Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

Thanks for the warm welcome! However, my Bird will be in hibernation for a while. After playing it I found out how much I love my Squier PJ and Fender 60s Jazz.

Kipp - that's cool.

TBirds aren't for everybody and it sounded like the one you got needed a bit more work than I'd typically look for on a new acquisition. Some of my best playing Fender basses are Squiers, so no shame gravitating towards those. Just understand that like Fender and Squier, Gibson and Epiphone crank out a lot of pretty neat basses. It sounds as though your Eppi doesn't speak to you like your P/J or Jazz does. Enjoy your Fenders and don't completely write off a thunderbird, the right one will present itself to you someday. They really are amazing instruments, well worth the money and a great axe for just about any setting.

There's a reason I have that tagline at the bottom line of my posts.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

It kinda was.

pretty massive in real life...almost creates like an optical illusion....from last year's Concours in Pebble..

 

[GBassNorth]

Unless it was one of the few shows with Jimi opening.

Jimi opening for the Monkees would be something I would have loved to have seen, but I probably wouldn't have stuck around much beyond the opening act.

 

[Count Bassie]

Those were great songs IMO. Makes me want to put together a punk cover band just thinking about it

I had one a couple years ago, we did Vacant and E.M.I.

 

[Gaolee]

Back to 'Birds. The pink Bird is once again pink. Dunno an ETA yet, but it's been stripped, reprepped, and repainted. I'm guessing it will return sometime in 2019. I'm hoping later this month or in August.

 

[PillO]

Lies

Well, they were only props at first, till the Monkees convinced the producers to let hem actually sing and play (and even write).

That said, they had a lot of fun with them, even as props. Which happened later as well. SO not JUST props.

Unless it was one of the few shows with Jimi opening.

Jimi opening for the Monkees would be something I would have loved to have seen, but I probably wouldn't have stuck around much beyond the opening act.

Let's keep in mind that the "Monkees" not writing or performing on their first albums produced 4 number one albums in just over a year! The subsequent efforts (on which they wrote and played) did not do as well. I might be incorrect, but I think the Monkees also have more greatest hits albums than they have regular albums.

As for Jimi opening, that was the Monkees choice. They wanted something new and "out there" to try to prove to critics that they were serious and that so were their fans. The fans did not appreciate Jimi and his career started taking off leading to him leaving the tour very early on. At the time that Jimi was opening, he had not yet hit the mainstream, so it would be a bit like seeing Devo open for Madonna - the audience won't get it and are not going buy the records and makes the headliner look rather out of touch. I suspect no one was going to the show to see Jimi then leaving when the Monkees came on.

 

[PillO]

Back to 'Birds. The pink Bird is once again pink. Dunno an ETA yet, but it's been stripped, reprepped, and repainted. I'm guessing it will return sometime in 2019. I'm hoping later this month or in August.

And then we have the Flamingo parade? Does my having called sousaphone previously still hold?

 

[Kriegs]

Saw this on the way to work this morning... no idea on the specifics but thought it was cool and that you folks might like it

 

[Gaolee]

And then we have the Flamingo parade? Does my having called sousaphone previously still hold?

Of course.

 

[JJR58]

Back to 'Birds. The pink Bird is once again pink. Dunno an ETA yet, but it's been stripped, reprepped, and repainted. I'm guessing it will return sometime in 2019. I'm hoping later this month or in August.

Did you get any indication/notification of how it's curing?

 

[Gaolee]

Did you get any indication/notification of how it's curing?

Seems to be going OK. He sent me pictures of it. It doesn't look like it has any clear on it yet, but it's hard for me to tell. Maybe its just not buffed out yet.

 

[GBassNorth]

Saw this on the way to work this morning... no idea on the specifics but thought it was cool and that you folks might like it
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I like it!
Not a lot of hot rod flash, and yet not overly rat rod. Tastefully right between the two.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Wait, are you saying that the master baited, switched teams, and now won't play with his bird!?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

pretty massive in real life...almost creates like an optical illusion....from last year's Concours in Pebble..

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That paint job!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Jimi opening for the Monkees would be something I would have loved to have seen, but I probably wouldn't have stuck around much beyond the opening act.

I was into both. Drove some people bonkers.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Let's keep in mind that the "Monkees" not writing or performing on their first albums produced 4 number one albums in just over a year! The subsequent efforts (on which they wrote and played) did not do as well. I might be incorrect, but I think the Monkees also have more greatest hits albums than they have regular albums.

Two, not four. The Monkees themselves were responsible for 3 and 4 (headquarters, and Pisces...)

 

[GBassNorth]

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As for Jimi opening, that was the Monkees choice. They wanted something new and "out there" to try to prove to critics that they were serious and that so were their fans. The fans did not appreciate Jimi and his career started taking off leading to him leaving the tour very early on. At the time that Jimi was opening, he had not yet hit the mainstream, so it would be a bit like seeing Devo open for Madonna - the audience won't get it and are not going buy the records and makes the headliner look rather out of touch. I suspect no one was going to the show to see Jimi then leaving when the Monkees came on.

To be clear, I wasn't even 10 years old yet in the summer of 1967 when Jimi was part of the Monkees tour. Although I did watch the Monkees on Saturday morning TV at the time I would have never even considered asking my parents to take me to a Monkees concert, sitting there with mom and dad would have been way uncool. I had three older sisters, one of which was into wild music. I remember saving my allowance and buying her a 45RPM of Purple Haze for her birthday when it was first released in 1967. Her birthday was on June 28th. She played that record to death (my parents hated it, I loved it, possibly because of the influence of an older sibling).

In 1967 when I was nine and a half years old would I have gone to a Monkees concert? Nope. Would I have gone if Jimi was opening? Nope. I was too young to go to concerts without my parents and they wouldn't have taken me if I wanted to go. Did I like the Monkees music? It was ok but I liked the entertainment value of their show just as much if not more. Did I ever buy a Monkees album or record? Nope, never. Did I ever buy a Jimi Hendrix album or record? Yep, and liked it more than what the Monkees were playing at the time.

So if I had been 5 or 10 years older at the time that Jimi was touring with the Monkees in July of 1967 I would have considered going to the concert to see Jimi and leaving shortly after the opening act. YMMV

 

[MCF]

pretty massive in real life...almost creates like an optical illusion....from last year's Concours in Pebble..

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I was thinking I’ve seen that one before. Love the color. Maybe from the show. My brother is a retired designer and went to the races and shows every year or every other year on the company dime. He used to take a lot of pics.

 

[JJR58]

To be clear, I wasn't even 10 years old yet in the summer of 1967 when Jimi was part of the Monkees tour. Although I did watch the Monkees on Saturday morning TV at the time I would have never even considered asking my parents to take me to a Monkees concert, sitting there with mom and dad would have been way uncool. I had three older sisters, one of which was into wild music. I remember saving my allowance and buying her a 45RPM of Purple Haze for her birthday when it was first released in 1967. Her birthday was on June 28th. She played that record to death (my parents hated it, I loved it, possibly because of the influence of an older sibling).

In 1967 when I was nine and a half years old would I have gone to a Monkees concert? Nope. Would I have gone if Jimi was opening? Nope. I was too young to go to concerts without my parents and they wouldn't have taken me if I wanted to go. Did I like the Monkees music? It was ok but I liked the entertainment value of their show just as much if not more. Did I ever buy a Monkees album or record? Nope, never. Did I ever buy a Jimi Hendrix album or record? Yep, and liked it more than what the Monkees were playing at the time.

So if I had been 5 or 10 years older at the time that Jimi was touring with the Monkees in July of 1967 I would have considered going to the concert to see Jimi and leaving shortly after the opening act. YMMV

Speaking of Jimi, my mom saw him at The Fillmore East. When she told me this, i said, why don't you rub it in a little more.
And she could have taken my brother and I. In those days, she took us to all kinds of wild shows. Why she didn't take us to that will remain a mystery forever.

 

[Count Bassie]

Speaking of Jimi, my mom saw him at The Fillmore East. When she told me this, i said, why don't you rub it in a little more.
And she could have taken my brother and I. In those days, she took us to all kinds of wild shows. Why she didn't take us to that will remain a mystery forever.

That's too bad, sorry about it. Parents can monumentally disappoint.