Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

Indeed. It would be fascinating to know just how many still survive, and how many disappear each year from the scene.

I know of a collector (attorney) in LA who has one of each from the sixties. He doesn’t play them. He’s primarily a guitar collector and has quite the hoard.

 

[MCF]

Yeah. Come to the Kool Kids table! We have cake! And Thunderbirds!

My favorites are lemon, spice and chocolate. Any will do.

 

[Rocker47]

My plan is to leave the original strap button in place and add the new one at the heel. That way it gives me options if I ever need to use a different strap. That situation will likely never happen in a million years but if I remove that original button, then that situation will absolutely happen somehow. That is just how my brain works.

I hear that! I'm usually the guy with 5 extra of everything. I think I'll take my chances on this one. I have a couple straps set up for Tbirds. I hope I never have to eat my words!

 

[PillO]

I've always wanted to give an original song, or one they've never heard to several bass players to see what they come up with and ask them how and why they did what they did. Much of the time I play what is in my head on some some songs (assuming it works and sounds good). It's interesting to notice a new dynamic in a song just by what the bass plays. (True of most instruments as well). Other times, you just can't improve on the original.

I occasionally take simple bass lines and play them in the style of Steve Harris. Sometimes it works, sometimes it is hilariously bad.

 

[Feral Feline]

Avoid the brown cool-aid...




@MCF — I do like the Reverends. As a bottom feeder, pun in ten did, if one comes my way I'll snap it up. I likely wouldn't seek one out specifically, but I got a great deal on a Warwick and I don't even like Warwicks (too heavy for my taste) ... maybe I can trade that in on a Rev.

As for Big Sugar, I've been a fan from when it was just a trio. Things took a huge turn for the even-better when Garry Lowe joined in '94. It's one of those bands that "just does it" for me, more-so than other more popular artists in the mainstream. Alas, three years ago the Big-C took Mr Lowe to play his rhythms over on the other side.

Hemi-Vision is the album to get, though Heated has great tracks, too.

You might also like an offshoot of Big Sugar, Grady, which is a little harder edged than Shuggah. Features Thunderbird-wielding Big Ben Richardson's bass-bludgeoning with former Double-Troubler Chris "Whipper" Layton pounding skins.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

While I've always liked the sound Gibsons and Gretsch, a Strat in the *right* hands is a wonderful guitar - Ritchie Blackmore also comes to mind, a man with a style all his own that could really play *that* guitar.

Also David Gilmour and Mark Knoffler, as well as Eric when he was on his game.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Everyone lumps Trower in with Hendrix, and look, on the surface, I get it. Strat, univibe, Marshalls. Sure, similar set up. But if you have ever listened to more than two songs by either, you'll never mistake them for each other. There's something about Trower's chord selection that is just...different. Special. The tone is superficially similar, but the playing is very different, at least IMHO. Trower can rip, but a lot of what makes his stuff special is the economy of notes. He's a master class in economy of notes, and doing the most while playing so little. I recently bought a univibe to hash out some songs on guitar, and have been studying his song structures, and he does so much with so little, it wild.

And then Dewar, my goodness...

Thank you. I got so tired of people saying Trower was a Hendrix clone. (Same with Frank Marino.)

 

[Thumper]

Might be done today!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

A little taste of my beat '66 Thunderbird II through my Orange Terror Bass. Trying to cover the piano interlude in Mott/Bad Co Ready for Love.

Sweet!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

"How do we edit this for A.M. radio??"

Fade in / fade out. I hated those.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Fade in / fade out. I hated those.

Hey hey! Border Blasters were COOOL...

 

[Nocturnal]

I hear that! I'm usually the guy with 5 extra of everything. I think I'll take my chances on this one. I have a couple straps set up for Tbirds. I hope I never have to eat my words!

I am sure you are safe. It's just the way my brain is.

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That is going to look killer!!

 

[Nocturnal]

It's funny that there has been so much discussion on Robin Trower the last few days. Yesterday I saw a post on a FB page and the guy started out with an "I always think of Robin Trower as a Hendrix clone" statement. Must be something in the air.

 

[MCF]

Hey hey! Border Blasters were COOOL...
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XERB and Wolfman’s show! Then the movie (American Graffiti) made him a star and the X became but a memory.

 

[GBassNorth]

Yep anything is better than this. I use Schallers on everything.

I started with Schallers years ago and have just stuck with them since. May or may not be the current best solution but they work fine for me. With Schallers it's extremely important to occasionally check the body screw for tightness as well as the strap nut.

 

[Engle]

I know of a collector (attorney) in LA who has one of each from the sixties. He doesn’t play them. He’s primarily a guitar collector and has quite the hoard.

^This here is sad to me. Baseball cards are collectibles. Basses and guitars are musical instruments that were crafted to make beautiful waves in the air.
I understand that they can be considered pieces of visual art, but not playing them at all...sucks.

 

[GonePlaid]

Fade in / fade out. I hated those.

My favorite.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

^This here is sad to me. Baseball cards are collectibles. Basses and guitars are musical instruments that were crafted to make beautiful waves in the air.
I understand that they can be considered pieces of visual art, but not playing them at all...sucks.

until some little kid knocks your 60’s bird over snapping the headstock off and all you get is a “go apologize to the man” from the parents....harsh reality..

 

[69'Vette]

until some little kid knocks your 60’s bird over snapping the headstock off and all you get is a “go apologize to the man” from the parents....harsh reality..

This. I'd leave the vintage stuff at home for any situation where I thought that was even a remote possibility.

 

[Instagator]

It's funny that there has been so much discussion on Robin Trower the last few days. Yesterday I saw a post on a FB page and the guy started out with an "I always think of Robin Trower as a Hendrix clone" statement. Must be something in the air.

Here is a vintage picture of me at a keg party in the 70’s..You had to go to the tee shirt shop and pick out the iron on and they would press it for you while you waited..and you had to wear the blank tee shirt as they ironed it on ..kids these days have it made