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Thunderbird Club

#42,761
JIO said:
Probably just terminology overlap/transition from that 50's/60's recording industry designation. In the 50's there was "bass" (upright), "tic-tac bass" (Dano Baritone guitar), and "Fender bass"(electric bass), and though the 60's just "Fender bass". Once many more basses were used in recordings and live in the late 60's -70's the old-school term just faded away.
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When Stevie Ray Vaughan introduced "Double Trouble", he alway said, "Tommy Shannon on the Fender Bass"...
 
#42,762
TBird1958 said:
there are several large wildfires burning to the east of us, usually the movement of air off the Pacific takes the smoke eastwards, however there has been a large mass of warm air pushing the smoke to the west. Our sky is a featureless gray dome. I don't like it, but it beats a hurricane any day.
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'Wildfire' sounds quite a bit more dramatic than our 'bushfire'.
 
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Count Bassie said:
Sure. I'm thinking about what to put into a fretless FSO project. The pickguard and body are already cut/routed, so I'm trying to avoid using the G&L "MFD" p'up I've got here.
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Is it routed for a split? If I was building an FSO I'd use a single coil, standard full width humbucker or ... an Alumitone (could be nice with the fretless).
 
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kat888 said:
'Wildfire' sounds quite a bit more dramatic than our 'bushfire'.
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One is in terrain so rough that they aren't even trying to fight it with manpower - just aircraft.
 
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JJR58 said:
I wasn't very found of the quakes when i lived in California. Pretty scary stuff.
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You get used to them though. There are constant tremors in NZ. At school, when the classroom started shaking, we'd all drop under our desks until it stopped, without any instruction being necessary from teachers. No one ever expected Christchurch to get flattened though. It was always assumed that any big quake would hit the North Island.

The thing that terrified me was once in Hawaii, the tsunami alarm went off ... just testing.
 
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kat888 said:
You get used to them though. There are constant tremors in NZ. At school, when the classroom started shaking, we'd all drop under our desks until it stopped, without any instruction being necessary from teachers. No one ever expected Christchurch to get flattened though. It was always assumed that any big quake would hit the North Island.
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Is that your point of origin?
 
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kat888 said:
Not Chrischurch no. Further south ... as far south as you can go and still have traffic lights and not be talking Español.
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My ex-wife's cousin came to live with us back in the mid-90's. She's from Warkworth. Quite an amazing person indeed! I would LOVE to spend some time in NZ. I don't think I would make it too long though. I hate sea food and mutton. It's my understanding that those are mainstays over there:vomit:
 
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BklynKen said:
Well, followup from very same support guy at Gibson.

"Regarding the 2018 Thunderbird, unfortunately we are not producing a 2018 model."
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Y'all're gonna hafta quit askin' questions. So far all we've learned is that they either are, or are not producing something that may or may not be a Thunderbird, at some undetermined point in the future, presumably.:confused:
 
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Guess I need a baritone, then. For the full set, of course. Bass, tick-tack bass, and Fender bass. Maybe it will be yet another Fenderbird - this time a baritone Tele neck on a Firebird body. My wife will really be asking what I'm going to sell then. Ah, well, we gotta make sacrifices. I'll take an earful and a little wife ire in the name of art.
 
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Gaolee said:
Guess I need a baritone, then. For the full set, of course. Bass, tick-tack bass, and Fender bass. Maybe it will be yet another Fenderbird - this time a baritone Tele neck on a Firebird body. My wife will really be asking what I'm going to sell then. Ah, well, we gotta make sacrifices. I'll take an earful and a little wife ire in the name of art.
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I want a double-neck that's a regular bass on one neck and a sort of 12-string variation of a Bass VI on the other neck.
 
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kat888 said:
You get used to them though. There are constant tremors in NZ. At school, when the classroom started shaking, we'd all drop under our desks until it stopped, without any instruction being necessary from teachers. No one ever expected Christchurch to get flattened though. It was always assumed that any big quake would hit the North Island.

The thing that terrified me was once in Hawaii, the tsunami alarm went off ... just testing.
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When I was a kid in Ohio, the air raid siren would go off at the fire station about a half mile away. It was a tornado watch. That meant head to the top floor and see if we could see it somewhere. There's kid logic for you.
 
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theFixer said:
My ex-wife's cousin came to live with us back in the mid-90's. She's from Warkworth. Quite an amazing person indeed! I would LOVE to spend some time in NZ. I don't think I would make it too long though. I hate sea food and mutton. It's my understanding that those are mainstays over there:vomit:
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Completely the opposite end to me. Down my neck of the woods we have venison. And there are plenty of cows, pigs and chickens to cover all of your animal flesh requirements. My father is the seafood person in our family. We were out once for a slap up meal and the waiter brought the dessert menu, says to my dad '... and a chocolate fish for you sir?'

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