Thunderbird Club

[Count Bassie]

It's actually easier than it looks - very logical progression and once you are comfortable with the main line it kinda plays itself. I learned it years ago but haven't played it for years - I'll have to dust it off!

Yep, true. One of the first bass lines I learned. It's sensible.

 

[ectoflanger]

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…

I’ve read his novels Brave New World, Chrome Yellow, and Island, along with most of The Doors of Perception- is the front door on the left referring to that one?

Thank you for the cool response!

 

[MCF]

The BaCH owner is looking for a case. What do you BaCH NR owners use?

it is likely an old TKL. The Interior is 52” long, 15” wide (23 1/2” long bottom section). The exterior is 53 3/4” long, 17 1/2” wide, 4 inches deep. I did an extensive search for one like it last year and found nothing. It doesn’t appear anyone makes one that size any more.

 

[Bent77]

I’ve read his novels Brave New World, Chrome Yellow, and Island, along with most of The Doors of Perception- is the front door on the left referring to that one?

Thank you for the cool response!

And upon that path shall you be!

 

[ectoflanger]

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…

Speaking of Aldous Huxley - there’s an adaptation of Brave New World, the BBC did a really cool televised mini-series in 1980-

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

speaking of unique shapes….

 

[BklynKen]

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?

They look really nice. There's a very knowledgeable BC Rich group here on TalkBass. I'd ask them.

 

[Engle]

out of sight man!

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That going to be heavy, but it's a cool idea!

 

[JIO]

That going to be heavy, but it's a cool idea!

clearly!

 

[Engle]

I guess that’s a what’s the point? bass. The charm of them is the different pickups they originally came with.

Those look like the original pickups. He's upgraded everything else.

 

[Engle]

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-

I'd like to get a Mockingbird or build one at some point.

 

[dagrev]

Vids of Nikki from last night are starting to appear on YouTube. She was making her Thunderbirds soar. She stayed with the ‘18 bright cherry most of the night.

Cool!

 

[Stealth57]

Those look like the original pickups. He's upgraded everything else.

The pickups look a hair different.

 

[BklynKen]

I'd like to get a Mockingbird or build one at some point.

This looks pretty cool. Same electronics as my Bodine.

B.C. Rich Early Mockingbird Bass 1976 | Reverb

 

[MCF]

Cool!

They added more dates and cities today. Sorry Miles, no Texas.
Events – Silversun Pickups

 

[MCF]

It's actually easier than it looks - very logical progression and once you are comfortable with the main line it kinda plays itself. I learned it years ago but haven't played it for years - I'll have to dust it off!

I worked on it a few years back, and then didn’t practice it enough. I have a chart for it.

 

[WillyW]

I went down a rabbit hole with treble geetars....

I have a two guitars I really like but HATE the pickups.

One was an easy fix and I'm replacing the Gibson pickups with Epiphone pickups (firebird/mini-humbuckers)

The other one has regular humbucking shaped pickups, and the ones I hate are somewhat rare-ish Gibsons, and have a following....

I put them up for trade on another forum, and wasn't expecting a decent trade response, so I ordered a set of pickups I have always wanted to try....

shortly thereafter I got a trade offer for another set of somewhat rare-ish Gibsons, and the guy had another set of Duncan pickups that were in the realm of possibility for my pickup preference.....

so now my second guitar has three sets of pickups arriving today.... I guess I need to buy two more guitars? not sure how that is supposed to work....

I do have another geetar that I don't like the pickups but I don't like the guitar as much and I doubt the pickups will make a difference.....

I needed some extra humburgler springs and adjustment screws. I needed 8 but it was cheaper to buy 30 than to buy 8…

I needed some 1/16” and 1/8” heat shrink tubing…. Maybe a foot or two each. It was much cheaper to buy 100” of each than a foot or two…

this is how every episode of hoarders starts out….


BUT I did get my Bill Lawrence L500C/L’s installed, a little sound check to make sure I didn’t wire em’ bass akwards….

along with my simplified vol/tone/kill wiring…

 

[Count Bassie]

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.

Hang in, it'll go by. Sorry, being down sucks... But it's temporary. Get well soon Roger!

 

[dagrev]

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-

Beats me. I can't help with your question about the last line. When I'm a little ways into the sentence I think I begin to get where he's going, but the end throws me. That kind of thing is a beef I have some some writers (or speakers in some cases). They may use words well, but fail to communicate well, which is the point of writing. Unless you're talking things from the postmodern school of thought, which seems to have as one of it's goals to be to write in such a contorted fashion it that it sounds deep, but is little more than wordy nonsense. (Which calls to mind the "Sokal hoax.") I have long believed the old truth that a smart person can communicate their thought--if not, they are not as smart as they may appear.

 

[dagrev]

it is likely an old TKL. The Interior is 52” long, 15” wide (23 1/2” long bottom section). The exterior is 53 3/4” long, 17 1/2” wide, 4 inches deep. I did an extensive search for one like it last year and found nothing. It doesn’t appear anyone makes one that size any more.
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That looks like the TKL that I store my '64 in, since the original case barely classifies as a case.