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Thunderbird Club

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Thumper said:
I think a bright yellow Thunderbird would be awesome! Would work for either chrome or black hardware
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Yes!
A warm yellow* Tbird with a dark fretless ebony board, gloss black paint on the raised part of the headstock, La Bella Black tape wound strings and gloss black hardware, pickguard and pickups would be beautiful.

Gotta be Warm Yellow like this…
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Warm Yellow vs Cold Yellow….
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Mikaelbass said:


Here is a link to a track I recorded with my old '14 Tbird whcih had thunderbuckers at the time. This was fed into a GK2001rb and a NV610 with some sidechain grit added (I think with a Darkglass B7K) and daddario XL's. Funnily enough I overdubbed my own bass parts with a gibson firebird guitar.

Sadly that band fell apart in spectacular rock n roll fashion with exceptional ego, drug abuse and the producer who kept us going sadly took his own life. But I am glad we got to record this track. Particularly proud of the ending...all down strokes baby.

Oh and this one too:
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Remind me why that bass lost the Thunderbuckers?
Cool songs, great playing. Sorry the band (and the producer) self-destructed.
That first song had a sort of Sabbath meets Trwoer vibe.
 
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JIO said:
The first chords of MRS SIPPI MIX 5 01 made me think of Link Wray (Rumble)! Really nice recording - really distinct and articulate expression of each instrument & vocalist. Compliment your engineer! I could hear the doubling with your Firebird - very cool/effective. For me recording is mandatory. Live is fun and heady, but recording is a document of what a (short-lived in this case) band achieved collectively.

I usually don't play this style of rock, but I fully appreciate any flavor delivered so dynamically!

This is the closest I ever got to this genre -



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Same bass - different band -
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These are great, Geo. And stylistically more what I prefer. But hey, vive la difference!
 
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ectoflanger said:
Sometimes when I have insomnia in the wee hours of the morning I contemplate deeper things-

My latest was contemplating an interesting correlation between two notable things that were conceived in the year 1983-

One by Ridley Scott and Apple Computers - Note the wardrobe of the young lady with the sledgehammer - actress and discus thrower Anya Major-




And another associated with a group of businessmen from Clearwater Florida- very interesting ...

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The video was followed up with Sam Phillips' "Baby, I Can't Please You". Love that song. Cool commercial, there!
 
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dagrev said:
And seem to have holes pre drilled for various instruments. I thought mine was odd because of the mods over the years, but I have also seen others with more holes than necessary.
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It's a Thunderbird! A Firebird! A flugelhorn! It slices! It dices! And makes Julienne fries in seconds!
 
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dagrev said:
The list of things once thought right/true is indeed long and continues to get longer by the day. Which should give us humans some pause and a touch of humility in making sweeping, dogmatic, and eternally binding pronouncements. Just read some academic journal articles and it's clear we often don't know what we're talking about--but still are not lacking in confidence in talking about it. But I'm a natural skeptic and question most everything. Thunderbird's excepted.
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Wisdom. I wish more had it.
 
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JIO said:
Sanded with a floor sander while drunk... :laugh:
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I believe that might've happened to my 1985 Gibson Explorer bass before I bought it. Note the Bacardi sticker on the headstock.

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Maybe they used a DA sander on it or a Dremel- it was that bad-

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In the picture below you can see where they made a wallow just below the armpit of the lower horn-

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They even did a number on the case!

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At least they left the serial number intact-

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Got MJS custom-wired Fat Singles (bass version of a P90) made for it and I will be going with all gold hardware- already have a new Schaller bridge and tuning keys for it-

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It will look good when refinished in the original Alpine White-

This is as far as the luthier gotten when I last checked given he is the sole worker in his shop- told me he had to do some more leveling before putting on the final clear coats- she's on the right- btw, she'll be getting a gold official Gibson logo on the headstock as well-

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I need to check with him again as it's been more than a few years- he's very busy as an authorized Gibson warranty repair guy and a professional musician as a guitarist and singer-
 
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