Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

I tried on a pair of goat skin boots in El Paso a year or two ago. I haven't actually bought anything. It may be a while. My wife's car just got tires and my van will get tires tomorrow. That puts a dent in my budget for things I don't need right away.

Plus, I need to check with Miles. I want to become a chick magnet. It must be the boots.

The boots I don't normally wear with shorts, which I nearly always wear?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Would you use a BaCH to play along with those fugues?

See what y'all get when you educate a newbie!

BaCH BaCH! Super Chicken!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

They exist:

KAMINARI GUITARS | オリジナルギター・ベース・ケーブルの開発と販売

Beautiful basses and reasonably priced.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

New Amp Project:

Made by Ed Spitzer (ex-Mesa Boogie employee)

Sold in the San Francisco area in the Early 1980’s

Based on a 1976 Marshall head.

100w, 4xEL34 tubes with 2x 7025 & 1 12aT7

Needs a bit of work!

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I've seen one now and then in Austin but never played through one. Will have to check it out the next time I see one.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

And Lollars. Pricy though.

Less than $1,500.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Buffalo, unless otherwise stressed (Bison), was/is often water buffalo from abroad and is not labled exotic inside like lizard of snake, etc.

My choice for the day.
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I didn't know there was a formal "exotic" to consider. Dunno about then, but they list Bison on their site now.

 

[MCF]

Less than $1,500.

Then whatever Google pulled up to convert yen to dollars was way off for me.

 

[MCF]

New

OK. It sounds like you had a dud. It happens once in awhile. Gibson would normally cover that under warranty. I can’t tell where you’re from, but if you’re in the US, and buy through Sweetwater, they have their own warranty program that is two years where they handle everything. They assist with dealing with Gibson or just replace it. I get it though if you Just decided to bale on it when it didn’t work. Hope you give Thunderbirds a try again. I have several and really no issues with any of the Gibsons.

 

[Engle]

on to more serious bass related topics..... talk about built like a brick.....
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Nice to see someone taking pride in their wiring harnesses.

 

[RedVee]

I just got a reason for a pair of boots. I don't own a pair of shoes I can shine up. I have to have a pair of shoes that are shiny on occasion. So I guess that's a good enough reason to have a pair of black roper boots. Tecovas fit pretty well, as I discovered.

I got my first RM Williams to wear at work. Super comfy for long hours and they look like shoes when worn with long pants. Durable too, I was buying multiple (cheap ish) pairs of shoes each year and throwing them out. (I did go for the rubber “comfort” soles though, I’m not a fan of leather soles).

Wore my RMWs to work every day for years with no issues. Only now some years after that I’m thinking I’ll need to get a bit of work down on them. Repaired not thrown away, it seems a better plan to me.

RMW’s are made of a single piece of leather for each shoe, only one seam - at the back of the boots. It gives a ‘dress shoe’ look for work or going out.

You must have similar locally.

 

[RedVee]

RMW have quite a few leather / finish options.

Hmmm, maybe I should go for crocodile when I win lotto.

Your guide to leather | R.M.Williams®

Your guide to leather and how to care for your R.M.Williams handcrafted leather boots.

www.rmwilliams.com.au

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Let's Do This!..,

 

[ectoflanger]

I'm essentially self taught. Took 'lessons' as a 13yr old for maybe a month first starting out. Learned by listening and reproducing. Tried to learn how to read many times in my life - it never stuck. (a left brain/right brain thing...) But lately I've realized that it's harder to play wrong notes. Not fatigued wrong notes, but understanding my fb instinctually so I don't often hit a wrong note in a progression. Something I now don't have to think about while playing - the first step to fully expressing yourself!

So in my way of seeing it - we never can have enough learning. Not only learning the instrument we play, but learning what our voice is and being able to capitalize on it in a positive, creative way through our playing.

If you listen to the best bass-players of all genres - why we are drawn to them is because they service the song. They get inside it, they surround themselves in it - then they nail it. Any time I can be part of that is a good (rehearsal/performance/recording) day.

Myself- generally being unteachable in many things due to a type of leaning disability- Not what you might think but I generally have to learn things my own way and at at my own pace.

I will say this - I did pretty well with the cello when I took a semester of it at Baylor University back in the spring of 1981. I lucked out given it was one-on-one sessions with one Michael Masters, whom I later found to have toured with Harry Chapin. Nice guy and very competent, he did tell me that he had once recorded on a Harry Chapin studio album when I asked about his career as a professional cellist. When I went home for the weekend, I checked at a record store and sure he credited on one of the albums- not that I doubted him but was curious which one. At the time he was instructing at Baylor he was also moonlighting as first chair of the Waco Symphony orchestra as well.

Playing cello definitely paved the wave for fretless bass, which later captivated and inspired me as I heard it in fusion and New Wave music of the 80's.

 

[BuddhaFingas]

Look up Greg’s Bass Shed. Unpretentious, a nice guy, a little nerdy, and very easy to communicate with. His transcriptions are great. His lessons are unhurried and to the point. His British Blues series and walking lessons are excellent. As are his song tutorials.

I bought a pair of his "blues" courses over Christmas.

Working thru slowly. Good clear direction, well recorded tracks and videos. Quite professional IMO.
Calmly paced rather than the frenetic overproduction so common on the web these days.

 

[ectoflanger]

Another Midnight Oil song for you. The Power & The Passion from The Domain* in Sydney. In this one Drummer Rob Hirst (RIP) goes to town on that water tank I pointed out in the previous clip.



* The Domain is an area right in the centre of Sydney (right near the Opera House, the Botanical Gardens, State Library, State Parliament buildings) that is gazetted for public access and use. Concerts, amateur footy games, public oration etc etc right down to family picnics and city workers having lunch.

Is this relatively recent? These dudes wail!

 

[ectoflanger]

I have a high arch and most boots (even some nice ones) don't have much and they are in the wrong spot. Old Nocona and Dan Post Tx made pre 90s do have it just perfect for me. I have some nice Chisos that feel fantastic, but low arch and your can want to slide. They got everything right about those but that.

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That rosewood's really shining on the white and creme colored ones- I like!!!

 

[ectoflanger]

Looking Glass did Brandy.
Great pop song IMO.

Wasn't Blues Image doing "Ride, Captain. Ride" about the same time "Brandy" was released?

 

[ectoflanger]

I’ll take your word for it.

But that was before they met the Darlington Twins-

 

[ectoflanger]

I read a short paperback book on Radiohead about how they got together up to their breakthrough LP "OK Computer". If you are a Radiohead fan, I highly recommend it. Bass-player Colin Greenwood (brother of Jonny Greenwood on guitar) used some of the money they got from that seminal LP sales to pay for bass lessons. That blew me away because I consider him one of my favorite bass players and that he used his well deserved riches to further his music knowledge just made me appreciate him and his playing more.

His playing on this is a good example of why I hold him in high regard -

I remember seeing this on a documentary called "Scottish Mist"- love it!!!

 

[ectoflanger]

Primitive hey? Like this.
Warning, this 80’s video is a little saxist - but that’s balanced with a little harmonica

I'm digging the sights and sounds saxophone or not-