White TBird is awesome. For my taste tho, white TBird with black pickguard is awesomer.
Wish I'd kept mine....
EDIT: this is what I had. And sold.
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Thunderbird Club
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White TBird is awesome. For my taste tho, white TBird with black pickguard is awesomer.
Wish I'd kept mine....
EDIT: this is what I had. And sold.
New cab, proper pedal board -- it's almost as if you are taking this seriously.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
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I had these in basses when they first came out, decent sounding pickup, no way I'm going to leave it in a '68 bird.
Gaolee
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Fair enough. I love the one in my EB-2. Different bass, different position, different everything from a '68 Thunderbird.
I saw that on FB. Damn!
Everybody gets a trophy, all the presidents are great.
I went a 5 Seconds of Summer Show with my daughter about 3 years ago. At the end, the guitarist leaned his LPJ against his Marshall and walked away letting it howl. IMO that’s one of the most irritating things a guitarist can do.
I’m surprised they are still out there doing big shows.
William Henry Harrison was terrible; no accomplishments for his time in office. Oops. politics... *
* Although a real president, he died within days of assuming office. All else tongue firmly in cheek.
I just started a thread devoted to the original vintage T-Birds from '63-'69 (reverse and non-reverse). Let's see your pics! Official Vintage (1963-1969) Thunderbird Club
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
If I may, what prompted this? I mean, there aren’t many of those around....
Do we have production data? I mean, we have it for Kalamazoo amps, for crying out loud!
I think he means that all tend to grate on nerves after some time. Hence 22nd amendment.
So what's your biggest bass regret story? I don't really have one. Partly because...
Fifteen to twenty years ago, when my kids were teenagers and money was tight, I ran across a good-condition, early model Firebird VII with no hardware. They wanted eight hundred something dollars. That guitar was my grail at the time, but there was no way I could afford to buy it and fix it up then. I went back a couple of days later to put it on layaway, figuring I would sell stuff to buy it. Of course, it was gone. Which is why...
When the open box white VP I wanted so badly got yanked out from under me. I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the burst DWLang was selling. Maybe I'd have soon found a white VP at a similar price, but maybe not, and certainly not with case. And you know what? When I pull it out to play it, I don't once think about it not being white. No regrets this time.
I know, the bass in question isn't vintage. But it's Vintage!
Fifteen to twenty years ago, when my kids were teenagers and money was tight, I ran across a good-condition, early model Firebird VII with no hardware. They wanted eight hundred something dollars. That guitar was my grail at the time, but there was no way I could afford to buy it and fix it up then. I went back a couple of days later to put it on layaway, figuring I would sell stuff to buy it. Of course, it was gone. Which is why...
When the open box white VP I wanted so badly got yanked out from under me. I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the burst DWLang was selling. Maybe I'd have soon found a white VP at a similar price, but maybe not, and certainly not with case. And you know what? When I pull it out to play it, I don't once think about it not being white. No regrets this time.
I know, the bass in question isn't vintage. But it's Vintage!
not many and who knows how many still exist...seems you can count the numbers in this club with almost one hand..
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Selling my '73 Rick 4001 is my biggest regret......... I just want to kick myself.
It's a toss-up between these two things -
- Selling my very first bass, a Peavey Dyna. Wish I still had that, even after everything I put it through. It was all white, which I hated. So at some point I painted it black/white zebra striped, then at another point I painted a neon pink over the top of that, so it was now neon-pink/black zebra striped. Looking back on it now, as a young teenager I really had no idea what I was actually holding and what it might be worth some day.
- Walking away from the music scene back around 1994-ish. I needed to get sober and that was how I chose to do it. But at times I feel like I lost a very important part of myself along the way. I completely hung up my bass for almost 20 years and now I'm 47 and trying to re-learn how to play again and the thought of getting back in a band setting is rather daunting at this point. Couple that with the fact that my "band days" were before all of the modern ways we have to document that and it put me in this weird place where pretty much everything I did no longer exists in any form of media. It's just a bunch of memories now.
