Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

Thunderbird Thursday.....

I thought we were told no pinups with vehicles!

 

[Inky13]

@GonePlaid Happy birthday, sir!

Aw man! If I had known, I would of baked you a cake!
Enjoy your day!

 

[MCF]

Thunderbird are go. Last weekend's backyard shindig, our drummer and his wife made this vid. They spelled my last name wrong, but I'm learning to let go...
As usual, pardon the clams and occasional ghosted notes. I spend way too much time away from my bass.
P.s. Headphones...

Damn! Clams? I wish mine sounded like yours. I have a new bass hero.

 

[Count Bassie]

Damn! Clams? I wish mine sounded like yours. I have a new bass hero.

Lol... don't listen to it anymore, ok?

(Thanks!)

 

[Gaolee]

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Lol... don't listen to it anymore, ok?

(Thanks!)

You were playing Jazz occasionally. Run with it!

 

[GBassNorth]

Thunderbird are go. Last weekend's backyard shindig, our drummer and his wife made this vid. They spelled my last name wrong, but I'm learning to let go...
As usual, pardon the clams and occasional ghosted notes. I spend way too much time away from my bass.
P.s. Headphones...

Awesome vid!
Your singer and band could easily pull off Roundabout from Yes. Fantastic playing by all, including that dude on bass with the clams that I couldn't hear!

 

[Count Bassie]

Awesome vid!
Your singer and band could easily pull off Roundabout from Yes. Fantastic playing by all, including that dude on bass with the clams that I couldn't hear!

Roundabout! Now yer killin' me...

I've got the cab and eq a little more dialed in since then, that's new-to-me speaker box, has some interesting character. Pushes lows nice though.

Thanks for the kind remarks you guys, and the jazz quip! Yes indeed...

(I'll forward the nice remarks to the band...)

 

[Border]

Happy Thunderbird Thursday everyone, the weekend is almost here. I left my new 335 with my favorite tech at a local guitar shop for a much needed set and new strings. I am hoping for some advice regarding cleaning up the chrome pickup covers? They aren't real dirty, just sort of a film. I have some chrome cleaner for my car, I have also heard windex. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

 

[Count Bassie]

Waiting for a meet-up by the road at the library, selling a 3-space rack box to a friend. Traffic is thick, a parking lot out on the main road... and there's a pickup truck blasting Holiday In Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys sitting right in front of me as I'm standing there. We had a nice punk rock reunion there amidst the soccer moms and dads, plumbers' vans and Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen.

The lady in the truck had just turned her young dude friend onto the DKs, glad to see the torch of true grit getting passed along.

Thunderbirds!!

 

[GBassNorth]

Roundabout! Now yer killin' me...

I've got the cab and eq a little more dialed in since then, that's new-to-me speaker box, has some interesting character. Pushes lows nice though.

Thanks for the kind remarks you guys, and the jazz quip! Yes indeed...

(I'll forward the nice remarks to the band...)

Go for it! If need be you can simplify the bass line a bit. I can't pull it off very well because too many of the parts have to be played with a pic, but if you can pic you can get the job done.

...of course Your keyboard player might Club you over the head for suggesting it but your singer is perfect for the job.
You gotta get Yes in the line up somehow, maybe Owner of a Lonely Heart, that's an easy one.

 

[Engle]

Happy Thunderbird Thursday everyone, the weekend is almost here. I left my new 335 with my favorite tech at a local guitar shop for a much needed set and new strings. I am hoping for some advice regarding cleaning up the chrome pickup covers? They aren't real dirty, just sort of a film. I have some chrome cleaner for my car, I have also heard windex. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Windex should be fine, but I usually use Isopropyl alcohol for cleaning gunk off guitars. Brasso also shines up chrome nicely

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Go for it! If need be you can simplify the bass line a bit. I can't pull it off very well because too many of the parts have to be played with a pic, but if you can pic you can get the job done.

...of course Your keyboard player might Club you over the head for suggesting it but your singer is perfect for the job.
You gotta get Yes in the line up somehow, maybe Owner of a Lonely Heart, that's an easy one.

GL and Jeff Berlin pull that one off with fingers..

 

[dieselman]

Very Flattering but sure don't look like that anymore. 70's were a long time ago. And who is Ross?

Ross Valory!......you and V should go head to head at a "Thunderbird Players with Best Legs" contest.....

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Very Flattering but sure don't look like that anymore. 70's were a long time ago. And who is Ross?

Journey..

 

[JIO]

Any ideas on what pickup would cover the P route in this? I would really like to put in a chrome humbucker.
The route is 3 5/8” x 2 1/4”

Eventually this bass will undergo a weight reduction procedure which could include filling the route, but projects, projects, projects....

Planing 1/4" off the face, doing your weight-reducing routs in the body, and then gluing on a 1/4" luan/mahogany top will let you rout for any type of pu(s)/controls wherever you want to position them. If you don't have a planer, you can seek out a wood-shop that will do it for a nominal fee. It's a project but very doable.

 

[GonePlaid]

@GonePlaid Happy birthday, sir!

Thanks. 74 and counting.

 

[Count Bassie]

Go for it! If need be you can simplify the bass line a bit. I can't pull it off very well because too many of the parts have to be played with a pic, but if you can pic you can get the job done.

...of course Your keyboard player might Club you over the head for suggesting it but your singer is perfect for the job.
You gotta get Yes in the line up somehow, maybe Owner of a Lonely Heart, that's an easy one.

She'll be pleased as punch to hear that! I'll tell her.
We do Owner of a Lonely Heart, we were quite relieved to find we'd gotten through it!

 

[Gaolee]

Thanks. 74 and counting.

It's the and counting that's the best part.

 

[GonePlaid]

Aw man! If I had known, I would of baked you a cake!
Enjoy your day!

Prefer a Key Lime Pie, but thanks.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Prefer a Key Lime Pie, but thanks.

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