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Thunderbird Club

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Santa Cruz for you..
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MCF said:
I’ll take one in Pelham Blue.
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I have been thinking of different colours for them - Fender early 80's International Series Capri Orange, Maui Blue and Sahara Taupe are a few. Daphne Blue, Inverness Green, and Pelham Blue are also possibilities. (all in satin w/gold Glitter Blast) The creme pg/black control plate combo would go with all of them.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
Santa Cruz for you..
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Just got back from doing a live 'community TV' (cable - channel 23?) show in SC called "Look Mom, I'm on TV!" that featured a trio I play with. Felt like an episode of SCTV ~ pretty "local". :)

This band - but this is a gig we did a week ago in Pacifica.
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Started playing in January on a <$100 bargain Cort (solid bass though).

Just got an Epiphone Goth Thunderbird after falling in love with it and replaced the frayed Elixir strings that was on it with DR Black Beauties (and added an undisputably cool strap). Have only played it for a short while so far but love the stability the weight brings and the body shape is so comfortable for the picking arm.

Nothing you guys haven't seen before, but I'm psyched!

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dukeorock said:
Morning! Some random thoughts on pedals...

Hung out with a really nice fella last night at my gig. He was a bass player in one of the other bands on the bill. His band were all original, but it was basically ‘classic’ riff rock, kinda on the hippie side of things. He said he liked my upright playing and Derek Hokes music and half apologized that his gig required that he bring a pedalboard. Fairly small board with two different drives and a modulation pedal. Can’t remember what pedals besides a Green Muff, but all pretty standard stuff bass players use.
I watched his set and either couldn’t hear any changes to his sound at all after watching him press a pedal, or if I did notice a change, it was that his sound got a bit thinner. This is my experience with the vast majority of bass players I see with pedalboards. I either hear no real change in tone, or a change for the worst in tone. This includes players with massive pedalboards sometimes. Once in a blue moon I’ll hear a bass player use a pedal that actually makes a useful difference, but it’s really rare.
Ironically, I love pedals and own some pretty high end ones. I use em for my solo electronic stuff all the time. But live it’s really rare that I notice any change at all, let alone a positive change.
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RedVee said:
Morris J van

That Buttercup ad is a little before my memory but I could find anything else with the old packaging. We used to go to the corner store to buy bread not get it delivered. Milk was delivered though.
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Good to know. They use one of those in a commercial for Hidden Valley Ranch dressing and I've been wondering wuttinahell it was. Much smaller than any of the bread/milk trucks I've seen in the US.
 
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sevensixtwolove said:
Started playing in January on a <$100 bargain Cort (solid bass though).

Just got an Epiphone Goth Thunderbird after falling in love with it and replaced the frayed Elixir strings that was on it with DR Black Beauties (and added an undisputably cool strap). Have only played it for a short while so far but love the stability the weight brings and the body shape is so comfortable for the picking arm.

Nothing you guys haven't seen before, but I'm psyched!

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Welcome here!

I happy to add you to the club, we can be a bit silly and of course go off on some unrelated stuff, but there's a lot of stored knowledge here and we encourage questions.
 
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dukeorock said:
Morning! Some random thoughts on pedals...

Hung out with a really nice fella last night at my gig. He was a bass player in one of the other bands on the bill. His band were all original, but it was basically ‘classic’ riff rock, kinda on the hippie side of things. He said he liked my upright playing and Derek Hokes music and half apologized that his gig required that he bring a pedalboard. Fairly small board with two different drives and a modulation pedal. Can’t remember what pedals besides a Green Muff, but all pretty standard stuff bass players use.
I watched his set and either couldn’t hear any changes to his sound at all after watching him press a pedal, or if I did notice a change, it was that his sound got a bit thinner. This is my experience with the vast majority of bass players I see with pedalboards. I either hear no real change in tone, or a change for the worst in tone. This includes players with massive pedalboards sometimes. Once in a blue moon I’ll hear a bass player use a pedal that actually makes a useful difference, but it’s really rare.
Ironically, I love pedals and own some pretty high end ones. I use em for my solo electronic stuff all the time. But live it’s really rare that I notice any change at all, let alone a positive change.
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Could it be there not using a buffer and or their signal is weakened by said pedals?
 
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sevensixtwolove said:
Started playing in January on a <$100 bargain Cort (solid bass though).

Just got an Epiphone Goth Thunderbird after falling in love with it and replaced the frayed Elixir strings that was on it with DR Black Beauties (and added an undisputably cool strap). Have only played it for a short while so far but love the stability the weight brings and the body shape is so comfortable for the picking arm.

Nothing you guys haven't seen before, but I'm psyched!

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Welcome! Agreed that strap goes with the bass.
Feel free to ask questions here and skip over posts when the conversations veer into completely unrelated topics. Eventually we get back to Thunderbirds:)
 
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