I tried saxophone at an early age. My sound and skill level matched that of a wounded moose.
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Thunderbird Club
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I tried saxophone at an early age. My sound and skill level matched that of a wounded moose.
Damn bro, you haven't aged a bit. You still look the same today.
Nobody to blame but me.
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Wait a minute...There's a lot of club members here with diminished hearing ability.....
....and I come here for advice on how a specific thunderbird sounds vs something else.....
.... is that a wise move???
Nope.
There's a lot of club members here with diminished hearing ability.....
....and I come here for advice on how a specific thunderbird sounds vs something else.....
.... is that a wise move???
If only we knew better when we were younger. . . .
Absolutely not. For all we know, we sound like a train screeching to a halt. But ignorance is bliss.
There's a lot of club members here with diminished hearing ability.....
....and I come here for advice on how a specific thunderbird sounds vs something else.....
.... is that a wise move???
There's a lot of club members here with diminished hearing ability.....
....and I come here for advice on how a specific thunderbird sounds vs something else.....
.... is that a wise move???
Yup. The deaf leading the deaf
Yikes! That created a flashback to my brother's wedding where we wore those baby blue suits
@Count Bassie ..the neck that you sold me almost five years ago is still safe...It's even on a Thunderbird type Bass body.
Cheers!
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Such fun!
When I tore my rotator cuff 20 years ago the pain when playing a bass was nearly unbearable. Then I ran across the mighty little Dano Longhorn. Short scale and feather weight, it was nearly the only thing I could play for a couple of years. I found it to be very flexible and just plain fun to play. I like the copper burst or the black finish best. Mine is the much less attractive powder puff blue burst...
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If you're looking for a premium quality durable bass you should probably keep looking, but if you're looking for great sound out of an odd looking form factor "beater bass" that you can play anywhere and not worry about what happens to it, it's hard to do better.
Hard to get a better deal in the sub $300 used price range.
I love mine but I gotta say it's the most butt ugly bass I own, kinda like a little pug dog - So ugly it's cute
I've had a copper burst Dano longhorn for at least 25 years. Paid next to nothing for it, which is probably why I grabbed it in the first place. I've never played it live and probably never will, but it's been on many recordings over the years. I mostly use it through a guitar amp for bari/bass vi type lead stuff. Works incredibly well for that.
on that track I played upright, a Pbass and the Dano on the lead stuff because more is more
I felt the same way when I got my first T-Bird a few years back. Never even tried one all those years. Now I rarely play anything else
That's why it's tough to recommend strings. Smith Burners work great for me, but not for Jeff (in this example). But, Jeff and myself both love Cobalts for flats. There's just too many factors. You play light gauge(gage?) strings finger style, I play medium and heavy, mostly with a pick. Every set of hands out there have at least subtle differences too. All that before we even get into tonal preferences, amps, cabs, etc.
I mainly play in 5 different bands and feel like I prefer to tweak the sound a bit differently for each band, to best fit in with what's going on around me.
That said, it's helpful to get a consensus from a lot of players. Kinda narrows things down a bit. On my main live and recording basses I use different strings...
2002 Gibson 'Bird w/ Lollars- Cobalts
Cataldo NR41- KS Bass Burners
'67 Hofner- TI Jazz flats
'87 MM Sabre- KS Bass Burners
Drake custom w/ TV Jones blade pups-DR Lo-Riders (SS)
Gretsch Spectrasonic- Dunlop flats, though currently strung w/ Black Beauties
Dano longhorn- LaBella Deep Talkin' flats
'71 Gibson EB3L- haven't found anything I love on that bass. Very tempted to sell it off
I thought maybe @PillO was one of them in the pic.Yikes! That created a flashback to my brother's wedding where we wore those baby blue suits
Nice! Glad it
I've had a copper burst Dano longhorn for at least 25 years. Paid next to nothing for it, which is probably why I grabbed it in the first place. I've never played it live and probably never will, but it's been on many recordings over the years. I mostly use it through a guitar amp for bari/bass vi type lead stuff. Works incredibly well for that.
on that track I played upright, a Pbass and the Dano on the lead stuff because more is more
I felt the same way when I got my first T-Bird a few years back. Never even tried one all those years. Now I rarely play anything else
That's why it's tough to recommend strings. Smith Burners work great for me, but not for Jeff (in this example). But, Jeff and myself both love Cobalts for flats. There's just too many factors. You play light gauge(gage?) strings finger style, I play medium and heavy, mostly with a pick. Every set of hands out there have at least subtle differences too. All that before we even get into tonal preferences, amps, cabs, etc.
I mainly play in 5 different bands and feel like I prefer to tweak the sound a bit differently for each band, to best fit in with what's going on around me.
That said, it's helpful to get a consensus from a lot of players. Kinda narrows things down a bit. On my main live and recording basses I use different strings...
2002 Gibson 'Bird w/ Lollars- Cobalts
Cataldo NR41- KS Bass Burners
'67 Hofner- TI Jazz flats
'87 MM Sabre- KS Bass Burners
Drake custom w/ TV Jones blade pups-DR Lo-Riders (SS)
Gretsch Spectrasonic- Dunlop flats, though currently strung w/ Black Beauties
Dano longhorn- LaBella Deep Talkin' flats
'71 Gibson EB3L- haven't found anything I love on that bass. Very tempted to sell it off
Thank you for the song, very cool. And the list, very helpful.
I recently changed to Eargasm slides, a great product. You can change the decibel reduction, so at practice, I maximize the reduction on the drummer side, less reduction on the other side. I use to just not put one in the other side so that my vocals didn't overwhelm everything else, now I have hearing protection in both ears.
I've had a copper burst Dano longhorn for at least 25 years. Paid next to nothing for it, which is probably why I grabbed it in the first place. I've never played it live and probably never will, but it's been on many recordings over the years. I mostly use it through a guitar amp for bari/bass vi type lead stuff. Works incredibly well for that.
on that track I played upright, a Pbass and the Dano on the lead stuff because more is more
I'll give a listen tonight...
Don't know how I'd do it, but I'd have to chime in if that surfaced...
