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Thunderbird Club
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Find a studio where you can record live. Or build one!That would be awesome! This is another band I have been playing with called Highfield.
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These are recordings from our practice space. Everything is pretty much first take and very lo-fi. I have been stumping for some real studio time since we have actually practiced and played live a bit since the recording were done.
Its a tough sell to a bunch of guys who love things "raw and spontaneous"
We record in my music room with headphones. The guitar amp is in an adjacent attic space covered with a moving blanket and bass is DI to interface. That way we can play live for the spontaneity, but punch in edits etc. No click track.
From another thread. I have people come down my well marked dead end street 'cos old maps and some GPS's show it goes through. It did-40+ years ago.
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Google is wrong??? How is that possible? It's on the inter-webs!
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Why would I want to be where Goigle maps is wrong?
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Bond girl had a nice show last night in downtown SF at a hip urban venue called Music City SF. https://musiccitysf.com/ First time I'd been there - a very impressive place! Relatively new, someone spent some big money on it. Performance-space/bar, lower floor hourly rehearsal spaces (very nice spaces w/backline - pic's on there site), a full kitchen, a small dining/hanging area and top-end FoH/stage/full backline/lighting. And bonus - air conditioned! Sat was in the 90s here - unusual for SF in general and especially rare this late in the year. Everyone joked that a rare night like this is when Eric Burton visited and wrote "...on a warm San Francisco night..." 
Love not having to lug an amp - I played through a nice Quilter, but it was a little too modern sounding for my tastes. The performance space had high-ceilings but unfortunately no baffling (they need to address this) so it was an overly 'live' sound. The combination of the live space, the modern amp and my '66 J made it hard to find a sweet-spot between 'boomy' and 'nasaly/clangy'. Anyway - the management liked us so it sounds like we might get a monthly gig there. BG has made a decision to bypass janky bar-gigs from now on and concentrate on upper tier venues like this one and recording. We shared the night with friends or ours, both doing 90min sets. They are a basic cover-band but are good players and nice people. We've shared bills a number of times w/BG & TSC. Pics were taken so maybe I'll be able to post some later.
The brick-wall & window behind the stage now have full length floor to ceiling red curtains, ala Twin Peaks!
Love not having to lug an amp - I played through a nice Quilter, but it was a little too modern sounding for my tastes. The performance space had high-ceilings but unfortunately no baffling (they need to address this) so it was an overly 'live' sound. The combination of the live space, the modern amp and my '66 J made it hard to find a sweet-spot between 'boomy' and 'nasaly/clangy'. Anyway - the management liked us so it sounds like we might get a monthly gig there. BG has made a decision to bypass janky bar-gigs from now on and concentrate on upper tier venues like this one and recording. We shared the night with friends or ours, both doing 90min sets. They are a basic cover-band but are good players and nice people. We've shared bills a number of times w/BG & TSC. Pics were taken so maybe I'll be able to post some later.
The brick-wall & window behind the stage now have full length floor to ceiling red curtains, ala Twin Peaks!
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Went to Music-go-round yesterday and sold my Ampeg V-4B "Classic" (same as my V-4BH, just a little older). It was my backup but with the ABM and little RM-300 there was no need to keep it in my office. Made a little money from selling it, so I was very happy.
Played one of these for the first time. No amp, however. The thing I discovered is that it's been a long time since I picked up a 5er. I was hoping they would have a Fender MIM fretless. But nothing. And yes, I played the Epi Thunderbird. Been years since I picked one of those up. Very nice feeling.
Played one of these for the first time. No amp, however. The thing I discovered is that it's been a long time since I picked up a 5er. I was hoping they would have a Fender MIM fretless. But nothing. And yes, I played the Epi Thunderbird. Been years since I picked one of those up. Very nice feeling.
I would think the SVT would really help the lows. My V-4BH (same pre and voicing) does the trick. But my cab is full of lows as well. I have no clue ho Berg cabs are voiced.
kinda hard to unsee that strat but can this guy play and sing….
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Bergs are very clear and somewhat neutral.
And they do the frequency range very accurately.
oh wow, saw a guy playing one of (blue) those through a MB combo at the county fair yesterday…..was wondering what it was, sounded and looked great.
Yep. Always assume there’s a solid reason for them!
Oh man.
Never heard that name before. Looked it up, I think I’ve only heard them called “split pins”
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Bond Girls ex-lead player Andy played a Reverend. As far as their basses go, the Mike Watt signature "Watt-Plower" is one of their biggest sellers. It's gone through a few variations, road tested by Watt - this is the current iteration.
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yikes!
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Goigle? No wonder it's wrong!
