Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

Hi all, I'm getting back into playing bass after a 20ish-year hiatus and a couple of years realizing I don't like the guitar. I picked up an Epiphone Vintage Pro Thunderbird in the burst color, but I need a case. I really like the looks of the Gibson Thunderbird hard case, brown with a red interior, but I have received conflicting reports on whether the bodies are the same or close enough that it would work. I teach special education and will keep the bass at school to enrich classes for these students, so I need a hard case to try and protect it as long as possible.

It should fit in a Gibson case if you can find a Gibson case. I had a VP and it fit in older Gibson Thunderbird cases. Funny thing is that it didn't fit in the 2015 Gibson Thunderbird case.

 

[Gaolee]

Others will need to chime in about body-shape differences, but I have one of the brown/fuchsia Gibson HSC and I prefer the Epi. It's tapered, lighter to carry and the form-fit is where the protection lives.

My brown Gibson case has a satin fuchsia shroud, some don't have it. It always make me think of a coffin...
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It is satin in the 2001 case, more like polar fleece in the 1991 case. The satin one is the flamboyant shroud.

 

[MCF]

At least your 15 is safe from me now

The ‘15 goes in the box. Unless it has become so valuable it would be moronic to let it go away with me.

 

[Gaolee]

...and how does one actually/physically drink something like that?

I think you eat the fruit and shrimp salad, then you drink it.

Maybe. I'm not sure either.

 

[Gaolee]

The ‘15 goes in the box. Unless it has become so valuable it would me moronic to let it go away with me.

I thought about what guitar or bass I would take with me, but that would be a horrible waste of a perfectly good instrument. Besides, I want the carcass loaded into a trebuchet, lit on fire, and flung into the ocean to feed crabs after a flaming last flight. No room for a guitar or anything else. There's probably a law against that kind of thing, though. Too bad. What a last ride!

 

[MCF]

...and how does one actually/physically drink something like that?

Easy. I can do it. I’ll have yours if you don’t want it.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

...and how does one actually/physically drink something like that?

straw/s…

 

[Stealth57]

...and how does one actually/physically drink something like that?

Carefully

 

[MCF]

I thought about what guitar or bass I would take with me, but that would be a horrible waste of a perfectly good instrument. Besides, I want the carcass loaded into a trebuchet, lit on fire, and flung into the ocean to feed crabs after a flaming last flight. No room for a guitar or anything else. There's probably a law against that kind of thing, though. Too bad. What a last ride!

So I’m guessing you’re not Catholic. Please don’t respond or comment. I don’t want to start trouble.

 

[JJR58]

anyone remember this joint?……
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Is that where I think it is?

 

[Stealth57]

So I’m guessing you’re not Catholic. Please don’t respond or comment. I don’t want to start trouble.

Cremation is ok if you get the bishop to give the thumbs up.

 

[JJR58]

I thought about what guitar or bass I would take with me, but that would be a horrible waste of a perfectly good instrument. Besides, I want the carcass loaded into a trebuchet, lit on fire, and flung into the ocean to feed crabs after a flaming last flight. No room for a guitar or anything else. There's probably a law against that kind of thing, though. Too bad. What a last ride!

I’m not one to take anything with me when I go.
I don’t see the point.
I won’t have much as it is anyway.
I wanna leave as I came in.

If there’s anything at all that I feel someone should have, it’ll be gifted to them.

 

[MCF]

Is that where I think it is?

We need to go back if we’re thinking the same place.

 

[JJR58]

Cremation is ok if you get the bishop to give the thumbs up.

It’s a choice, no approval needed from anyone.

 

[JJR58]

We need to go back if we’re thinking the same place.

We’ll be in Seattle.
But I like you’re thinking.

 

[Stealth57]

It’s a choice, no approval needed from anyone.

Depends if you are religious and follow doctrine to the letter. That’s all.

 

[TBird1958]

We’ll be in Seattle.
But I like you’re thinking.

After I pick you up at Sea-Tac we're going day drinking
I'm a pushy tall girl!

 

[MCF]

After I pick you up at Sea-Tac we're going day drinking
I'm a pushy tall girl!

I’ll arrive noonish Thursday. You, Frank, and Jeff can take me, and whoever else, afternoon drinking. The afternoon we spent together at that cool bar in Capitola is one of my fondest memories. I have no clue how you were able to walk in the shoes you were wearing. Good times!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

hopefully no lead in them screws..

 

[Miles_ONeal]

There it is- the GS415B Plus- highly recommended it as a single bass stand or sexy- shaped guitars -

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That's my go to stand brand.