Thunderbird Club

[Rickplaysbass]

I think that would be libeled. But you would I have to clarify with the attorney that either slandered or libeled you to know for sure with respect to California law. I'm not sure if things written/said on the internet are considered slander or libel. Again, refer to the above attorney who either slandered or libeled you.

I'm laughing at the timing on this one cuz I just received a letter from the Texas Ethics Commission. Running for MUD Director one candidate accused me of slandering him because I said, "our current MUD president is stubborn as a goat."

I got the notice of dismissal yesterday. Lol

 

[Engle]

Mudbuckers don't have pole pieces. They have bar magnets. The screws that look like pole pieces don't actually have any function other than the visual aspect.

I raised the G screw on my EBO, and it seemed to me the G got louder. I'll have to test that!
Edit: @Basvarken There is a definite difference in volume when the screw is up a few mm proud of the cover versus the screw being flush.
I understand the screws are not technically pole pieces, but they do function on my 68 EBO.

 

[Stealth57]

I think that would be libeled. But you would I have to clarify with the attorney that either slandered or libeled you to know for sure with respect to California law. I'm not sure if things written/said on the internet are considered slander or libel. Again, refer to the above attorney who either slandered or libeled you.

Donnie, I'm going with slander because it was the voices in my head...

 

[SubHuman]

No need to stop and tune as the night went on. Just play louder. Covers a multitude os sins. We would tune with the keyboard. Almost always played in bands that had one.

I guess my point was everyone today has a digital tuner now and can silently tune between songs. They take this for granted. Where as a pitch pipe, tuning fork or keyboard brought the music to a screeching halt and the band had to manually and audibly tune while the crowd just stood there waiting. You better have some good banter to keep the party going!

 

[ectoflanger]

Fender used some cases long ago that would soften a nitro finish in short order. My '55 has the scars to prove it.

Was that the orangish/pink shag?

 

[ectoflanger]

I've been using my Macbook Pro so long now I hate having to do anything on my old laptop, or the secretary's PC. I was not one of the cool kids who made the switch early by any means, but am glad I did and would never considering going back. My Macbook has kept its speed, etc., for what would have easily been the span of two laptops, maybe three.

I have a late-2011 model that's still kicking, albeit on High Sierra. Having ordered one of the fastest processors at the time and upgrading to 16 G RAM helps as well. Mind you it's a backup which I have used a couple of times when the motherboard of my 2016 MacBook had to be replaced.

Recently I used it to reclaim an older long-disused LaCie 250 GIG external drive which neither my 2016 with OS Catalina or my new 2024 iMac would recognize owing to its older DOS FAT 32 filing system. I couldn't even erase or reformat it with them, but was able to copy and save the files with the 2011 Mac before reformatting it to ExFAT.

Even though it's ten years old, that LaCie is still pretty fast with its Thunderbolt cable.

Anyhow I hate to see things go to waste- it has an impact resistant case with a waterproof seal as well as a USB A cable.

Never mind that have a 256 GIG SanDisk model on my keychain and a Samsung 1 TB T9 that could copy most of my files in less than 20 minutes -

Word to the wise- update the file systems on your smaller external drives lest the rendered unusable and you have to take it to a tech shop to retrieve your data-

 

[Count Bassie]

That Silver bird is the BOMB!
Good point about the band setting on the Fender. Not every bass that sounds awesome in solo fits in a band, and just because it won't fit in one band doesn't mean it won't fit in another. When I was in a band I found the most use for the Fender Tele Modern Player on an occasional reggae song. I'm hoping the Tbird mahogany body will offer a slightly different timbre that's more useable than the Fender pine body, we'll see if the timbre is in the timber.
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Pine?

 

[PillO]

Stupid and funny or stupidly funny (or both)?

The movie's premise and plot is stupid. Several of the main characters are best described as stupid and are portrayed brilliantly by the actors. The execution of the plot is excellent. The humour is stupid and funny. The resolution of the main plot is funny and punctuates the stupidity of the plot. The denouement is stupid and funny.

 

[PillO]

Ah'll do the thinnin' around here, Baba Looey!

I always loved the Quick Draw character "El Kabong"

 

[MCF]

@MCF what are your thoughts on your Peavey Foundation? There is one available in pretty clean condition for $200.

Mine is an '86 body with a '93 neck that Peavy fixed up for Doyle Curtsinger who was the bassist for Buck Owens & The Buckaroos from '69 until Buck's passing. Doyle and The Buckaroos still make occasional appearances. I bought it from Doyle in 2018. I like it. I prefer the Super Ferrite single coils to the 7ender J Bass single coils. The neck is really slim and fast.

$200 for a Foundation is a good price. They were USA made and solid players. Only thing to watch out for is a warped or ski jump neck.

 

[PillO]

moros y cristianos...

Merry Christmas

Feijão e arroz?

Farted in error

exatamente.

Oh crap

 

[JIO]

This '80s Greco was posted on my "distressed finishes" thread - no pg revered reverse.

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[PillO]

Everyone who understands all these references is seriously dating themselves (chronology-wise), said the person who dated himself (chronology-wise).

You are dating yourself by knowing that the reference dates ones self...

 

[Count Bassie]

@bylar13 , picked up that buffering splitter you linked me to (lower right, under the Broughton hpf). Works fine, and actually organized my "Barnyard" a notch better.
Thanks!

 

[PillO]

I guess my point was everyone today has a digital tuner now and can silently tune between songs. They take this for granted. Where as a pitch pipe, tuning fork or keyboard brought the music to a screeching halt and the band had to manually and audibly tune while the crowd just stood there waiting. You better have some good banter to keep the party going!

Or you have a roadie backstage who hands you an in tune instrument and takes away the current one to be tuned during the song...

 

[BklynKen]

You are dating yourself by knowing that the reference dates ones self...

Dating yourself is a lot cheaper.

 

[Gaolee]

I started with a pitch pipe because it was the cheapest option. Used it for years. Had a cheap Fender tuner for a while, then an app on my phone. I've been perfectly happy with my Korg Pitchblack for several years now.

I recall tuning to E on a piano, then using harmonics. Same on guitar. I never had a pitch pipe or a tuning fork. Beats me if we were ever tuned to A=440 or not. Now, I guess we always are.

 

[Stealth57]

Mine is an '86 body with a '93 neck that Peavy fixed up for Doyle Curtsinger who was the bassist for Buck Owens & The Buckaroos from '69 until Buck's passing. Doyle and The Buckaroos still make occasional appearances. I bought it from Doyle in 2018. I like it. I prefer the Super Ferrite single coils to the 7ender J Bass single coils. The neck is really slim and fast.

$200 for a Foundation is a good price. They were USA made and solid players. Only thing to watch out for is a warped or ski jump neck.

This one is the Super Ferrite.

 

[Gaolee]

I have a late-2011 model that's still kicking, albeit on High Sierra. Having ordered one of the fastest processors at the time and upgrading to 16 G RAM helps as well. Mind you it's a backup which I have used a couple of times when the motherboard of my 2016 MacBook had to be replaced.

Recently I used it to reclaim an older long-disused LaCie 250 GIG external drive which neither my 2016 with OS Catalina or my new 2024 iMac would recognize owing to its older DOS FAT 32 filing system. I couldn't even erase or reformat it with them, but was able to copy and save the files with the 2011 Mac before reformatting it to ExFAT.

Even though it's ten years old, that LaCie is still pretty fast with its Thunderbolt cable.

Anyhow I hate to see things go to waste- it has an impact resistant case with a waterproof seal as well as a USB A cable.

Never mind that have a 256 GIG SanDisk model on my keychain and a Samsung 1 TB T9 that could copy most of my files in less than 20 minutes -

Word to the wise- update the file systems on your smaller external drives lest the rendered unusable and you have to take it to a tech shop to retrieve your data-

Beats me what you just said. Except for the last sentence. I have a Dell laptop that got impossibly slow and just bough a Hewlett Packard desktop to replace it. The HP is a gaming computer even though I don't do any computer gaming. It was a bit more expensive than a more pedestrian computer but everything is much faster and it has a lot more memory. So, it will theoretically last longer than five or six years before it's hopelessly slow.

Point of this story is that my MP3 music file aren't working on the new computer just yet. I don't know why. They did for a while, now they don't. More frustration to overcome.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

hot rod….. love Deluxes…22 Watts of pure tonal bliss….speaker hooked up of course..