Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

The pickups are called Nanomag and Nanoflex and the Zenith is on page 172 of the Gibson Bass Book. Of course it is!

Shadow Electronics produces these pickups and preamps

I have a Nanomag pickup in the neck of my Eppi LP guitar and it is freaking awesome. It nails a hollow body acoustic sound dead on and blends with the dual humbuckers for a stereo output that sounds like two different guitars (acoustic and electric) playing in unison.
For years I've tried to find a Shadow Nanomag fretboard pickup I could install in one of my basses (along with the stereo preamp) but I haven't had any luck. Once you get yours up and running I'd love to hear what you think about the fretboard mounted pickup in a bass application.

 

[hillerup]

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 sounds like a pretty good idea to me!

 

[JIO]

World's Fastest Indian

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and good movie about him played by Anthony Hopkins

 

[hillerup]

That's a really cool design! The lower cutaway really opens up the upper fret access!

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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That's because it had a piezo underneath the bridge or something...

 

[hillerup]

So do I. Real-deal, great rock n roll. John Lydon has one of the best vocal deliveries in rock n roll, hands down, for my working-class dollar.

I like that album as well, but still think The Damned's "Damned Damned Damned" is a way better album, with better songs and a "in your face" production that is still as fresh today as it was back in '77.

 

[hillerup]

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.

I have two numbers (#135 and #305) for some reason unbeknown to me.... Maybe it's because I fullfilled the dozen bird quota...?

 

[hillerup]

Why am I not surprised you know about Strippers..................

I was driving along the road that follows the Columbia on the Oregon side, between Astoria and Portland one morning a few years ago. My wife was with me. We passed a huge red barn that had a slightly crudely painted sign that said "STEAKS, CHOPS, BREAKFAST, 24-HOURS, TOPLESS." Topless was the biggest word, of course. I wasn't sure whether to be really curious to find out what all that meant, or to avoid the place like the plague. My wife was with me, so we kept driving and option one never got much chance of happening. It's a confusing mental image.

I know it. That was one place I did not frequent, looked way to scary. Especially because of the location. I think the plague festered there. All those things advertised in huge lettering was deterrent enough for me.

It was the overweight biker looking, short-order cooks that were topless. Very disappointing indeed.

I don't know. And never found out. The fact that Jeff knows the place I'm talking about and avoided it is hilarious. It's a small world. And yeah, the plague probably did fester there.

Now, why do I keep getting flashes of images from the Titty Twister bar out of the movie "From Dusk to Dawn" when I read these posts...?

 

[kat888]

Now, why do I keep getting flashes of images from the Titty Twister bar out of the movie "From Dusk to Dawn" when I read these posts...?

I like vampires.

 

[kat888]

I think all of his are bolt ons, but I could be wrong about that.

There are set neck and through neck options available, as well as bolt on J or P size necks. There's a shape, colour and configuration to please everyone.

The neck pocket on mine is tight, with excellent coupling between body and neck. It's all more resonant than you might expect and it has excellent sustain. I reckon there's quite a lot of mythology around the topic of neck joins.

 

[Larry V]

Does anybody know anything about the neck profile on a short scaled 'bird?

Yes.

If you lived in the bush around these parts, you wouldn't need mesh to keep the blood-sucking flying beasties out, chicken wire would be more than enough.

DAAYYUM I have a small pond in my backyard so there's a million of them but none that big! Must be the water there or something

Immediately my mind went here:

I present this solely for the amusement of the Queen...

Hamer USA Cruisebass, hand-painted, unusual and cool instrument w OHSC | eBay

5 minute major for that post. WTH!

Now, why do I keep getting flashes of images from the Titty Twister bar out of the movie "From Dusk to Dawn" when I read these posts...?

I like vampires.

I like Salma Hayek's snake dance. I won't post a link to it here but it's worth watching or worth watching again and again.

 

[JJR58]

It is! It's my N+1, about to go under the knife. Orientation Reassignment Surgery. It will be the fraternal twin to my Thunderbird, both 2013s. A 'RNR'. I named it Grant, because it arrived yesterday, the day of Grant Hart's death.

Congrats, how awesome Ken!

 

[JJR58]

@BklynKen, where did you score your "RNR"?

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Now, why do I keep getting flashes of images from the Titty Twister bar out of the movie "From Dusk to Dawn" when I read these posts...?

I like vampires.

I like Salma Hayek's snake dance. I won't post a link to it here but it's worth watching or worth watching again and again.

"...I don't believe in f***ing vampires, but I been in my own two eyes, and what I saw, is f***ing vampires..."

Quentin Tarantino is a movie genius… but too many good quotes I can't use here.
For anyone who hasn't seen From Dusk Till Dawn or Pulp Fiction… change that as soon as you can, they should still be on Netflix.

 

[hillerup]

I like vampires.

So do I...

 

[hillerup]

Yes.

Short and straight to the point as always, Larry! I like that!

I like Salma Hayek's snake dance. I won't post a link to it here but it's worth watching or worth watching again and again.

You and me both! drooldrooldrool

 

[Larry V]

"...I don't believe in f***ing vampires, but I been in my own two eyes, and what I saw, is f***ing vampires..."

Quentin Tarantino is a movie genius… but too many good quotes I can't use here.
For anyone who hasn't seen From Dusk Till Dawn or Pulp Fiction… change that as soon as you can, they should still be on Netflix.

I agree and love Tarantino as well, Pulp Fiction being my all-time favorite movie, but in one way his movies disappoint, the silly cartoon violence. Eye-rolling high school film class violence. Spend some money and make those scenes better. The theater scene where Hitler is killed? Pathetic! In Kill Bill, the Crazy 88's restaurant scene... the worst.

 

[JJR58]

I agree and love Tarantino as well, Pulp Fiction being my all-time favorite movie, but in one way his movies disappoint, the silly cartoon violence. Eye-rolling high school film class violence. Spend some money and make those scenes better. The theater scene where Hitler is killed? Pathetic! In Kill Bill, the Crazy 88's restaurant scene... the worst.

When I first saw Resevior Dogs, that really freaked me out, big Tim Roth fan.
Still dug the movie even with all the violence.
And, oh that Salma......

 

[PillO]

I opened a show for them a couple years ago. Very poppy and cutesy, I was impressed with her ability to play the bass line to "bottle cap" and sing at the same time. It is about as pop as pop punk gets, could fit on a bill with female fronted mainstream bubblegum pop as well.

They were a well executed band, the crunchy guitars are her husband.

I like them well enough. The songs are good punky pop. The music is well played and she can sing. I would take them over Taylor Swift anytime. And if they came through on tour, I would take my daughter. Dollyrots are one of the gems I have discovered listening to Little Steven's Underground Garage on Sirius XM.

 

[JJR58]

I didn't want to bring this up, but I may have a bum bridge p/up in the Epi. It is scratchy when dialed in. No issue with the neck p/up. Going to bring her back to SA. They actually have a good tech. He's going to go through at no charge. But I'm screwed if it's the pick up. Hoping it's a bad potentiometer. I love the bass, so IF, the pick up needs to be replaced............
This just started happening a few days ago.
When I say scratchy, the scratchy is heard whenever the bridge p/up is in use.

 

[vandoorn]

I didn't want to bring this up, but I may have a bum bridge p/up in the Epi. It is scratchy when dialed in. No issue with the neck p/up. Going to bring her back to SA. They actually have a good tech. He's going to go through at no charge. But I'm screwed if it's the pick up. Hoping it's a bad potentiometer. I love the bass, so IF, the pick up needs to be replaced............
This just started happening a few days ago.
When I say scratchy, the scratchy is heard whenever the bridge p/up is in use.

Sounds more like a bad pot to me. If it is the bridge pickup, I have spare one, after putting in a Sixx pu .... Happy to send it to you if you need it