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Thunderbird Club

#137,261
GonePlaid said:
It's requested and I sing it. And play my Thunderbird while singing it. The crowd dances and sings along. At my age, I'm past the point of giving a ratzass.
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Wait......aren't you in Florida? :cautious:
GBassNorth said:
...Totally kickazz bass! Love the swirl and color selection. I'd love to hear how you do that.
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It's not a terribly complicated process. I did a TON of interweb searching to figure it out. Honestly, there's a company that makes paint specifically for this, rather than go down the road of mixing stuff in the paint (that method, the people who know won't share the info anyways, so good luck). So it's literally just "Buy the paint made for this, fill giant tub with water, drop some paint on surface of water using alternating colors, run a stick through it to swirl it around a bit without totally mixing it up, dip object into giant tub". I mean, that's the short answer.
This video right here will teach you as much as you need to know to get started, it's the one I studied -
 
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PillO said:
So you don't have to assume. You know that your neighbours like to hear you practicing.
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When I was about 15 or 16 and we "practiced" in the garage, the cop must have banging on the door for a long time because when we finally heard him he was really pounding hard. We opened up the big door and he was all red faced and goes "number 1, you guys are way too loud and number 2, you guys suck!" I had rebuilt Sunn amp that had somehow survived a house fire. Sorta had a burnt wood smell to it that I liked. I usually played a borrowed bi-cent because my '75 p-bass has a twisted neck. Hard to believe because it was a baseball bat beck. Boy, that thunderbird felt like a corvette versus a station wagon p-bass.
 
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gaffster said:
When I was about 15 or 16 and we "practiced" in the garage, the cop must have banging on the door for a long time because when we finally heard him he was really pounding hard. We opened up the big door and he was all red faced and goes "number 1, you guys are way too loud and number 2, you guys suck!" I had rebuilt Sunn amp that had somehow survived a house fire. Sorta had a burnt wood smell to it that I liked. I usually played a borrowed bi-cent because my '75 p-bass has a twisted neck. Hard to believe because it was a baseball bat beck. Boy, that thunderbird felt like a corvette versus a station wagon p-bass.
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15 or 16, We were playing in the basement with door open. One guitarist was doing a Hendrix feedback experiment at the end of the song. I said “that feedbacks really loud”, and behind a big deep voice says “I’ll give you feedback. You need to turn down and keep the door closed!” It was a cop that was heading into the restaurant across the alley.
 
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TerribleTim68 said:
Wait......aren't you in Florida? :cautious:

It's not a terribly complicated process. I did a TON of interweb searching to figure it out. Honestly, there's a company that makes paint specifically for this, rather than go down the road of mixing stuff in the paint (that method, the people who know won't share the info anyways, so good luck). So it's literally just "Buy the paint made for this, fill giant tub with water, drop some paint on surface of water using alternating colors, run a stick through it to swirl it around a bit without totally mixing it up, dip object into giant tub". I mean, that's the short answer.
This video right here will teach you as much as you need to know to get started, it's the one I studied -
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The process is backwards to what I would have thought. I thought immerse the guitar body, spread paint on the water surface, then slowly withdraw the guitar.
 
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gaffster said:
When I was about 15 or 16 and we "practiced" in the garage, the cop must have banging on the door for a long time because when we finally heard him he was really pounding hard. We opened up the big door and he was all red faced and goes "number 1, you guys are way too loud and number 2, you guys suck!" I had rebuilt Sunn amp that had somehow survived a house fire. Sorta had a burnt wood smell to it that I liked. I usually played a borrowed bi-cent because my '75 p-bass has a twisted neck. Hard to believe because it was a baseball bat beck. Boy, that thunderbird felt like a corvette versus a station wagon p-bass.
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Engle said:
15 or 16, We were playing in the basement with door open. One guitarist was doing a Hendrix feedback experiment at the end of the song. I said “that feedbacks really loud”, and behind a big deep voice says “I’ll give you feedback. You need to turn down and keep the door closed!” It was a cop that was heading into the restaurant across the alley.
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Like when the neighbour said to my Dad "I hear your son has a new stereo..."
 
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MCF said:
Wait. I thought @PillO was Einstein

It’s always a cool song. When it first cam out, our 6th grade teacher played it and had the class snake atound the room to it. One kid’s mom got super upset because the lyrics were, well.....
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They were nonsense is what they were. A failed attempt to write a campaign song for whatever office Timothy Leary was trying to run for.
 
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gaffster said:
When I was about 15 or 16 and we "practiced" in the garage, the cop must have banging on the door for a long time because when we finally heard him he was really pounding hard. We opened up the big door and he was all red faced and goes "number 1, you guys are way too loud and number 2, you guys suck!" I had rebuilt Sunn amp that had somehow survived a house fire. Sorta had a burnt wood smell to it that I liked. I usually played a borrowed bi-cent because my '75 p-bass has a twisted neck. Hard to believe because it was a baseball bat beck. Boy, that thunderbird felt like a corvette versus a station wagon p-bass.
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Boy, just spent some time in Emerald City Guitars, trying out the Thunderbird II they have in there...what a phenomenal bass. Don't know if I've ever played a bass that plays that well, and sounds so good. Worlds apart from my Grecom and Bach, as much as I love them. Anyone wanna loan me $10k?
 
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D.M.N. said:
Boy, just spent some time in Emerald City Guitars, trying out the Thunderbird II they have in there...what a phenomenal bass. Don't know if I've ever played a bass that plays that well, and sounds so good. Worlds apart from my Grecom and Bach, as much as I love them. Anyone wanna loan me $10k?
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Did you spend anytime with the black 99 with the lull pickups? Been wondering if it is worth the drive? And I am ignoring your comment on how good the Thunderbird II is. My bank account will thank me later.
 
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D.M.N. said:
Boy, just spent some time in Emerald City Guitars, trying out the Thunderbird II they have in there...what a phenomenal bass. Don't know if I've ever played a bass that plays that well, and sounds so good. Worlds apart from my Grecom and Bach, as much as I love them. Anyone wanna loan me $10k?
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Dylan wish I'd known you were going to be in town, I was just two blocks away at work.
 
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Anemic_SluG said:
Did you spend anytime with the black 99 with the lull pickups? Been wondering if it is worth the drive? And I am ignoring your comment on how good the Thunderbird II is. My bank account will thank me later.
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It will sound good...……. I know this!


Just sell a liver or something.
 
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Nocturnal said:
I have a total of 25 basses and 5 guitars (of which 15 are Birds of various manufacture). I have no right owning that many basses, especially when you take my talent level into account. But......my good friend down the road has roughly 40 basses/guitars and is always adding to his stable. A high school friend has over 100 plus a a large collection of vintage amps. When my wife questions why I have so many, I deflect on my friends saying "Look how many (insert name here) has!".

FWIW, all of my Gibson Birds sound different than the others. They sound different but you can tell that they are related. My 2001 sounds the best to me, but all sound good.

Some day I will start to thin out the collection, but I am in no hurry.
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Interesting that your 2001 has some magic to it as well. I think of mine as the pixie dust Thunderbird, because there is just something about it that is different and a little better. Good to know that isn't just the voices.
 
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fasterpussycat said:
There was a period when I had four in the house -- the NR41 KatBird, the Orville, the JAEbird and the formerly Epi ProIV. It seemed like a lot. Three still seems like a lot.


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But you need one more. A JC. The modern version of an EB-2. Or an EB-2, but that is less likely to be feasible unless you got it a long time ago.
 
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