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Thunderbird Club

So how is that Marshall fridge - Is it a good unit?
Honestly haven't had a chance to use it yet. I got it in college and the landlord didn't allow mini fridges and by the time I moved back home we moved to the new house, which the basement is currently unfinished. I'll try and find a spot for it this week.
 
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Geeze - by 1986 I had already been engaged 4 times, married twice, divoriced once, had two kids in school and had bought my third house - and I wasn't even 30 yet. :D
And eventually acquired a Porsche :thumbsup:. Dude this sounds like a "how to and how not to do things" book for the young men entering the real world. Know any publishers?.
 
Thunderbucker 66S, trim ring and spacer delivered and installed. The initial impression is it sounds slightly different - probably because it's neck through 'mahogany' not 6-screw maple and poplar.

The Ken Smiths were at least two years old and had been on three or four basses before I put them on your NR41.
 
Honestly haven't had a chance to use it yet. I got it in college and the landlord didn't allow mini fridges and by the time I moved back home we moved to the new house, which the basement is currently unfinished. I'll try and find a spot for it this week.

Couldn't you just have passed the fridge for beeing a real Marshall half-stack, so the landlord wouldn't have noticed?
 
Couldn't you just have passed the fridge for beeing a real Marshall half-stack, so the landlord wouldn't have noticed?
It's a lot smaller than a Marshall half stack. Think the Ampeg Micro Stack
But you're right, I don't think he'd appreciate that either. And I wouldn't have wanted to leave a guitar in that house. The bedroom doors were paper mâché.
 
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This is the same thing again, Thunderbucker followed by Chinabucker. Think maybe the interface was on the wrong setting or something this morning. Everything is much clearer this time around.

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A sounds a whole lot more detailed now. The Chinabucker sounds muted and your description of it sounding "shy" comes across this time. Interesting that the Thunderbucker sounds more detailed in light of Damien's comments about output. You can really hear the stronger bass this time around. I thought the Chinabucker also sounded muted at the top end, realtive. Once again, I'm listening through auxiliary comuter speakers, which are better than the little rattleboxes that are in the laptop, but aren't very good.

No arse stick? That's probably why the recordings are more accurate.
 
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BIRD ALERT 1987 Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls released 1987


I'm a huge Crue fan, what year was this video ? Kind of a portly Vince, ha !

I found a rock band to test my new (to me) Thunderbird on and I'm loving it. The thunderbucker pickups sound great. They have what aficionados would call a mid complexity? I haven't learned to play with a pick, yet, but I bought an assortment of them to start trying them out.
 
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Yeah, I foolishly threw out the box for my TCE Polytune. The Diamond BCP1 came with its own (+18V) wallwart and the box is a good place to keep it. Once you have one box, they start to accumulate.
I throw away just about every box that comes with some new toy. There are a few exceptions, but those exceptions are just because whatever that toy is will be stored in the box most of the time. I have a box to build for the trio of Sure 333 microphones, but that's an entirely different issue and is a sign of anal retentive geekdom, not some kind of cardboard or plywood fetish like the guy who started the box thread.
 
It was "The End" tour so 14-15
I saw that tour Doc, its great and sad at the same time for many reasons. Its all history now! Some of there reasons for hanging it up were on point, I can relate, except for one, one big one...they said they were tired of playing the same songs for so long...I can appreciate that...BUT...those are the songs that made them multimillionaires, and if the people wanna pay to hear them again...stop whining and play 'em loud and hard like the first time it earned you a check...I'm just saying ;-)
 
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