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Thunderbird Club

#125,382
dagrev said:
Ampeg Thursday anyone!!!
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Sure...
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...and a few birds in the bush for good measure...
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#125,384
Engle said:
It makes me nervous running an amp with no gain control. It’s off topic here so I’ll pm you to pick your brain if I decide to use one for bass.
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Do you mean it has no volume control or just not a gain control?

TBird1958 said:
Thunderbird Thursday.....

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God I wish I'd bought that bass...
 
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#125,386
Nocturnal said:
This arrived yesterday. I am back in the vintage Thunderbird owner class once again. 1977 Thunderbird :cool:

More details and better shots later but wanted to get in on Thunderbird Thursday.

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Very nice. Some don't care for the sidwinders, but my '76 sounds wonderful with Fender flats or TIs. But it's so heavy you could use it for body armor.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
Ross Valory!......you and V should go head to head at a "Thunderbird Players with Best Legs" contest.....
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Count Bassie said:
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 geit getting passed along.

Thunderbirds!!
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Kirby’s are basically the Thunderbirds of vacuum cleaners.
 
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GBassNorth said:
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.
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If not Roundabout, forget OLH. Go with really simple- Starship Trooper or Into the Heart of the Sunrise.
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JIO said:
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.
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It’s neck through though.
I have a friend that runs a laser cutter, so it occurred to me today that I could get him to cut me an oversize trim ring for a Tbird pickup, a pickguard to cover a big rout on the front and a fake oversize control cover to cover a route on the back of the bass side of the body.
 
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