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Thunderbird Club

#132,101
Engle said:
My VP pickups are positioned 10 15/16” and 14 3/4” from the center of the 12th fret to the centreline of the pickups.

It would be interesting to know if that matches the 60’s Reverse and Non-reverse Tbirds.


And do the single PU Tbirds have their pickup in the same neck position?

A quick check of my (guitarfetish body) JB shaped object shows the neck PU in the same spot. I can’t measure the bridge PU because of the ashtray.

Now I want to go measure my other basses, but that will have to be another day.
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My '64 Thunderbird from the 12th fret:
10 3/4 to center of neck PU
14 1/4 to bridge PU
 
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For V.

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Nocturnal said:
That is my ideal "Rocker" Les Paul. I love an LP Junior, Special, or Custom but an ebony Standard is the $#!+ to me.
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Yup for sure, I remember "back in the day" finding 59' LP Jr's in the pawn shop for like $300 LOL although I gotta say my personal fav was a 61' LP with the elongated "SG" body like my buddy "Frank Marino" used to play...
 
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JIO said:
My band TSC's is learning WL right now - it is one of my all-time favorite songs. I'm covering the baritone part including the intro-lead. (our guitarist takes the second half of it) We're playing it in C for our singer Kirstin. Here's the version we are playing with a different outro than the radio released version - and yes - of course I play it with a pick & palm-muting.

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I got to be the bass player for the Millrats, a local band of very talented individuals here in northern RI, for a couple years, and we did this number. It had the very same bright, hazy, wonderfully depressing vibe as Glen Campbell's version! Well it had some of it, anyway... but I still attribute the fact that we were able to retain some of those qualities to the songwriting- the changes and melody created a chemistry that I don't think DEVO could've gotten around, if they'd covered it. The song is just that kind of inspired genius.
Really, what a tune.
 
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Count Bassie said:
I got to be the bass player for the Millrats, a local band of very talented individuals here in northern RI, for a couple years, and we did this number. It had the very same bright, hazy, wonderfully depressing vibe as Glen Campbell's version! Well it had some of it, anyway... but I still attribute the fact that we were able to retain some of those qualities to the songwriting- the changes and melody created a chemistry that I don't think DEVO could've gotten around, if they'd covered it. The song is just that kind of inspired genius.
Really, what a tune.
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Absolutely. I didn't realize until recently that James Taylor wrote that. But Glen totally owned it.
 
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JIO said:
My band TSC's is learning WL right now - it is one of my all-time favorite songs. I'm covering the baritone part including the intro-lead. (our guitarist takes the second half of it) We're playing it in C for our singer Kirstin. Here's the version we are playing with a different outro than the radio released version - and yes - of course I play it with a pick & palm-muting.

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Longhorn bass (THUNDERBIRD in disguise?). Was that a Dano guitar stage right? Reminiscent of the Silvertone Amp in Case guitars.
 
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NBAD! (NewBassAmpDay) Sorta. Between comments here and reviews online, the Fender Rumble seemed like the best idea for an amp I could use for practice, small gigs, and plugging into a PA. A nearby GC had a used but nearly new Rumble 100 v3 for $204. Nearly a third off, so why not? But they've only had it since Oct 7, and Austin's "pawn shop" laws require them not to let it out the door before 30 days. I put it on layaway, came home, and played (as usual) through my old Kalamazoo. It still sounds honky (ahem!) but now I can hear overtones of promise.

I missed NPD when I brought the MXR Phase 95 home. Not a fancypants pedal, but then I'm not a fancypants player, other than owning two of the sexiest bass guitars on the planet.
 
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Count Bassie said:
I got to be the bass player for the Millrats, a local band of very talented individuals here in northern RI, for a couple years, and we did this number. It had the very same bright, hazy, wonderfully depressing vibe as Glen Campbell's version! Well it had some of it, anyway... but I still attribute the fact that we were able to retain some of those qualities to the songwriting- the changes and melody created a chemistry that I don't think DEVO could've gotten around, if they'd covered it. The song is just that kind of inspired genius.
Really, what a tune.
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amen brother
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Longhorn bass (THUNDERBIRD in disguise?). Was that a Dano guitar stage right? Reminiscent of the Silvertone Amp in Case guitars.
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Yep - Dano's were the sound in that song. The recorded version was played on a Dano longhorn bari borrowed from Carol Kaye if I remember correctly. And yes, the black & white guitar is a Silvertone (Dano) baritone.

But having said that.., this vid shows Glen playing a Fender VI (baritone)
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Absolutely. I didn't realize until recently that James Taylor wrote that. But Glen totally owned it.
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Wasn't aware that James Taylor wrote it - I saw him perform over 10 years ago and he was amazing. Even got to hang in the green room afterwards with his guitarist. One of my favorite films is Two-Lane Blacktop.

 
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