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Thunderbird Club
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This month is the 23rd anniversary of Japanese rock band GO!GO!7188's first cover album.
Their bassist Akiko Hamada "Akko", is one of two reasons I play bass.
Here she is playing an EB with the 7th track on the album. I was just nostalgically watching this a couple nights ago. I discovered them in 2005.
Normally she plays Non-Reverse Thunderbird 2's (of which she owns two).
This woulda been in 2002.
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Original, by The Tigers
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Slowly building my DOD collection. Wanted to have an OG FX10 on hand, to test against the version I’m going to build. Also working up a 250/FX50 build, with switchable clipping (hard and soft, so it can be configured as a 250 or a FX50 in the same pedal), and configurable options for bass. Now just to get a Milkbox to A/B with my upgraded take on it…
Know what you mean. This is the only pic from Leon with a white NR. But it's an odd one. Custom or highly modded. If I ever heard what it was, I don't recall. Dig the inlays. (Gibson.... anyone at Gibson.... Anyone....?)
Got to watch it. Kind of like watching a circumcision. Painful.
Had not seen anything from her after all.
It eventually worked, but seems like a better way to get the TR out than that. Not that there would be an easy way.
That was also a surprise.
On the same page yet again!
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Is this one of the good Epi Birds? Seems like a good price, but I have to admit that I don't really understand the differences between all the various Epi Birds.
Is this one of the good Epi Birds? Seems like a good price, but I have to admit that I don't really understand the differences between all the various Epi Birds.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Always here to help. It is like enabling, just in a different direction.I'll get right on that....but thanx Will!...
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
It is essentially the same as a Gibson from the same year. The finish is poly, not nitro, and it was made in Asia. My take is that it is a good price, especially with a case. Those don't pop up for sale much these days.
I would call it a good model because I generally like current TB+ pickups. If you want different pickups and hardware, that one is an excellent starting point.
I've never removed one, but suspect she probably didn't want to wreck the edge on her chisel. Still, removing more wood above it would have made it easier to get out. They aren't glued in.
I was hoping for some explanation of why the truss rod didn't work.
Yes, no doubt. I haven't either, but as I watched I was thinking using a router to gradually shave it down (get it really thin), or a even Dremel with an old disk or bit to grind it out. She had a jig, just needed to work on the depth. But if she had some kind of old bit if she grazed the TR a little it wouldn't matter too much to the bit or TR. I even thought of using a circular trim saw to get most of it out. I'm just glad she was doing it. I would not want to get into that. Not on a nice bass anyway.
I agree. What happened would have been interesting to know.
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Gals back from RollerCon....Let's go!...
and of course THUNDERBIRD Thursday.....
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Look awfully happy surrounded by the ladies. Lucky dude right there!
lol..you either act happy or they make you ....
