Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

Ok. You got me. I was trying to do it on a budget....

Just took an on line look at the TBird Babicz bridge and I can totally see how that can happen. Those ball end claws look deadly. My Gibby EB with a Babicz has the more traditional Fender shape to it vs the Gibby three point shape, so I guess I'm safe to wiff away with that right arm. Did your accident happen on stage? If so, I'm sure you put on a hell of a show. That's a bass face I'm not sure I want to see - horror, anger, embarrassment, pain and surprise all rolled into one millisecond.

 

[bylar13]

Just took an on line look at the TBird Babicz bridge and I can totally see how that can happen. Those ball end claws look deadly. My Gibby EB with a Babicz has the more traditional Fender shape to it vs the Gibby three point shape, so I guess I'm safe to wiff away with that right arm. Did your accident happen on stage? If so, I'm sure you put on a hell of a show. That's a bass face I'm not sure I want to see - horror, anger, embarrassment, pain and surprise all rolled into one millisecond.

It happened during the last song. I did not realize how much I was bleeding until we finished.

I looked at it and knew I was headed to the ER. The band after us did not want to play until someone cleaned up the blood on the stage.
The bass player in that band asked me if I was going to clean it up!?! For real? He was using my rig! You can't make this stuff up....

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

It happened during the last song. I did not realize how much I was bleeding until we finished.

I looked at it and knew I was headed to the ER. The band after us did not want to play until someone cleaned up the blood on the stage.
The bass player in that band asked me if I was going to clean it up!?! For real? He was using my rig! You can't make this stuff up....

There are two responses that shoulda been lined up for that:
a) You're gonna make me clean up my own rig.... while I make more of a bloody mess because I should be going to the ER

or

b) What... you don't put blood, sweat, and tears into your music?

 

[GBassNorth]

It happened during the last song. I did not realize how much I was bleeding until we finished.

I looked at it and knew I was headed to the ER. The band after us did not want to play until someone cleaned up the blood on the stage.
The bass player in that band asked me if I was going to clean it up!?! For real? He was using my rig! You can't make this stuff up....

I'd a told that mindless schmuck of a bass player - "you're dead right to be concerned. In fact, I'm so concerned for your safety I'm going to remove my rig from the stage right now and have it professionally cleaned and disinfected. Good luck sharing your guitarists amp a$$hole."

 

[PillO]

Had to make some guitar hanger room in our music room for a later jam session with some friends so I brought my Epiphones upstairs to get them out of the way for the rest of the day.

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Thought they looked nice resting there on the bed so I’m sharing a pic of them.

What a wonderful problem to have!

Everyone says how great it is to have friends. I'll have to try it sometime.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Sound check yesterday. I wear shorts at sound checks and play a TBird.
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I wear shorts and play Tbirds at gigs..

 

[PillO]

Sound check yesterday. I wear shorts at sound checks and play a TBird.
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Thunderbird - check
Cargo shorts - check
Flipflops (thongs to Aussies) - check

Post it out in Gen Pop and drive them nuts!

 

[PillO]

So a quick PSA to anyone who has a Babicz bridge on their T-bird: Be very careful if trying to execute a windmill.....9 stiches...

So glad I bought hipshot bridges... But the shoulder injury will not allow me to do windmills anyway...

As something of an aficionado of sutures, I will say that those stitches look well executed. It looks like you kept all the meat attached to your hand, so it just needed to be closed. It should heal well and you will have a cool scar to talk about.

Interesting aside - In Ontario (Canada) the government run healthcare (only in Canada, Cuba, and North Korea is it illegal to buy healthcare outside the government system) pays doctors $5 more per stich if 5 or more stitches are used. Coincidentally, a vanishingly small number of patients get 4 stitches.

 

[PillO]

Ok. You got me. I was trying to do it on a budget....

Bah, Kiss already did that

 

[PillO]

It happened during the last song. I did not realize how much I was bleeding until we finished.

I looked at it and knew I was headed to the ER. The band after us did not want to play until someone cleaned up the blood on the stage.
The bass player in that band asked me if I was going to clean it up!?! For real? He was using my rig! You can't make this stuff up....

There are two responses that shoulda been lined up for that:
a) You're gonna make me clean up my own rig.... while I make more of a bloody mess because I should be going to the ER

or

b) What... you don't put blood, sweat, and tears into your music?

I'd a told that mindless schmuck of a bass player - "you're dead right to be concerned. In fact, I'm so concerned for your safety I'm going to remove my rig from the stage right now and have it professionally cleaned and disinfected. Good luck sharing your guitarists amp a$$hole."

Call him over to slap him with your bloody hand before going to the ER.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

So glad I bought hipshot bridges... But the shoulder injury will not allow me to do windmills anyway...

As something of an aficionado of sutures, I will say that those stitches look well executed. It looks like you kept all the meat attached to your hand, so it just needed to be closed. It should heal well and you will have a cool scar to talk about.

Interesting aside - In Ontario (Canada) the government run healthcare (only in Canada, Cuba, and North Korea is it illegal to buy healthcare outside the government system) pays doctors $5 more per stich if 5 or more stitches are used. Coincidentally, a vanishingly small number of patients get 4 stitches.

I have a weird correlation between stitches and the number three... when I was 3 years old I had three stitches in my lip... In grade 3 I got 3 stitches in my thumb... I'm waiting for the third time.

 

[PillO]

I have a weird correlation between stitches and the number three... when I was 3 years old I had three stitches in my lip... In grade 3 I got 3 stitches in my thumb... I'm waiting for the third time.

Amateur. Hardly worth getting only 3 stitches. Dab of poly sporin, a bit of 2x2 gauze, and some tape and you are good to go.

 

[bylar13]

So glad I bought hipshot bridges... But the shoulder injury will not allow me to do windmills anyway...

As something of an aficionado of sutures, I will say that those stitches look well executed. It looks like you kept all the meat attached to your hand, so it just needed to be closed. It should heal well and you will have a cool scar to talk about.

Interesting aside - In Ontario (Canada) the government run healthcare (only in Canada, Cuba, and North Korea is it illegal to buy healthcare outside the government system) pays doctors $5 more per stich if 5 or more stitches are used. Coincidentally, a vanishingly small number of patients get 4 stitches.

I thought they did a good job as well. The ER was busy. After 4 injections into the wound (Ouch!) Of some kind of Novicaine type drug, I sat for a good bit with the hand soaking in Betadine.
Other patients with more serious problems got treated and when they started sewing I could feel the needle being pushed through along with the sucher thread. It was muted by the painkillers a bit but when I winced, the nurse asked if I wanted another shot of painkiller...uhhhh..no thanks! Please hurry and finish!

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Amateur. Hardly worth getting only 3 stitches. Dab of poly sporin, a bit of 2x2 gauze, and some tape and you are good to go.

My lip wasn't just cut, there was a hole under my bottom lip... and being a 3 year old kid I kept sticking my tongue through the hole.
The thumb was sliced on the side so the skin was flapping around, it was a coin flip to decide if I was going to the hospital for it.

 

[PillO]

I thought they did a good job as well. The ER was busy. After 4 injections into the wound (Ouch!) Of some kind of Novicaine type drug, I sat for a good bit with the hand soaking in Betadine.
Other patients with more serious problems got treated and when they started sewimg I could feel the needle being pushed through along with the sucher thread. It was muted by the painkillers a bit but when I winced, the nurse asked if I wanted another shot of painkiller...uhhhh..no thanks. Please hurry and finsish!

I know that feeling (literally). Local anesthetics do not work well on me (my dad was the same - mutant fast sodium channels), so if/when I am given the usual dose, I can still feel what is happening. Happened with my Carpal Tunnel surgery. I could feel exactly what was happening. The OR nurse asked if I was OK, I said just finish the surgery. On the upside, I knew exactly where the surgeon was in the procedure so I knew how much longer it was going to take. My dentist now knows that my warning was serious and gives me an appropriate dose.

 

[PillO]

With Sunday being the day to change avatar and underwear, I think it would be appropriate for @bylar13 to change his avatar to the bloody `bird.

 

[PillO]

My lip wasn't just cut, there was a hole under my bottom lip... and being a 3 year old kid I kept sticking my tongue through the hole.
The thumb was sliced on the side so the skin was flapping around, it was a coin flip to decide if I was going to the hospital for it.

Soooooo. You have always been a rotten kid....

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Soooooo. You have always been a rotten kid....

Yessir! My mum's been calling me a rotten kid for ages.

 

[GonePlaid]

When I first saw Chicago, I didn't even know who they were, never really paid any attention to that kind of music. It was May or June of 1973. I was living in the mountains above Boulder Colorado and going to high school in Nederland while casually dating a girl named Gina. She asked me if I wanted to come over to her ranch for dinner. Food was the second most important thing to me at that age, so I said sure.

Got off the school bus with her at the entrance to the ranch, Caribou Ranch, and a black limo picked us up and drove us back to the house, I'm thinkin this limo ride is so cool, her dad must be in the mafia! We got out of the limo and she introduced me to her dad named Jim. Dinner wasn't going to be served for a couple more hours so she asked if I wanted to fool around for a while. Will at that age that was the first most important thing to me, so I said sure.

We went to one of the buildings that wasn't too close to the house and started making out when music started playing. Gina asked if I liked the song, it was called "Just You and Me". I told her it was a bit sappy but sounded ok for that kind of music. She took me by the hand and said, let's go see how sappy it is. I followed and as we came around the side of the building there was an outdoor stage and a band just playing away with no audience. We stood in front of the stage and listened to them play a couple more songs and when they took a break she told Cetera, "my boyfriend thinks you guys sound sappy". Of course now I'm looking for a tree to hide behind before these 6 or 7 guys kick my ass. Cetera replied back, "you need a new boyfriend" and we all laughed. Gina and I got up on stage and danced around while they played a couple more songs.

Turned out that her father was James William Guercio, manager of the band Chicago and I think also with The Beach Boys at the time. The songs they were playing hadn't been released yet but were going to be on their Chicago VI album. They said they were practicing for an upcoming TV show, which I think was a Dick Clark Special called Chicago in the Rockies.

A couple weeks later school was out for summer and I moved to San Jose California. Gina and I only had the one date but it was a cool one.

I played sax in h.s. and in the Navy,always liked horn groups: Chicago, BS&T, Chase, 10 Wheel Drive, Isis(all girl horn group-pre terrorist Isis)EWF, Tower of Power, etc.

 

[veebass]

Thunderbird - check
Cargo shorts - check
Flipflops (thongs to Aussies) - check

Post it out in Gen Pop and drive them nuts!

LOL.
Les Paul Bass as back up- check.
No TORT anywhere - check.