Thunderbird Club

[Cardinal Fang]

If anyone knows of any good music shops, or blues clubs in that city, I would greatly appreciate it if you would share them with me.

I was at The Slippery Noodle Inn about fifteen years ago, was a fine establishment. I"m at work so I'm not going to Google and share a link with 'Slippery Noodle' in the text, here's a link to Wikipedia though:

Slippery Noodle Inn - Wikipedia

 

[JimmyM]

I was at The Slippery Noodle Inn about fifteen years ago, was a fine establishment. I"m at work so I'm not going to Google and share a link with 'Slippery Noodle' in the text, here's a link to Wikipedia though:

Slippery Noodle Inn - Wikipedia

Cardinal Fang? I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Because God hates you. You now have two choices; hate Him back or find a new God. I suggest this one.

Ha! God loves me, which is why Thunderbirds exist and we all have them. Plus chocolate, sex, and tacos.

ObBunnyTrail: It just struck me (sic) that this might be the origin of Cyclops. How did I never think of that before?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Scott had a Waterstone I recall he was less than impressed with it, the pickup position is knocking off a Mike Lull Tom Petersson Signature Thunderbird.
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Regarding the Thunderbird shape and Gibson's willingness to rattle the legal saber, they lost that case some time ago, because they did not trade mark the shape, thus Mike doesn't have a worry, or Waterstone for that matter.

They seem to claim to have trademarked the shape. Was it later and thus too late? Are there not-insubstantial differences between the FB and TB I'm not realizing such that only the FB body is trademarked?

Interestingly, I don't see the TB headstock shape listed.

Gibson Brands Inc Registered Patents And Trademarks

And in related news, Dean Files Countersuit Against Gibson, Seeks Trademark Cancellations | Guitarworld .
Good for dean. I've said all along that Gibson likely lost its rights by not defending those trademarks for all these years. Right or wrong, that's how trademark law generally works (or used to). It's why some manufacturers fight hard to not let their name become a generic term.

 

[Gaolee]

sadly true - I'd rather laugh whole-heartedly than painfully

Laughing painfully is better than some other alternatives. I'll take it. Plus, Alfred E. Newman has been my hero for decades. MAD Magazine may be gone, but Alfred E. Newman will be with us as long as anybody can say "What, me worry?"

 

[Gaolee]

Not a Thunderbird but certainly a derivative. Their website just directs you to their page on Reverb.com and I can't find any details on the pickups or why they'd put them so close together.

Whatever, it's sexy and I wouldn't kick it out of bed. Rawr.

Waterstone Voltaire Bass Prototype

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It looks good to me. It's sure close enough to qualify in my book.

 

[Gaolee]

Cardinal Fang? I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Aha! Another JimmyM sighting in the Thunderbird Club. The assimilation process continues! You will become one of us!

 

[JIO]

Laughing painfully is better than some other alternatives. I'll take it. Plus, Alfred E. Newman has been my hero for decades. MAD Magazine may be gone, but Alfred E. Newman will be with us as long as anybody can say "What, me worry?"

Many years ago I watched a film documentary on Alfred Einstein. They showed a childhood school group photo and focused on him. (I googled trying to find it with no luck) He was smiling broadly and he looked a lot like AEN in the pic. I can imagine the MAD mag beatniks riffing off that face. Alfred E... Newman! (what, me worry?)

 

[Gaolee]

Many years ago I watched a film documentary on Alfred Einstein. They showed a childhood school group photo and focused on him. (I googled trying to find it with no luck) He was smiling broadly and he looked a lot like AEN in the pic. I can imagine the MAD mag beatniks riffing off that face. Alfred E... Newman! (what, me worry?)

I never knew that. It makes Alfred E. Newman even better!

 

[fasterpussycat]

Not a Thunderbird but certainly a derivative. Their website just directs you to their page on Reverb.com and I can't find any details on the pickups or why they'd put them so close together.

Whatever, it's sexy and I wouldn't kick it out of bed. Rawr.

Waterstone Voltaire Bass Prototype

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Hmmm, looks like a Bird drawn by 6yr old. Everything is a bit wonky.

 

[fasterpussycat]

In my twisted mind I'd have been buying tickets to a multi headliner show with Hendrix as the first act up and most likely leaving before the second act got going. I did that a number of times (so to speak) in the 1970's with the Day On The Green concerts at the Oakland Coliseum. I'd watch the bands I wanted to then chemically tune out for the others.

I paid to see Bob Dylan just for the five song mini set by his backing band (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) mid show.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

got called in to do 3 sets at a local restaurant last night.....printed all the charts due to not recognizing many of the titles and the short notice.....Beatles, Drifters...more Beatles...Supremes.....more Beatles....thought to myself; folks still listen to this?.....sure enough, wasn't disappointed when i showed up and saw this which didn't even work......
good food, drinks and pay though.....

 

[GIBrat51]

They seem to claim to have trademarked the shape. Was it later and thus too late? Are there not-insubstantial differences between the FB and TB I'm not realizing such that only the FB body is trademarked?

Interestingly, I don't see the TB headstock shape listed.

Gibson Brands Inc Registered Patents And Trademarks

And in related news, Dean Files Countersuit Against Gibson, Seeks Trademark Cancellations | Guitarworld .
Good for dean. I've said all along that Gibson likely lost its rights by not defending those trademarks for all these years. Right or wrong, that's how trademark law generally works (or used to). It's why some manufacturers fight hard to not let their name become a generic term.

This is why John Hall and RIC is so "obnoxious" about protecting Rickenbacker's trademarks. If you want to be successful in court regarding this stuff, you have to be active - and, more importantly, seen to be active - protecting your trademarks. And RIC has always been very active... On the other hand, regarding the Flying V shape? Gibson just recently lost that case in the EU's version of the Supreme Court. "Too bad; you waited too long. Too many basses shaped like this now... case dismissed". Doesn't mean they won't win here in the US, but... it's a bad precedent for them. And, seeing as how one of the ways Gibson is crafting their new image is to stop making left handed instruments altogether? I kinda think they deserve whatever grief comes their way...

 

[PillO]

I paid to see Bob Dylan just for the five song mini set by his backing band (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) mid show.

You paid to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker. Part of the price was sitting through Bob Dylan.

 

[Count Bassie]

The Onion is pretty close to fact these days.

It's about time someone used Alfred E. Newman for their avatar.

 

[fasterpussycat]

They seem to claim to have trademarked the shape. Was it later and thus too late? Are there not-insubstantial differences between the FB and TB I'm not realizing such that only the FB body is trademarked?

Interestingly, I don't see the TB headstock shape listed.

Gibson Brands Inc Registered Patents And Trademarks

And in related news, Dean Files Countersuit Against Gibson, Seeks Trademark Cancellations | Guitarworld .
Good for dean. I've said all along that Gibson likely lost its rights by not defending those trademarks for all these years. Right or wrong, that's how trademark law generally works (or used to). It's why some manufacturers fight hard to not let their name become a generic term.

Did I miss the Flying V? ... and yet the Moderne is trademarked.

 

[fasterpussycat]

You paid to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker. Part of the price was sitting through Bob Dylan.

Petty was playing bass for much of the night, as Howie Epstein was playing mandolin. It was at Athletic Park in Wellington on 05 February 1986.

 

[Dadagoboi]

Many years ago I watched a film documentary on Alfred Einstein. They showed a childhood school group photo and focused on him. (I googled trying to find it with no luck) He was smiling broadly and he looked a lot like AEN in the pic. I can imagine the MAD mag beatniks riffing off that face. Alfred E... Newman! (what, me worry?)

This:
Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine MAD. The character's face had drifted through U.S. iconography for decades, and appeared in the early 1930s on a presidential campaign postcard with the caption, "Sure I'm for Roosevelt". Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman claimed the image in 1954, and it was named "Alfred E. Neuman" by the magazine's second editor,Al Feldstein, in 1956.
-Wikipedia

I started reading MAD in 1957 and got my son a subscription in 1988 when he was five in the name of Rodan Beldar. It didn't work, he got a PhD in Molecular Biology.

 

[Count Bassie]

Petty was playing bass for much of the night, as Howie Epstein was playing mandolin. It was at Athletic Park in Wellington on 05 February 1986.

Too bad, I like Epstein's playing. He does a lot of things you don't notice, but that are really cool.

 

[Count Bassie]

Too bad, I like Epstein's playing. He does a lot of things you don't notice, but that are really cool.

Not that Tom Petty playing bass isn't going to be entertaining... I mean that in a good way...
I'm all about Petty being a real-deal dude.