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Thunderbird Club

#294,041
ectoflanger said:
So I must say that I wasn’t influenced by some famous artist to purchase a T-Bird. In fact for the longest I was pretty skeptical-

Then one day I watched a click bait comparison video on commonly known basses played clean finger style and slap with a funky rock riff-

Precision, Jazz, Stingray, Ric, Warwick Thumb (? Yeah I know), and T-Bird. And I thought- wow! - I never heard a T-Bird played clean where the majority of demos played them overdriven-

So thought- I’m digging the clean dark mellow tone of the ‘Bird-
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I was playing a 66 Gibson EB-3. I was in Manny's(NYC)and there was a guy trying a TBird. I was somewhat intrigued/mesmerized/blown away by its appearance. I asked if I could try it(no amp). As soon as I put my hands on that neck, I knew I hadda have one. Three years later I found what's now mine across the street from Manny's. Me and it been together since 73.
I have a feeling that if I'd heard demos typical of the YT videos of today, I never would've taken the plunge. The tone(s) I prefer are not typical TBird tones. But they're what I want.
Look deep into my eyes. Do you see anyone in there that gives a ratzazz?
 
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tube tues…another happy customer…..22W into 8……things of beauty these are….:cool:
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#294,048
ectoflanger said:
So-.it has been a trying and long week so once again I ask for grace in advance for something that would be semi-verboten on another familial bass website (or I’ve already shared)-

In that I will share the one song that triggered my desire to purchase a P-bass-

Featuring the masterful and lyrical comping by Rick Wills-

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There were three great compilations of DGs solos on youtube years ago. I converted and saved them. I love listening to his playing while studying/working. Instrumental music of many flavors is always my go to thing while working alone.
 
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#294,049
Chucky Stiletti said:
have you seen captions on the news lately? all kinds of grammar and spelling inconsistencies….definitely makes one wonder…. lack of personnel? bandwidth? wasn’t like this…
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My wife subs at a Catholic boys HS where our nephew is the assistant principal. The teachers who have been around a number of years talk about how they generally can't teach what (depth) they did 10 yrs ago or more. Kids aren't able. And this is a private school where people pay to go. There are obvious exceptions.

Last week I was talking with a friend at church about his two youngest daughters and their schooling. Both are smart. One is going into medicine and the youngest leaving for aerospace engineering this summer. The med daughter said HS did not prepare her for college. It is a smaller school and not a diploma factory, and maybe they are more stringent than the average place. So the dad was telling the aero daughter what she needed to do to get ready for engineering school. (He is a computer science engineer for UPS.) One can easily see not being fully prepared if you goof off, but both of his daughters are great students and worked hard. A good bit of it indicating that having higher intelligence/educational level actually makes such things more likely, not less.

Had they talked nonsense about Thunderbirds, I could not have restrained myself.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
have you seen captions on the news lately? all kinds of grammar and spelling inconsistencies….definitely makes one wonder…. lack of personnel? bandwidth? wasn’t like this…
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Mebbe the peeples who right the capshuns figger most of the vuers cant spel so they wont notice the diffrunts.
IOW, that [stuff]drives me even nuts-er than I already am.
 
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#294,055
ectoflanger said:
Ray Bradbury was prescient when he wrote Fahrenheit 451.

In fact so prescient that when I once mentioned it, someone admonished me for mentioning a Michael Moore film-
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I thought Roy Orbison did that movie.... Who knew.

Oddly enough and kind of related to Bradbury, I was at a great nephew's BD party. Likely half of everyone there were HS teachers. I was sitting is a group with one recently retired teacher and a younger nephew (lit teacher) and a few other people. The retired Spanish teacher was talking about some kind of class she took on Orwell's "1984," and how fascinating it was. My nephew has used the book before and they were discussing it. I was dumbfounded at their application of it. They seemed to understand the message, but went in an obvious wrong direction full of a lack of self awareness given what they were saying (essentially that it applied to other people, but nothing they believed). On the way home I mentioned it to my wife (who was also in that group), and a fundamental factual error the retired teacher talked about and then wrongly applied it. She said I should have said something. I told her I was actually taken aback by the educated misunderstanding I heard and was at a loss for words--and it was a kids party not at out house. And they teach kids stuff! There is some really fascinating research on people seeing something and completely going in a wrong direction (things like my side or confirmation bias, etc.).
 
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GonePlaid said:
I was playing a 66 Gibson EB-3. I was in Manny's(NYC)and there was a guy trying a TBird. I was somewhat intrigued/mesmerized/blown away by its appearance. I asked if I could try it(no amp). As soon as I put my hands on that neck, I knew I hadda have one. Three years later I found what's now mine across the street from Manny's. Me and it been together since 73.
I have a feeling that if I'd heard demos typical of the YT videos of today, I never would've taken the plunge. The tone(s) I prefer are not typical TBird tones. But they're what I want.
Look deep into my eyes. Do you see anyone in there that gives a ratzazz?
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It occurs to me that if I hadn't had to have the headstock repair(s) done on it, it might be worth more than the $250 I paid for it-w/ OHSC(which I no longer have).:whistle:
 
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dagrev said:
My wife subs at a Catholic boys HS where our nephew is the assistant principal. The teachers who have been around a number of years talk about how they generally can't teach what (depth) they did 10 yrs ago or more. Kids aren't able. And this is a private school where people pay to go. There are obvious exceptions.

Last week I was talking with a friend at church about his two youngest daughters and their schooling. Both are smart. One is going into medicine and the youngest leaving for aerospace engineering this summer. The med daughter said HS did not prepare her for college. It is a smaller school and not a diploma factory, and maybe they are more stringent than the average place. So the dad was telling the aero daughter what she needed to do to get ready for engineering school. (He is a computer science engineer for UPS.) One can easily see not being fully prepared if you goof off, but both of his daughters are great students and worked hard. A good bit of it indicating that having higher intelligence/educational level actually makes such things more likely, not less.

Had they talked nonsense about Thunderbirds, I could not have restrained myself.
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the Dean of Engineering at SJSU told Thomas he would only use about 9% of what he learned in his EE undergrad program….
 
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