Too funny Will, there was no way I was setting foot in there. And even the drummer didn't want to go in. That's saying a lot.
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Thunderbird Club
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Too funny Will, there was no way I was setting foot in there. And even the drummer didn't want to go in. That's saying a lot.
What evidence do you have that Leo 7ender was not himself, a cyborg crocodile? (... and don't try to feed me that "opposable thumbs" mumbo jumbo. Everyone knows that all cyborgs have opposable thumbs!)
WOW man!!! What a friggin' awesome collection! Do you mind if I ask about the black semi-hollow?
#62 could be like, "the Tomb of the Unknown Thunderbird Player". You know... an honorary position, similar to #666, that would represent T-birders that existed before the club did.
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Why for me? I'd love to have one in the collection of T-birds I don't have... but it's all wrong for me. Scrawny neck, no knobs... & what's the deal with the bottle opener behind the bridge?
Heeeeey... are you sarcasming me???
Not at all Fix, for some reason, thought you liked these. No sarcasm intended at all. You'll know when I'm razzing you.
The Thunderbird is a different kind of animal. What I learned, was that you hafta toss away your preconceived notions about what a bass is supposed to act & sound like. It ain't no 7ender or Ibanez... and you'll never make it sound like one. To a certain degree... you have to go to the the 'bird, instead of trying to make the 'bird come to you.
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Not that keen keen on vocal jazz either. For me it has always been sax or/and trumpet, piano, bass and drums ... and if it's 'Trane, well that's just perfect.
Not that keen keen on vocal jazz either. For me it has always been sax or/and trumpet, piano, bass and drums ... and if it's 'Trane, well that's just perfect.
Gaolee
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Maybe #62 should be assigned to Ox himself. He played Thunderbirds and more or less invented the Fenderbird. There's got to be some significance of 62 we can assign to him or the Who. Maybe the year they were formed or something. I'm not enough of a historian to know that kind of thing.
Asking is free, which for a Dutchman is saying a lot
It is an Epiphone Zenith a short lived model that came with special type of active pickups with special pre-amp(will look this up and tell) , I bought it on a trip to Barcelona. The previous owner thought the bass too heavy and he surely has a point. But it is a very nice bass but as I am not fond of active pickups , I will probably put in other pickups, which is not an easy thing to do on a semi hollow body, Ithink. Suggestions for this project from this knowledgeable group are welcome indeed.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
The proper holy trinity: Ellington the father, Mingus the son, Monk the holy ghost. All else follows from there.
My son is a jazz trumpet player. He can play all kinds of things, but left to his own devices, his style is similar to Clifford Brown more than anybody else. Unless he's changed radically in the last few years down in LA.
That reminds me ... Burt Munro's record breaking Indian is on display in a shopping arcade in town. Might get a couple of photies for you.
Gaolee
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Aahhh yes... ok.
It saddens me to say that, barring some miracle... I'll never have a real Gibson Thunderbird. To the best of my knowledge... Gibson proper, never produced one that didn't have a shallow 1.5 inch nut width. From what I've been able to gather thus far... custom shop, Hamer (unicorn), and Greco, are the only shots I'll have at a "real" neck-thru 'bird.
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When I typed the previous statement... I didn't consider short scaled 'birds or TB 5s. When I'm finally able to perform a 5/4 conversion on an Epi, I may find that it's a good thing, and could be coaxed to try it out on a Gibby. Does anybody know anything about the neck profile on a short scaled 'bird?
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If you're in the mood sometime... check out Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. Me thinks they'd be up your alley
That's a really cool design! The lower cutaway really opens up the upper fret access!Asking is free, which for a Dutchman is saying a lot
It is an Epiphone Zenith a short lived model that came with special type of active pickups with special pre-amp(will look this up and tell) , I bought it on a trip to Barcelona. The previous owner thought the bass too heavy and he surely has a point. But it is a very nice bass but as I am not fond of active pickups , I will probably put in other pickups, which is not an easy thing to do on a semi hollow body, Ithink. Suggestions for this project from this knowledgeable group are welcome indeed.
I can't see the pickup routing to know if they would fit in it or not... but these would be friggin' AWESOME in that thing!
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Whow - we've leaped from "The Prisoner" to "The Twilight Zone" ...
There could only be one explanation, it must be Freakout Friday.
If you're in the mood sometime... check out Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. Me thinks they'd be up your alley
It's all good Mike. Art Blakey & JM, Rollins, Davis, the aforementioned Coltrane, Ellington, Mingus and Monk ... it's a pretty big rabbit hole and it is America's classical music.
Aahhh yes... ok.
It saddens me to say that, barring some miracle... I'll never have a real Gibson Thunderbird. To the best of my knowledge... Gibson proper, never produced one that didn't have a shallow 1.5 inch nut width. From what I've been able to gather thus far... custom shop, Hamer (unicorn), and Greco, are the only shots I'll have at a "real" neck-thru 'bird.
I hear ya man, you would so not like the neck on my Epi. But I love it, even with these big claws of mine.
