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Thunderbird Club
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Killer!I can't remember if this shot got posted, it showed up in my FB feed, Chuck Garrick on tour with Alice Cooper and his Epiphone Vintage Pro.
Pretty cheap for the ultimate collectible. Much less than a 63-64 Thunderbird in good shape.
I love it, too! I really wish I could have known Pete. He's one of my heroes. (I'm a big fan of "over-engineering".)
Everyone used two prong plugs then; in 1969, *maybe* half the homes in the US had three prong power outlets. So the "death cap" was the norm. Leaving the major failure point of this amp as "the logo might break". That, my friends, should be the standard. Instead, we have WalMart Mentality, which demands things be as cheaply made as possible. Barf.
No broken logos on this Traynor Thunderbird bass amp.
Wonder if @Dr_Feelgoood212 #goatboy has any fun new toys today?
Complete with slower pussycat.
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Thunderbird goes modular again. Used a sampled kick and perc but everything else is my Gibson T Bird played into two eurorack granular samplers and ‘performed’ live in one (very long) take. Recorded 4 minutes of it if anyone is interested.
Gaolee
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A Thunderbull Dozer.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Of course we are interested. What kind of a silly question is that?
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I can't remember if this shot got posted, it showed up in my FB feed, Chuck Garrick on tour with Alice Cooper and his Epiphone Vintage Pro.
That's cool a high profile player is rocking' an EVP - lots of pro-players playing T-birds out there but all with black pu's, tuners etc. (and usually brown-burst)
Not new, still true.
I bought the fridge a month ago. Fortunately, I don't have any stairs to climb. But somebody might be in need of a stair in order to climb the fridge.
I hear you - I feel that D'Addario has upped their game in recent years - I was first introduced to their NYXL's (in 50-105, you could choose those or the 45-105's) through their promotion a few years ago where they sent a free set for feedback upon request. Haven't been a long time user so not sure about major differences over time. From what I've read, they sound like a responsible company. Yah, it could be marketing - but at the end of the day I do like their strings. I build basses and knowing how the strings will sound on them lets me assess the result of my work objectively. (being a constant) Like a good table wine - I know the strings will sound good with everything. The set I have used on a few basses I made are the D'Addario Nickel Wound EXL160BT [50-67-90-120] - as you can see each string is of a different gauge than 45-105's. (BT) They are all on 34" scale basses. I just removed a set off of a medium scale 'bass centric' pu location bass because they sounded too deep/dark (for my ear). With the 45-105's it works better. As always, you'll hear/feel the string you like (or won't) regardless of brand or general opinion. Let us know what you discover if and when you try something different.
...oh, THUNDERBIRD
Thank you, JIO!!
I can't honestly remember which d'Addario (rounds) I tried before, other than Chromes (nice flats, really tight and long-lasting...but I didn't like the feel of 40-100s under my fingerZ).
I remember that these rounds were a bit loose, not so tight and prone to die in less than one month
I'm actually trying to figure if I like more a 85 gauge "A" string or an 80 gauge...
I'll carry that head up the stairs over the SVT any day....the cab is a different story.....
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Mr Hernia just called!
somebody likes Lemmy..I can't remember if this shot got posted, it showed up in my FB feed, Chuck Garrick on tour with Alice Cooper and his Epiphone Vintage Pro.
I can't remember if this shot got posted, it showed up in my FB feed, Chuck Garrick on tour with Alice Cooper and his Epiphone Vintage Pro.
Chuck has been posting a ton of pics of him with the VP and his Gibson Birds the past month or so. Nice to see so many action shots of the Birds!!
Gaolee
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You don't like carrying power sections, apparently.
it's called a "Drop Test" and it's part of IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) environmental standard 60068.
you cannot get ETSI (European compliance) certification without it so you need it to be able to sell product in Europe. years ago we were testing an E-mu E-4K keyboard to this standard and I ordered a precision accelerometer (cheaper ones are used everywhere today but not so much in the 90's) from Analog Devices to be able to graph the data as a function of drop height (for the ETSI report) and a sales manager from Analog Devices came to the E-mu office with a federal agent to see exactly what we were going to do with it....no joke.....
