Thunderbird Club

[Count Bassie]

The large pole pieces look like Quarter Pounders.

Right, I think that was me not realizing I was remembering that.

 

[JIO]

I dig it too! & i'm not opposed to something Dano-esque, i kind alike the Dano sound. Contemplating piecing a 12 string electric build but i'm debating between going Dano style or Ric style. Both classics & unique in their rights, TBSeen.

I'm a big Dano-sound player since acquiring my '68 Dano made Coral Deluxe Bass. I always heard it was unique/iconic sounding but I'd never played one. I've built basses using that more north N-pu positioning and lipsticks and also own a short-scale 24 fret longhorn. Records really well also.

 

[Stealth57]

I'm a big Dano-sound player since acquiring my '68 Dano made Coral Deluxe Bass. I always heard it was unique/iconic sounding but I'd never played one. I've built basses using that more north N-pu positioning and lipsticks and also own a short-scale 24 fret longhorn. Records really well also.

Hope last night was a great crowd.

 

[GBassNorth]

68 on right, 2015 J on left.....
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Thanks Chuck.
Looks like there’s a fair headstock angle on your NR.
The reason I was asking is I ran across an old NR that had a neck repair some time ago but oddly there’s a string retainer on the headstock (like Fender would do with their flat headstocks). And when I looked at the profile picture I didn’t see much if any headstock angle. Seemed odd, maybe whoever fixed the neck decided to change the headstock angle as well, IDK.

 

[MCF]

I'm a big Dano-sound player since acquiring my '68 Dano made Coral Deluxe Bass. I always heard it was unique/iconic sounding but I'd never played one. I've built basses using that more north N-pu positioning and lipsticks and also own a short-scale 24 fret longhorn. Records really well also.

I play your version of that song a lot. Because, well, I love her vocal on it. The bass ain’t bad either.

 

[Engle]

I did a thing today, added another Gibson to the flock, a '69 EB0 routed for a Guild PUP at the bridge, no neck/headstock damage. Harkens back to my first year playing bass, and High School Senior year. I could never afford a birth year bass ('52), so this'll do.
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Sweet! And comes with the Tiltomatic bridge

 

[JIO]

Hope last night was a great crowd.

It was a decent, enthusiastic crowd for the size of the venue. (which you are familiar with) The last band "Midnight Radio" had four female singers up front, keys, drums, bass, guitar and sax. 9 people on that small stage! They covered '60s R&B/Motown/Salza/Soul - very retro/fun.

A doctored pic from a past BG performance there - all the shots were very blue (stage lighting) and made everyone on stage look like cadavers...

Cherie Lebow (Bond Girl) is a rock-star.

 

[JIO]

I play your version of that song a lot. Because, well, I love her vocal on it. The bass ain’t bad either.

I'm very proud of our band and our recordings. I feel lucky to play with such gifted musicians who are also such nice people!

 

[JIO]

Thanks Chuck.
Looks like there’s a fair headstock angle on your NR.
The reason I was asking is I ran across an old NR that had a neck repair some time ago but oddly there’s a string retainer on the headstock (like Fender would do with their flat headstocks). And when I looked at the profile picture I didn’t see much if any headstock angle. Seemed odd, maybe whoever fixed the neck decided to change the headstock angle as well, IDK.
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I'd guess a repair making it more like a Fender (straight) hs - no other reason to use a string-tree on a traditional Gibson set-back neck/hs.

 

[Stealth57]

I'm very proud of our band and our recordings. I feel luck to play with such gifted musicians who are also such nice people!

9! Were they dancing on top of that old piano.

 

[JIO]

9! Were they dancing on top of that old piano.

Funny you should mention that. I overheard Hawk, the club booker saying that the piano was reasonably recently tuned, but if using it you'd have to tune to it. If it were me, I'd 86 it - I've never seen/heard it used there and I've been playing there/hearing music there since the mid '90s.

I played with an improv jazz/rock/whatever trio there in the mid '90s and we lugged a (home) Lowery organ on stage! Ah to be young and willing...

 

[MCF]

Funny you should mention that. I overheard Hawk, the club booker saying that the piano was reasonably recently tuned, but if using it you'd have to tune to it. If it were me, I'd 86 it - I've never seen/heard it used there and I've been playing there/hearing music there since the mid '90s.

I played with an improv jazz/rock/whatever trio there in the mid '90s and we lugged a (home) Lowery organ on stage! Ah to be young and willing...

 

[JIO]

Cool modified '70s Tele bass with added B-pu. (some brand of chrome soap-bar) Note all the guitars are finished "natural" - so of that time.

 

[MCF]

Cool modified '70s Tele bass with added B-pu. (some brand of chrome soap-bar) Note all the guitars are finished "natural" - so of that time.

My buddy drug me to see them around the time of that video. I became a big fan. I wish I could recall where we saw them. Universal?The Greek? We got pretty small that night…

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I could have an EB-0 or an EB-2. That is it from 1960.

I’d prefer either of those over an EB-1. Unless it was one proven to have been owned by Felix or Jack.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Those of you that use SIT Power Wounds, would you say they have more than average tension than average?

Taken literally, that’s an interesting concept. An elusive one as well, especially without parameterization.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Funny you should mention that. I overheard Hawk, the club booker saying that the piano was reasonably recently tuned, but if using it you'd have to tune to it. If it were me, I'd 86 it - I've never seen/heard it used there and I've been playing there/hearing music there since the mid '90s.

I played with an improv jazz/rock/whatever trio there in the mid '90s and we lugged a (home) Lowery organ on stage! Ah to be young and willing...

Lord Valve (my tube dealer 20 years ago) used to lug a Hammond B3 to gigs.

 

[Engle]

really careful when I answer these questions because unfortunately, many that post about these subjects lack understanding of necessary technical and logistics potentially making misleading (at least to me) statements .... "Made in China" is relative and has been for a long time....as posted earlier, what part of the process is truly all Chinese? As an example, with all the current geopolitical challenges, even thought most of the process in a semiconductor's manufacture may happen outside of China, the fact that final assembly may happen in China disqualifies the China +1 (some call it "Carbon Free") applicability for that particular device....Ruby Tubes have been around for a long time (shortly after Pittman's Groove Tubes in '79) so it would follow their tube supply base has seen many changes over the years......iow, WAY to many knobs to make a singular deterministic statement imho......

Iphones and Epiphones are also MIC.
I work for a global manufacturer so I get what you're saying. An assembly line in the US can have an issue with a production run just as easily as one in China.
My decision may end being based on what my local electronics store has in stock.

 

[JIO]

My buddy drug me to see them around the time of that video. I became a big fan. I wish I could recall where we saw them. Universal?The Greek? We got pretty small that night…

I've never followed him/them but he/they are highly regarded by Bonnie Raitt as well as musicians I have played/jammed with. In the 70's I was listening to Miles, the Mahavishnu Orchestra & Weather Report, and learning to play an upright like Miroslav Vitos -

 

[JIO]

Lord Valve (my tube dealer 20 years ago) used to lug a Hammond B3 to gigs.

For sure - bands I saw/heard in HS commonly lugged B3's on stage! I saw/heard one band back then that lugged a Mellotron on stage! Now there are pedals that approximate that iconic sound - we use them (Electro Harmonics B9 & Mel9) in TSC & BG.