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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUR HIGHNESS! THANK YOU!! Hope you enjoy your present!!
Happy Birthday @TBird1958 ! 
With all the Cheap Trick you guys have been posting lately, I decided to listen to some of their stuff - only ever heard what came on the radio.
Decided I needed to work on learning this:
Mandocello is officially the first thing I played/learned on the GBP
Where's the bass player?...
With all the Cheap Trick you guys have been posting lately, I decided to listen to some of their stuff - only ever heard what came on the radio.
Decided I needed to work on learning this:
Mandocello is officially the first thing I played/learned on the GBP
Here's a great little-known Cheap Trick song. From a cool Canadian animated movie, Rock & Rule. Soundtrack was never released, but it's got Iggy Pop; Lou Reed; Debbie Harry; and Earth, Wind, & Fire.
and you can play with your fingers..The only pedal I use is an EHX Micro POG. If you play in the middle of the bass's range with both octave up and octave down on the stomp box(plus the played note), you get the effect of Tom's 12 string bass without all those pesky other strings to keep in tune.
and a root canal was 100 bucks..
dieselman
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Happy birthday to the queen of the most friendly and welcoming club on TB.
- Jun 30, 2010
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Happy Birthday @TBird1958 !
With all the Cheap Trick you guys have been posting lately, I decided to listen to some of their stuff - only ever heard what came on the radio.
Decided I needed to work on learning this:
Mandocello is officially the first thing I played/learned on the GBP
Probably my favorite CT song.
- Jun 30, 2010
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Thanks everyone! Let's have a happy Thunderbird Thursday too!
From better times, this probably my fave video of the band, our drummer at the time really pulls this together.
From better times, this probably my fave video of the band, our drummer at the time really pulls this together.
@TBird1958
Huzzah! Huzzah! Long live Queen V!
Our benevolent Queen that has bestowed the desire in every member of the kingdom to have a Thunderbird in the house and cold chicken in every pot!
Happy Birthday to your highness, and long live our Queen!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Long live Queen V!
Our benevolent Queen that has bestowed the desire in every member of the kingdom to have a Thunderbird in the house and cold chicken in every pot!
Happy Birthday to your highness, and long live our Queen!
Never was good at math related things. I'd get it wrong about 47% of the time. But that meant I got it right the other 63%.
Now you're rockin!
That's really odd. Mine is about 3 years old, I wonder if they changed up to a narrow neck at some point. Or maybe I have a fluke.
The one with the larger flange is the Eppi I believe.
Edit: looks like you've got it sorted all out and even beefed up the spline grip with some added wood. She looks nearly finished. Excellent!
I remember the first time I heard that (also the first time I heard them). I was home from college for the summer. My parents had moved to a little town in eastern Colorado, and I had driven with my dad (a Methodist minister) to Colorado Springs. He was visiting a church member in the hospital. I was sitting in the car listening to the radio waiting for him, and that bass line started. Wow! I was an instant fan! “Wall Of Sleep” might be my favorite, just because it’s about a bass-playing girl and name drops both Bill Wyman and Jean Shrimpton. They had so many great songs, and Mike Mesaros always had a killer tone and great lines.
