Thunderbird Club

[ProgressiveDoom]

I you could only hear that bass..........

Eventually I will get a sound clip on here, just not sure if it will be with my band or me just noodling.

 

[TBird1958]

@TBird1958 Bummed I missed the get together this weekend! I had all my stuff packed up and ready to go Saturday and then ended up spraining my ankle that night! The doc at the hospital said it was one of the worst looking sprains he'd ever seen, not that that made me feel much better about missing the party.

Ouch!
Jeez, Dylan hope you're feeling better and up and about soon, weren't you moving to SoCal soon?

 

[PillO]

Whaddya mean "they dont look good on a bird"?.......and whaddya mean bastard?.View attachment 1123656

That does look good. And Ric pick up(s). And bastard bird in the good sense - like when people say angry piano.

 

[PillO]

Do Shark Fins count?

That looks great. I like the green. Perhaps I should look for a green bird. Or maybe have one refinished to green...

I tried a Kelly Bird a few weeks ago (as @godofthunder59 had suggested that it was a lot of bass for the money). The looks are good, but the body felt thick and the neck was like a baseball bat. I much prefer the feel of the `bird neck thru neck.

 

[PillO]

So teeth then?

The upper and lower teeth are mirror images, so I would say still teeth.

 

[PillO]

We were highly discouraged from contact with that Devil's music mind, it all being about 'nothing but drugs'.

It isn't all about drugs. Some of it is about sex.

 

[PillO]

There was always music in the house, starting from before our son was born. He was listening to Duke Ellington from the beginning. He had no way to avoid it! And, my wife loves to sing to herself when she does all kinds of things. She's off key, but she's singing. I wasn't playing much when he was little, but there was usually music from records or the radio. We would listen to music and read instead of watching TV. Sometimes being a little odd pays off.

I have been working on my daughter's musical education. Piano lessons and listening to a variety of music. Pop, metal, punk, jazz, classic rock, psychedelic, funk, prog. We went to a Motown show (singer/actors portraying the stars of the 60s) and loved it. Her mother would have a fit if she knew that her daughter's favorite band is Iron Maiden...

 

[TBird1958]

That looks great. I like the green. Perhaps I should look for a green bird. Or maybe have one refinished to green...

I tried a Kelly Bird a few weeks ago (as @godofthunder59 had suggested that it was a lot of bass for the money). The looks are good, but the body felt thick and the neck was like a baseball bat. I much prefer the feel of the `bird neck thru neck.

I love that bass, it's a tank, a beautifully made tank.
Some of the best $$$ I've ever spent on a bass right there.

 

[kat888]

This would be an interesting Bird finish.

 

[kat888]

It isn't all about drugs. Some of it is about sex.

...and blood

 

[Korladis]

I do too! I think of the built in fuzz/dirty sound as me having a foot switchable option, if needed.

Not having to use stomp boxes which I found killed my low end, dragging a second amp around to handle the dirty sound when used intermittently, extra cords that seem go bad at the worst possible time, batteries/power supplies, pedal boards were all things I was happy to give up.

Indeed. I get most of my overdrive from my Mesa D-180. Although I do have a custom fuzz that I kick on when I need more.

I think a pitfall that a lot of people encounter with overdrive that exacerbates the problem of disappearing low end, is trying to set overdrive/distortion/fuzz at the same volume as their clean sound. Drive pedals work by adding a buttload of extra midrange and treble content (while some do actually subtract low end, most don't), so if you dial the volume on the pedal back so that it matches the clean tone, you are in effect subtracting low end.

I hate batteries. The only piece of gear I have that I use them for is my ebow. I do run a fairly large pedalboard, but most of the time, everything on it is off. I don't have any "always on" pedals.

I never liked the dot inlays on the fretboard. If you could have any style, what would you have? I'd choose the trapezoids or none at all.

Crowns would look great. Same with trapezoids.

I think the Rickenbacker style triangles, microdots, or hollow circles (as seen on the 4003 noir) would look cool.

Or the Gretsch style clouds.

Or pagan moon inlays.

There was always music in the house, starting from before our son was born. He was listening to Duke Ellington from the beginning. He had no way to avoid it! And, my wife loves to sing to herself when she does all kinds of things. She's off key, but she's singing. I wasn't playing much when he was little, but there was usually music from records or the radio. We would listen to music and read instead of watching TV. Sometimes being a little odd pays off.

As it should be.

There was always music in my parents' house when I was growing up. My mom and dad would put on records. My dad liked to listen to Sousa marches, swing music, old country (Hank I, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, etc.). My mom was a bit more of a rocker. They both liked listening to the program "Riverwalk Jazz" on sunday afternoons.

When my sister and I were little, my dad would actually sing us to sleep with traditional folk songs.

Whaddya mean "they dont look good on a bird"?.......and whaddya mean bastard?.View attachment 1123656

I think they look great.

When I think sharkfin I think like Jackson Rhoads style with the curve to it.
But different strokes for different folks, I'd rather trapezoids on a Bird

Yeah, I mainly think Rickenbackers. Cause I'm biased.

Although the more I stare at it the more I like the triangles (Ric Teeth) on a Bird. They need a bit more of a point on them though

Eh, I think it's good that they're rounded off. Matches the rounded off points of the T-bird's body, you know?

My mum attempted to teach me the piano when I was quite young, something for which I showed less than zero interest or aptitude* and which which was a severe disappintment to her. The parents were very surprised when I expressed a desire to learn the 'cello a couple of years later, but it's a matter of choosing the right instrument innit? My sister is an oboe player, aka 'duck strangler', although she learned the piano also. We were highly discouraged from contact with that Devil's music mind, it all being about 'nothing but drugs'.

*When I have no interest, I go out of my way to have no aptitude, just to hammer the point.

My parents enrolled both my sister and me in piano lessons. My sister stuck with it. I didn't. I later took up trombone and played that for much longer, all through college even. Started playing bass in 8th grade. Been playing ever since.

My parents never tried to keep us away from any music. Despite not liking a lot of what my sister and I were into.

 

[Korladis]

...and blood

Indeed.

Sometimes sex, drugs, and blood. All at once.

 

[Count Bassie]

It's all about the ratio of talent to gear.

It's all about the polyester, man.

 

[PillO]

Indeed.

Sometimes sex, drugs, and blood. All at once.

I believe that a wise philosopher said:
Sex and drugs and rock and roll,
Is all my brain and body needs.

 

[Korladis]

It's all about the polyester, man.

Ewww.

All cotton for life.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Ewww.

All cotton for life.

SILK...

 

[Gaolee]

Ewww.

All cotton for life.

Style over comfort!

Every good cro-magnon knows that shiny polyester is the key to looking sharp.

 

[Korladis]

Style over comfort!

Absolutely not.

SILK...

Doesn't breathe well enough.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Since we're on the topic of growing up around music (I don't know who I should quote) I think I was 3 years old when I first heard Kickstart My Heart, feel in love with Motley Crue immediately. My dad listened to a little bit of everything all the time, whether it was the Blues to Springsteen and Crue, he never really listened to much of 80's metal besides them so I discovered everything else myself. But my first CD I bought was Black Sabbath Paranoid, in grade 4, probably still my second most played album... after Black Sabbath Master of Reality

 

[PillO]

Style over comfort!

Every good cro-magnon knows that shiny polyester is the key to looking sharp.

Which argues for silk...