Took a little too long to show myself here... but really loving life as a t-bird owner! A recessed straplock in the back of the body is doing wonders for balance.
Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
- Start date
-
- Tags
- club thunderbird
Most vids I've seen ( and twice live ) of Billy from Crazy Horse have him on split coil Ps with Tele type headstocks.
The young cat from Promise of the Real is a Yamaha guy.
Tim Drummond used Ps.
Not sure on Rick Rojas.
When Duck Dunn played with him, Neil encouraged him to bring his old P he played at Stax, assuring him that it would be well taken care of by the crew. This was after Duck had started using Lakland.
Well. I have a Neil friend here. Safety in numbers!
this just came up for auction.... over 22k now, thought it would have gone for more......no I'm not a deadhead......
Donald “Duck” Dunn – Vintage Guitar® magazine Donald “Duck” Dunn
Nice article on Duck's basses , with a pic of the NR T-Bird given to him by Cliff Williams of AC/DC.
Nice article on Duck's basses , with a pic of the NR T-Bird given to him by Cliff Williams of AC/DC.
Having read the book, it looks authentic to me. There were so many of them built….
Did you ever catch the Shocking Pinks? I saw the show at the now gone Irvine Meadows amphitheater. The highlight was the most amazing version of Don’t Be Denied ever.
Yes they are. I think they run around $250k or more now.
The guitarist needs to stay in his lane. Pick and instrument and stay with it. That's all that needs to be said there!I got the Gibby out the other day and tried to tune it. I used the little SX tuner that came with the guitar pack, and clipped it to the headstock. Bloody thing was so far away I could hardly read it!
Anyway that stuffed things up.
So yesterday I tried again with the Snark, a bit better but the letters were a bit faint… then gone! Bloody battery died lol. No watch style battery in the house, of course.
Ok on to plan C.
I dug out the old style tuner that can work off the guitar cable. Cool.
It lasted 30sec and the battery died as well! Aha! No problem, I opened the latch and saw 2 AAA batteries there. We do have spares of those! Anyway, I tuned it up and now that sounds better! They were all half a step off by using the SX with dim lighting. It probably needs a new battery too.
Yes, I did have a plan D. I would have used my Zoom pedal next. It probably needs batteries too!
I’ve contacted the leader of the Young Adults Choir at my Church and offered to sit in if they want a bass guitar added. Wait and see, and start practicing a bit. The guy (Chris) leading the YA’s went to school with my eldest daughter and I’m a nodding acquaintance of his Dad, so he is aware I don’t even loosely fit the YA categorybut he isn’t worried - his problem is getting the YA’s to show up when they promise to lol. The bass situation is their 2nd guitarist is talking about switching to bass, or to keyboards, or to…
So Chris will have a chat and see what the guy actually wants to do, and will let me know. I might end up on the reserves list, which would probably suit me anyway. In the meantime I am invited to come in for a look when I want.
You could do the Angus school boy look.
No, on second thought, don't do that.
that sum could have probably afforded a small Plymouth dealership back in the Petty days....
Indeed. There was a guy not far from me when I was 17-18 that collected Superbirds and Daytonas. Lived in a very modest house, had a garage slightly bigger and had 6 at one time. Not all there. He would get them ad restore them. Keep in mind then they were past their prime and not a hot item like today. I remember at one time he bought a 426 Hemi from the Petty's to go in one. Rusty was the guy's name. I and a good friend would drive over some times to see if he had one out to look at. He he had them today he would have a few mill in cars.
Got a multi from my late FIL's tool box to check some fuses for a dash cam install. With this high tech baby I'm ready to do Chuck and Miles stuff. Some high dollar equipment here boys! Feel free to send those problem amps my way any time. 
when my Dad (EE) got older and folks paid less attention to him, he would go into electronics stores and tell the salespeople that analog meters were superior to digital ones because you could better visualize charging electrolytic capsGot a multi from my late FIL's tool box to check some fuses for a dash cam install. With this high tech baby I'm ready to do Chuck and Miles stuff. Some high dollar equipment here boys! Feel free to send those problem amps my way any time.
View attachment 7463983
......sometimes his little charade would backfire and he'd end up buying the meter.... funny stuff...
Luckily for me Chris has to deal with the 18-30s
- not me. I might even drag my resonator Uke along when I take a look. Just thump out chords, no finger picking. Not yet anyway.
Gail Greenwood on the Thunderbird playing with Kathy Valentine at the Clem Burke memorial show. Lots of others playing, including Glen Matlock and Steve Wynn. Cued up for Kathy and Gail. No low end in the audio, unfortunately.
Only saw Rusted Out Garage tour in '86 and WELD tour in '91. Not sure why l missed Shocking Pinks, as l know my friends went and told me about it.
Caught an all acoustic show around '99. He played mostly material l didn't know but it was fantastic.
Got a multi from my late FIL's tool box to check some fuses for a dash cam install. With this high tech baby I'm ready to do Chuck and Miles stuff. Some high dollar equipment here boys! Feel free to send those problem amps my way any time.
View attachment 7463983
All you need. Dad used to wield one of those for years and years.
when my Dad (EE) got older and folks paid less attention to him, he would go into electronics stores and tell the salespeople that analog meters were superior to digital ones because you could better visualize charging electrolytic caps
My Dad only went to 2nd form (year 8 they call it now) at school, so about 14yo and did an apprenticeship. At 18 he was in Sydney and signed up for the Army (WW2). Afterwards he got a job in a factory and went to night school. After that he got a job in what was then the PMG (Post Masters General) Dept (later Telecom Australia) in the Telephone section and did training in electronics and worked putting telephone exchanges together. He finished up after 30 odd years as a Snr Technical Officer Grade 2 (whatever that means) and was in the planning area. Planning what equipment was required in the new exchanges as they were being planned, how long the fit out would take, how much money it would cost etc.
When he was getting his first sound system together he went to an electronics shop and got an amp kit, a tuner kit and a couple of speaker kits, built them up and bought a turntable and cassette player. Worked beautifully for years and years.
He would also his car radios himself as well as other options as might be needed, driving lights etc.
He did well.
