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Thunderbird Club
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Or in my case, up that way.(from the Stuart area)
Best bass deal I got I think would be my ‘61.5 (crossover year, neck is December ‘61, body is January ‘62) P-bass. $3500 Canadian Pesos.
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful...
Good thing I decided to rewire the bass, the tone pot is shot. Other than a quick neck adjustment, it's killer. When I bought my new car I couldn't fit the tbird hard case into it, the neck dive was always killing me. Sold the silverburst and waited until someone had a Cream Embassy, so now I have two basses with tbird pickups and sound, just not the body shape. I play the snot out of the P Bird in my avatar.
Wouldn’t that be a Thunder-P?
I'll take that as well
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The Goths are worth dealing with because they are basically good stock. You should start a start-to-finish project thread in Luthiers Corner.
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From playing it briefly before shipping it back to you I agree!
Glad to see it getting some love!
I've been attending a Tuesday night jazz ensemble/class at the local music school. The instructor complained about my tone being too bass heavy until I soloed the jazz PU on my Jazz Bass Special - basically creating a "Jaco" type tone.
I'm going to do some experimenting with my VP bridge PU and amp tone controls to see if I can something close to that.
I'm going to do some experimenting with my VP bridge PU and amp tone controls to see if I can something close to that.
Shoulda told him that if your tone is too bass heavy he isn’t looking for a bass player, but a guitarist.
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Don't people want a bass to sound like, IDK, a Bass?
If it was a regular band situation, I wouldn't accept being told what my tone should be.
The other weird thing is being told to solo without worrying about holding down the form...
If i was asked to solo, my body would immediately seize up, i'm just not that kinda player.
@GonePlaid may have some pointers for the second item...
Might be hard to do with Humbuckers. On my FrankenGoth I installed coil split capability so I can run in Humbucker or single coil on either pup. It does in fact hang right in that honky, quacky, nasal Jaco jazz tone when dialed in right. BTW I've never liked that tone nor found it to sound good in the types of music I play. If I was in a three piece Jazz ensemble it might be a different story. But for darn near everything else out there a P bass split coil or Humbucker will do the trick.
In 1969, while attending Miami-Dade Junior College, I had a free period between classes. There were 2 jazz labs going in the music department but only 1 bassist. I volunteered to play with the 2nd band to 'help out'. I didn't expect to have my @$$ kissed but I also didn't expect constant criticism of my tone and 'sound'(I was using a cobbled up amp). Constructive criticism woulda been OK-I had never read bass parts b4, being a converted saxist-but this wasn't an attempt to educate, improve, or otherwise help me, so I just stopped going. BTW, I wasn't majoring music so it didn't 'hurt' me.
I've never been a huge fan of long bass solos. I can solo, but I'm a self taught play-by-ear rock bassist, so it's strange to be asked to solo over those jazz forms.
