Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

More snow than Seattle has had in two years!

Yeah. That happened Friday night. The Grapevine even closed for a few hours. Last year was the same. Lots of snow both years. Weird. I’m at 6,000 feet on the border of southwest Kern and northeast Ventura counties. There is green everywhere. I love it.

 

[SubHuman]

My thunderbird is a NR 2022 bass. Doesn't feel engraved on th PG.

@Engle makes accurate T-Bird decals. I wonder if you could line one up and have it fill the embossed pattern?

 

[SubHuman]

Yeah. That happened Friday night. The Grapevine even closed for a few hours. Last year was the same. Lots of snow both years. Weird. I’m at 6,000 feet on the border of southwest Kern and northeast Ventura counties. There is green everywhere. I love it.

We just rented a cabin right on Nolin Lake and it’s similar construction to your beautiful cabin. My wife and our 2 Children with their spouses and our 3 large dogs are staying for a week. Taking our acoustics and tons of good food and drinks. So ready for a relaxing week!

 

[MCF]

Haha just my hand! Then made it worse with a towel

That is very weird. I have many Thunderbirds. Including a ‘21 NR. I keep them and all my guitars dusted off with this.

I use Gibson spray polish once, maybe twice a year, including on the pick guards. I have never had an issue.

 

[dagrev]

Gibson, not '60s either, rarer than that.

You have my attention.....


Please hurry.....

 

[dagrev]

So there’s always a first time then. If you need help funding, I’ll take the Blue BaCH off your hands…

Whoa now. Just a doggone minute. Weren't you saying 354 pages ago you needed to not be buying basses? We all knew it was crazy talking, but I'm glad you have gotten over that phase in life.

 

[dagrev]

Yeah, I ended up with several degrees, so apparently the egghead thing stuck around even if physics didn't. Going from physics to drawing little pictures confused a lot of things. I don't know right from left, but can usually tell you a compass direction. I'm nominally right handed but do some odd things left handed. Why? Excess brain balance or something. Or maybe just faulty wiring. And then there's the whole colors associated with sounds thing. This head is like living in a pachinko machine at times.

Being an architect is not for lightweight thinkers by any means. Some really complicated stuff--and a lot of it.

You do remember all that complicated stuff don't you?

 

[TBird1958]

You have my attention.....


Please hurry.....

It's this bass, one of 6 from '86. '76 pickup.

There's another as well, I don't have a pic of it, but it's in The Gibson Bass Book.

 

[JJR58]

I just looked outside, Marshall - Quite sunny and pleasant here in Seattle, which means Hell probably hasn't frozen

 

[JJR58]

Whoa now. Just a doggone minute. Weren't you saying 354 pages ago you needed to not be buying basses? We all knew it was crazy talking, but I'm glad you have gotten over that phase in life.

Riiiiiiight…….

 

[JJR58]

It's this bass, one of 6 from '86. '76 pickup.

There's another as well, I don't have a pic of it, but it's in The Gibson Bass Book.

Oh yeah, knew it was that one, once you and Chuck confirmed it.

 

[TBird1958]

Whoa now. Just a doggone minute. Weren't you saying 354 pages ago you needed to not be buying basses? We all knew it was crazy talking, but I'm glad you have gotten over that phase in life.

Blue things are his weakness!

Okay, even this one surprised me, S.P.C.B.

 

[Blazer]

Here's some really cool footage of that "Little band from Texas" doing their first prime TV performance on Johnny Carson back in 1986. But it's also a good showcase of the house band intruding on that said performance.

You can see it in Billy's body language, he was annoyed with the house band messing up the cues and being quite a bit louder in the mix. I'm pretty sure, that had he been a tad less professional, he would have shouted "Turn those darn HORNS down!" live on air.

 

[GBassNorth]

Well, yeah. Who doesn't? We're talking life and death here. I pull the prints if possible. Don't tell me I'm the only one.

Can’t say I’ve ever pulled the prints, but having been a safety engineer (Fire and Life Safety among others) I will say that I have a habit of quickly summing up the fire sprinkler coverage, emergency egress and occupancy limit every time I enter a large crowded room for the first time. There have been lots of bars that I turned around and walked out of because they were too packed, didn’t have nearly enough exits, and little to no visible sprinkler system.
Think Beverly Hills Supper Club - 165 killed and 200 injured as it burned to the ground during a John Davidson concert.

 

[Gaolee]

Being an architect is not for lightweight thinkers by any means. Some really complicated stuff--and a lot of it.

You do remember all that complicated stuff don't you?

What? Complicated? Me worry?

 

[MCF]

We just rented a cabin right on Nolin Lake and it’s similar construction to your beautiful cabin. My wife and our 2 Children with their spouses and our 3 large dogs are staying for a week. Taking our acoustics and tons of good food and drinks. So ready for a relaxing week!

Sounds wonderful Sub! Have a fabulous time! There is nothing better than time with family and getting out in nature. It looks like a place to check out when I go back to meet Donnie and you, and hopefully Glenn, when I do my Johnny Paycheck thing.

Our house is in the Los Padres National Forrest. We bought it fully furnished in ‘21. Just squeaked in before the rise in interest rates. It’s on a half acre. It has a large basement where the SVT rig is along with some Thunderbirds, my acoustic guitar, and a Fender P bass. I’ll be adding a keyboard, a drum set, a guitar amp, and some recording stuff. It looks humble from the street and we like it that way. It has two bedrooms, two baths, two loft areas, a gourmet kitchen, an efficient wood burning fireplace that provides good heat, central heat, and central air. It sleeps ten comfortably, although technically the HOA limit is six if we were to rent it out. We haven’t, because we are there a lot. It’s exactly an hour away and sometimes I’ll wake up and just drive up to work there for a day or two to break up the monotony of my horrible remote job.

I would love to host a GTG up there. There is plenty of room for about fourteen of us. And it’s easy to get more room in the village below if needed. There are a few nice places to eat in the village, a golf course, a beautiful brand new pool, hiking trails to waterfalls, a lake to fish in, and black bears. And there is live music in the clubhouse on Fridays and Saturdays with good bands (usually L.A. based), and music at a couple other places on Thursdays and Sundays. There are comedy shows a couple times a month with some famous comedians who frequently come up and try out new material before they go on TV or a national tour with it.

 

[Gaolee]

It's this bass, one of 6 from '86. '76 pickup.

There's another as well, I don't have a pic of it, but it's in The Gibson Bass Book.

So, when you land that one does it mean you will be selling the Lull? Just checking.

 

[Gaolee]

Here's some really cool footage of that "Little band from Texas" doing their first prime TV performance on Johnny Carson back in 1986. But it's also a good showcase of the house band intruding on that said performance.

You can see it in Billy's body language, he was annoyed with the house band messing up the cues and being quite a bit louder in the mix. I'm pretty sure, that had he been a tad less professional, he would have shouted "Turn those darn HORNS down!" live on air.

One of the bands I play with does La Grange. I have been trying to get the guitarist to do the ZZ Top dance with me while we do that song. He has kinda tried to do that. It's just not in his repertoire just yet.

 

[GBassNorth]

It's this bass, one of 6 from '86. '76 pickup.

There's another as well, I don't have a pic of it, but it's in The Gibson Bass Book.

You know it would be a fashion faux pas to have both a white and green bass in the same collection. I think you should sell me your Jackson Bird just to make sure you continue to stay in good fashion standing.

 

[MCF]

Here's some really cool footage of that "Little band from Texas" doing their first prime TV performance on Johnny Carson back in 1986. But it's also a good showcase of the house band intruding on that said performance.

You can see it in Billy's body language, he was annoyed with the house band messing up the cues and being quite a bit louder in the mix. I'm pretty sure, that had he been a tad less professional, he would have shouted "Turn those darn HORNS down!" live on air.

Thanks for the post Blaze!

That is incredible. Tres Hombres was a California cruising staple when I was in high school (‘72-‘76). And they didn’t appear live until ‘86 after they sold 30 million albums? Hard to believe. I love them. RIP Dusty.