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Thunderbird Club
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- Mar 8, 2011
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nearly positive the studio recording of that is a T Bird. The actual bassist says so and it sure sounds like one to me. Certainly doesn’t sound like a J
crap...
I might have to buy some carbide (bangsite) while it's still available for my major field cannon.
- Mar 13, 2008
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nearly positive the studio recording of that is a T Bird. The actual bassist says so and it sure sounds like one to me. Certainly doesn’t sound like a J
crap...
Interestingly, at least ten years ago when I was spending a bit of time up at Mike Lull's shop as the T-4 project was getting started he mentioned that this song and "Walk this Way" had been recorded on Tom's Thunderbird.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
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Old news I remember reading about this back in the day.
Not recorded with a Jazz, recorded with a Thunderbird ... II.
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And actually brothers. Unlike the Doobie Brothers, or worse @dukeorock 's Eskimo Brothers whom I suspect are neither Eskimos nor Brothers.
or The Righteous Brothers, or The Walker Brothers, or The Blues Brothers... then there was The Mothers of Invention, who weren't brothers either.
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this doesn’t mean the Thompson Twins weren’t actually twins, does it?
I haven't caught up yet, but possibly Wiskey Rock A Roller by Skynyrd. Leon likely played it on a Thunderbird, Fenderbird or Jazz. Likely all three live at various times. Who knows on the Live album, doubtful on the original.
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nearly positive the studio recording of that is a T Bird. The actual bassist says so and it sure sounds like one to me. Certainly doesn’t sound like a J
crap...
I hate it when artists use one instrument in the studio for the original recording and then use different instruments on the road when they do a maiden tour promoting the song. That looks to be the case here as Hamilton is clearly playing a Jazz bass on the official 1975 live performance tour for Sweet Emotion. Makes one wonder if it's one of those endorsement situations where he's only allowed to play Fenders on stage.
What? Next you'll be questioning if artists write their own songs and play on the albums. Where do you get this stuff, the interwebs?
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the Bird stayed back for a headstock repair?..
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Here it is again, quite a few years later, making Joe Perry look small and Steve Tyler even smaller.
He hit the stage with that Thunderbird and the headstock didn't pop off? Must be some other bass disguised as a Thunderbird...
Nope. Most basic trem you can build. But yeah, they sure sound good.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Sometimes basic is perfect.
have met some seriously crazy tremolo fanatics in the vintage amp world.....their view being, the amp’s just a vehicle for the effect...
I know a guy that’s really into vintage Fender amps. He can talk about amp innards for hours, but when we both got called for a gig, he couldn’t play the breaks and solo in Johnny B Good
I could have grabbed the telecaster and done it, but then the bass line would get butchered...
