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Thunderbird Club

I had it at the GTG last summer but couldn't really get anyone to try it. It sounds great through the SVT and the Mesas. Rounder to my ear than the average J bass pickup. Less honk. More balls.
I played a few back in the day....remember them feeling like an expensive 7ender....kinda like a cross between a 7ender and a Charvel or Jackson...nice basses, Glover's was white, much prefer the natural....
 
gotta love tortoise shell on white….
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I'm OK with that. BUT BEWARE:

I'm kind of a bitch about hotel and food arrangements,
I only travel first class,
I don't lift anything more than 20#, and
The Del Preston character in Wayne's World 2 was based on me.

There is also a very strict melon clause...

You don't deal with melons > 20#? Boring.
 
I serve on my Condo Corp. BoD (small group of townhouses). The AGM is terrible; owners all want to irrationally bitch about everything (i.e. why don't you do these ten expensive things but make condo fees lower) but won't stand for election. I have been trying to get off the board for years, but keep getting acclaimed as there are no candidates.

When it's time to register candidates, start talking about raising fees to Bedazzle the entire exterior. Someone will run.
 
I had it at the GTG last summer but couldn't really get anyone to try it. It sounds great through the SVT and the Mesas. Rounder to my ear than the average J bass pickup. Less honk. More balls.

I played everything sight at least a little, but sometimes had nothing top plug a bass into. And I was focused the most on the birds. This year I plan t be more egalitarian. Mostly.
 
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I played everything sight at least a little, but sometimes had nothing top plug a bass into. And I was focused the most on the birds. This year I plan t be more egalitarian. Mostly.
I hear you. But it's good to have a few other types of basses. The Foundation fills in for a J bass. I have three Fenders I don't play all that much: the Mustang PJ, the MIM P bass, and a MIM PJ Deluxe. Although the Mustang has moved up to the room where the Mesa is because I'm having some left arm nerve issues related to cervical cord compression from C3-C5. I hate getting old.
 
I have a Fender "Princeton 75" SS guitar amp. Not the same at all I know, but that little sucker is ungodly loud. I've never seen anything like it. As in if you get to 2 on the volume it's too loud at home. On 6 you could gig a arena. On top of that, it sound really good. If it only had tubes.....

As a guitarist friend said the other day, Fenders are definitely in your face, unlike even the venerable Marshall- they really pop-