the previous house one lady was complaining about cars being parked in the street. They were not supposed to be parked for longer than a 24 hour period. A number of people did abuse that just because they didn't like having to move their car out of the driveway to switch cars. Anyway, the lady was complaining that because the car is parked in the street, when her son was riding his bicycle, he ran into the back of the car because it was in the street and not in the driveway. My wife and I both looked at each other with astonishment, thinking, did she really just say that? We both had to try to not laugh. I leaned over and said "I don't think I would have told that story. Thankfully it was a parked car. If the kid was that stupid to not see a car--in a street--and ran into it, he probably deserved it and hopefully learned an important lesson about watching for cars....in streets." Who knew cars would be there? One of the problems was that people with young families tended to think the streets were an extension of their front yards. She being one of them. She seemed impressed at making her point with passion and I'm pretty sure it never dawned on her that she looked as foolish as her son. But she was supposed to be the adult. Sadly many adults are children in big bodies. I honestly don't like being that harsh, but many adults never cease to amaze me.
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But you haven't done that any of your basses? They are real wood, right?
I have seen it done, but I've never done it.
I got really sick on a whale watching boat when I was a kid. I learned later it was the diesel fumes that did me in.
HOA board member's driveways..... Hey, not on the street....
So king City to Hollister wasn’t too bad then. That was a fun time.
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So many potential stories are possible.
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So wait... I don't recall any of us blocking anyones driveways. Is that saying a HO can't have multiple cars in their own driveway?
That brand is ok- better than the original gig bag that came with my black 1985 Aria Pro II ZZB Explorer shaped basses. I bought two of their explorer bass gig bags since the white one didn't come with anything at all.
There is a better alternative but very expensive given it would be a custom fabrication- Glen Cronkite-
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When my dad went to Korea, he said that there were guys who stayed sick for the duration of the trip (which was about two weeks), having never been on a "cruise ship." Thought some of them were going to die. Most walked around with their helmets for those special moments. The navy guys told them to go topside, hang on the rail and stare at the horizon. Seemed to help for many. Nothing helped for some.
