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Thunderbird Club

I dunno. For pure, unadulterated punk awful attitude, you can't beat the double version of Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Sid Vicious attempting to sing Johnny B. Goode and then Roadrunner, and failing at both, is perfect in it's absolute lack of any redeeming qualities. It's even better at high sound pressure levels. If you can listen to that and then not go out and bite tires off moving trucks, there's something wrong with you.
'Tain't rock n roll- but it's from the same set of complaints, only with a different approach. I like the ability to make that adjustment. I can dig it, time and a place...
 
Hey, I have two numbers in the Crappy Bass Players with Expensive Gear Club. Double duty is possible, so long as you fit the bill. The world doesn't have to end. Somebody needs to step up and buy about a dozen 'Birds and earn a second number. There's a solution to all problems, and that solution generally has an N+1 dog math component to it somewhere.

Well, I'm a 1962 model... though lacking in the n+1 dept. :D
 
The solution to the #62 situation is simple:
For all members #63 and above, just add a "(-1)" to the end of your current number...

...well, now feeling sorry for pointing it out.., I'd like to stay #63 thank you - my first T-bird was a '63.
 
That actually comes as somewhat of a surprise, Doc. Last I knew, the Canadian National Register listed the mosquito as your official bird!

Seems I also heard something a while back about them replacing your flag's maple leaf with a mosquito;)

You mean La Liste Nationale du Canada.

Au Cananda, toutes les choses officiales doit etre en francais.

But for what it is worth, the national bird is the loon as its cry represents the melancholy we all feel when winter arrives.
 
No more or less about it. JAE coined the word(s) FenderBird capital F, capital B. And it DID NOT use a Thunderbird body of any type. Custom made and more ergonomic than a Gisbon...but nobody really gives a crap but a few old farts.

Notice the NR type pickguard on a redesigned Reverse style body.
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ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE! ...1-3/4" wide Precision neck.



F = 6, B = 2 hmm
 
I dunno. For pure, unadulterated punk awful attitude, you can't beat the double version of Great Rock n Roll Swindle. Sid Vicious attempting to sing Johnny B. Goode and then Roadrunner, and failing at both, is perfect in it's absolute lack of any redeeming qualities. It's even better at high sound pressure levels. If you can listen to that and then not go out and bite tires off moving trucks, there's something wrong with you.

I think it was someone here who said that Punk is all in the attitude.

Well, in introducing my daughter to punk, here is the sort of thing I played


Essentially Taylor Swift with crunchy guitars and, well, anti-punk lyrics.

But punk for me is more like:



And a Toronto band who's name would be censored here
Bunchoshagingoofs - Wikipedia

But if it all attitude, then this too is punk

 
Currently loving my Tbird at the minute!!

Went off it for a while but it crept back in !! Awesome
 

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The whole punk thing was a lot of fun for about five years. It's a miracle anybody survived without permanent injury. Diving off of two story speaker stacks was a bad idea. Who knew? Black eyes and ugly cuts were part of the fun, and the occasional broken bone was collateral damage. Somehow, I never got very badly damaged in the mayhem. Maybe it was defective enthusiasm.

Not a whole lot of band names at the time would have got past the censors. My favorite double bill came much later after the move to Seattle - Cat Butt appearing with Bible Stud.
 
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.
That seems like a great idea.
Up to Our Queen though. Happy for anything Roni decides.
 
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?
Don't forget Cataldo.
 

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