Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

No wonder I’m struggling to catch up. Got back from my trip to the UK Sunday night, played hooky yesterday (major jet lag) and made some progress, but am once again 30 pages in the hole. Hmmm, that would be a good song title...move over Humble Pie.

Welcome home.

 

[MCF]

I spent a little time with this over my weekend, don't have it down yet, but I'm getting there.


This is fun too, sped up just a little over the studio, my band *might* be able to pull this off.
No poseur auto tune lip sync BS here.
Damn, he was incredible.

I still can’t believe he’s gone. I like this to help work out China Girl:

 

[GBassNorth]

Amen on the warm tube smell. When you smell that smell, you know it's going to sound goooood.

Love that smell

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Interesting take. I started playing piano at five and have no recollection of not being able to differentiate instruments. No wonder most everyone I know thinks I’m odd.

Clearly you have always been a musician. The above concept is related to the fact that unless you are playing a known song note for note, almost nobody other than a musician has any chance of noticing mistakes unless they’re pretty bad.

 

[MCF]

Drop (liquid) - Wikipedia

Today I learned that there are scientists that have nothing better to do than measure the size and speed of raindrops. Although I appreciate the tenure system that allows academics to pursue their intellectual curiosity, shouldn't those vying for tenure track positions be vetted for what their curiosities actually are? And further, who is approving grants for raindrop size, speed, and morphology studies?

I already knew that raindrops are not the stylized teardrop shape.

Katherine Ross. One of my first crushes.

 

[PillO]

Love that smell

 

[MCF]

That would be cricket, so far as I can tell.

I actually watched about 10 minutes of a rec league cricket match in a park last week. The wife and I love our baseball. Couldn’t for the life of us figure out what they were doing.

 

[MCF]

There's a few examples of legendary diva's rockin' in their autumn years - Dusty Springfield, Tina Turner, Doilly Pardon, Kate Bush, Crissey Hyde (to name a few!)

And another legend still bringin’ It:

 

[GonePlaid]

No 'probably' about it... another toxic smell I like is solder. I also like the smell of a warm tube amp. Oh well... we aren't going to live forever.

High octane avgas exhaust from a large radial engine-or 4.

 

[GonePlaid]

That Firemist Gold Metallic doesn't look to far off of my Anniversary Gold Bouillon Tbird...
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I-along with many others-am a bit of a traditionalist finish wise(thus, 2 'burst Birds), but that Gold is worthy.
ETA:2 'burst 'Birds and then there's the LPB25:

 

[Count Bassie]

Yeah, but when I was in college, a lot of us feigned to like him; we would do anything to get a girl to go home with us. Gerry Rafferty was another one that worked sometimes too.

I spent a lot of time alone!

 

[GonePlaid]

Interesting take. I started playing piano at five and have no recollection of not being able to differentiate instruments. No wonder most everyone I know thinks I’m odd.

My dad played sax and I did later. I get amused by videos showing someone playing a tenor while the sound is a bari.

 

[GonePlaid]

I spent a lot of time alone!

Change the first "t" to a "d".

 

[GonePlaid]

I still can’t believe he’s gone. I like this to help work out China Girl:

Must have been a TBird-the headstock's broken clean off!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

yeah, nice stuff. used a passive MIM PBass into a Carvin ss mixer amp with a simple 4 band EQ and it took minimal tweaking to get them to deliver. They seem very flat but the bottom seemed a little too relaxed (pillowy) for my taste. Overall a pretty impressive box..

$300 total for the two of them is a great deal. I switched to Bergantino cabs nearly two decades ago and haven looked back since, zero cab GAS. Built like a Peavey tank to last forever, super efficient speakers, perfectly voiced crossovers and only a hint of coloration on the dark side. I may be in the minority here, but I prefer rat fur. It's so much more durable than tolex and now that smoking is pretty much out of vogue you don't have to worry about it picking up off odors. Just keep it away from cats or you'll quickly have a set of $300 scratching posts.

 

[GonePlaid]

Love that smell

As usual, the camera's allergic to bass players. 1 short shot of Leon and his NR.

 

[JIO]

I now understand the logic of the Hipshot D-Tuner. I tuned the couch bass to drop D last week so that I could learn Killing in the Name of (which is much easier than expected; I was probably overthinking it). But it is just a PITA to tune down to play a song then tune back up to play something else. Maybe I need another bass to have tuned to drop D.

I have a few on basses I own/have made. The cool thing is that Hipshot will convert most any tuner you send them so you can retain a matched set of paddles. My band plays "Heroes"* (speaking of DB) and we start with a D based ambient "drone" - once "...but nothing - will drive them away" I flip to E and finish in standard tuning. Very handy that.

* based on this version (including the verses in French)

 

[RedVee]

Crisis averted! I'll also take this opportunity to practice at my desk for a few minutes, while my automated test suite does its thing
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Is that one of those coffee table basses I’ve heard about ???

 

[RedVee]

I actually watched about 10 minutes of a rec league cricket match in a park last week. The wife and I love our baseball. Couldn’t for the life of us figure out what they were doing.

Give me a few days and I’ll pm you an explanation of cricket. A bit long for a post.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Give me a few days and I’ll pm you an explanation of cricket. A bit long for a post.

Team A must dismiss Team B twice for a lower total number of runs (than scored by Team A).