Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

I tried some nice stiff ones

Ahem

 

[Nocturnal]

They make nice straps. Expensive, but they look like they are probably worth it.

It is very well made and I am pretty sure it will outlast me. But yeah, they are pricey. I probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger on it if I didn't have all the gift cards.

 

[BklynKen]

Guitarist's amp tonight.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Guitarist's amp tonight.

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During Gibson’s Ugly Amp Phase. But they still sounded great.

 

[GBassNorth]

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Awesome bright red bird! And a fellow Boulder boy to boot.

 

[Gaolee]

I know it "looks cool" to some. Mild ape hangers look OK to me. The real ones just look stupid. And having less control of a motorcycle out there with all the hungry boxes is never cool.

Fortunately, playing bass is not subject to people on cell phones trying to kill you. Plus, I ride a sportbike with narrow, low bars. It is a CroMagnon arms thing. Ape hangers, not so much. CroMagnons evolved past that in about 1982.

 

[Gaolee]

I have a couple of friends who can play with their guitars or basses really low without problems. My body just says no.

My body says no to a high bass. It likes a high guitar. I never claimed to be consistent or logical.

 

[GBassNorth]

I’ve never considered switching up on picks.

I have purple tortoise for bass. Leather for Uke & a floppy little one for the borrowed guitar. interesting G.

I'm no pic expert, I've always played fingerstyle but I'm trying to force myself to get comfortable playing pics. In my quest for a pic I like I've tried just about every type made. So far leather is my favorite. It gives me just enough attack to know I'm using a pic but still feels relatively natural.

 

[Gaolee]

Guitarist's amp tonight.

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I came close to buying one of those. I really and truly play guitar like crap, but I still get a huge kick out of oddball and great sounding small tube guitar amps. Silicon is for bass.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I came close to buying one of those. I really and truly play guitar like crap, but I still get a huge kick out of oddball and great sounding small tube guitar amps. Silicon is for bass.

+1

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I’ve never considered switching up on picks.

I have purple tortoise for bass. Leather for Uke & a floppy little one for the borrowed guitar. interesting G.

you’ll probably find that you like different types of picks (brand, material, shape, thickness) for different styles and even for different basses as you keep developing your technique....

 

[Glenn Johnson]

Ahem

Oh my!

 

[BklynKen]

I came close to buying one of those. I really and truly play guitar like crap, but I still get a huge kick out of oddball and great sounding small tube guitar amps. Silicon is for bass.

It's extremely light, too.

 

[GonePlaid]

If you had to use just one, which would it be?

(I know, the one that would best get rid of whoever was trying to limit you. But humor me, please. And yes, creatively offing people with a strap humors me. I'm a writer *and* a bass player.)

Prolly the 3" leather/denim one, which I've had since ~'75(!).

 

[GonePlaid]

I really like the Levy's 4.5" padded straps. I find them very comfortable.

Guitar Strap - MSS2-4-BLK

Granting the high level of shallowness, I've never liked the look of the straps with wide to narrow sections. Just me.

 

[GonePlaid]

I spent (IIRC) somewhere between $250 and $300 on a plain but gorgeous, heavy duty leather shoulder bag to carry my personal computer in. It will probably outlast me (despite my plan to live to at least 120), helped someone in a developing country, won't end up in a landfill, and saves me buying a new computer bag every 3-5 years when the cheaper one wears out.
It was expensive, but it was worth it.
We bought a Lawn Boy mower a few years after we got our first house. It still works. Could have bought a lot cheaper, but it was worth it.
Etc.
THUNDERBIRDS. Seldom cheap. Always worth it.

My 67 NR THUNDERBIRD was 'cheap'($250. in 73).

 

[GonePlaid]

My body says no to a high bass. It likes a high guitar. I never claimed to be consistent or logical.

My guitar playing ability is minimal, but being a THUNDERBIRD player, I always wondered why most bass/guitar double necks have the bass high and gee-tar low(?).

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'm no pic expert, I've always played fingerstyle but I'm trying to force myself to get comfortable playing pics. In my quest for a pic I like I've tried just about every type made. So far leather is my favorite. It gives me just enough attack to know I'm using a pic but still feels relatively natural.

Leather. Natural. I see what you did there.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

My guitar playing ability is minimal, but being a THUNDERBIRD player, I always wondered why most bass/guitar double necks have the bass high and gee-tar low(?).

Left arm reach

 

[gaffster]

So I ordered a pizza and I'm just mucking around in the living room with my goth thru a gawd awfull bass effects/drum thingamachine and pizza guy with 10,000 tats and piercings shows up and says "oh man, I am a performing artist/poet.. lets jam."
Ten minutes later we had this and then he took off with his 6 cold pizzas and I never saw him again, LOL.