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Thunderbird Club
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What exactly are you up to Mr. Chuck?
Are you doing a refin on the X ?
Changing the nose or camera angle?
just some body work and another coat of Big Bad Orange....
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Speaking of refins @Chucky Stiletti I met one of the owners of Mike and Mike's Guitar bar while at work today, I mentioned your '64 II, he immediately remembered it
Very nice guy too!
how cool, small world...Speaking of refins @Chucky Stiletti I met one of the owners of Mike and Mike's Guitar bar while at work today, I mentioned your '64 II, he immediately remembered it
Inverse of an OUME
Humour me a minute.
This was a number 1 hit here in 1968 and I remember it well!
@Engle you may remember the The Irish Rovers ?
This was a number 1 hit here in 1968 and I remember it well!
@Engle you may remember the The Irish Rovers ?
Seconding All I ever Wanted.Cool interview with Peter Cetera (misleading blurb):
“After the set, Hendrix came knocking on the dressing room door and said, ‘I want you to come on tour with me’”: Chicago bassist Peter Cetera reflects on signing for Columbia Records, opening for Jimi Hendrix and why Paul McCartney changed everything
The newly named Chicago were invited to open for The Experience on several dates during their 1969 US tourwww.guitarworld.com
Also, I highly recommend Kathy Valentine’s memoir, All I Ever Wanted.
I just finished a Zeppelin biography by Bob Spitz. The first half was fascinating (except for the underage groupies).
It's no wonder some of their shows sucked with the amount of substance abuse that was happening.
Oh yeah! I've played the Unicorn with the Karmichaels. It's especially fun when you get people doing the actions.
I traded a Univox cab for a Blackface Champ in pieces many years ago. It was pretty easy to get it working. I remember replacing the filter caps.
I had an 8 ohm speaker in it initially, but it sounded much better with a 4 ohm Weber.
I just clued in it's the 17th in Oz.Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh
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Henry Lawson is a famous Australian poet of Irish Heritage.
Happy St Paddy's day!
I liked that shop. I’m glad they hadn’t priced that blue Mosrite yet when we were there. I would have been in big trouble…Speaking of refins @Chucky Stiletti I met one of the owners of Mike and Mike's Guitar bar while at work today, I mentioned your '64 II, he immediately remembered it
They were pretty popular here I gather. Lots of tours and even a “The Irish Rovers in Australia” album with some local folk songs on it.
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- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,898
- 142,244
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
They were not good when I saw them, sloppy and boring (35 minute drum solo, even the P-I's reviewer commented), but I do think they were a great band in the studio, "When the Levee breaks" is an all time fave.
lift off!...... 
bias off so not putting out rated 200W....although it came with KT-88s, bias looks more setup for 6550s
.....tomorrow...
bias off so not putting out rated 200W....although it came with KT-88s, bias looks more setup for 6550s
.....tomorrow...It started its life in 1969 with a sunburst body and a maple fingerboard and a fat headstock - Manny's Music in MYC custom-painted it black for him when he purchased it. Later mods David did to it, including an XLR connector, a Gibson PAF pickup installed between the bridge and middle pickups in the 70's, and a Kahler tremolo in the 80's left huge holes that had to be filled when he returned to a standard Fender configuration.
I wonder what he or his luthier filled them with?
Then a series of different necks including a 1963 with a rosewood fingerboard, and later Charvel, before going with a Fender 57 reissue style and different single coil pickups.
One mod I found interesting was a secondary pickup selector switch that allowed for combining the neck with the bridge pickup or all three at once-
The price is definitely based on who owned and played it since it was far from original and post-CBS at that-
For those of you who may be interested- the whole history of the guitar may be found at -
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Earnest and thoughtful mode:
You have a good point- I've never trusted a guitar or bass that would supposedly do anything based on the flip of a switch- besides I'm lazy and don't want to spend too much time finding the sound I want- hence my affinity for Fender P and J basses. AND of course my G2 Thunderbird!!
Tongue in cheek mode !!!
You make a good point but if there were such a thing as a bass that could do everything, it might seriously undermine the rational for owning 20 different ones (or more).
To that point I answered a survey thread on the Warwick Forum on how many basses one owned, thusly-
"I plead the fifth on this one- could I just say how many I purchase per year or how many white ones I own?
Regarding the kill switch, some guitarists like them for dramatic effect or they'll toggle the pickup selector switch in such a way as to emulate one-
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Similar to Chrysler EV2?
