The white is really growing on me...
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Thunderbird Club
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I get that sometimes an audience just wants to sit and appreciate the music, but I have the most fun when people are dancing.So true - on-stage energy goes beyond the music and when an audience both hears and sees that energy - it energizes them! Last show my band did, a bandmate from another band I'm in showed up and was at the front of the stage (in the audience) rocking-out to a couple of our up-tempo songs. He's pretty uninhibited and was really getting into it. Suddenly, people around him started rocking-out and soon everyone was moving! Seeing that, we we further energized! Afterwards I told my rockin' friend that we should hire him to 'activate' the crowd at our shows!I've never been to Seattle but will definitely visit eventually (family in Portland) and hope to attend a NH show when there!
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For sure - some music just invites head-bobbing! Movement of any variety is always a good sign!
Nice sets! Cool you have Blitzkieg Bop and Sedated in there.
Nice set list! Bit of something for almost everyone. Do you have a vid of you doing Hey Jealousy? Love that song.
- Mar 13, 2008
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Yep. Definitely been pecked by the Thunderbird bug. There's no cure so just go with it.1st Gig done. Thunderbird slayed! I can't remember the last time I had that much fun playing. light weight and it balanced perfectly with the strap extension and was a joy to play.
Front pickup only, tone wide open, into Tech 21 bass fly rig, IEMS. The slinky cobalt flats are a match made in heaven with these pickups.
Sounded like...you guessed it...Thunder...
Have another gig this Friday and can't wait!
Now, off to bed...
Great to hear of the great gig.
Unfortunately no video, or audio I just found out this time.
We have another gig this friday, so we're going to try and arrange both...
Yeah, they are fun ones to bash out. We play them hard, and fast! Both always seem to get crowd participation...
All the cool kids play a white TBird. Leon Wilkenson, Watts, @JJR58, me of the top of my head. Well, I used to be cool.
But do have two white Thunderbirds!And...@Tbird1958!
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Looks like a fun set, something there for everyone - even STP fans, which for some reason there aren't many of, I always liked their stuff.
At a quick glance I see about 10 genres of music there. A number of the songs on that list require the bass to sit pretty far forward in the mix, and a few that need it to lay back. Were you able to use your Cobalt Bird for all of it or did you play other basses as well?
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All the cool kids play a white TBird. Leon Wilkenson, Watts, @JJR58, me of the top of my head. Well, I used to be cool.
EEErrrmmmm.............
Just the bird. It can cover anything and everything depending on how you play it.
I would adjust my plucking hand to alter the tone as I felt i needed. Most was just straight over the neck pickup, which is my favorite. For tighter and more aggressive, I'd move my hand back closer to the bridge. Between the neck and the bridge pickups for plucking yields a much "tighter" tone all without even adding in the bridge pickup. These pickups are so responsive and it's awesome.
I'd also adjust how hard i attack the strings as well, but I gotta admit, in the heat of a gig, it's hard to hold back...
EDIT: For the record, we don't try to do an "authentic" reproduction of anything we cover. We get the hooks, fake the rest (more that we should sometimes...) and just try to have fun. Everything gets a "rock" vibe when we play it. Most of the stuff I play gets "my sound" and I just alter the things I mentioned above depending on my mood...
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There may be a reason, possibly to do with Thunderbirds, all the trees are shaped like this.
Definitely one of the cool kids:All the cool kids play a white TBird. Leon Wilkenson, Watts, @JJR58, me of the top of my head. Well, I used to be cool.
My humble apologies! (And to others I couldn't think of who play The White Thunderbird!) Corrected!EEErrrmmmm.............
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It’s good that you missed the class at Talk Bass school when they taught the lesson that the Tbird is a “one tick pony” with “mudbuckers.” Welcome to the enlightened!Just the bird. It can cover anything and everything depending on how you play it.
I would adjust my plucking hand to alter the tone as I felt i needed. Most was just straight over the neck pickup, which is my favorite. For tighter and more aggressive, I'd move my hand back closer to the bridge. Between the neck and the bridge pickups for plucking yields a much "tighter" tone all without even adding in the bridge pickup. These pickups are so responsive and it's awesome.
I'd also adjust how hard i attack the strings as well, but I gotta admit, in the heat of a gig, it's hard to hold back...
Remember, you are talking to someone who has a Ric as well...
I'm well versed in folks opinions...
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Don't tell everyone, it'll spoil the secret!
Remember, you are talking to someone who has a Ric as well...
I'm well versed in folks opinions...
Meant to ask about the Rick in your avatar, what year? I have a soft spot for them, had a '73 4001 that I foolishly let go.
