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Thunderbird Club

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godofthunder59 said:
Thunderbirds should be ebony, EBs are usually rosewood.
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Thanks, pretty much what I found out. I should have put EB0/EB3 instead of EB.
That said, I was lucky enough to find a '68 tugbar for my '69 EB3.

It's important to remember Ebony comes in many shades of black to brown. The blocks on my avatar SJ5XXX Dingwall were specifically selected by Sheldon from the lightest brown ebony he could find.

The brown in my '68 tugbar is a very dark brown with a swirl of semi-dark brown in it.

I've seen some to die for Pale Moon Ebony fretboards.
 
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dagrev said:
Always thought Jim Dandy had to be the inspiration for David Lee Roth. Didn't mind the music for the time, but couldn't stand Dandy's voice. Like Kermit the frog on coke or something.
John Bonham was kind of famous for doing drum solos with his hands. The dude from BOA was actually doing it before Bonham was.
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Was it Tommy Aldridge on the drums? Who later played with Pat Travers among others-
 
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dagrev said:
I'm impressed with anyone who can run like that in boots like that with heels like that. That's an engineering marvel.
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I knew a woman who could run in spike heels with skimpy sandal straps. It was pretty impressive. She was not engineered like Jungle Pam, though. Still a marvel.
 
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ectoflanger said:
Believe it nor not, Mars could build a pretty good wall with Nico McBrain as well- who would'v e thought?

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totally, but as much as I dug Nicko he didn't swing like Aldridge imho.....Travers used to play in SoFl pretty often back in the 80's....think I saw him last (without Mars) at the Candy Store on the Lauderdale strip.....
 
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Thumper said:
Thanks, pretty much what I found out. I should have put EB0/EB3 instead of EB.
That said, I was lucky enough to find a '68 tugbar for my '69 EB3.

It's important to remember Ebony comes in many shades of black to brown. The blocks on my avatar SJ5XXX Dingwall were specifically selected by Sheldon from the lightest brown ebony he could find.

The brown in my '68 tugbar is a very dark brown with a swirl of semi-dark brown in it.

I've seen some to die fof Pale Moon Ebony fretboards.
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My next Tbird project has a Macassar Ebony fretboard, love the warm creamy look of macassar. Should start on the build soon…
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GBassNorth said:
My next Tbird project has a Macassar Ebony fretboard, love the warm creamy look of macassar. Should start on the build soon…
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Beautiful bass! From the looks it is neck-thru? Interesting thing to me with the Thunderbird basses and Firebird guitars, at least with the reverse models, it goes way beyond the neck width continuing through the body like with my Thumb NT or my Spector LX, but rather a much larger piece that the neck tapers down to in the body section. At least that is my perception-
 
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