Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

True...but not cheap if you want good / quality parts (but easily fixed)

doesn’t have to be....found the three point and tuners online for 50 bucks (tuners and bridge) and chinabuckers are cheap..metal pickup covers are also cheap should you choose to use the stock pups (which sound great imo) as others in this club have done...

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Can't find anything with the search function, but I guess you know, so is it true that Epiphone discontinued many Basses including the Thunderbird VP?

It's always hard to tell when they revamp their website because they suck at that. Which is bizarre in 2020 (or even in 2010), but there it is.

I'm not sure what all they offered three months ago, but in terms of Thunderbirds, all I can find on their site is the VP. Googling, you can still find new IVs and Classic Pros in stores, but there do seem to be less of them.

So it appears that the VP is alive and licking, but it's the only current Epi TB. There are only 4 other Epi bass models offered ATM: Jack Cassady, viola, D-1, and Allen Woody Rumblekat.

Gibson/Epiphone has never really marketed their basses or amps very well. It's a shame.

 

[GonePlaid]

this one?
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iSi!

 

[GonePlaid]

I get compliments on the JC sound almost every time I take it out to a gig.

I get nice comments on tone on my Ibanez AGB-200. Kind of a "poor man's" EB-2/JC.

 

[GonePlaid]

This^^^
I did 3 different recording projects in the last year on top of my cover band and some sub /one off gigs. My old heavy project looked like it was reviving, but the singer moved to Edmonton...

For the Oilers games?

 

[GonePlaid]

Buy local! TB:classifieds!

I was just NR surfing when I found it. No serious interest due to my condition-mufunzalo. Therefore, no new-to me-THUNDERBIRDS.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I get nice comments on tone on my Ibanez AGB-200. Kind of a "poor man's" EB-2/JC.
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yep, lotsa bass for the price though...tried this one out (locally) the other day and was pretty impressed..

 

[GonePlaid]

yep, lotsa bass for the price though...tried this one out (locally) the other day and was pretty impressed..
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That's a steal if it ain't f---ed* up. Mine was $550. new. Gets some really nice sounds. Warning: even though it's SS, it takes medium length tapewound strings 'cos of the distance from"claw"to bridge.

*oul

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That's a steal if it ain't f---ed* up. Mine was $550. new. Gets some really nice sounds. Warning: even though it's SS, it takes medium length tapewound strings 'cos of the distance from"claw"to bridge.

*oul

no, nothing wrong with it, played/sounded fine....just not a semi/hollow body SS kinda guy..

 

[fasterpussycat]

If you measure it, we might be able to scare up a bass pickup the same size and shape, only black, and ship it to you, cleverly disguised as a bass repair part. Or spray paint. There's always that. Just remember. We are here to enable.

I'm fully onboard with the JCB-1 pickup. The fattest setting (the indicator has been removed but I think that's 500) is absolutely stonking, even with the Dean Markley strings it has on right now. Black tape or semi-gloss model paint will do the job.

 

[BklynKen]

I'm fully onboard with the JCB-1 pickup. The fattest setting (the indicator has been removed but I think that's 500) is absolutely stonking, even with the Dean Markley strings it has on right now. Black tape or semi-gloss model paint will do the job.

Sounds great, but next time you play with gain settings, you need to tell the cats to start low and turn it up gradually. Right to 11 is no place to start. Damn cats.

 

[GonePlaid]

Sounds great, but next time you play with gain settings, you need to tell the cats to start low and turn it up gradually. Right to 11 is no place to start. Damn cats.

I'm sure they were trying to be 'helpful'.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Reverse pyramid scheme?

Exactly.

 

[BklynKen]

I'm sure they were trying to be 'helpful'.

Only for their own... gain.

 

[GonePlaid]

Only for their own... gain.

oy!

 

[fasterpussycat]

I get nice comments on tone on my Ibanez AGB-200. Kind of a "poor man's" EB-2/JC.
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That doesn't look like a 'poor' anything.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Sounds great, but next time you play with gain settings, you need to tell the cats to start low and turn it up gradually. Right to 11 is no place to start. Damn cats.

Must be young guitar player cats.
(I say that as a guy who still likes guitar, and always starts with the amp loud if he can get away with it.)

 

[fasterpussycat]

Must be young guitar player cats.

They're South East Asian metalheads -- always maximum shred.

 

[MCF]

Yes it was on an iPad plugged into the PA at a rehearsal room. We did 2 times through each and then did a few extra wind shots of the singer with a fan.

Ya shoulda windmilled.

 

[PillO]

I'm fully onboard with the JCB-1 pickup. The fattest setting (the indicator has been removed but I think that's 500) is absolutely stonking, even with the Dean Markley strings it has on right now. Black tape or semi-gloss model paint will do the job.

500 is chicken head all the way right (clockwise) and it is really gainy. I am content at 250 usually unless I want a softer sound in which case I go 50.

Sounds great, but next time you play with gain settings, you need to tell the cats to start low and turn it up gradually. Right to 11 is no place to start. Damn cats.

Is there a setting other than 11?