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Thunderbird Club
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How do you keep pulling all this gear outta the woodwork?
It just keeps materializing.
Goat boy @Dr_Feelgoood212 is a teenager, or if he isn't he was not long ago and still acts like one...
We have a joker in @JJR58
Grumpy old fart - I think we have several of those around.
I vote inlays. But, I am not the end user/purchaser, so my opinion is meaningless.No inlays: 4
Inlays: 3
Having limited time at work - able to zoom through this thread & be caught up. I cast my vote to No inlays - a board looks better without inlays although it depends on the guitar/bass & if it completes the aesthetic portion. So 5 votes no inlays, 3 votes inlays. Thus far. Now you can keep track @Klondike
Hi everybody. Going to my first open mic night tonight with the band. The listing says they have all instruments and I don’t have to bring anything but I want to bring my bass.
Is that wrong?
Good Ol’ Days in Cumming Georgia is where it’s at...
Is that wrong?
Good Ol’ Days in Cumming Georgia is where it’s at...
Bring one. Just to be safe. But don't let anyone else play it unless you trust them.
I fully support this, but it would have to be something really cool. Not dots.
- Mar 8, 2011
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I can’t completely argue with that point.
In a nutshell, my dad was an electrical engineer (MIT grad and later worked at Philips, GE, RCA to name a few) who started teaching me electronics (specially vacuum tube stuff) when I was 5 or 6. So, I started very, very early (16 years before I got my engineering degree) and this caused like a time warp
(disparity) in that when in college, we barely touched on VT technology unless applied to high power RF transmitters where they are still king. Because I managed to jump onto this wagon so early, most of the guys who service this stuff are in their 70s or older and don't want to do it anymore. This has caused a surplus of VT stuff in need of servicing that no one knows how to work on. For this reason, I get a shi7load of this kind of stuff to service. the fact that I play out a lot and that I worked at E-MU systems (who made samplers and sound modules) gives me access to a large pool of pro players who need my know how...what should be my dining room....
- Jun 30, 2010
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I have a general policy of not letting my bass be played by anyone other than a friend. When I was in The Eddie Taylor Blues Band in Chicago, we did a college gig up in a northern Illinois suburb. One guy (very drunk) was offering to give Eddie $100 to play bass for one song. (this was early 80's so $100 was a chunk of change) It killed me when Eddie asked if I would because I had to tell him no. I would have loved to have this drunken dude give him $100 - but the bass to be handed over was my '64 T-bird II. Always felt bad about it for Eddies sake but as you all know, I still have that bird in one piece. Eddie most likely expected me to refuse as he understood how someones instrument was sacred - he just would have liked that easy money!
In a nutshell, my dad was an electrical engineer (MIT grad and later worked at Philips, GE, RCA to name a few) who started teaching me electronics (specially vacuum tube stuff) when I was 5 or 6. So, I started very, very early (16 years before I got my engineering degree) and this caused like a time warp
what should be my dining room....
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yeah, i like that.
Is this going to be fretless or are the frets not present and accounted for yet? I’m in favor of a clean, naked look.
Yes, I know. Harrumph!
Hey, I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy.
Regarding Mick Ronson and Bowie. Oh. And Herbie Flowers.....
Thanks Andii that awesome of you to count it up.No inlays: 4
Inlays: 3
Having limited time at work - able to zoom through this thread & be caught up. I cast my vote to No inlays - a board looks better without inlays although it depends on the guitar/bass & if it completes the aesthetic portion. So 5 votes no inlays, 3 votes inlays. Thus far. Now you can keep track @Klondike
It’ll be fretted, the slots are cut but the fretts arent in yet.
