Thunderbird Club

[SubHuman]

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

I’m not sure that would work.

What would be the best way to fix the embossed Thunderbird emblem?

 

[D.M.N.]

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.

I was offered one of those in a trade, but I couldn't bring myself to give up what I had at the time.

 

[RedVee]

one of Willie’s 442s…..lucky 7ucker…now this is what I’m talking about……
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Ok, I love that Old mobile

 

[Rickplaysbass]

I was offered one of those in a trade, but I couldn't bring myself to give up what I had at the time.

What did you have?

 

[MCF]

I saw that movie Anyone But You on the plane. It is ok, better than I feared but could be better… pretty watchable fluff.

A lot of it is set in Sydney, so I thought I better add some advisory notes:
It is NOT advisable to jump / fall in the harbour from a boat. The water is clean enough these days so there are many more fish in there these days…. many more of the critters that eat the fish as well.
It is NOT (even more than NOT) to leap from a cliff into the harbour or the ocean. Many that try that do not live to regret it… the others that may survive it may strongly regret it.

Filmed in Sydney with Sydney Sweeney? May just have to remember to check it out.

 

[dagrev]

In my best George Takei voice...... "Oh my!"

I'll send you a set of SITs if you take George up on that offer.



On second thought. Cancel that. Some things you just can't unsee....and that might be one of them.

 

[dagrev]

They should be heard.
Got way more saness then most adults.

Certainly see your point. One problem is many adults are children in older bodies. Which explains why adults often reason like 15-year-olds, they just use bigger words and more complicated sentences, so on the surface it sounds like an actual adult talking using an adult argument. But it's the 15 yrs old inside.

 

[dagrev]

You know what fire departments hate? Ikea.

A friend was a major in the FD here and the two things he haded was car fires (before EVs) and high rise buildings. He would avoid tall buildings when possible.

 

[dagrev]

one of Willie’s 442s…..lucky 7ucker…now this is what I’m talking about……
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That's a Car! Funny looking fuel injectors though..... Probably doesn't get great MPG.







But who cares! Kinda the point.

 

[MCF]

I looked up the blue one. It’s a one off. Bargain priced at $8270.

 

[MCF]

A couple new Bird-related Spector's turned up on Facebook today.

Three Lollar Tbird pickups

And this beauty

I looked up the blue one. Bargain priced at $8270.

 

[dagrev]

I looked up the blue one. It’s a one off. Bargain priced at $8270.

When does it arrive at that proper home?

 

[Nocturnal]

I looked up the blue one. Bargain priced at $8270.

I think the 3 pickup bass costs about $1000 more.

 

[MCF]

I think the 3 pickup bass costs about $1000 more.

Two or three, what a beautiful bass.

 

[MCF]

When does it arrive at that proper home?

I wish. That price is about the combined value of my five Gibsons.

 

[dagrev]

I wish. That price is about the combined value of my five Gibsons.

And your point is.....

I do understand. That's certainly not typical bass pocket cash. And at that price you could get something vintage that will without question continue to go up in value and have no chance of remaining stable or certainly going down in value.

 

[GonePlaid]

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.

Probably union rules.

 

[GonePlaid]

Well that was great, but that trumpet bloke was a bit off putting.

That was Doc Severinsen-leader of The Tonight Show Band(with fake beard). My guess would be union rules required them to be playing, which also meant that ZZ had to adhere to 'form' so that the band [stuff] 'fit'.

 

[GonePlaid]

Chances are reasonable that he was a bit tipsy. Not that it's a good excuse.

Not likely. Severinsen had the rep of being pretty strict. Oh, he'd 'play the foole' with Johnny, but there was no f---ing* around with the music.

*ool

 

[GonePlaid]

Youngsters should be seen and not heard

I've been told I should be obscene and not heard.