Thunderbird Club

[ectoflanger]

nice photo, feels like foliage started early this year...

Thank you- this is about 20 miles north of Pensacola, FL and they have oaks, magnolias, and pine trees among others. We'll be flying over there this weekend to check on the homestead. We left mid-May after dad passed away and I need to get the tractor running again to brush hog the back trails.

Fortunately I have some instruments and computer already there that I can work with -

This is my "satellite" work station in my upstairs bedroom that I put together since in the past couple of years I was spending roughly half my time over there-

I also used this little fella on the left, a Phil Jones amp- interestingly bass notes carried downstairs even with sitting on the ottoman and at moderate volumes. Mom was in the living room and she said that she could hear it. Fortunately she said it sounded good! Now I understand why the neighbors complained at the hightrise in that bass notes go far, even when played at moderate volumes-

So I used headphones after hours - sounded great actually-

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[Chucky Stiletti]

here tomorrow....


here on Sat....

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

this foto.......

 

[TBird1958]

this foto.......
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Fly on up, we'll go visit Mike and Mikes' again! - Maybe get this guy on plane and have some oysters.

Emerald City Guitars wasn't too bad either............

 

[dagrev]

here tomorrow....


here on Sat....

Pino doesn't gig that much!

Burn it up! (Metaphorically.)

 

[Engle]

You called it Irv!

I checked both my Burny Birds and both are wired from the factory as single coils. Whodathunk, a new design feature - single coil humbuckers.

Original wiring was about 3.3KOhms, now with the red wires capped off and the whites connected its about 6.6KOhms. But I kinda see why they did what they did. The pickups are fairly dark in the full humbucker orientation with the stock .022uf cap. So I installed a variable cap chip in place of the stock one and found the .016uf setting to be best for my amp/cab and tone preference.
Here’s a pic of the finished product…
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Here’s my the innards of my Burny:
Note the colour has yellowed nicely.

 

[JIO]

 

[JIO]

Here’s my the innards of my Burny:
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much better - how much does it weigh?

 

[Gaolee]

Tull is da bomb.

I have liked them since the first time I heard them.

 

[Gaolee]

Living is my favorite Tull song. I have a pdf chart if you want it. It’s in E Flat, 144 bpm. It’s tricky.

I would love to see that chart. I was figuring out Bouree at one point, but never finished figuring out how to play the amazing bass solo.

 

[ectoflanger]

A while back I was talking to Mike "Smitty" Smythe of MJS Custom Pickups about making some pickups for my black 1985 Aria Pro II ZZB, and they're being based in Missassagua, Ontario, I asked him if he ever ran across fellow Canadian Kim Mitchell.

"As a matter office, he stopped by just the other day," was his reply.

Here are a couple of Kim Mitchell songs who have some cool production and bass comping-

I love how the bass line comps the vocal melody in this one- its from the "Shakin' Like A Human Being" album



Another I discovered from the late-80's -

 

[Gaolee]

tell me about it......from the days of real Rock Bands.......this clip has it ALL going, from one of the coolest tunes ever to EB-3s, Hiwatts.....even Cornick telling the camera to keep him in the mix.....

Ian Anderson is amazingly athletic. Glen Cornick was demonstrating why I'm now wireless all the time by winding himself into his cord and then back out of his cord.

 

[Gaolee]

this foto.......
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There is a reason I avoid Mike & Mike like the plague. I like eating regularly and living inside. If I went down there, I would have no money to do either of those things. It would be nearly impossible to avoid having that green Firebird follow me home, even though me playing guitar sounds like a six year old with a tin ear banging on the side of a banjo.

Learning guitar playing is one of the projects that stares at me with sad, baleful, neglected eyes, for what that's worth.

 

[Gaolee]

Fly on up, we'll go visit Mike and Mikes' again! - Maybe get this guy on plane and have some oysters.

Emerald City Guitars wasn't too bad either............

I can somehow escape from Emerald City with my wallet intact. Which is a bit of a miracle, but it's actually happened on a regular basis. I think they will be getting some of my money for putting a Dimarzio One up by the neck of the fretless 'Bird. That's a project that I will pay somebody else to do, so it might actually get done.

 

[ectoflanger]

There is a reason I avoid Mike & Mike like the plague. I like eating regularly and living inside. If I went down there, I would have no money to do either of those things. It would be nearly impossible to avoid having that green Firebird follow me home, even though me playing guitar sounds like a six year old with a tin ear banging on the side of a banjo.

Learning guitar playing is one of the projects that stares at me with sad, baleful, neglected eyes, for what that's worth.

And there are guitarists who have the same issue with learninng the bass ...

 

[SJLee]

Nice rig!
I was lucky enough to see Robin Trower in '75 when James Dewar was the voice of the band, that man had an incredible, beautiful voice................

Still one of my faves.




This song.........

Dewar on an EB, that voice of his! Some people really know how to make a Strat sound good, Trower is one of them.

Sounds like Pink Floyd's "Young Lust" took some influence from "Somebody Calling."

 

[ectoflanger]

In a post on Robin Tower, I mentioned Bryan Ferry's "Taxi", an album of mostly classic covers featuring Trower's playing - and he did indeed co-produce the album with Bryan Ferry.

Title track featuring Trower as well as Nathan East on bass- love this haunting version -

 

[RedVee]

The bass is an EB-2. That one appears to be stock. Mine is missing its pick-guard and has a Dimarzio One instead of a mudbucker up by the neck. That one appears to be the two pickup version, which makes it the same as mine. Same color, too.

It would be a fun song to figure out.

Here is another one, this time with a Thunderbird II.

Best Heavy Metal band Eva!

 

[Engle]

much better - how much does it weigh?

3.7kg and it’s pretty well balanced.
32” scale is nice.

 

[JJR58]

There is a reason I avoid Mike & Mike like the plague. I like eating regularly and living inside. If I went down there, I would have no money to do either of those things. It would be nearly impossible to avoid having that green Firebird follow me home, even though me playing guitar sounds like a six year old with a tin ear banging on the side of a banjo.

Learning guitar playing is one of the projects that stares at me with sad, baleful, neglected eyes, for what that's worth.

Related/unrelated.

I also wanted to learn guitar.
My brother was a better guitar player then I’ll ever be a bass player.
And he learned quickly.
It was second nature to him.

After years of practicing, it was bass that I knew was my thing.

But my brother……
Would pick up my bass and play stuff that I was like, how can you do that?!