Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

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I’m not sure how my comments on @TBird1958 good looks has anything to do with Fender amps, but I’m sure someone will explain it to me.

Once a Thunderbird chooses you, it will all become clear.

 

[Rickplaysbass]

Shoot, or maybe PHWEW! It's a fiver. Otherwise I might be shopping a kidney.

I don't know if I could go to a 4 bird after this 5.

 

[TBird1958]

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I’m not sure how my comments on @TBird1958 good looks has anything to do with Fender amps, but I’m sure someone will explain it to me.

Miles is a little frisky today

 

[TBird1958]

I’m glad my GAS is gone.
The work that’s been done on mine, (and one more to be finished) has satisfied my itch.

Sure, sure, that's why you're here at the Free Clinic!

 

[Gaolee]

We've gone full circle, bass used to be mixed for transistor radios; hence Pbasses, now compressed for smartphones. Doesn't explain the heavy kicks. I guess those are for oversized subs in cars (and side by sides)

The heavy kick drum mix thing just turns everything into mud. Bass completely disappears in those mixes.

When I get into a boomy room or it gets muddy and the bass starts to disappear, I usually cut the lowest frequencies. As much as I love to rumble the floor, sometimes that's the last thing the music needs. I don't play EDM, so there's that.

 

[JIO]

The heavy kick drum mix thing just turns everything into mud. Bass completely disappears in those mixes.

When I get into a boomy room or it gets muddy and the bass starts to disappear, I usually cut the lowest frequencies. As much as I love to rumble the floor, sometimes that's the last thing the music needs. I don't play EDM, so there's that.

I hate a boomy bass sound whenever I hear it and avoid it like the plague - it only fits in Reggae IMO.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Once a Thunderbird chooses you, it will all become clear.

Non-reverse has been calling my phone lately, but haven't picked up yet.

 

[Gaolee]

I don't know if I could go to a 4 bird after this 5.

Don't tell me that. I have too many four string Thunderbirds that would get neglected. Not that they wouldn't anyway if I had a Lull, most likely. Like if Veronica ever parted with the orange one. Chances are I wouldn't play much of anything else if it kept sounding like it does.

 

[JJR58]

Sure, sure, that's why you're here at the Free Clinic!

 

[JIO]

'Dressed to Kill' Bond Girl Cherie & I on her B-day at Sat night's The Lucky Horseshoe 2 set gig.

 

[Gaolee]

Non-reverse has been calling my phone lately, but haven't picked up yet.

Ah, you cannot resist the call of a Thunderbird. It only makes it more insistent. It will be calling you at home, at work, at the doctor's office (but we won't get into why).

 

[MCF]

Ugh!
But look at it this way.
You have a good family and 2 nice homes.
And lots of basses.

Check. Check. And too many as is. But the blue Lull and the sparkling Epi…

 

[GBassNorth]

The over-emphasized kick is a club thing - sooo loud, it drowns the bass out! Don't know the rationality behind it.

Purely intended to put butts on the dance floor, simple repetitive monotonous beat to keep ‘em on the dance floor. No creative bass line, no significant vocal arrangement, cheap electronic generated club dub, trance music. Five minutes of it and I’m done.

 

[MCF]

...you say that like it's a bad thing!

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Something more like this I’m afraid.
1975 SCHWINN VARSITY MENS 10-SPEED LIME GREEN ROAD BIKE CONTINENTAL RACER SPRINT | eBay

 

[JIO]

Purely intended to put butts on the dance floor, simple repetitive monotonous beat to keep ‘em on the dance floor. No creative bass line, no significant vocal arrangement, cheap electronic generated club dub, trance music. Five minutes of it and I’m done.

It's more than that - I saw the Mermen (not a dance-oriented band) play their jammy psychedelic surf at an SF club and the kick drowned out Jennifer's usually very present (power trio) bass.

 

[TBird1958]

Something more like this I’m afraid.
1975 SCHWINN VARSITY MENS 10-SPEED LIME GREEN ROAD BIKE CONTINENTAL RACER SPRINT | eBay

My older brother had bright yellow one of those - built like a tank, weighed like a boat anchor.

 

[Stealth57]

My older brother had bright yellow one of those - built like a tank, weighed like a boat anchor.

I was one of the cool kids. I had a green Peugeot.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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I’m not sure how my comments on @TBird1958 good looks has anything to do with Fender amps, but I’m sure someone will explain it to me.

I was replying to @GonePlaid but either I clicked on the wrong post to reply or TB screwed up. I've seen both happen...

 

[SubHuman]

...you say that like it's a bad thing!

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Well if you're picking up your date...it might be a little ego deflating!
Need one of these!

 

[JIO]

Something more like this I’m afraid.
1975 SCHWINN VARSITY MENS 10-SPEED LIME GREEN ROAD BIKE CONTINENTAL RACER SPRINT | eBay

I never owned one, but friends rode them back in the day. Until the early '70s it was one of the few '10-speed' bikes to be had in the US. The "bike-boom" '70s brought in many Euro brands. I bought my first 10-speed in '72 - a purple (French) Gitane Interclub with sew-up tyres. I later bought a Schwinn Paramount track-bike that I raced on the Northbrook velodrome outside of Chicago.

Not mine but it looked just like this.

I was one of the cool kids. I had a green Peugeot.

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French Gitane, Peugeot & Motobecane, UK Raleigh, Japanese Fuji, Nishiki... (entry-level consumer-bikes mostly plus some higher-end "race-bikes") The Retrogrouch: The American Bike Boom - 1970s