Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

Making dumb faces while playing white basses...............

yup...

 

[Gaolee]

I use 'in-ears' allthetime. They're called hearing aids.

I kinda need that kind of in-ears. Selective hearing loss can be useful, until you find out that it isn't so selective any more.

 

[TBird1958]

yup...
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Giving me a run for the money with this!

Love ya, buddy!

 

[Gaolee]

My situation is the opposite, everyplace we place has FOH, I will never haul a PA or do sound - it isn't worth it.

Wanna trade? Everywhere I play has no FOH, so I haul the PA and do sound. There's only been about three times I have played through somebody else's PA and with somebody else running sound that I can think of in the last five years or so.

 

[Gaolee]

Sure! I noticed quite a few had member numbers and besides, if something catastrophic ever happened to my T-bird, I'd for sure get another.

You will have a second one. Then they breed and you have a bunch of them. That's what happens when they choose you. It is a joyful thing.

 

[TBird1958]

Wanna trade? Everywhere I play has no FOH, so I haul the PA and do sound. There's only been about three times I have played through somebody else's PA and with somebody else running sound that I can think of in the last five years or so.

Solid no on that, Will.
I'm good moving my own gear with Frank's gracious help, but that's it - no FOH, no Veronica

 

[Count Bassie]

Contribution to the Trace Elliot escalation:

Same.

Ok that post has a leftover scrap in it .. oops.

 

[dagrev]

Sidewinders timid?
Now way!

They sure aren't in mine.

I get it, maybe that wasn't the best word, but those who have both would likely say side by side they are not quite as bold (or some other word) as the 60s. True of mine. This is not a ding, they are just different and do their own thing--very well I would add. I love them. Mine sounds great. Not as great as the 64, however, but still great. Something extra going on there with the 60s. But absolutely nothing wrong with the sidewinders in my world.

 

[dagrev]

Keep us posted!

OK

OK I will!

 

[TBird1958]

Sidewinders timid?
Now way!

They sure aren't in mine.

I meant to comment on this earlier, there's a lot of variation in '70's pickups, both of mine are true '76s and while the pickups do sound good through a larger amp with some volume, they are not all that impressive at low levels. One of mine is wired series, the other parallel, not that much difference in the two. This is just my experience and I think it is mostly with '76s, I recall Scott had problems with his '76 as well. There was evidently a great deal of inconsistency in the manufacturing initially, which got sorted as production picked up at Kalamazoo.
It will be interesting to hear one wired up conventionally as Chuck has done with his BaCH.

 

[JJR58]

I meant to comment on this earlier, there's a lot of variation in '70's pickups, both of mine are true '76s and while the pickups do sound good through a larger amp with some volume, they are not all that impressive at low levels. One of mine is wired series, the other parallel, not that much difference in the two. This is just my experience and I think it is mostly with '76s, I recall Scott had problems with his '76 as well. There was evidently a great deal of inconsistency in the manufacturing initially, which got sorted as production picked up at Kalamazoo.
It will be interesting to hear one wired up conventionally as Chuck has done with his BaCH.

I have no real comparisons such as yourself. But i know there's thunder and magic in the one gifted to me by Chuck.

 

[Stealth57]

WBW

 

[TBird1958]

I have no real comparisons such as yourself. But i know there's thunder and magic in the one gifted to me by Chuck.

I have no reason to doubt that what you have sounds great, just as you say, Jeff I'm sure it's true for Marshall and Chuck as well.
This was the "Norlin" era at Gibson and the mid '70s wasn't always considered the "high point" of U.S. manufacturing.

 

[Sycoholic]

I think "another" Thunderbird is already on your horizon, we have a way of gently "enabling" that sort of thing.

I'll bring the list forward shortly

Thank you! I've already been eyeballing the other colors available. The ember red, purple sparkle... even the goth, but my two Dean's are black so.... Rex Brown?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

WBW

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That’s a rare bird.

 

[MCF]

I meant to comment on this earlier, there's a lot of variation in '70's pickups, both of mine are true '76s and while the pickups do sound good through a larger amp with some volume, they are not all that impressive at low levels. One of mine is wired series, the other parallel, not that much difference in the two. This is just my experience and I think it is mostly with '76s, I recall Scott had problems with his '76 as well. There was evidently a great deal of inconsistency in the manufacturing initially, which got sorted as production picked up at Kalamazoo.
It will be interesting to hear one wired up conventionally as Chuck has done with his BaCH.

Mine’s a ‘77. Don’t know if that is a critical difference. I assume the wiring is stock series. I do need to confirm. They sound really good in my practice spaces by myself through SVT, Mesa TT 800 (deep and bright engaged), and the M6 Carbine (deep engaged). For the record, I’m a gain junkie, and I set gain pretty high on the latter two, usually between 1:00 and 2:00. I also don’t scoop mids. I need to spend more time with it moving between the two distinct channels on the TT. But I get the Thunderbird “sound in my head” with it. Think Martin Turner/Wishbone Ash “Ballad of the Beacon.” Chris sent it along with a freash set of Lo Riders installed that I see no reason to change until they start dying. I usually play a brighter stainless string,

 

[TBird1958]

Thank you! I've already been eyeballing the other colors available. The ember red, purple sparkle... even the goth, but my two Dean's are black so.... Rex Brown?

The Ember Red is quite attractive, so is the Sparkle Blue, but it doesn't photograph well.

 

[MCF]

WBW

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I freaking can’t keep track. Is that new? Sorry if it’s not.

 

[MCF]

I have no reason to doubt that what you have sounds great, just as you say, Jeff I'm sure it's true for Marshall and Chuck as well.
This was the "Norlin" era at Gibson and the mid '70s wasn't always considered the "high point" of U.S. manufacturing.

Well, for sure at 7ender. My ‘77 is about as well built an instrument as could be expected all those years ago. Solid, yet very light. Even with the large headstock and big tuners. Sometimes it’s good to be lucky. Or lucky for it to be good.

 

[MCF]

I get it, maybe that wasn't the best word, but those who have both would likely say side by side they are not quite as bold (or some other word) as the 60s. True of mine. This is not a ding, they are just different and do their own thing--very well I would add. I love them. Mine sounds great. Not as great as the 64, however, but still great. Something extra going on there with the 60s. But absolutely nothing wrong with the sidewinders in my world.

Unless some long lost rich relative dies and leaves me an unexpected inheritance, I doubt I’ll ever really know what magic resides in those real sixties pickups.