Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

Yeah, well I feel pretty justified in my complaints about "rock music" now. This sucks. The musicians, like them or not, are pretty dismissable... your life as a rock musician in a recording studio is worthless... why I love the punk ethic still.

It really explains a lot about the comparative 'sterility' of most of the stuff of the last ~20 years.

 

[dagrev]

Cool amp, too.

Just what I was getting ready to say.

 

[dagrev]

Happy Halloween everyone..staying in and safe this year...Pictures from the past when we were playing out.Cheers!

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Bootsy!

 

[PillO]

I don't understand why kids don't come trick or treating at Chez PillO.

Oh well, more candy for me.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

letting engineers run unsupervised has never been a good thing...that said there would have never been Rock music without engineers in the first place....good dissertation topic..

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Might wanna just try the youtube links then, I know Spotify can be wonky if you don't pay for it (I don't pay for it, and it can be a pain).


I don't think we have any live clips currently, unfortunately. And thank you! You know, it's funny, my guitar player says a lot of what I write sounds like Soundgarden or Alice in Chains influenced, even though I don't listen to them much, but I guess I did grow up in the northwest in the late 90s, so it's bound to rub off!

I have not found a Greco pickup, I pulled the Greco from my II to try out a Chinabucker in it, and since it was out popped it in the BaCH when I bought it. I think the Greco bucker will be going back in the Greco and I'll get a hot Thunderbucker for the BaCH. To @Miles_ONeal point though, I don't think anyone has specifically cloned the Greco pickups, though I wish they would!

I haven’t seen a youtube link but will search there. Thanks!

 

[dagrev]

Saw that listing but then saw a cleaner sunburst Vintage Pro with case listed that I snagged for under $500!! Excited to finally get Vintage Pro to go with my 2013 Gibbie TBird.

You're going to love the VP. A great buy makes it even sweeter. Interested in hearing your impressions. Though I already know you'll love it. The quality is outstanding for that price and much higher. Epi hit it out of the park with the VP.

 

[dagrev]

If someone’s else is paying for studio time, I will play a couple of takes and punch in to fix mistakes. If I’m doing it at home, I try to get whole takes.
I was working up a dub track the other day and on a run through, I played each part slightly differently when they repeated, thinking I would pick the best one to use. I listened to it the next day and realized it’s actually pretty cool like that.
What really bugs me is producers that just get one good version of each part and copy/paste the whole song together. I believe the subtle variations add richness to the music that’s lost when it’s too perfect.

Amen!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Check out this one if you haven’t already:

This cat is brilliant at analyzing this stuff.
Hopefully I haven't told this story before. When I dropped out of Georgia Tech for a while, I worked at Burger King by campus. A really smart student started at BK shortly after me, a great guy named Scott. He ended up leaving school early, quitting BK, and moved away. He told me goodbye. "That album my brother (whom he had bragged on a lot) has been working on in his basement studio? He got a record deal! They're about to go on tour. I'm going back to be a roadie and help with electronics." I congratulated him and wished him luck, and thought to myself, "You'll need that luck!" He went home to Boston. Not long after, "More Than a Feeling" hit the charts. A year or so later, I was reading an interview with Tom Scholz and the dots connected. Tom Scholz. Scott Scholz. Boston the band. Boston the city. Good for you, Scott! (And Tom.)

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Happy Halloween everyone! My band just dropped our first album today, the lion's share of which was tracked with the BaCH bird with the Greco pickup in it. This track definitely was.

Found it on youtube. Yow! And nobody mentioned the Stones or the 80s (I get the other references, too) for "Old Movies". I love music that blend eras like this!

Listening to the album now (sampled some of the older stuff, too). Loving it.

 

[GBassNorth]

Saw that listing but then saw a cleaner sunburst Vintage Pro with case listed that I snagged for under $500!! Excited to finally get Vintage Pro to go with my 2013 Gibbie TBird.

Congrats on the VP. You're gonna love it! Flash us a pic sometime, love to see the VP bursts.

You're going to love the VP. A great buy makes it even sweeter. Interested in hearing your impressions. Though I already know you'll love it. The quality is outstanding for that price and much higher. Epi hit it out of the park with the VP.

Ditto!

 

[GBassNorth]

This cat is brilliant at analyzing this stuff.
Hopefully I haven't told this story before. When I dropped out of Georgia Tech for a while, I worked at Burger King by campus. A really smart student started at BK shortly after me, a great guy named Scott. He ended up leaving school early, quitting BK, and moved away. He told me goodbye. "That album my brother (whom he had bragged on a lot) has been working on in his basement studio? He got a record deal! They're about to go on tour. I'm going back to be a roadie and help with electronics." I congratulated him and wished him luck, and thought to myself, "You'll need that luck!" He went home to Boston. Not long after, "More Than a Feeling" hit the charts. A year or so later, I was reading an interview with Tom Scholz and the dots connected. Tom Scholz. Scott Scholz. Boston the band. Boston the city. Good for you, Scott! (And Tom.)

Cool story!

 

[TBird1958]

Check out this one if you haven’t already:

I really enjoyed his breakdown of the song (FWIW it still gives me some goosebumps all these years later too, I think it's one of rock's greatest songs.) , I've played along with it but never with the intricacy or low D. The bass tone by itself seemed a bit dry, yet in the mix it works. Genius .

 

[KaraQ]

This stuff looks like it might be useful...

 

[PillO]

This stuff looks like it might be useful...

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Hammer and a screwdriver. You can fix anything with that!

 

[KaraQ]

Now that I have this, tuners are next up on the list for my "project'

 

[PillO]

Accuracy? That doesn't sound like fun. And goes against the carpenters code of measure once, cut twice. I suppose it does offer the value of being able to blame your tools should things go wrong, as any craftsman would.

 

[KaraQ]

Accuracy? That doesn't sound like fun. And goes against the carpenters code of measure once, cut twice. I suppose it does offer the value of being able to blame your tools should things go wrong, as any craftsman would.

Absolutely! This way, if it gets screwed up, I can just use the Han Solo excuse: "it's not my fault!"

 

[Nocturnal]

Now that I have this, tuners are next up on the list for my "project'

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I used one of these jigs in a guitar building class recently and it is a very handy tool! We also used a set-depth drill bit to insure none of us dummies drilled thru to the face of the headstock.

 

[Engle]

This cat is brilliant at analyzing this stuff.
Hopefully I haven't told this story before. When I dropped out of Georgia Tech for a while, I worked at Burger King by campus. A really smart student started at BK shortly after me, a great guy named Scott. He ended up leaving school early, quitting BK, and moved away. He told me goodbye. "That album my brother (whom he had bragged on a lot) has been working on in his basement studio? He got a record deal! They're about to go on tour. I'm going back to be a roadie and help with electronics." I congratulated him and wished him luck, and thought to myself, "You'll need that luck!" He went home to Boston. Not long after, "More Than a Feeling" hit the charts. A year or so later, I was reading an interview with Tom Scholz and the dots connected. Tom Scholz. Scott Scholz. Boston the band. Boston the city. Good for you, Scott! (And Tom.)

That’s a story worth repeating!