Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

Ha! I was wearing pink slippers at a plant in Japan last time around cause they were the only ones that somewhat fit.. Not a happy camper...

Ahh, you got the Hello-Kitty treatment. They save that for special guests.

My admin support always called ahead on my trips to make sure I got the red carpet treatment when I arrived. I'll never forget the time I was reviewing some of the upstream manufacturing operations in one of our FDA equalivant rated GMP R&D facilities. They were so proud about their preperations for my visit and in typical Japanese fashion they had every aspect of the tour planned down to the last detail and timed to the minute.

A lot of potential funding was riding on a successful tour. They had correct size safety shoes, a correct size lab coat, gloves, hair nets and even safety glasses that fit over my regular glasses. I got all gowned up and ready to go into the airlock, but before I did I asked the plant manager for a beard net. He was horrified. They didn't have any, apparently facial hair isn't very common there. So I waited while his team scrambled to the nearest hospital for a handful of beard nets. Needless to say that threw the entire schedule off by about 30 minutes.

All ended well, I got my beard net and they got their funding. Sure I could have worn a hair net over my beard (wouldn't be the first time) but they wanted everything perfect. The culture is all about perfection and precision and acknowledgement of organizational hierarchy. They just weren't going to let me walk around a production floor wearing a hair net on my face and be seen by hundreds of workers. It would have shown disrespect (although I'd have been fine with it). I let them follow the protocol they were most comfortable with - when in Rome.

 

[Engle]

Loaner shoes? I won't do that. If I had to, I would go into town and buy safety boots if I had to (and expense them later).

One of the joys of international entrepreneurship; some fashion freedom. I have a couple of white shirts, but I tend toward colours. French cuffs with interesting cufflinks. And I wear bowties - I get noticed and remembered; that is important when you are a small company and need to make a big impression. My favourite bowtie has little skulls and crossed bones on the back. It goes with the skull socks.

And for what it is worth, meetings with investment bankers always go well if you wear Motorhead socks...

There are Motörhead socks?

 

[Engle]

A 2000's Gibson Thunderbird Studio in rough condition and not OHSC

I didn’t think it was a Gibson except for the stamp on the back of the headstock. She’s pretty trashed
Hey! I learned about a Thunderbird

 

[GBassNorth]

Charcoal suit ok ?

Probably ok in a pinch. Just don't sit or stand next to someone in a black suit, yours might look dull or faded.

 

[PillO]

Quite a bit different in the corporate world.

Every plant has loaner or guest safety shoes, they'd be insulted if you turned theirs down. And never travel with safety shoes, airport security gets confounded with chunks of steel popping up on the X-ray screen. Just plan on loaners being available when needed. The challenge is knowing your approximate shoe size in each region.

I would still be buying safety shoes locally and expensing them.

For goods that could cause TSA difficulties, I FedEx ahead to my hotel...

 

[PillO]

Looks like the good doctor has my back(side) on this one.

Ahem! for both.

 

[PillO]

Get composite toe boots. They have the same safety rating as steels.

Or get into an industry that doesn't use safety footwear, but does have cool hairnets and lab coats. I put brass buttons on my lab coat...

 

[PillO]

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[PillO]

All my underwear are custom tie-dyes. I have socks and handkerchiefs that more or less match. My wife is awesome.

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Pictures or it doesn't exist.

 

[PillO]

SWAMP ASH BODY?!

And 3 point bridges? Babicz gone except the EB4/5?

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Or get into an industry that doesn't use safety footwear, but does have cool hairnets and lab coats. I put brass buttons on my lab coat...

Or get into drug dealing... no uniform or safety equipment needed and wear whatever you want

 

[PillO]

There are Motörhead socks?

This is what I wear for I Bank meetings

I also have these

But those are more management consultant meeting socks...

 

[GonePlaid]

Ummm what is this?
1990's Gibson Thunderbird Electric Bass Guitar w/ Hard Case - Neck Repair A++ | eBay

Just how much paint does it take to obscure 7 serial #s?

 

[GonePlaid]

IDK what it's like for working Thunderbird Club members in other areas, but once again our group has gotten hosed out of a gig. Our drummer was in the area of the venue and stopped by to confirm the gig(again) and see if they had any other open dates. Manager gives him the "oops, I booked someone else for that night, sorry".And before anyone asks, clubs do not do contracts. If you ask to do one they suggest you not let the door hit you in the @$$ on the way out.It is the off season in FL so we expect it to be slow, but this was the one gig we had this month. We'd been asked to do another place the same night but this gig had been booked months ago. And, of course, the other club already booked someone else for that night. I love to play. I'll quit playing when I can't hold my bass any more*, but I hate the effing business.
*started to say "hold my Bird" but I didn't want to disturb the "Ehem" police.

 

[Inky13]

The Metalhead girl is starting to creep me out.
I think her cold dark hand is reaching into my soul.
Do I have to forge a Faustian pact to prevent her from dragging me to Hell?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The Metalhead girl is starting to creep me out.
I think her cold dark hand is reaching into my soul.
Do I have to forge a Faustian pact to prevent her from dragging me to Hell?

Just go out with her. She looks like someone I know, who's really sweet and into the metal scene.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

IDK what it's like for working Thunderbird Club members in other areas, but once again our group has gotten hosed out of a gig. Our drummer was in the area of the venue and stopped by to confirm the gig(again) and see if they had any other open dates. Manager gives him the "oops, I booked someone else for that night, sorry".And before anyone asks, clubs do not do contracts. If you ask to do one they suggest you not let the door hit you in the @$$ on the way out.It is the off season in FL so we expect it to be slow, but this was the one gig we had this month. We'd been asked to do another place the same night but this gig had been booked months ago. And, of course, the other club already booked someone else for that night. I love to play. I'll quit playing when I can't hold my bass any more*, but I hate the effing business.
*started to say "hold my Bird" but I didn't want to disturb the "Ehem" police.

 

[Nocturnal]

I’ve had thoughts of buying an Epi body and refinishing it for a Fenderbird, but then I considered the task of stripping the poly. It would probably be easier to build a body from scratch.

You can always use the current paint as a primer coat of sort. Scuff it up with sandpaper and prime it. I did that with a Goth but you can also do it with the sunburst models.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Pictures or it doesn't exist.

I'm assuming you didn't want a pic of me wearing them. (Too bad if you do!)

 

[Miles_ONeal]

And 3 point bridges? Babicz gone except the EB4/5?

I noticed the 3P on the Bird. Come on, Gibson.