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Thunderbird Club

#5,321
imdkoz said:
Man that is a nice Bird!! Congrats!! I bought a Goth last week and have a Pro on order, my jazz now sits at home. :)
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I played this guy at the store and went home to get my Jazz, and Precision. Best of playing with your new guys there.
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Klondike said:
Oh and mine is in his forties/ fifties so I can relate to him pretty well

The most challenging thing is he gives me an Elvis song to learn and I just am not (read that with an underline) an Elvis guy. I know he is blues and all but man this is killing me.
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Play every kind of music you can, whether it interests you or not. It will make you a better bass player, and a better musician.

I grew up a rocker. Played every kind of rock you can imagine, classic rock (before it was classic), heavy metal, punk, grunge/alternative. In the late '90s I found myself temporarily out of a band and let a guy talk me into joining his country band (I hated country). I learned so much from that band. It was a GREAT experience. Modern country has a lot of different feels in it that I never encountered playing rock, including things like waltz and cha cha. I currently play in a old school soul band. Soul is bass players music, the songs revolve around the bass. I have learned a ton more. I have also played blues, bluegrass, jazz, funk, disco, latin, and probably a few other styles I have forgotten about. And yes, Elvis. I can feel comfortable in pretty much any situation now (and I get called for sub gigs fairly often).

I still play rock (my hard rock band just broke up last month), but I love playing soul, and I am a LOT better today for having played so many different styles.

Just my .02 cents, but it comes from experience.
 
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TBird1958 said:
JELLIS, are you in the club, or shall I add you? The list is long and a couple pages back, happy to bring it forward and add you - Beautiful Nikki Sixx Mk.II!



My experience with a pro set up is that if it's done right it should last for a long time - even with seasonal changes, you have a good basis to work from. I can only think of one time that a bass of mine really needed adjustment - The band was on the road and my White '89 was in the hotel room, while we were out the maid came in to clean and in the process had opened the window and balcony door letting in a great deal of cold air..... The neck went flat and every string buzzed. That was 8 years ago, it went to Mike Lull and has been stable ever since.
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Thanks, I'm not in the club but it would be a pleasure to join!
 
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Following on from the discussion about the need to frequently adjust the neck on that lovely Sixx, I have not needed to adjust the truss rod on my 08 TBird that I bought new since I bought it.
One of the most stable necks I have. I live in Queensland and we get big temp and humidity changes. Some of my Fenders need adjustment at the start and end of the wet season, but not all- my 73 P and the Telecaster Basses never move. My Jazzes move around a bit, as does my 4003.
 
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hillerup said:
I see no reason for you not to get it... It would fit right in between your Seafoam Green and White Epi NR's... :)
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I agree but I am running out of space for gear. I would like to get it because it's probably the best color Epi offered in this run of basses. Plus they play and sound great! You are trying to be a bad influence :thumbsup:
 
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In my experience, you are dead accurate. I know it's true and I think yesterday I made good improvement in that tune. I know as I move forward and join a gigable band people will ask to hear Elvis. Several weeks ago I decided it isn't a fight I should be taking in. Elvis is just to big. Thanks for you .02 Showdown.

Showdown said:
Play every kind of music you can, whether it interests you or not. It will make you a better bass player, and a better musician.

I grew up a rocker. Played every kind of rock you can imagine, classic rock (before it was classic), heavy metal, punk, grunge/alternative. In the late '90s I found myself temporarily out of a band and let a guy talk me into joining his country band (I hated country). I learned so much from that band. It was a GREAT experience. Modern country has a lot of different feels in it that I never encountered playing rock, including things like waltz and cha cha. I currently play in a old school soul band. Soul is bass players music, the songs revolve around the bass. I have learned a ton more. I have also played blues, bluegrass, jazz, funk, disco, latin, and probably a few other styles I have forgotten about. And yes, Elvis. I can feel comfortable in pretty much any situation now (and I get called for sub gigs fairly often).

I still play rock (my hard rock band just broke up last month), but I love playing soul, and I am a LOT better today for having played so many different styles.

Just my .02 cents, but it comes from experience.
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Klondike said:
In my experience, you are dead accurate. I know it's true and I think yesterday I made good improvement in that tune. I know as I move forward and join a gigable band people will ask to hear Elvis. Several weeks ago I decided it isn't a fight I should be taking in. Elvis is just to big. Thanks for you .02 Showdown.
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During yesterday's lesson, I ran through Stealers Wheel's, "Stuck In The Middle With You", Jet's, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?", Skynyrd's, "Call Me The Breeze", Seether's, "Same Damn Life" and then my instructor introduced the Sufari's, "Wipe Out" for next week. Talk about being all over the map! Even though classic rock(Led Zeppelin), Hard Rock(Motley Crue), Heavy Metal(Metallica) and newer rock(Three Days Grace, Thousand Foot Krutch) are what I like to listen to most, I'm trying to learn everything I can.

I've ventured off into funk and disco bass lines but I've stayed away from jazz... it's noise to me and unsettling. I find I really do enjoy learning, new to me, bass parts. The more the merrier and the time it takes me to learn new stuff is shortening greatly.

No Elvis to this point... my instructor is an under 40 guitarist metal head.
 
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Nocturnal said:
I agree but I am running out of space for gear. I would like to get it because it's probably the best color Epi offered in this run of basses. Plus they play and sound great! You are trying to be a bad influence :thumbsup:
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Klondike said:
He's doing a good job to. :thumbsup:
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Isn't that what we're all here for - To encourage each other? :)
 
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Check this out! Totally surprised to see this this morning.

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3 TO CHOOSE FROM!!!
All Gibson's W/OHSC
Tobacco 1995 Serial# 90315724 - $1200
Cream 2000 Serial# 00340812 - $1200
Black 2001 Serial# 02661520 - $2000 Collectors Limited Edition Nikki Sixx Blackbird
All Broke in, Play & Sound Excellent

I have to wonder if the love is gone or perhaps he's no longer able to play due to an injury or some such thing.
 
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Larry V said:
Check this out! Totally surprised to see this this morning.

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3 TO CHOOSE FROM!!!
All Gibson's W/OHSC
Tobacco 1995 Serial# 90315724 - $1200
Cream 2000 Serial# 00340812 - $1200
Black 2001 Serial# 02661520 - $2000 Collectors Limited Edition Nikki Sixx Blackbird
All Broke in, Play & Sound Excellent

I have to wonder if the love is gone or perhaps he's no longer able to play due to an injury or some such thing.
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Want that "Cream" one. OW OW.
 
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