totally different bands imho...similarly, heard someone compare Steely Dan to Lynyrd Skynyrd the other day and although I can see how someone would go down that road, (to me) they are apples and oranges.....
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totally different bands imho...similarly, heard someone compare Steely Dan to Lynyrd Skynyrd the other day and although I can see how someone would go down that road, (to me) they are apples and oranges.....
did you guys play it?
LP bass again.....can't believe I don't own one by now.....
I know where you could get one, complete w/ factory Barts, 'extended thumb rest', and OHSC.
More like apples and coconuts.
Yes. But of the drummers we cycled through, only one could do it justice. It was one of those songs everyone seemed to think they should play. Girls seemed to like it, and that mattered. But few bands could do it well. We had a kid who could play it decently on keys, so that was why we did it when he was available.
Born to be Wild has more parts and is more arranged imo but fme, remains the anthem of pretty much every biker bar around here.....
Yes. I don't play it. Not sorry I bought it, but it just never got played much.
We do/ did it-usually toward the end of the night, but as our crowd (and us) gets older, it's a bit rambunctious.
Bering the smrtss* that I am, if we have a particularly aged crowd, I suggest it as our opener.
*insert "a" where appropriate.
Or a Queen Anne setee and two milk crates.
Just kidding!
Dig Skynrd. Don't know why you'd put them in comparable categories, except for expressing a preference in genre.
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you play it fingerstyle?We do/ did it-usually toward the end of the night, but as our crowd (and us) gets older, it's a bit rambunctious.
Bering the smrtss* that I am, if we have a particularly aged crowd, I suggest it as our opener.
*insert "a" where appropriate.
Without going back and looking at mine side by side with yours I’d say they are both wired exactly the same.
The tiny white wire on yours is the bridge ground, mine is bare and an equally tiny wire, it grounds at the tone pot.
AFAIK all bicentennial birds have a vinyl insulated multi lead wire coming from the neck pickup with one wire going to the right lug, one going to the center lug and one grounding out on the pot housing. The bridge pickup is typical shielded metal mesh with a single conductor wire inside the cloth pull back sheath. Mine looks to be non modified but the original installer put some shrink wrap over the bridge mesh wire to keep it from grounding out on a live terminal, otherwise identical to yours.
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Usually. Sometimes when the guitarist would start it, I'd fumble for the pick-or not. It's one of the very few songs I'd kick in the Rumble's built in O/D. But it's not worth stringing the footswitch for one song we may-or may not-do.
We don't go by a set list; just 'feel' (A-hem?) the crowd.
Assuming that is in fact absolutely original, is there any chance you can draw that wiring up?
And also, being positively original, has the pot value been determined?
Good ol' 'Gibby'-grab whatever from the parts bins.
Can’t say that thought would have ever crossed my mind with one band being more jazz fusion pop rock with a very hifi airy swirling sound and the other being a straight forward southern rock guitar band.
Now Steely Dan compared to Todd Rundgren or 10cc or maybe even some Fleetwood Mac songs I could see. I’d put the Allman Brothers and .38 special in with LS.
Maybe a couple tracks from the first SD album, kinda sorta but not really…
Yes I can draw it up, it’s pretty straight forward but nothing like the 916 schematic. I’ll use the 916 schematic as a basis so you can easily compare the two.
As far as pot value confirmations, I don’t want to pull any pots out of the bi bird to see if I can find a value written on the pot somewhere, don’t want to risk popping a wire off and having to resolder a pristine vintage soldering job.
I do have a multi meter, but I assumed it isn’t possible to measure just the pot value with everything all wired up.
Is that assumption correct?
