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Thunderbird Club
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Haji
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Doesn't Gibson have a lifetime warranty? Be worth contacting them to see if they'll take care of it for you. Bear the cost of shipping when considering going that route.
Funny story...
Yesterday I went to work with my amp, etc for a gig that same evening. I work about an hour ride from home so I figured I'd shave, change clothes, etc at the local deluxe Shell station when I left work for the day. I had some time to kill, so I took a ride on a scenic road, pulled over and gerry-rigged some 6" deep ports for my 1518 cab, which the night before I'd loaded with a JBL E140. I had a cereal box and a coffee can from the recycle bin at home, my tin snips and a roll of packing tape. It was kind of a relaxing activity, and it worked fine. Pix:
Anyway I'm laboring away and someone pulls up behind me. This particular scenic location was pretty busy by this time, and I was ignoring the agreeable hubbub of scene-viewing and touristy end-of-day relaxing.
So this car pulls up, I'm tin-snipping the bottom off my coffee can. Little bits of a meeting/conversation drop near my ears as it unfolds, "...for my wife... thank you very much...", I hear "Leno" from across the road, and a car full of young dudes drives by yelling "We love you! You're the man!". Well naturally I almost waved then saw they weren't yelling at me (lol)...
So I look up and see a middle aged dude and a woman walking across the road to the tidepool/ocean view that was the attraction at this spot. He was a large framed guy, silver hair, kind of walked with a forward, lopish gait, the considerably shorter woman walking by his side. He looks to the right after the appreciative carload passes, and I see it: His chin! It's Jay Leno! Who, I recall now, had recently bought a house in Newport.
So I kind of had my Life of Brian moment for the week. Well there you go, I thought to myself, smallish world.
I finished my shade-tree mod and went off to my gig, and set up my experiment for the evening. It was reggae, a band I'd left last fall, who called me just this Friday eve because my replacement had bailed. Seems he didn't dig this particular band's professional looseness, which I get, but anyway...
So here's the rig:
Acoustic 370 into my DIY 4 ohm 210, and a Trace AH250SMX into the JBL loaded 1518.
I plugged into the Trace, and sent a line from that amp's tuner-out to the input of the 370. The 210 was pointed at the drummer, the 1518 facing forward. It was a total cobbled-together experiment and it worked like you read about! No mud, enough bottom to lay it down proper and give that satisfying punch to the gut, a nice blanket of dubby punch.
It's a pile to carry around, but what a sweet sound. I haven't been able to get a clear, solid, sweet punchy sound like that from any other amp/cab/whatever in years. Maybe ever. Love that JBL.
Yesterday I went to work with my amp, etc for a gig that same evening. I work about an hour ride from home so I figured I'd shave, change clothes, etc at the local deluxe Shell station when I left work for the day. I had some time to kill, so I took a ride on a scenic road, pulled over and gerry-rigged some 6" deep ports for my 1518 cab, which the night before I'd loaded with a JBL E140. I had a cereal box and a coffee can from the recycle bin at home, my tin snips and a roll of packing tape. It was kind of a relaxing activity, and it worked fine. Pix:
Anyway I'm laboring away and someone pulls up behind me. This particular scenic location was pretty busy by this time, and I was ignoring the agreeable hubbub of scene-viewing and touristy end-of-day relaxing.
So this car pulls up, I'm tin-snipping the bottom off my coffee can. Little bits of a meeting/conversation drop near my ears as it unfolds, "...for my wife... thank you very much...", I hear "Leno" from across the road, and a car full of young dudes drives by yelling "We love you! You're the man!". Well naturally I almost waved then saw they weren't yelling at me (lol)...
So I look up and see a middle aged dude and a woman walking across the road to the tidepool/ocean view that was the attraction at this spot. He was a large framed guy, silver hair, kind of walked with a forward, lopish gait, the considerably shorter woman walking by his side. He looks to the right after the appreciative carload passes, and I see it: His chin! It's Jay Leno! Who, I recall now, had recently bought a house in Newport.
So I kind of had my Life of Brian moment for the week. Well there you go, I thought to myself, smallish world.
I finished my shade-tree mod and went off to my gig, and set up my experiment for the evening. It was reggae, a band I'd left last fall, who called me just this Friday eve because my replacement had bailed. Seems he didn't dig this particular band's professional looseness, which I get, but anyway...
So here's the rig:
Acoustic 370 into my DIY 4 ohm 210, and a Trace AH250SMX into the JBL loaded 1518.
I plugged into the Trace, and sent a line from that amp's tuner-out to the input of the 370. The 210 was pointed at the drummer, the 1518 facing forward. It was a total cobbled-together experiment and it worked like you read about! No mud, enough bottom to lay it down proper and give that satisfying punch to the gut, a nice blanket of dubby punch.
It's a pile to carry around, but what a sweet sound. I haven't been able to get a clear, solid, sweet punchy sound like that from any other amp/cab/whatever in years. Maybe ever. Love that JBL.
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This has got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard. Roadside bass rig mod. Along with the rest of it, amazing!
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Who wouldn't want a red `bird?
As for the name, I don't know how you got Uncle Jack Rock. I read it as Unclej a crock. Isn't clej a welsh word meaning full? So I read it as an empty slow cooker.
I had thought that looked familiar too. I had thought in the club, but now that you say out in GP, that sounds right. I think it came from Sweetwater, but the seller is likely the Gibson wholesaler, or whomever disposes of guitars for Gibson.
I somehow missed the Birthday greetings ,so(in the words of Disney)"a very merry un-birthday to you"!
Hey man, many happy reprises!
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Never seen a mahogany finish like that and in time-capsule condition - I wonder if they bleached the wood first.
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Can't say, but it's a fun looking bass. I like her bass line too, fun and interesting, to me, to listen to.
Yeah, I was physically toast by the end of work yesterday, but renewal happened!
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There's a new musical that premiered in SF a couple months ago based on their music called "Head Over Heals" which featured the first all woman pit musicians. A friend was one of them so we got to attend - it was really fun and on its way to B-way.
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Korina/White Limba - yes, good call. That's most likely what it is as it is a very pale wood.
Yes. He used the Dimarzio Model one in a lot of his basses, including the Bird he rarely use.
Found this the other day. Nice sunburst Bird in the video.
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Looks to be a '76 - at 2:00 you can see what looks to be the Centenial bird. It's pretty grainy so it's hard to say for certain.
