Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

I cut my teeth playing in front of an audience in a Chicago Blues band with Mississippi Delta born Eddie Taylor (Jimmy Reeds sideman) and his sons Larry and then Timmy on drums from '79-'85. We were sort of a blk&wht band in the mode of Britain's The Specials, Madness, Selector etc - a mixed race, old and young band. (at least for the Specials) Ever since then I have been ultra critical of "white-boy blues. (being white myself and yet having a fuller awareness of ) Or let me put it this way... not everyone should "sing the blues" TM And not to say that every human on earth doesn't need to sing the blues at one time or another... but what's going on in Blues is the feel and connection. In a way more than any other genre of music. Heartfelt blues is awesome - generic 'blue's' is at least boring and at worse awful.

real blues - listen to the bass ... he's 150% on it.

 

[BklynKen]

Late to the party. Excuse the stuff from the cat.

 

[PillO]

Late to the party. Excuse the stuff from the cat.

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I see Uosqib every time...

 

[Bassmike62]

Party still on ?
After all, 'ts'only Sunday moanin'

 

[GonePlaid]

Party still on ?
After all, 'ts'only Sunday moanin'


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Here's mine-a $ late and a day short. Hard to see the purple silks of the 50-105 EBCF's.

 

[Engle]

I cut my teeth playing in front of an audience in a Chicago Blues band with Mississippi Delta born Eddie Taylor (Jimmy Reeds sideman) and his sons Larry and then Timmy on drums from '79-'85. We were sort of a blk&wht band in the mode of Britain's The Specials, Madness, Selector etc - a mixed race, old and young band. (at least for the Specials) Ever since then I have been ultra critical of "white-boy blues. (being white myself and yet having a fuller awareness of ) Or let me put it this way... not everyone should "sing the blues" TM And not to say that every human on earth doesn't need to sing the blues at one time or another... but what's going on in Blues is the feel and connection. In a way more than any other genre of music. Heartfelt blues is awesome - generic 'blue's' is at least boring and at worse awful.

real blues - listen to the bass ... he's 150% on it.

I know what you mean about generic blues. I got into jamming with some (older than me) dudes that were into the blues. Great players, but they had these hokey versions of blues tunes that sounded like cheese whiz on wonder bread. I didn’t recognize Love in Vain the first time around.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Nice...
Gibson V Bass 1981 Black first year | Rockin' TelAviv | Reverb

 

[JIO]

I know what you mean about generic blues. I got into jamming with some (older than me) dudes that were into the blues. Great players, but they had these hokey versions of blues tunes that sounded like cheese whiz on wonder bread. I didn’t recognize Love in Vain the first time around.

The thing about blues is that it comes in many flavors and is blended in jazz, funk, soul and rock.

Here's one of Eddies LP's - we played all these songs and this recording sounds most like what we sounded like live. It has piano (Sunnyland Slim I think) but live we were only 2 guitars, bass and drums.


And a blues song from the early '50s my band plays by Willie Dixon and Ko-Ko Taylor -

 

[Engle]

The thing about blues is that it comes in many flavors and is blended in jazz, funk, soul and rock.

Here's one of Eddies LP's - we played all these songs and this recording sounds most like what we sounded like live. It has piano (Sunnyland Slim I think) but live we were only 2 guitars, bass and drums.


And a blues song from the early '50s my band plays by Willie Dixon and Ko-Ko Taylor -

Ready for Eddie!

 

[JIO]

Nice...
Gibson V Bass 1981 Black first year | Rockin' TelAviv | Reverb

Here's another one - looks like the body is made of maple (?)

Gibson Flying V Bass 1981 Transparent Blue | SS VINTAGE | Reverb

 

[Bassmike62]

Here's another one - looks like the body is made of maple (?)

Gibson Flying V Bass 1981 Transparent Blue | SS VINTAGE | Reverb

I would probably not think of associating those 2 colors on anything, but they look real good together on this bass.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

the small rig has almost twice the power...progress..

 

[BklynKen]

the small rig has almost twice the power...progress..
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How about the sound?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

How about the sound?

subjective, I’m a big proponent of bipolar (not FET) output stages........in a nutshell, I can dial both in to sound very similar..... the Ashdown can do everything the SVT can (and more) while the opposite is not true..

 

[MCF]

Here's another one - looks like the body is made of maple (?)

Gibson Flying V Bass 1981 Transparent Blue | SS VINTAGE | Reverb

Nice one! But ouch. At least shipping is free.

 

[MCF]

Inspired by @Nocturnal to get the mini shed in the home office done today.

 

[Nocturnal]

Inspired by @Nocturnal to get the mini shed in the home office done today.
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Looking good!!

 

[MCF]

Looking good!!

Thanks!

 

[Bassmike62]

Inspired by @Nocturnal to get the mini shed in the home office done today. View attachment 4176935

With all those headstock pics in the last few days, I'm really noticing for the 1st time how much they vary from year to year and model to model. Another part of that unique vibe they have.

 

[LetItGrowTone]

time to revoice the EQ on this......
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AND reduce the coupling to that honking transformer....

Would you mind telling me how you discovered that there was a problem, or what the symptom was?
I imagine that every SVT-II had/has the same problem. Is it subtle so that most people don't notice it?
Thank you very much.