Great choreography. In that era, how many bands had 'moves' mapped out like that? Then 5-10 years later all the hair metal bands were doing those moves.
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Thunderbird Club
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Great choreography. In that era, how many bands had 'moves' mapped out like that? Then 5-10 years later all the hair metal bands were doing those moves.
In fairness, dragged around 1 SVT and a bunch of empty cabinets.
Ran out of gin?
I just spit out my V&T, thanks.
Well look what the mailman dropped off this afternoon! Best part, for whatever reason, Canada Customs and Revenue chose not to apply any taxes! (Woo Hoo!)
So, a little project for tomorrow - get the chrome bridge on the Midtown and see if I am competent to do a set up. Then when the new set of Black Beauties come in (@SLaPiNFuNK - what is the hold up on that? ;-)) the black bridge goes on the white Thunderbird.
So, a little project for tomorrow - get the chrome bridge on the Midtown and see if I am competent to do a set up. Then when the new set of Black Beauties come in (@SLaPiNFuNK - what is the hold up on that? ;-)) the black bridge goes on the white Thunderbird.
His Reverse is a 77 I believe, not a 76. It was as close as he could get to a 76. Its a nice player and sounds fantastic. And you are correct, the Bach was a white single pickup in the beginning.
I’ve done that. It works sometimes.
A more drastic fix is to pull the frets and plane the fingerboard into a back bowed curve- if it’s thick enough.
Have you tried lower tension strings?
Nice! Post pics when you’re done.
I remember reading a late 70's early 80's interview with him (Simmons) in GP where he described his stage setup as a bunch of folded horn cabs powered by (if I recall right) BGW amps. He then said they would send a line to the monitor and FOH mixers to "add the mids and highs" which I found peculiar since the practice became the opposite of that at the time by way of a mike or a DI from the backline. He said something like "you just can't go up there with an SVT and plonk" which I found interesting. He also mentioned Jim Dunlop medium picks cause he liked the grooves in them which kept them from slipping off when sweating. He finally mentioned Rotosound roundwounds cause as he put it "it doesn't matter how low you go, you can still get that twang". I used to read those mags from cover to cover like 10 times! It was the only way to learn about what was out there...
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Ask my wife, she owns a yoga studio, she has been teaching for 20+years.
godofthunder59
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Some of my readng, sadly since
I am currently using Daddario XLs 45-105. What would you recommend?
The problem with that scenario is that there are currently enough threads to just go the full length of the truss rod nut. If I shim it, there will only be a few threads engaged in the nut.
Look at you all fancy with your 5 and a 1/4... my first system, the TRS-Model III was tape drive. My parents wouldn't pop for the disk drive(s) but they did spend about $1,500 back in '79 and that was a tidy sum.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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My reading pile by the couch.
For the most part, I have stopped collecting dead trees. Since the last move 8 years ago, I still have a few hundred pounds of books in boxes. The vast majority of my books are now digital. It adds two huge benefits for me; I can carry around some very large volumes and they are searchable. As an example, I never take Applied Therapeutics with me anywhere as it is about 15lbs. On the other hand, I carry Harrison's Internal Medicine as an eBook everywhere; in real life it is 2 volumes coming in at 20-30lbs.
My first computer actually had a hard drive - a gigantic 80M, more space that anyone would ever need. Back in the TRS-80 days, there was no way I could/would drop that kind of money on a computer. I could buy 2 cars for that! Or one car and keep it in running condition.
Lookee lookee, my '15 has a lil sister ;-)
Yes! My folks spent 695.00 on the first generation TRS 80. Big deal for me.
It used to take 10 minutes to load Pong from an audio cassette recorder..
695 today gets you a smoking desktop! My dad then went and spent 7k on an IBM XT that did not even run windows.
It was obsolete in one year when the PC was introduced...
Great picture. The rug reflection looks like a custom finish. Nice bass!
