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Thunderbird Club

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dagrev said:
It didn't work for you? Seems like every time we played I had girls wanting to talk after playing. Occasionally very generous offers extended.







OK, that was actually how I thought it would work.... But still love playing bass either way.
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I had a groupie when I was a sophomore. She was really cute. Her name was Susan. Sadly, she moved at the end of the school year. Never could figure out why she liked me.
 
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dagrev said:
^^This^^ I don't ever recall playing in a loud setting and it sounded good. Not from where I was standing anyway. Fortunately that was/isn't common.

Had a drummer fill in at church a couple times years ago. Fantastic player but he has one volume (stadium) and no sense of touch. Even with hotrods. I thought we were going to have to replace the heads after he played.

Every band needs a 'volume nazi.' Maybe "enforcer" is a more pleasant term!
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Hah! I was riffing on the Sienfeld "soup nazi" phrase! Enforcer is better. :) It was always a struggle playing w/Steve because he knew better/knew Jazz drumming and played well, but his 'bi-line' was "you gotta hit hard to sound good"... ah... not true, at all Steve. I mean, I saw Elvin Jones in Chicago, and he was dynamic as hell but not too loud. If fact, every Jazz drummer that I heard live (Roy Haynes, Al Foster, Max Roach to name a few) were like that. The only Jazz drummers I saw/heard that could have been considered "loud" were Buddy Rich and Tony Williams, but all within context of the ensemble they performed with. Always dynamic - never "too loud".
 
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JIO said:
Hah! I was riffing on the Sienfeld "soup nazi" phrase! Enforcer is better. :) It was always a struggle playing w/Steve because he knew better/knew Jazz drumming and played well, but his 'bi-line' was "you gotta hit hard to sound good"... ah... not true, at all Steve. I mean, I saw Elvin Jones in Chicago, and he was dynamic as hell but not too loud. If fact, every Jazz drummer (Roy Haynes, Al Foster, Max Roach to name a few) were like that. The only Jazz drummers I saw/heard that could have been considered "loud" were Buddy Rich and Tony Williams, but all within context of the ensemble they performed with. Always dynamic - never "too loud".
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As previously mentioned, our drummer comes from a jazz background. Often isn't loud enuff.(I'm not telling him).
 
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MCF said:
Yikes. I guess adjusted for inflation and it being a rare white one accounts for the ask.
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It doesn't surprise me at all. Epiphone finally did Gibson's job and produced a decent RI of the '63-'65 T-bird IV. And it sounded good! So of course it increases in value.
 
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GonePlaid said:
As previously mentioned, our drummer comes from a jazz background. Often isn't loud enuff.(I'm not telling him).
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I'll take a (good) quiet drummer over a loud drummer every day of the week and twice on Sundays! I much prefer asking my bandmates to turn up, than to turn down.
 
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JIO said:
I'll take a (good) quiet drummer over a loud drummer every day of the week and twice on Sundays! I much prefer asking my bandmates to turn up, than to turn down.
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Whenever I (used to) sit in with someone for the first time, I'd always play too softly. People will ask "hey, can you turn up a little?" Which is a lot better than them yelling "yer too effing loud!"
 
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GonePlaid said:
Since my chronic condition [mufunzalo] says "You ain't buyin' nuttin'", I don't pay attention to prices.
(Except what my 67NR might be worth)
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Point being, Epi Goth basses used to be very "affordable" and I bought them and their necks for very little to scavenge as "parts" for my custom builds. My Teiscobird that is my mainstay TSC bass has a Epi Goth neck bought for peanuts. My Gojira (killer bass) has a Goth body bought for very little. (solid mahogany - not plywood) There were a number of others also.

No more.., that was then...

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Highly modified... but an Epi Goth solid mahogany body non the less...
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GonePlaid said:
Whenever I (used to) sit in with someone for the first time, I'd always play too softly. People will ask "hey, can you turn up a little?" Which is a lot better than them yelling "yer too effing loud!"
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Exactly - I never mind being asked to 'turn up'.
 
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