Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

The Prince of Darkness! I didn't know the Prince had infiltrated guitars, too. It just goes to show. Something. I don't know what. The Prince has to stay away from my Thunderbirds. In fact, I'm pretty sure Thunderbirds vanquish the Prince of Darkness.

I think he’s still kicking around somewhere.

 

[Engle]

Goats, these two were visitors at my train buddy's place the other day.

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Sweet! I like the fact that the GTO was considered a “small” car in the 60’s

 

[MCF]

I think we've been talking about Bowie lately. And I brought up T. Rex. This is really nice.

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Thanks for posting that. He was a good man.

 

[Engle]

Yeah. Chords and keys. No internet. Sometimes we got it right, sometimes close enough. Now I aspire to note for note. That was really hard in the seventies, early eighties when I was in bands.

Playing it over and over on the record player in the big wood cabinet! Some parts I want to get note for note, but those guys were also improvising a fair bit, so I try to cop their style more than remember exactly what they did on other parts.

 

[Engle]

Yes, those two were killers!

I had a 68 Firebird with a 400 that the previous owner had equipped with a Tripower setup. And drum brakes...
0-100 MPH was easy. 100-0 took a little longer.

 

[Engle]

Wow, it was really like Xmas yesterday! Was expecting one package, the Black Tusq string nut for the GBP. Appropriate for Thunderbird Thursday!
Instead, I got six packages!
(Some of them, Amazon claims haven't been delivered yet.... )

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Time to get to work!

Which soldering station did you get?

 

[dagrev]

Ah. Our teams(Tampa/Miami)decided to 'take the night off'. I'm so peeved at professional sports people right now that, for my money, they can all eat [something disgusting] and die. Their 'protest' does nothing to improve anything and makes them look like a bunch of overpaid over privileged brats-IMO. Their status as 'stars' gives them a platform to speak up on issues, not leave their fans in the lurch. If by saying this I ruffle a feather or 2, I'm 75 and don't GaS what people think about me. Too much PC. Aaaaaarrrrggh!
Next few listed games, hockey or baseball, I'll pull out my 'Bird and play along with some old tapes/cds.

Well said!

 

[dagrev]

TBT - neck-dive management 101

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The 76 is the only one I have ever felt inclined to do that with, but have never use that approach consistently. Very rarely in fact. But for some reason it is a temptation with that Thunderbird alone. Has nothing to do with that dad, however. Maybe because there's no belly cut?

 

[dagrev]

You might know them w/o knowing you know them.

 

[dagrev]

Yes! We just rewatched Revenge the other night.
“And you, too! And you two ... should be ashamed of yourselves.”

One of my favorite situations from that series was the question, "Is that your dog?"

 

[dagrev]

So, a bunch of millionaire young adults who came from poverty are protesting that it is impossible to overcome poverty in the US...

I knew you would come up with a succinct way of stating the obvious.... About Thunderbirds and how they always sit well in any mix and look cool.

 

[MCF]

I had a 68 Firebird with a 400 that the previous owner had equipped with a Tripower setup. And drum brakes...
0-100 MPH was easy. 100-0 took a little longer.

When our Pontiac Station wagon was loaded with gear, we could only do a rolling stop at the bottom of the hill we lived on. Good times!

 

[Nocturnal]

And Bowie was actually left-handed. Played right-handed. Not Iggy, though.

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I have several guitarist friends that are lefty but play right handed. They are all glad they went with the right handed guitars because there are so many more options for purchase vs left handed offerings.

 

[BklynKen]

I have several guitarist friends that are lefty but play right handed. They are all glad they went with the right handed guitars because there are so many more options for purchase vs left handed offerings.

That's certainly true, and most left-handed guitarists play right-handed. But definitely not an option for everyone. Playing never clicked for me until I tried it left-handed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[KaraQ]

Which soldering station did you get?

Weller we1010:

 

[JIO]

Ah. Our teams(Tampa/Miami)decided to 'take the night off'. I'm so peeved at professional sports people right now that, for my money, they can all eat [something disgusting] and die. Their 'protest' does nothing to improve anything and makes them look like a bunch of overpaid over privileged brats-IMO. Their status as 'stars' gives them a platform to speak up on issues, not leave their fans in the lurch. If by saying this I ruffle a feather or 2, I'm 75 and don't GaS what people think about me. Too much PC. Aaaaaarrrrggh!
Next few listed games, hockey or baseball, I'll pull out my 'Bird and play along with some old tapes/cds.

I'm 67 and this is where I get off the bus. Continue at your own tb peril.

 

[JIO]

The 76 is the only one I have ever felt inclined to do that with, but have never use that approach consistently. Very rarely in fact. But for some reason it is a temptation with that Thunderbird alone. Has nothing to do with that dad, however. Maybe because there's no belly cut?

A '76 has no belly cut? Interesting they deleted that detail.

 

[KaraQ]

All the progress that's getting done today. Back to work tonight, so off to bed

 

[Iristone]

A minor side effect with my Chinabucker: there's a slight top end fizz with a few digital effects (more narrowly: the Plexitortion model on my Hotone Xtomp Mini and the Super Bass model on my Zoom B1Xon). Maybe it's frequency response is a bit wide and it got aliasing? Don't worry, I bought a Catalinbread DLS to couple with it.

 

[Eddie LeBlanc]

All the progress that's getting done today. Back to work tonight, so off to bed

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The Red DRs are going to be cool.