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Thunderbird Club
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Dude I understood the original as a teen, it spoke to me. I understand this version now, it speaks to me. Thank you very much @PillO
Some of our New York Bird members might know this. Classic!.
All this talk about Suicidal Tendancies and Sabbath… 2 members from Suicidal Tendancies, Mike Muir and Robert Trujillo (yes the Metallica bassist), and Ozzy
OMG seconds in and I love it!. Fn' bomb!
Yeah, hard to believe that it is the same dude as did this
- Mar 8, 2011
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- Authorized greenboy designs builder/Owner of BNA Audio
Speaking of bass bashing...I have a custom made (for me, no less) Drake 35" scale bass with TV Jones blade pickups. It's a beast! Plays great, sounds great but our initial drawings of the bass were much cooler to me than how it actually came out. I commissioned TB'r @JIO to do a makeover based on his Teisco inspired custom designs. Since we didn't want to completely cover all of Andrew Drakes amazing work, Jio did a distressed kinda thing. Some folks loved it, but some folks were deeply and even comically offended. One dude described it as something like, taking a beautiful bass, then dragging it behind a speeding truck for miles 
Not that I totally care, because I love the bass.
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It doesn't bother me a bit if someone doesn't like it because I love it, but some people seemed deeply offended. It's just a bass, man!
Not that I totally care, because I love the bass.
Here's a before...
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It doesn't bother me a bit if someone doesn't like it because I love it, but some people seemed deeply offended. It's just a bass, man!
Speaking of bass bashing...I have a custom made (for me, no less) Drake 35" scale bass with TV Jones blade pickups. It's a beast! Plays great, sounds great but our initial drawings of the bass were much cooler to me than how it actually came out. I commissioned TB'r @JIO to do a makeover based on his Teisco inspired custom designs. Since we didn't want to completely cover all of Andrew Drakes amazing work, Jio did a distressed kinda thing. Some folks loved it, but some folks were deeply and even comically offended. One dude described it as something like, taking a beautiful bass, then dragging it behind a speeding truck for miles
Not that I totally care, because I love the bass.
Here's a before...
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It doesn't bother me a bit if someone doesn't like it because I love it, but some people seemed deeply offended. It's just a bass, man!
I followed just a bit of this build. I love it!
As long as you like it. Personaly from my point of view..........I like itSpeaking of bass bashing...I have a custom made (for me, no less) Drake 35" scale bass with TV Jones blade pickups. It's a beast! Plays great, sounds great but our initial drawings of the bass were much cooler to me than how it actually came out. I commissioned TB'r @JIO to do a makeover based on his Teisco inspired custom designs. Since we didn't want to completely cover all of Andrew Drakes amazing work, Jio did a distressed kinda thing. Some folks loved it, but some folks were deeply and even comically offended. One dude described it as something like, taking a beautiful bass, then dragging it behind a speeding truck for miles
Not that I totally care, because I love the bass.
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It doesn't bother me a bit if someone doesn't like it because I love it, but some people seemed deeply offended. It's just a bass, man!
Speaking of bass bashing...I have a custom made (for me, no less) Drake 35" scale bass with TV Jones blade pickups. It's a beast! Plays great, sounds great but our initial drawings of the bass were much cooler to me than how it actually came out. I commissioned TB'r @JIO to do a makeover based on his Teisco inspired custom designs. Since we didn't want to completely cover all of Andrew Drakes amazing work, Jio did a distressed kinda thing. Some folks loved it, but some folks were deeply and even comically offended. One dude described it as something like, taking a beautiful bass, then dragging it behind a speeding truck for miles
Not that I totally care, because I love the bass.
Here's a before...
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It doesn't bother me a bit if someone doesn't like it because I love it, but some people seemed deeply offended. It's just a bass, man!
It's terrible; an abomination. How could someone do such a thing?! Oh the humanity!
Actually, neither look works for me. But if it played well for me, I would be happy. I am glad you like it. For me, 35" is a non starter. I keep thinking that my ideal scale might be about 33"
- Jun 30, 2010
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Rockin mean machine!!!!!!!!
- Mar 8, 2011
- 12,232
- 51,187
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- Authorized greenboy designs builder/Owner of BNA Audio
I only went with 35" scale for drop tuning, which ironically, I almost never do. Honestly, the neck doesn't feel long at all, but I'm 6'4", with monkey arms
I like it. I lacked the vision to see it entirely different, but thats pretty cool
Gotta strange one here. I took the top 4 strings out of a new 5 string set of 50-135 gauge strings to put on my bird but had little to no sustain on the bottom (70gauge) string. No matter how I tweaked I could not bring that string to life. I thought it was a dud and the store replaced it, still no sustain. Went with a 55 gauge and everything is awesome. What the hell?. @Dadagoboi have any experience with this?. Is the Bird pickup not wound to register thick guage strings at the bottom end of the pickup?. Anyone have this before?.
Had a bum string before. Could’ve possibly ruined one string putting it on, but not 4
A few months ago I described a cabinet as the 'naked mole rat' of bass cabs ... and the next thing you know the company owner's at me saying 'are you calling my baby ugly?!' Now I didn't say it was 'ugly' and naked mole rats mum's love them...
I can't think of a scenario in which string gauge would make a difference at the pickup. Might be further ahead to take it to @SLaPiNFuNK - the proprietor if Bass Strings Online.
