Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

When I'm not playing a Thunderbird, I at times play this '71 near mint special order black J. Even has the original strap! It's one of those basses I want to love more, but it ain't no Thunderbird. Ain't not Precision either.

 

[Beginner Craig]

Anybody got the Skinny on the Eppi Nikki Sixx TBird?

No Vol or tone controls, just a pup selector - or is that an on/off switch?
How does it compare to the Goth sound wise?
Is it all grit, grind and growl?
Or is it deep and dark?

I'm always looking for a different sounding bird but haven't tried one of these yet.

I have a blackbird. It is only a on/off switch

 

[GBassNorth]

I have a blackbird. It is only a on/off switch

So its both pups on full volume and wide open tone all the time unless it's off. Interesting, not the way I normally play my TBirds, but they each have different pups than the Sixx.

My Goth (when it was stock) was relatively mild mannered and mid focused. My Gibson Anniversary Bird is kind of a ballsy P bass sound, mostly thicker and richer. My Eppi VP is more of a P bass on a double dose of steroids, maybe not quite as warm and rich as the Anniversary Bird but tons more growl and grit and attitude.

Any idea where the he Eppi Nikki Sixx falls into that spectrum?

 

[gaffster]

In addition to our THUNDERBIRDS, we all should have one of these

I have been messing around with clawhammering the banjo for about a year. Before I can play G-C-D7...my GF is out of the room, never fails. It's not a bass banjo, mind you.

 

[GonePlaid]

I have been messing around with clawhammering the banjo for about a year. Before I can play G-C-D7...my GF is out of the room, never fails. It's not a bass banjo, mind you.

You could form a duo with a bagpiper and clear the neighborhood.

 

[Gaolee]

In addition to our THUNDERBIRDS, we all should have one of these
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My wife wants to learn to play banjo. I don't think there's such a thing as a 'Bird shaped banjo. But there's this:

 

[TBird1958]

In addition to our THUNDERBIRDS, we all should have one of these
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Boat paddle?

 

[fasterpussycat]

You could form a duo with a bagpiper and clear the neighborhood.

Bagpipes are the voices of angels.

 

[fasterpussycat]

My wife wants to learn to play banjo. I don't think there's such a thing as a 'Bird shaped banjo. But there's this:
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There's only one but at least you know where to pinch it from.

 

[GIBrat51]

I had a Scott that looked something like this:
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I got it used in the late '70s. Beats me how old it was. Somehow, plugging a bass into a jack on the front turned it into an instrument amp. It's a miracle I didn't blow anything up. That was before I owned a Thunderbird, so maybe that's why. It got stolen from my apartment in a break-in sometime around 1982 when I was living in NYC.

My Pioneer reciever looks a lot like that. I bought it in 1980, as a leftover. VU meters were passe at about that time; everything switched over to little flickery light bars - which give me a splitting headache. I like VU meters...

In addition to our THUNDERBIRDS, we all should have one of these
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I do...well, sorta. It's a "Pete Seeger" long scale "Boulder" ODE. 1963 Model 3, Style 3, made by Chuck Ogsbery and his wife, living in a Hippie/Back to Nature commune in Boulder, Colorado. Hand cast Aluminum body, and everything else made by hand, too. They got bought out by Baldwin in the late '60s; when Baldwin got rid of them (and Gretsch), they couldn't get the ODE name back. The Ogsberys still make banjos, though; very expensive ones, under the OME name...

 

[Engle]

Just posting a VP headstock photo because:

 

[JJR58]

Life is one weird, bad SciFi thingie right now.....Sit Tight, Big Fella!

The light will be on for you. And, there might be a Thunderbird for you to play.

I'm counting on you guys.

 

[GonePlaid]

Bagpipes are the voices of angels.

Being of Irish/Scotch heritage, I enjoy bagpipes-usually. There was, however, a time during my Navy days that our band was marching in a parade just in front of a bagpipe unit. They, of course, play in one key and were not tuned to 440. Also, their sound really carried, much farther than ours.

 

[PillO]

In addition to our THUNDERBIRDS, we all should have one of these
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NO!

Carry on.

 

[JJR58]

yeah “hurry! run and touch the bag!”

 

[PillO]

You could form a duo with a bagpiper and clear the neighborhood.

Perhaps with this bagpipist?

 

[PillO]

Being of Irish/Scotch heritage, I enjoy bagpipes-usually. There was, however, a time during my Navy days that our band was marching in a parade just in front of a bagpipe unit. They, of course, play in one key and were not tuned to 440. Also, their sound really carried, much farther than ours.

And they march at 110 instead of 120, so their cadence messes with you and they go too slow.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Just posting a VP headstock photo because:
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Looks like a 1965 Thunderbird to me.... (the definitive authority an all things Bird related as I am).

 

[JJR58]

When I'm not playing a Thunderbird, I at times play this '71 near mint special order black J. Even has the original strap! It's one of those basses I want to love more, but it ain't no Thunderbird. Ain't not Precision either.
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I don't think you need that bass anymore, you can just send it to me.

 

[BklynKen]

Bagpipes you say? And a Gibson Ripper?