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Thunderbird Club

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ProgressiveDoom said:
Damn!, that PJ Club is Fn' tough and I mean hard as nails know what I mean?. I put my Epiphone Thunderbird neck pickup into my Squire PJ bridge cavity with the help of a dremel and I thought I would post it and their security was the first reply to call me out on the conversion jobby I had done and warned it may not qualify for the club:(. Hell I posted a pic of my ThunderBacker in the Thunderbird club and walked away only to have our Queen roll out the red carpet and throw down pedals as she yelled frantically "Please wait"!.."We have a place for you with a number good sir and all we ask is if you can dance in a straw skirt around a fire please provide pictures"!. Or something like that. Since I have a fragment of Thunderbird DNA in my Squier I will post it here. Damn I could post a picture here of when I was 2 months old with my 135 year old Baba and no one would call security.:roflmao:;) View attachment 1180905 View attachment 1180906
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A P/HB is a much better sounding bass than a P/J - more bottom.
 
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ProgressiveDoom said:
Damn!, that PJ Club is Fn' tough and I mean hard as nails know what I mean?. I put my Epiphone Thunderbird neck pickup into my Squire PJ bridge cavity with the help of a dremel and I thought I would post it and their security was the first reply to call me out on the conversion jobby I had done and warned it may not qualify for the club:(. Hell I posted a pic of my ThunderBacker in the Thunderbird club and walked away only to have our Queen roll out the red carpet and throw down pedals as she yelled frantically "Please wait"!.."We have a place for you with a number good sir and all we ask is if you can dance in a straw skirt around a fire please provide pictures"!. Or something like that. Since I have a fragment of Thunderbird DNA in my Squier I will post it here. Damn I could post a picture here of when I was 2 months old with my 135 year old Baba and no one would call security.:roflmao:;) View attachment 1180905 View attachment 1180906
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if we told ya ONCE, we told ya 50 BILLION TIMES (and that's NO exaggeration) ... please WARN us before putting up photies of TORT!!!!
 
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ProgressiveDoom said:
Damn!, that PJ Club is Fn' tough and I mean hard as nails know what I mean?. I put my Epiphone Thunderbird neck pickup into my Squire PJ bridge cavity with the help of a dremel and I thought I would post it and their security was the first reply to call me out on the conversion jobby I had done and warned it may not qualify for the club:(. Hell I posted a pic of my ThunderBacker in the Thunderbird club and walked away only to have our Queen roll out the red carpet and throw down pedals as she yelled frantically "Please wait"!.."We have a place for you with a number good sir and all we ask is if you can dance in a straw skirt around a fire please provide pictures"!. Or something like that. Since I have a fragment of Thunderbird DNA in my Squier I will post it here. Damn I could post a picture here of when I was 2 months old with my 135 year old Baba and no one would call security.:roflmao:;) View attachment 1180905 View attachment 1180906
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How completely ridiculous! I think yours is a friggin' cool mod! Sounds like there needs to be a "P-bass Club" and a separate "P-bass Purists Club". I can respect both...
 
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veebass said:
Looks like a nice job. What does it sound like?
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Thanks, it sounds very Metal, very Doom. It has such a deep rich yet punishing sound while maintaining clarity and that is even before I kick on the dirt, and then its just an army tank hooked up to nitrous and armed with a nuclear reactor. Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders, 500k pots with Sprague orange tone capacitor. Thunderbird neck pickup in the bridge position replacing that terrible jazz clickety clicking sound and heavy gauge nickel wound 65-130 D'Adario's. and of course its gotta have an upgraded pick guard in TORT!:thumbsup::bassist:
 
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kat888 said:
if we told ya ONCE, we told ya 50 BILLION TIMES (and that's NO exaggeration) ... please WARN us before putting up photies of TORT!!!!
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Ok Ok TORT WARNING!!!
....TORT WARNING!!!
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..................TORT WARNING!!
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Thats like 3 in a row!, In Canada we call that a hat trick!cheers-emoji.png
 
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ProgressiveDoom said:
Non Bird content but .....ahh......umm...drooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrool

drooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrooldrool......ahh.............yeah.
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Yeah... I know man! I saw that Soldano head toodrooldrooldrool(;))
 
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kat888 said:
The yellow tort is better than the salami tort. That's just wrong.

They're hat tricks here too.
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Ya know Kat... I've always had an affinity for a white bass with a tort... but you may have just ruined that for me. I will never be able to look at one again without hearing the words "salami & mayo" in my head:rolleyes:
 
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veebass said:
First world problem.
The lack of Cherry as a colour option for the Epi Vintage Pro TBird presents me with a bit of a problem as to what colour to buy when they eventually grace our fair shores with their presence.
Initially, when I thought the colours were Burst, White and Black- I had decided to buy a white one. I already have two burst TBirds and enough black basses (RD, ES 335, G3, P Bass and a Cabronita). Always wanted a white TBird- so choice was made. Easy peasy.
Then I hear that Cherry is a colour option in the Epi Vintage Pro TBird and a white Greco TB IV (which I knew to be a beauty) becomes available at a reasonable price. Bingo, buy the white Greco and get a Cherry Epi Vintage Pro.
Now I have to decide whether to buy a black Epi Vintage Pro TBird or a white one.
I won't buy a burst. I am leaning towards black because of the white Greco, but white TBirds are so pretty, but black would look hot, but then again................
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No idea why people thought that cherry was a color option - Neither the preliminary info, nor the Epi website has mentioned that color option, and they ought to know best...

Anyway, I would vote both an Alpine White and an Ebony bird - White looks sexy under stage lights and Ebony just looks classy with the chrome hardware. :)
 
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