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Thunderbird Club

#69,542
Inky13 said:
What a nice thing to do! I just got back from GC trying to trade in a guitar. I paid $110 for a nice gator case, but in their bizzaro pricing system, it only counts for $.01 toward the trade. Bah!
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Yeah I tried to tried to trade in a few rack case there one time and ended up just giving them away. At least the people I gave them to were happy and I was happy, rather than me being angry and and the other party disinterested......
 
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BklynKen said:
Damn, those guys are really good!
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They seem to have a fair amount of work around LA. I'm not sure when or how they saw him play. He was playing with another funk band called Orgone off and on for the last couple years, so maybe at one of their shows. He's the second call trumpet for that band. He's been building his career as a trumpet player for about five years now, and it seems like he's hitting some kind of critical mass. Driving his car as an Uber will probably pay his rent for a while longer, unfortunately, but he's on the path to being dukeotrumpet. I hope he makes it. We told him that success or failure wasn't defined by whether he made lots of money, whether he made it big, or anything like that. It was defined by whether he really went for it and did what he needed to do to make it happen. It took a while, but he seems to get it completely now, and you see the results. All those guys are the same that way.
 
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I bought this week old TBird from my brother. He didn’t give me a sibling discount but he did buy me a hard case which arrived today. The bass is real big so I have to wear it tilted higher to the left so I can reach the low notes.
 
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Tori2013 said:
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I bought this week old TBird from my brother. He didn’t give me a sibling discount but he did buy me a hard case which arrived today. The bass is real big so I have to wear it tilted higher to the left so I can reach the low notes.
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The great thing about a Thunderbird is that you can tilt it up or down, wherever you want it. They don't stick you in the gizzard when you rotate the neck up like a more conventionally shaped bass guitar. Getting a brand new bass and case for the price of just the bass isn't too bad a deal. I read you NBD thread, and it sounds like you got a really good one.
 
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