Very different from the original, which I prefer 'cos of some pleasant memories.
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Thunderbird Club
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Nah. 327/4bbl, powerglide(I didn't spec it out.) It'd go-once ya got it moving. Had it up to 105 a coupla times-on a 2 lane in GA.
yes the back seat on those Impalas is...big enough to......live in?....Very different from the original, which I prefer 'cos of some pleasant memories.
I'm more of an originals fan than a covers fan but over the years there have been some good covers. I'd agree with pretty much everything on the list by @PillO (especially the Manson Sweet Dreams song) and I might even add this one...
Love the intro and chorus parts, singer goes a bit overboard on some of the soprano and note shifting, but overall a nice update of a great classic.
Love the intro and chorus parts, singer goes a bit overboard on some of the soprano and note shifting, but overall a nice update of a great classic.
One thing I forgot to mention about that band I'm playing with. There's a Moog. That's new for me. It's fun.
Gaolee
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Nah. A stock '68 Camaro has brakes that were inadequate in 1968, steering that is a suggestion, not direction, a rear suspension that was too soft for an ox-cart but no good for anything else, and a 2-speed slip'n'slide PowerGlide transmission. There's a more than adequate car in there, so long as the stuff that doesn't work gets replaced with stuff that does work. Plus, more noise and it goes faster.
My list was never intended to be complete or correct. I would hear arguments for and against a huge number of inclusions.
like i said....on a Chevy....there are way more of those than AMCs..
Gaolee
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My brother had an AMX. It would run circles around a stock Camaro from the same era. It was a complete handful, but it sure was fun.
Um, err. She's cute.
As I said last week, about 1000 pages ago it seems, Mavis is an icon. Love her!
They each work, convincingly, in their own way. Very different personalities/takes on a very specific theme. If they weren't totally committed to it, no dice...
And they are apparently:
“Equipped with Nutube, the revolutionary new vacuum tube”
Up through my 40s, I recalled all my teachers' names. Then I didn't think about most of them for probably a decade, and some of the names wandered off (as they have been wont to do my whole life). My first grade teacher wasn't an ogre, but she had no idea what to do with students who were ahead of where she was teaching. The first day of school, while she was teaching some kids enough letters to write their first names, Joe Don (sp?) Manbeck and I got to write lines for talking in class (we were bored to tears, having written our full names, written the date, thrown in our addresses and parents' names for good measure, and colored the large red and blue circles on the left and right of the paper while she was still explaining the assignment). Writing lines was the only tool she had in her toolbox. We sometimes had to write from 250 (many times) to over 1,000 (only once, I think) lines per night. We'd do as many as we could at school, but sometimes forgot and discussed how to do it more efficiently, which got us more lines to write.[1] Contrary to what you might expect, my penmanship went downhill because I was going as fast as I could. It's never recovered. I think we can give Ms. Whatshername at least partial credit for that, along with the system that failed to prepare her.
[1] We wrote well over 50,000 lines that year, likely around 100,000- in addition to actual class assignments and homework.
How considerate of them to offer a package including a 50W amp and a 25W speaker. Do they have an impedance mismatch to help protect the speaker, or what?
Large capacitors were implicit in 'power supply'. Had a few 20KµF (or is that 20mF?) caps in my mosfet monster.
The output is 50W @ 4Ohm, 25W @ 8Ohm, 12.5W @ 16Ohm. 8Ohm cab, so it is fine.
I won't comment on the technology. But I tried a few of these. The Classic rock version was too crunchy. But the AC version sounded great with a bass and through a Traynor 1x15. Clean would probably be great for bass as well. There is a minimal set of controls so you would likely want some sort of pre-amp for EQ if nothing else.
It's all because of those crazy youngins and their new fangled gadgets.
When basses have USB's, I'm done. Better not say that...there's likely one already.
Our house was the same. Amazing what 10 year olds were given to play with. And we lived to tell the tale. Can you even get a chemistry set today?
Living near a launch base was also cool. We could find small chunks of rocket fuel on the beach and use it in models.
Kids and their toys.
I had a 66 Valiant! The “Shark” was missing its grille and the 273 Commando was only firing on 7 cylinders, but it got us around for more than a year. And my Acoustic 106 cab fit in the trunk with room to spare
I've reopened this after a lot of cleanup. I know I missed a lot.
Because it's located in Basses (BG), the point of this thread is (or needs to be) to talk about Thunderbirds, the basses. Please, stay reasonably on topic. Car, or old toy/science kit discussions belong in Off-Topic. The hot-rod pinup "babe" photo posts don't belong anywhere.
Please get back to basses for this thread to stay open. Thanks.
Because it's located in Basses (BG), the point of this thread is (or needs to be) to talk about Thunderbirds, the basses. Please, stay reasonably on topic. Car, or old toy/science kit discussions belong in Off-Topic. The hot-rod pinup "babe" photo posts don't belong anywhere.
Please get back to basses for this thread to stay open. Thanks.
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