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Thunderbird Club

#285,602
SubHuman said:
That was many years ago and when your daily commute is 45 min. each way for 30+ Years you occasionally run into morons. I wouldn’t do that now due to the exact reasons you mentioned!
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Its's why I ride the train into Seattle during the week, I just don't want the negativity in my daily life - Plus, if you hadn't noticed I rather like trains ;)

Part of the trip parallels I-5 and there's nothing batter than cruising along 70 mph in the train while traffic is backed up.

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TBird1958 said:
Its's why I ride the train into Seattle during the week, I just don't want the negativity in my daily life - Plus, if you hadn't noticed I rather like trains ;)

Part of the trip parallels I-5 and there's nothing batter than cruising along 70 mph in the train while traffic is backed up.

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That is too cool! I wish there was a way to commute! I calculated I drove enough miles to go to the moon and back when I retired!
On a side note when my two children both graduated from College as a gift we paid for a 2 week trip on the Zephyr train and they went to San Fran, Haight Ashbury and up the coast to Seattle! They loved it!
 
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JIO said:
I always felt (and still do) that the 'moving pu' concept was a gimmick. (simply consider that it never "caught on") I also feel that way about '60s vs '70s Jazz bass bridge pu spacing. We're talking about very minor physical (spacing) difference. Yes, any bass will have a "sweet-spot" for pu placement - I totally subscribe to that. But considering a lot of the conjecture about basses - much of it comes down to the individual players' "feeling" about differences. (as in - not definitive) Then there is a general concession, an agreement that this position or that position sounds "best"... to that collective of jointly agreeable people and people who accept that conclusion w/o actually knowing to feel aligned. All subjective IMO. Moveable pu's is a solution in search of a problem.
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90% of everything on an electric bass since they first came out is a gimmick. For that matter, lots of people thought the first electric bass was a gimmick. Movable pickups are a cool idea but (a) not everyone gets it so you need to carefully develop a good marketing plan and tweak as you go, and (b) musicians are a weird mix of conservative and progressive in terms of their instruments. Are movable pickups for everyone? No. Would some of us happily pay for Thunderbirds (and other basses) with movable pickups? You bet. Would most of us find spots we were happy with and leave them? Probably. But those spots would be our choices, which would make some of us happy.

If nothing else, prototypes should have movable pickups. Then you let musicians from your target audience play with them and get their feedback[1] on the best pickup positions. Heck, make the pickups swappable and movable and get feedback[1] on which pickups as well.
[1] ooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….
 
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dagrev said:
I agree in that the market decided it was not necessary or needed by very many. I like it if one loves the bass and it helps get the tone wanted not offered by other basses, Gibson in particular. To me it's kind of like mid freq DIP switches for additional adjustment. (I liked that on Laklands and think all active basses should offer that as I found it handy.) I wish modern Thunderbirds had a movable neck pickup. I could slide that sucker that right to where it's "supposed" to be.:laugh: In reality I would not buy a Thunderbird that did that. Most likely, anyway.
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Why not?
 
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dagrev said:
Also be careful who you are saying "hello" to is important, but an unknown. I was driving once and my cousin was passenger and the dudes behind us were make their presence known. Cousin signaled his appreciation. Got stoped that the stop sign a block away and all of the sudden the passenger of the other car was waving a Crocodile Dundee knife in side the car in my cousins face. I was able to drive of with his head still attached.
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Yikes! I've told this story before here I think, but when I lived in Chicago in the '80s an impatient guy honked at the stopped car in front of him (in my neighborhood) and the driver got out, walked back to the car and shot the guy, got back in his car and drove away. Broad daylight.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Its's why I ride the train into Seattle during the week, I just don't want the negativity in my daily life - Plus, if you hadn't noticed I rather like trains ;)

Part of the trip parallels I-5 and there's nothing batter than cruising along 70 mph in the train while traffic is backed up.

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I’ve looked into riding my bike to the MetroRail station, then taking my bike on the train downtown and riding the last mile to work. But the train is slow - time-wise between a no traffic commute and a rush hour commute. Even if I drive to the train and walk downtown, it’s as long as a rush hour commute - and I don’t do rush hour. Ugh.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Its's why I ride the train into Seattle during the week, I just don't want the negativity in my daily life - Plus, if you hadn't noticed I rather like trains ;)

Part of the trip parallels I-5 and there's nothing batter than cruising along 70 mph in the train while traffic is backed up.

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How close are you to the train station?
For future reference.

:)
 
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JIO said:
Yikes! I've told this story before here I think, but when I lived in Chicago in the '80s an impatient guy honked at the stopped car in front of him (in my neighborhood) and the driver got out, walked back to the car and shot the guy, got back in his car and drove away. Broad daylight.
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Yikes, indeed. A friend saw that happen ion Dallas, but with moving vehicles on the interstate in slow, rush hour traffic. Pre-cell phone, and several lanes over so he couldn’t get over to see if he could do anything. Traffic just kept going.
 
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