Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

One for Thunderbird Thursday...
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Oh, wait. That's no Thunderbird...just the best dog on earth resting in the basement!

There, Thunderbirds.
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One for Thunderbird Thursday...
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Oh, wait. That's no Thunderbird...just the best dog on earth resting in the basement!

There, Thunderbirds.
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Well, not sure I’ll agree to best dog on the planet how about co-best?

Apparently the schmoe was incorrect - just did a search and there is no mention on the Hagstrom Wiki page referring to Airline guitars (that one was called the "Longhorn") as something they made. Vintage '50s-'60s Airline guitars/basses have been extensively revisited by Eastwood Guitars in recent years.

Eastwood gives me GAS whenever I look at them. Especially this one.

 

[Count Bassie]

We all did separate takes in front of the screen....
They love the look of the VP, and took a fair bit of close up video of it.

Nice.

 

[JIO]

Eastwood gives me GAS whenever I look at them. Especially this one.

I've seen that one, pretty Jetsons cool - only thing I'd have done differently is incorporate a knee support. A design like that is similar to the Vox teardrop - for playing standing only. Speaking of Vox, it's interesting they went with a paddle hs shape - another design aspect I would do differently.

 

[Instagator]

I was so impressed with my Embassy at practice last night, I just bought one to leave at home tonight. Black, lollipop Hipshots and case. Already have a set of Sunbeam lights to put on it. Will probably do the series/parallel mod as well. Great basses!

Just because we talked,I pulled out my Embassy with the Chinabuckers..after an hour or so of headphone rehearsal..looks like I'm taking it to the gig on Saturday.

 

[Thumper]

I was so impressed with my Embassy at practice last night, I just bought one to leave at home tonight. Black, lollipop Hipshots and case. Already have a set of Sunbeam lights to put on it. Will probably do the series/parallel mod as well. Great basses!

So at practice I have my Dingwall SJ5XXX, and my Embassy. On one stand, a $4,800 bass, and on the other a $375 bass. On Wednesday I played the Embassy all night. The band loved it. When I asked them how much they thought the Embassy cost, I got: $1,100; $1,200; and $1,600! It certainly looks, sounds, and feels it.

 

[Gaolee]

I was looking at the neck pickups. I thought the VP was up closer to the neck.

It might be, but they look about the same to me. My eyes aren't calibrated. So, there's that.

 

[Gaolee]

We all did separate takes in front of the screen....
They love the look of the VP, and took a fair bit of close up video of it.

As well they should. They clearly understand the virtue of Thunderbirds if they were taking closeup video of yours.

 

[Gaolee]

Just because we talked,I pulled out my Embassy with the Chinabuckers..after an hour or so of headphone rehearsal..looks like I'm taking it to the gig on Saturday.

The Flamingo has Chinabuckers for now. It's got 50-110 or so Bass Burners on it and nails the angry piano cold. It was going to get different pickups eventually, and it may still. For now, I'm playing it a whole lot, because it makes the sounds I want to hear.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

this is George, my new friend...

we’ll see how he gets along with this one...

 

[gaffster]

So at practice I have my Dingwall SJ5XXX, and my Embassy. On one stand, a $4,800 bass, and on the other a $375 bass. On Wednesday I played the Embassy all night. The band loved it. When I asked them how much they thought the Embassy cost, I got: $1,100; $1,200; and $1,600! It certainly looks, sounds, and feels it.

The Dingwall take on the thunderbird shape is ok IMHO..Like a gibby in a windtunnel or something

 

[TBird1958]

What a sweet kitty!

 

[Engle]

As well they should. They clearly understand the virtue of Thunderbirds if they were taking closeup video of yours.

They loved the sound as well. The EP should be up on streaming services soon.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

USS Midway..... cool stuff...

 

[TBird1958]

I've been on the Midway once, when it was in commission it visited Bremerton Naval Shipyard, I was pretty young, we took the ferry across Puget Sound to see it.

 

[GonePlaid]

USS Midway..... cool stuff...
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the girl is rather statuesque. the guy reminds me of my favorite hat

 

[Glenn Johnson]

I've forgotten the guy's name that owned the Fiver, wasn't he from Wenatchee? That's a bad@$$ Bird!

I went to Wenatchee 27 years ago and didn't see him or ANY 5 strings! True story. . .

 

[Glenn Johnson]

It was my grandmother's house. My friend's father had plastic on the seats of his car. In the interest of accuracy.

I like plastic on any seats that I'm not sitting on

 

[Glenn Johnson]

interesting....
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That headstock looks like a kaiser blade, some people call it a sling blade, but I call it a kaiser blade. .

 

[Glenn Johnson]

relic negating - seems like that should be a double negative...

Let's not give 7ender any ideas. . .

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

another underrated tone meister Imo..