Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

Challenge accepted!

Can you named the two ways that Adam Clayton is playing his Thunderbird incorrectly?

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1. It isn't a Thunderbird

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2. It isn't a Thunderbird. It is a big enough mistake to be worth noting twice.

That's kinda how I play my basses; upper horn at belly - 1st position closer to left hand. Oh, and it isn't a Thunderbird...

 

[Engle]

No idea. Only saw them once.

They are worth checking out. I think he uses mostly short scales.

 

[JIO]

I probably wouldn't dive if you didn't have those weight relief holes between the bridge pickup and the bridge and the one above the neck pickup.

Back in '64, their chambering was a bit timid...

 

[Count Bassie]

Time for a white Thunderbird......

That is quite a photo, I'm not sure which is the more badass...

 

[Count Bassie]

you'd take it over Dunkin?

Yep. But I generally don't like to support McD's... except that their coffee is allegedly "Fair Trade".

 

[Gaolee]

Curiosity is about to bite me - I'm trying to avoid getting bitten. Anybody ever use EMG pickups in a Thunderbird?

 

[JIO]

Thanks for all the strap button comments - I actually wasn't even talking about neck dive; was talking about the flipping forward along the axis of the neck, putting the back of the bass more toward the ceiling and the face of the bass toward the floor.
I did do the strap-over-the-wing thing yesterday to counter that, but the strap is even more too short when I do that =0) Definitely want a longer one to sling the bird lower, it looks ridiculous up on my chest, lol.

Current strap button placement on the neck heel is centered to the neck, directly under the 17th fret. Love to get that over to 15 for reach (all else being equal, strap at 17 on a 30" actually pushes the first position out farther than strap at 12 on a 34" by about half a fret!) but then it'd be very close to the end of the heel, so I started thinking of a post-and-button coming off the upper bout.

 

[BklynKen]

Curiosity is about to bite me - I'm trying to avoid getting bitten. Anybody ever use EMG pickups in a Thunderbird?

No, but I was surprised to read that EMG makes passive ones.

 

[Engle]

Curiosity is about to bite me - I'm trying to avoid getting bitten. Anybody ever use EMG pickups in a Thunderbird?

I had them in my Pbird if that counts.
“Name” and “Sign” on this page we’re using that. Crank it!
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[Miles_ONeal]

It wasn't kids meal, it was big kids meal. I have to start thinking about phrases I can trademark. Maybe "phrase I can trademark" should be one.
Phase 1 - trademark a phrase
Phase 2 - ???
Phase 3 - profit.

I assumed McD had trademarked "kids' meal" and was suing BK over the other. I had no idea McD had attempted to trademark "Big Kids Meal" (which shortens to BKM, irony point to BK). The judge said "Nope" to McD.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I skipped the ex and went straight to the improvement. It saved a whole lot of trouble. The potential ex who I parted ways with some time prior to meeting my wife turned up again a few years later and provided me with additional reason to have moved on.

I had one of those. She started cheating on me. That was one of the best things shoe could have done for me, as it turns out. She got preggers and married the guy They were a horrible match. She started calling once a year (after I was engaged to Sharon), at first asking if we could go eat (she suddenly had to get off the phone when I asked if I could bring my finacee), then literally just asking, "Are you still happy? OK, bye." Eventually after a couple of moves that required phone number changes, I quit hearing from her.

Sharon, on the other hand, is a treasure.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

IIRC the rear strap button was moved up to relieve the tilting issue. I think the change in balance was just incidental.

Something like this (image found on the interwebs)
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Similar to my Epi bird.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Never tried it but would love to. I like good coffee from all over the world and would never say no to trying a new one. That was really my point... almost any coffee will do and I see nothing wrong with drinking a McD's in Flint, MI. or some Kona Joe's on the Big Island. I've done both, but then again, I love coffee.

I used to love coffee. Now I love good coffee. Life is too short for cr*p coffee (or cr*p most anything else, unless you happen to like it).

 

[Miles_ONeal]

For me, the criteria are NOT Arabica and NOT Kenyan. Otherwise I am open minded.

Why not Kenyan?

 

[BklynKen]

Why not Kenyan?

Even more importantly, why not Arabica? Robusta is generally pretty harsh.

 

[bylar13]

Thanks for all the strap button comments - I actually wasn't even talking about neck dive; was talking about the flipping forward along the axis of the neck, putting the back of the bass more toward the ceiling and the face of the bass toward the floor.
I did do the strap-over-the-wing thing yesterday to counter that, but the strap is even more too short when I do that =0) Definitely want a longer one to sling the bird lower, it looks ridiculous up on my chest, lol.

Current strap button placement on the neck heel is centered to the neck, directly under the 17th fret. Love to get that over to 15 for reach (all else being equal, strap at 17 on a 30" actually pushes the first position out farther than strap at 12 on a 34" by about half a fret!) but then it'd be very close to the end of the heel, so I started thinking of a post-and-button coming off the upper bout.

I had the same issue and added a second strap button on the back. I did not like the feeling that the bass was "falling away" from me.

I probably could have moved it an inch or so higher. It solved the problem. I used blue painters tape to mimic and test where the second strap button should go.

 

[PillO]

I assumed McD had trademarked "kids' meal" and was suing BK over the other. I had no idea McD had attempted to trademark "Big Kids Meal" (which shortens to BKM, irony point to BK). The judge said "Nope" to McD.

The law is not always an ass. With apologies to Dickens.




Ahem I think.

 

[PillO]

I had one of those. She started cheating on me. That was one of the best things shoe could have done for me, as it turns out. She got preggers and married the guy They were a horrible match. She started calling once a year (after I was engaged to Sharon), at first asking if we could go eat (she suddenly had to get off the phone when I asked if I could bring my finacee), then literally just asking, "Are you still happy? OK, bye." Eventually after a couple of moves that required phone number changes, I quit hearing from her.

Sharon, on the other hand, is a treasure.

I would rather be a widower. With apologies to Emo Phillips.

 

[PillO]

Similar to my Epi bird.

I had the same issue and added a second strap button on the back. I did not like the feeling that the bass was "falling away" from me.

I probably could have moved it an inch or so higher. It solved the problem. I used blue painters tape to mimic and test where the second strap button should go.

My memory fails; more than one has done this.

 

[PillO]

I used to love coffee. Now I love good coffee. Life is too short for cr*p coffee (or cr*p most anything else, unless you happen to like it).

Words by which I started living after ditching the wife.