Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

Tuesdays = Pork and sheer white stockings.

Ahem!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

My first chilli experience.

Still at school, went to my mates place one day. They lived above/behind a fruit & veggie shop, Italian heritage. (He used to say Sicilian but I think that was a Godfather thing).
Anyway, playing cricket in the backyard. He hits it into the garden. I reach in and must have brushed the chillies that were growing between the flowers, bushes etc. I rubbed my eye.

Oh My !!! I went home, tried to wash it out with a eye bath thing.

THAT’S WORSE!!!

I thought I had blinded myself but it eventually subsided.

Yikes! Yeah, that's gotta be horrible. I've brushed *near* my eye, and it was bad enough.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

And Thunderbird Club reaches a new low with frog porn...

But what upsets me is that I wasn't involved in the new low.

we waited till you weren’t around..

 

[PillO]

My first chilli experience.

Still at school, went to my mates place one day. They lived above/behind a fruit & veggie shop, Italian heritage. (He used to say Sicilian but I think that was a Godfather thing).
Anyway, playing cricket in the backyard. He hits it into the garden. I reach in and must have brushed the chillies that were growing between the flowers, bushes etc. I rubbed my eye.

Oh My !!! I went home, tried to wash it out with a eye bath thing.

THAT’S WORSE!!!

I thought I had blinded myself but it eventually subsided.

And that is why you shouldn't play cricket. Or did I miss the point of the story?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

It has been a long time since I did any electronics and I remember just enough to be dangerous*

*Dangerous meaning a vague recall of how things work and an ability to make things go pop, bang, and release the magic smoke that makes things work. Unlikely to electrocute myself, but reasonably likely to electrocute someone else.

My first solid state experiment from scratch was a one transistor fuzz using a top hat transistor. It sounded great for maybe 10-15 seconds. Then it went POW, launching the metal hat to the ten foot ceiling. I was impressed. Confused, because I had no idea that was even possible, but impressed.
This was long before I saw my first THUNDERBIRD.

 

[PillO]

Wheels. A fantastic invention. Wish I had thought of them. That invention would fund a decent retirement.

I would give even odds that I know an IP attorney and patent agent that could get a patent on the wheel through the USPTO. Of course, it probably wouldn't survive a court challenge.

 

[PillO]

My first solid state experiment from scratch was a one transistor fuzz using a top hat transistor. It sounded great for maybe 10-15 seconds. Then it went POW, launching the metal hat to the ten foot ceiling. I was impressed. Confused, because I had no idea that was even possible, but impressed.
This was long before I saw my first THUNDERBIRD.

I'm not sure that I have ever seen a 1 transistor fuzz. I'm most familiar with the 2 transistor type.

For bass, I think a clean blend to retain bottom end is critical; for use with your Thunderbird.

But if you want a really good bang, connect an electrolytic capacitor backwards (reversed polarity). As a rule of thumb, physically bigger capacitors produce a bigger bang.

 

[JJR58]

Ahem!

I had to like, i'm just that one.

 

[JJR58]

Ok, i could get in a lot of trouble for straying out into GP land. But this thread title?
It's just fair game. Not sure a corner will do, maybe a guillotine?

What are your other obsessions?

 

[GonePlaid]

And that is why you shouldn't play cricket. Or did I miss the point of the story?

I believe that the point is that you are an amuser, not an amusee.

 

[JJR58]

I believe that the point is that you are an amuser, not an amusee.

Watch out there Mike, he's both.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'm not sure that I have ever seen a 1 transistor fuzz. I'm most familiar with the 2 transistor type.

I had a basic understanding of tube circuits but was still trying to get my head around transistors. Tubes made sense to 13 y/o Miles; transistors were magic- possibly the worst sort of black magic. It was a stone simple amplifier circuit, but the voltages were way off vs whatever transistor I had bought from Radio Shack or Lafayette. Looking back I'm impressed at how good it sounded for the few seconds of its volted life.

...But if you want a really good bang, connect an electrolytic capacitor backwards (reversed polarity). As a rule of thumb, physically bigger capacitors produce a bigger bang.

Oh, yes. I haven't done that, but I have seen it done (by accident).

I also popped a 2W resistor in a power supply when I misread the color code in low light while building a new tube amp. A nice BZZZT! I was 20 feet in front of the amp listening. The singer was beside it. She jumped, looked down, and asked, "Is it supposed to do that?"
"Do what?"
"Be on fire."
"That wasn't in the design, no."
Small flames on the resistor body. Fortunately I had left the back off for easy access. Now needed for purposes unforseen.

No THUNDERBIRDs were harmed in these experiments. But ... now I want to plug one into the output of an SVT and see what happens.

 

[PillO]

I believe that the point is that you are an amuser, not an amusee.

Watch out there Mike, he's both.

It's all self-amusement.

 

[Gaolee]

And Thunderbird Club reaches a new low with frog porn...

But what upsets me is that I wasn't involved in the new low.

There's time.

 

[Gaolee]

Ok, i could get in a lot of trouble for straying out into GP land. But this thread title?
It's just fair game. Not sure a corner will do, maybe a guillotine?

What are your other obsessions?

Yeah, probably not a good idea to reply honestly...

 

[Butcherboy]

....Here’s The Monochrome Set, if anybody remembers “Eine Symphonie des Grauens”.....playing a brand new Rick through my Marshall (the real one).....

 

[dieselman]

Vintage Pro, Vintage Pro, VINTAGE PRO!!!! Confound all you enablers!

I got very lucky with it being under 8lbs.

 

[dagrev]

So I'm thinking of looking for an Epiphone Vintage Pro to compliment my Lull T5, sometimes the 5er gets to be a bit much for some of the more technical Hard Rock songs (or surprisingly, Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo or I Ain't the One).

Looking at Sweetwater, they have one at 11 lbs, and one at 9 lbs 13 oz, is this heavy weight typical? If so, they're not for me. I need 9 lbs or less, especially in a 4 string.

Mine is 9.3 lbs. I would keep looking to find a lighter option. But I just prefer lighter if I can get it.

 

[Engle]

Except that in government "improve" means change process to increase the number of employees needed to increase the size of the empire and "fix" means reduce service time for 80% of taxpayers by 5% while increasing service time 50% for the remaining 20%. So, yes.

Don’t get me started. My new job involves dealing with government in a design-build. The dumb7@#!ery is astounding
I know they mean well, but bureaucracy

 

[dagrev]

What the HE Double Hockey sticks? Raw?


Ingesting them is bad enough, the exit is equally fearsome - No, no thank you.

I'm with you. I like spicy but that kind of hot is not a flavor.