Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

if they only knew.....

 

[fasterpussycat]

Kitting up.

 

[JJR58]

First - since when has need been a factor?

Second - We know that you do glamorous, not scary.

Third - @fasterpussycat scares @JJR58 full time and the rest of us are generally wary.

I think luckily for her, is that. If we were sitting together in the same room. The tides would be turned. So lets say it's a blessing she keeps me at bay here.

 

[JJR58]

And if i may so boldly ask. How ya been @hillerup?

 

[fasterpussycat]

And if i may so boldly ask. How ya been @hillerup?

Catching up for the past 6 months....

 

[JIO]

My band The Sean Conneries are performing tonight in Alameda (East Bay) - 10pm downbeat. 3 bands starting at 9 - should be a fun night. I'm using the first bands bass rig and my Coral Deluxe Bass. Will hope there will be pics.

From our set tonight - we will have the sax player from the first band join us on this one.

 

[BklynKen]

Catching up for the past 6 months....

Hah. Expect a bunch of "likes" coming. Not GonePlaid level, but a lot.

 

[Engle]

Dig it!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Good air circulation is always important with tube amps...

Right, but if you stick to the published specs, you can get away with worse practices. Los of old radios, TVs, amps, and other gear soldiered on with crap airflow, tubes bunched up, etc.- but they didn't push the power specs at all. Even as a teen dissecting gear to understand it better, I wondered sometimes what the electronics designers were thinking (not realizing that it could have been anyone else in the chain that pushed those tubes close together in a nearly sealed-back cabinet).

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have a Model Two that still has original everything. Same as a One but with tremolo. It is not loud at all but sounds great. I do not do it justice with a guitar.

That's awesome. Are the tubes branded CMI, RCA, or what?

For a while, my side gig was tube amps, and I became known in part for Kalamazoo work. I still maintain the Kalamazoo Guitar Amp Field Guide pages, and just this week got an inquiry about working on one. I still have the Model One a friend gave me in 1976, and still play through it on occasion. Not bass, tho. That would be a farce.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

* Valve amps with a 'Fender-Marshall-Vox' tone stack, eg the Traynor YBA200, have passive cut only EQ controls.

That's true of most old tube guitar/bass/PA amps, regardless of tone stack. Active EQ was a bit more common in quality stereos and hi fi.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Interesting Blackbird here.....

Gibson Blackbird (modified) 2002 Black

And the writing is entertaining.
"Neck dive was a total nightmare so I carefully moved the top strap button behind the neck and it's all good now."
I'm seeing a surgical unit, bass on a table under a high intensity light, owner in mask and gown, using felt-tipped forceps to hold the button, moving slowly, while a nurse pats his sweating forehead with a sponge.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Dig it!
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Well, crap. George Chambers, the bass player, died on the 12th (7 days ago).

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Dig it!
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Here's a *killer* version of "Time Has Come Today". Unfortunately, being a 1969 TV recording, you can't hear George play the THUNDERBIRD. ARGH! Still worth it. So much talent on that stage. They have a great drummer, and then the cat with the cowbell does more with it than many pro drummers do with a full kit.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That's true of most old tube guitar/bass/PA amps, regardless of tone stack. Active EQ was a bit more common in quality stereos and hi fi.

don’t think it makes much sense to implement an active Baxandall stack with tubes, it would require at least one triode per tone (bass, mids, treb) control, specially when considering the bw of a guitar amp doesn’t extend much past 5kHz...

 

[Miles_ONeal]

don’t think it makes much sense to implement an active Baxandall stack with tubes, it would require at least one triode per tone (bass, mids, treb) control, specially when considering the bw of a guitar amp doesn’t extend much past 5kHz...

I definitely wasn't arguing for it!

 

[BklynKen]

Well, crap. George Chambers, the bass player, died on the 12th (7 days ago).

I don't know what's more stylin', the bass or that suit.

 

[RedVee]

OT

Just saw that Qantas did a NY-Sydney no stops flight test. Also talking of London-Sydney no stops.

Suggestion of 2023 introduction if further tests pan out.

 

[PillO]

Right, but if you stick to the published specs, you can get away with worse practices. Los of old radios, TVs, amps, and other gear soldiered on with crap airflow, tubes bunched up, etc.- but they didn't push the power specs at all. Even as a teen dissecting gear to understand it better, I wondered sometimes what the electronics designers were thinking (not realizing that it could have been anyone else in the chain that pushed those tubes close together in a nearly sealed-back cabinet).

I took apart so many TVs with components crammed around the picture tube to reduce the footprint.
Back when manufacturers made stuff to last...
Cue @GonePlaid in grumpy old fart mode.

 

[PillO]

Here's a *killer* version of "Time Has Come Today". Unfortunately, being a 1969 TV recording, you can't hear George play the THUNDERBIRD. ARGH! Still worth it. So much talent on that stage. They have a great drummer, and then the cat with the cowbell does more with it than many pro drummers do with a full kit.

And actually brothers. Unlike the Doobie Brothers, or worse @dukeorock 's Eskimo Brothers whom I suspect are neither Eskimos nor Brothers.