Rattle can or the good stuff? Assuming the latter.
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Thunderbird Club
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Dang! Missed it-taking a nap.
Some of the Epi necks are bulky compared to the original Gibsons - and apparently that Schecter.
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We gots gigs Friday and Saturday night. Hafta use the Epi Embassy Friday night. I've got my PA/mixer to my right between me and the drummer and the neck of the TBird would hang over the first table to my left plus the stage is only ~8" high. Bad form to conk the Elks Club members. Should be able to take the 'Bird Saturday night-the guitarist(only one on these 2 gigs)is bringing his PA so I'll have a tad more room.
Oh, yeah. Thinking back, she was just about my favorite(surviving-in the movie)Bond Girl. My favorite that didn't survive was Diana Rigg.
Edit: Looked up Honor Blackman. We share the same birth date-20 years apart.
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Right??
That Schecter Ultra Bass neck is similar to a Gibson Bird neck. The Sixx variation of the Schecter has a very beefy neck that makes the Epi VP necks feel svelte.
Cool.
Shortest Day today here.
Interesting how things work on this big old blob of mud spinning around the Sun!
Diana Rigg was in a league of her own!
In my best raspy blues voice…It made a grown man cryOh man, I made that mistake once - I set an over-priced scotch on my amp and started our set. By mid song it shimmied off the amp and went crashing to the stage-floor. Never again...
The broken scotch-glass can be seen on the floor in the center of my cab...
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What have I got myself here. I'm in China and I got it second hand. Obviously with the amount of small guitar factories here is easy for it to be a copy but it probably isn't. It's got a metal nut which seems like something that would be skimped out on if it were a copy.
I don't love the sound by itself but it sits in a reburied recorded mix quite well.
What is it and are there any basic upgrades I should do? Pickups and pre?
Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV. The only active Thunderbird. Brass nut and bridge. That one was made in 2013. 7 ply neck through.
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It's actually a good candidate for changing out the pickups and the pre amp, my Jackson Bird has EMGs and while it's not everybody's thing they really cut in mix.
So... Not Gibson good but still okayish? I saw a Gibson thunderbird in Japan and I feel like it was bigger than this somehow.
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