The Rock world and Bass brothers and sisters have lost another one... Jimmy Bain (Rainbow, Dio, etc) has passed away at the young age of 68.
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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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Every other day a musician from the "glory" days dies, what the.. is going on. It's not like all this guys are 85.
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,226
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Thanks to those of you posting in that troll thread, you're all very well spoken 
Result of Saturday before Practice
MINT! OHSC! $700!
Gibson EB Bass 4-String Natural MINT w/OHSC
Someone here wants this bass, I just know it!
Gibson EB Bass 4-String Natural MINT w/OHSC
Someone here wants this bass, I just know it!
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Blackbird gets my vote! Sorry Larry 
So in bird related news, I routed the control cavity (along with My friends RD build & The Grabber build) to my tigerbird. Now it's flush, just need to route the control cover space on the body & create the wood cover with the same wood i'm using for the RD pickguard & covers.
Little fact about the tigerbird, it's the only bass i'll have with 3 pickups - even if it'll look like there's only two, the bridge pickup is consisted of a set of Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Jazz Neck & bridge pickups. I think this is going to be the beefiest biter in my arsenal of basses!
Tigerbird is the bottom, RD in the middle & top is the Grabber bass.
So in bird related news, I routed the control cavity (along with My friends RD build & The Grabber build) to my tigerbird. Now it's flush, just need to route the control cover space on the body & create the wood cover with the same wood i'm using for the RD pickguard & covers.
Little fact about the tigerbird, it's the only bass i'll have with 3 pickups - even if it'll look like there's only two, the bridge pickup is consisted of a set of Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Jazz Neck & bridge pickups. I think this is going to be the beefiest biter in my arsenal of basses!
Tigerbird is the bottom, RD in the middle & top is the Grabber bass.
Here's my application for the club...
Blacked out: pickguard by Larry V from eBay, mod bar, and DR Black Beauties.
What's the "mod bar" you guys keep talking about? I feel like I missed something.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I'm a little surprised by the bolt-on Epi I have. If you don't mind it being absolutely horizontal, it has no neck dive. It will just hang there horizontal all day. I don't personally like horizontal, but it doesn't dive like the one I had a number of years ago did before I moved the strap button. The button on this one is going to get moved, but that's because it's how I like things to be, not because it's correcting an inherent major flaw in the bass. Either I'm getting lucky these days, or the original one I had was just a tough one to deal with.
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- Jun 30, 2010
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It's basically a steel dowel, which has holes drilled in it for the strings. It sits just under the back of the 3 point bridge and lengthens the after lengths of the strings, so the silks are not on the bridge saddles.
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
I kinda like my basses hanging horizontal, but unfortunately that makes it almost impossible for me to reach the first couple of frets on a T-Birds, so I'm playing my birds slightly angled like on my avatar. But when I had a Ric and a Fender it was almost always near horizontal.
