Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

This one?

this one -

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Nice! That bass looks good on you! (sounds good too!) The LP guitarist plays a sort of Jeff Beck finger-style - his solo caused the room to shift sideways!

Thanks JIO! If you recall, you played (and really dug) that bass (Gretsch) when you came over, love that thing....the LP guitarist just got back from a Euro tour with his band Archer Nation. Weird how time flies, used to remember him running around muddy from the creek up in the SC mountains over 25 years ago when doing sessions with his dad..... I’ve been bugging him incessantly for an NR VP since his dad just retired as Epiphone’s CEO.....small world...

 

[MCF]

The black with gold emblem PG arrived today. It fits, not super precise with the hole placement, but close enough. A few minor barely noticeable surface scratches, but not bad. So it’s on the ‘15. Looks different without the white, but I’m liking it.

 

[Count Bassie]

fun at the Crow's Nest the other night....singer's a hoot...who'd thought you can dance to Floyd......HATE smartphone camera lenses........

Got to concur, that bass suits you. Cool axe, cool player.
We got a lot of cool, fun, bad, and hep going on here.

 

[dagrev]

The black with gold emblem PG arrived today. It fits, not super precise with the hole placement, but close enough. A few minor barely noticeable surface scratches, but not bad. So it’s on the ‘15. Looks different without the white, but I’m liking it.
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I like it!

 

[MCF]

Was I imagining it, or does she really sing “the bitter comes out better on a Gildaxe guitar?”

 

[MCF]

This defined my life in 4th grade. We played MFU every recess pretty much the whole year. The guys were in UNCLE and the girls were in THRUSH (patriarchy much?) Somehow (to this day I have no idea how) I ended up as the head of UNCLE. My g/f was the head of THRUSH. Once or twice a week I would be so distracted by Tobie that I'd be captured. Eventually I decided they had a mind control ray, because it was perilously close to defection how easily I was sometimes captured.

(The non-terminating period union is on strike, hence their lack in the names of the organizations.)

On summer nights we would play it for hours.

 

[Gaolee]

Ok, new band name right there.

Several band names.

The black pickguard came today. It is on the '15. I was thinking about taking the 7ender out to play tomorrow night. Nope. The '15 will get some exercise. I cannot believe it is getting on five years old. I have had it four years. It has some scars.

 

[Gaolee]

The black with gold emblem PG arrived today. It fits, not super precise with the hole placement, but close enough. A few minor barely noticeable surface scratches, but not bad. So it’s on the ‘15. Looks different without the white, but I’m liking it.
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Mine looks like that now, too. I am thinking the knobs need to be gold vintage style to get rid of all chrome. Did I just say that? And black tapes. I have forgotten what strings are on it now. DR nickel wounds, most likely. I do not remember which ones.

The logo is at a slightly different angle, and the application is a little heavy handed looking. It looks just fine anyway. Nobody in an audience will ever notice. Nobody in an audience will notice a different lifeguard and knobs at all, but that is a different small detail.

 

[JIO]

Was I imagining it, or does she really sing “the bitter comes out better on a Gildaxe guitar?”

You were imagining it!

 

[JIO]

Thanks JIO! If you recall, you played (and really dug) that bass (Gretsch) when you came over, love that thing....the LP guitarist just got back from a Euro tour with his band Archer Nation. Weird how time flies, used to remember him running around muddy from the creek up in the SC mountains over 25 years ago when doing sessions with his dad..... I’ve been bugging him incessantly for an NR VP since his dad just retired as Epiphone’s CEO.....small world...

The Gretsch Committee Bass if I recall correctly - and I remember the story behind it as well.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

But are there any vitamins in that food?

Firebird-B, for starters.

 

[GonePlaid]

this one -

Who knew that had lyrics?!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The black with gold emblem PG arrived today. It fits, not super precise with the hole placement, but close enough. A few minor barely noticeable surface scratches, but not bad. So it’s on the ‘15. Looks different without the white, but I’m liking it.
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Looks rad!

 

[JIO]

Mine looks like that now, too. I am thinking the knobs need to be gold vintage style to get rid of all chrome. Did I just say that? And black tapes. I have forgotten what strings are on it now. DR nickel wounds, most likely. I do not remember which ones.

The logo is at a slightly different angle, and the application is a little heavy handed looking. It looks just fine anyway. Nobody in an audience will ever notice. Nobody in an audience will notice a different lifeguard and knobs at all, but that is a different small detail.

spellcheck!

 

[MCF]

@dukeorock is this similar to the model you recently picked up?

For Sale - Fano J4 Bass

Huh. Agoura Hills. Not too far. I’ve got to stop this.....

 

[JIO]

Who knew that had lyrics?!

We used to do the instrumental version in Bond Girl cause Paul played horn, but with The Sean Conneries we do the Sarah Vaughn version. Always been a fan of SV.

 

[JIO]

Firebird-B, for starters.

Good one!

 

[MCF]

There's a few classic platform basses I've yet to play - A Stingray being one. It was one of thee basses of its early days. (late 70's/80's)

Still favored by many -

God I miss him.

 

[MCF]

Watched a movie and in the extras they had 3 Russell Crowe & TOFOG film clips. Decided to watch them also.

movie ‘A Good Year’ was average but ok, could have been improved if they went a bit closer to the plot from the book...

Songs, liked 2 from 3 and the other liked enough.

this one surprised me. Different to Russ Le Roq in a good way.
Looked like a fun night

That’s actually pretty great. Who knew.