Thunderbird Club

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

That's the same model as I have (the YBA200/2 comes with KT88s). They had a potentially troublesome auto-bias function -- a previous owner removed it from mine.

Time to hit Bank of Mum and Dad for a loan.

I may be able to get away with getting basses for good deals, but amps, especially tube amps, are a very different story. Never mind getting them to help with the purchase!

Unless the amp says 'Marshall' on the front, in white script. That might... is a very different story. Hell my dad b!tches at me if I even mention an 810/412 Mesa cab, but he's been looking for a Marshall straight cab to go under my angle cab.... just so it looks proper! I hardly play guitars, but a bass cab is a bad idea?!
I tried telling him that the ACC 370 should have two 301 cabs, but he buying into that.

 

[kat888]

One for sale locally for $600 CAD ($460 US)
If I didn't just pay for school I'd pick it up, see how it compares to my Mesa

Mine was $AUD850 ($CAD825) for a 12yr old amp with an unknown number of former owners, but them's the prices you pay.

How it would go vs the Mesa? There's not a lot of clean headroom -- it was designed to be dirty.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Mine was $AUD850 ($CAD825) for a 12yr old amp with an unknown number of former owners, but them's the prices you pay.

How it would go vs the Mesa? There's not a lot of clean headroom -- it was designed to be dirty.

Don't forget the Mesa can drop down to 125W and 250W... plus the boost push/pull
The Mesa can get dirty very easily

 

[wolfkeller]

I'm thinking red or black leather pickguard.

All's well in the world! Right on Bryan!

 

[Nocturnal]

Alright, it's done fender is back to original, packed, Gibson is ordered. Around Christmas I believe.

A Christmas miracle!!

 

[BklynKen]

I'm thinking red or black leather pickguard.

"Red hair and black leather; my favorite color scheme"

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

"Warriors...Come out to play-yayyyy!" Helluva way to start 1986!

So little info available today on the L4, would love to get my hands on one or at the very least a service manual.

1986?.

 

[Larry V]

1986?.

The year of the fire, not the movie.

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

The year of the fire, not the movie.

Ok, Im thinking 78 or 79. Thanks.

 

[kat888]

I remember when 1986 was the future...

 

[Feral Feline]

1986?.

Yeah, the fire broke out NYE 1985, so the pic of the band standing amidst the ashes would've been NYD 1986.


Released 1983



Released 1979

I remember when 1986 was the future...

Me too. And...

Published in '49

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

I remember when 1986 was the future...

I would go back to the future.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Me too. And...

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Published in '49

Fun, useless fact, that book was titled 1984 because it was written, or supposed to be published, in 1948, reasoning was 48 reversed is 84.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

I wish I was around in 1986

 

[kat888]

I wish I was around in 1986

No you don't.

 

[Feral Feline]

Yeah, you didn't miss much...

Expo '86 in Vancouver... that's all I got for 1986 being "memorable".

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

No you don't.

You’re right, 60’s or 70’s woulda been better.
Music aside, drag racing was a lot more popular, and cheaper. Muscle cars in general were a lot more popular, and cheaper.

Now you gone and dunt it, got me talking about cars. @GBassNorth is gonna chime in, maybe even @mrb327 , and it’s gonna be a full blown 3 page conversation about cars again.

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

1986 introduced me to new releases by Slayer with Reign In Blood, Metallica with Master Of Puppets and Dayglo Abortions with Feed Us A Fetus. These were influential cornerstones for me. Also the beginning of studded leather, ripped jeans punk rock hair, stage diving and mosh pit skankin' .Great times.

 

[Feral Feline]

I'll give you that. I can still remember seeing DGA's gig posters all over Granville street.

Also, in the mid-80s the mid-70s muscle cars were cheap relatively and somewhat plentiful. Friend had a Roadrunner, brother's friend had a Roadrunner, another had a street-racin' '70 Trans-Am; another of my friend's had that '73 Mach 1 Mustang... An older friend had a Charger, my aunt had a Duster...


A '66 'Cuda... that would make a great birdcage for a matching '66 Thunderbird (ie Gibson, not Ford)... Hemi Under Glass...

With a Traynor Big Ben and Super Custom Special, too.

Wistful Wishful Wonderings

 

[theFixer]

It was that or cry, which we probably got out of the way the night before! In truth, I actually made out at the end of the day. I bought the LabSeries L4 used from a friend for $350, insured it for $1200.00. Insurance paid in full and for $300 out of pocket I had a brand new Marshall 3540 400w bass stack. Downside being our guitarist called it a day after the fire and it took us until April to replace him and back out steady gigging.

Drag about the guitar player... but otherwise... well played my friend!