Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

But, but...... my legs are my best feature!

Best legs in the club!

 

[Stealth57]

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About 2 minutes before I rolled the B100r behind you all.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

because he probably just did it for the feel, not the tone....he would just go to another eq setting to accommodate the difference....this said, fme, the older rounds get, the harder it gets to discern a pick or fingerstyle approach, this can be an advantage....

With EBCFs, there’s a huge vast difference between pick and fingers. Night and day.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Best legs in the club!

Pretty much anywhere!

 

[TBird1958]

Get a room!...

Oh, he's trouble! Give him a beer and turn him loose on the streets of an unsuspecting California town!

 

[JJR58]

Oh, he's trouble! Give him a beer and turn him loose on the streets of an unsuspecting California town!

 

[MCF]

Rain here in the middling Northeast also. Keeping me off my day job...

80 in Bako. Spring has arrived.

Just me and the dog. Wife and son went to Whittier yesterday. Father-in-law taken to ER yesterday AM. He’s stable, waiting to be transferred to cardiac unit at St. Joseph’s in the OC. Other than worrying, I’ve been dialing in the ‘77, playing tunes and watching Dodgers.

 

[MCF]

I like it well enuff. Particularly the pickups. The neck isn't as comfy as the 67, but what is?

Well…my ‘15, my ‘77, and my two BaCHs have wonderful necks. I have an Ibby and a Peavy Foundation that are equally great. Too bad the Ibby sounds like garbage.

 

[MCF]

Oh, he's trouble! Give him a beer and turn him loose on the streets of an unsuspecting California town!

And there’s that guy with the Neil Young shirt. I don’t feel as old as I look.

 

[dagrev]

Never listen to bass demos without headphones. I saw your original post before you edited it. I guess you were thinking of the Foundations and not the Fusions?

Yes, on both accounts.

 

[MCF]

I bought it for the VP, but find it's not flexible enough. It falls off my shoulder as soon as I sit down.

I swear. Gibson needs to bring back the Slingshot. I only got one before they stopped making them. 21/2 inches. They are great for Thunderbird players who like a narrower strap.

 

[dagrev]

The context of a mix is always a game changer for sure (and headphones were on!).

As I think about it, you make good point and one maybe one not fully intended. In a live mix subtle things like strings can either not be noticed (Ken's valid point)--or something good at home can disappear or could be over emphasized, this being less likely in my experience. I've found that how something sounds at home is almost meaningless in terms of how it will sound in a mix in a big room. (My '64 is completely uninteresting hat home. Possibly my worst sounding bass at home. But live....Monster!

 

[D.M.N.]

A friend is in a band we went to see last night at Liquid Joe's in Salt Lake City. They are very good at what rhey do (mainly 80's harder stuff, Quiet Riot, Motley Crew and the like). I was watching the bass player who played an Explorer and a PJ I couldn't identify (he had a white Gibson Thunderbird that I was disappointed he didn't play, he said it was a backup). I was surprised not that he played fingerstyle and with a pick, but that it sounded very much the same. I asked him how he did it, he looked surprised and said did he didn't know.

Any idea how he did it?

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I'd hazard that it's probably just very hard attack with the fingers. If your not really plucking the string, but rather driving through it so it hits the fretboard, you get much more attack. Kinda like how Geddy and the Ox have such hard attack with fingers. I usually just use a pick if I have to do a section that calls for very fast pedaling or specifically a pick sort of scrape attack. When playing chords or double stops I'l usually flick my fingers through so my finger nails are hitting the strings instead, like Rasgueado in Flamenco.

 

[dagrev]

Bass of the day... Never ceases to amaze.

 

[dagrev]

I like it well enuff. Particularly the pickups. The neck isn't as comfy as the 67, but what is?

Yes, Sir. Nothing. Well maybe a '64. Slightly different but I love both equally well.

 

[MCF]

Pretty simple for me, when I sit, I bypass the straplock and just use the hole 2 spots higher on the strap.

I ditch the straps sitting down.

 

[dagrev]

Like my days living in NE LA. If you don't like the weather, give it a minute...it might get worse.

Common saying here as well. The only thing consistent is the inconsistency of the weather.

 

[MCF]

A friend is in a band we went to see last night at Liquid Joe's in Salt Lake City. They are very good at what rhey do (mainly 80's harder stuff, Quiet Riot, Motley Crew and the like). I was watching the bass player who played an Explorer and a PJ I couldn't identify (he had a white Gibson Thunderbird that I was disappointed he didn't play, he said it was a backup). I was surprised not that he played fingerstyle and with a pick, but that it sounded very much the same. I asked him how he did it, he looked surprised and said did he didn't know.

Any idea how he did it?

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Dude needs a Blackbird.

 

[MCF]

They still have the ring toss on the carousel? I remember going a few times as a kid, but it's been ages.

I guess there's still the Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific that runs over the old SP line. Not quite the same as a full freight train, but it's pretty cool.

There’s still the coaster in San Diego. I probably rode tha thing a hundred times once I was old enough. At five or six? There is a place where you are weightless. God I loved that ride.

 

[MCF]

Your finger tone can really vary depending on where you strike the string (closer to bridge or neck) and how you attack the strings. He might be slapping the string as he plucks, which can do that.

This.