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Thunderbird Club

#278,803
MCF said:
I guess that’s a what’s the point? bass. The charm of them is the different pickups they originally came with.
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P.S. the dude has a BaCH NR Bird running through a Hiwatt into what looks like an Ampeg 115.

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Roger W said:
On a personal note the last 12 days have included my 64th birthday, our 45th anniversary, and testing positive for the ‘VID after a night of fever and coughing. Still alive but fever goes in and out and joints hurt. And it’s not just old age.
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Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!!!
 
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dagrev said:
Thanks! I took a fair amount of philosophy in college and grad school. A friend did her Ph.D in it. (We were at a Christmas gathering once and she brought her just finished dissertation. She got a kick out me and told me later that everyone glanced at it and commented positively flipping a few pages, but you went and sat down and actually read through a bunch of it and asked questions.") I find some of it helpful, some interesting, and much of it, frankly just amusing.

I always found a quote by the late British historian John Bowle, humorous, and so very true: "It is one of the most depressing aspects of the brilliant French culture that opinions so fundamentally silly should command so much prestige." It goes without saying the the French are not alone there!
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Speaking of quotes- these two, attributed to the musings of Edgar Allan Poe, i truly relate to.

“For my own part I have never had a thought which I could not put down in words with even more distinctness than which I conceived it. However there is a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquility when the mental and bodily health are in perfection; and at those mere points in time where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy where all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“Shadows of shadows passing-
It is now 1831 and, as always, I’m absorbed with a delicate thought- it is how poetry has indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential; for the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea is poetry- music without the idea is simply music.

Without music, or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallor, man becomes carcass, home becomes catacomb; and the dead, are but for a moment motionless.”

Bonus to anyone who can elucidate that last line in the second quote- I’m not quite sure about the intent of that one, though I have some ideas-
 
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Roger W said:
On a personal note the last 12 days have included my 64th birthday, our 45th anniversary, and testing positive for the ‘VID after a night of fever and coughing. Still alive but fever goes in and out and joints hurt. And it’s not just old age.
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BklynKen said:
Here's an interesting Thunderbird find I came across.

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I would love to be able to play that......Great job!

I whack away at "Living in the Past", kinda getting there.
 
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A friend of mine is selling a Vintage Pro. A couple lbs lighter than my Classic I think.
This one is sans pick guard, in need of a Dutchman where there's been a sketchy repair where the inserts are. And the bridge may not beer original... Also I don't know what those p'ups are, but they don't sound terrible. Not originals.
It's also had a headstockectomy repair.

It's been messed with, this one. My friend wants $300 for it. He's holding it for me...
I should get better pix, but it plays nice, the weight is super easy.

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TBird1958 said:
I would love to be able to play that......Great job!

I whack away at "Living in the Past", kinda getting there.
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It's actually easier than it looks - as with all things JS Bach, a very logical progression and once you are comfortable with the main line it kinda plays itself. I learned it years ago (in first & second position w/open notes) but haven't played it for years - I'll have to dust it off! :bassist:
 
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ectoflanger said:
Given that the members of this club have an appreciation for unique shapes-

What of another bird, the original B.C. Rich Mockingbird?

The only person I can think of who played them was Suzi Quattro-
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So, in the process of searching for pics I found that they’re selling a heritage edition made in Korea- I admit I’m tempted by the quilted maple top or classic koa and neck- thru construction-

B.C. Rich Mockingbird Heritage Classic Electric Bass

Any objections from my T-Bird family?
 
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ectoflanger said:
Speaking of quotes- these two, attributed to the musings of Edgar Allan Poe, i truly relate to.

“For my own part I have never had a thought which I could not put down in words with even more distinctness than which I conceived it. However there is a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquility when the mental and bodily health are in perfection; and at those mere points in time where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy where all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“Shadows of shadows passing-
It is now 1831 and, as always, I’m absorbed with a delicate thought- it is how poetry has indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential; for the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea is poetry- music without the idea is simply music.

Without music, or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallor, man becomes carcass, home becomes catacomb; and the dead, are but for a moment motionless.”

Bonus to anyone who can elucidate that last line in the second quote- I’m not quite sure about the intent of that one, though I have some ideas-
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I’ll take a swing at that

Without a soul, life is but a transitory process



For an alternate ending, just dial in some Aldous Huxley and use the first door on the left…
 
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