Thunderbird Club

[Larry V]

I just had some Leek Soup for late breakfast - you'll get your wish a little later today - I think we're doing a Greco vid later.

Nice!

 

[BklynKen]

Time to pedal a kidney Ken! WoW!

It's not that expensive! But good thing I'm not into the single pickup thing. No thumb rest.

 

[BklynKen]

I've wanted one of these V basses for a while, or the Ibanez version (one has a set neck, one's bolt on, can't remember which is which), but given the EB-3 pickup arrangement, it'd need a bit of a revamp. I actually think he gets a sound exactly how I'd expect an EB-3 to sound. Could always pop a Curtis Novak EB-BSx in, which is a Bisonic/Darkstar pickup under a EB-0 pickup cover, but I might be inclined to go a bit more extensive, and pull both pickups and put in three Thunderbird pickups.

I could so see you rocking' a V.

 

[KaraQ]

TT...
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Since I don’t have "twins" for Thunderbird Thursday any more, figured I'd take a pic of my most electronically complex, with the the least

 

[GonePlaid]

It's not that expensive! But good thing I'm not into the single pickup thing. No thumb rest.

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[BklynKen]

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Enabler....

 

[GonePlaid]

Enabler....

Guilty.

 

[PillO]

gotta love the internet when disputing the validity of a repair....

Can't trust that guy. He is doing all this in his garage, doing slappity poppity, not playing a Thunderbird. He would have way more credibility if he were wearing a hat of some kind and didn't smile...

 

[JIO]

Greco Flying V Bass

RED MUCK ...

 

[Klondike]

Can't trust that guy. He is doing all this in his garage, doing slappity poppity, not playing a Thunderbird. He would have way more credibility if he were wearing a Tin Foil hat of some kind and didn't smile...

Fixed it for ya

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Can't trust that guy. He is doing all this in his garage, doing slappity poppity, not playing a Thunderbird. He would have way more credibility if he were wearing a hat of some kind and didn't smile...

 

[GBassNorth]

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Chuck, I like your new sweater.

 

[devilof76]

Great bass!

Have you considered white knobs?

I had not. Chrome was the other direction I’d been thinking, but I decided I preferred sticking with the original style.

You may be onto something though. I’m not entirely satisfied with these and whites would still have the silver label. Let me find $10 and I’ll get back to you.

 

[BklynKen]

Let me find $10 and I’ll get back to you.

It fell behind the night table.

 

[BklynKen]

TT

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I hear ya, and wish I had bought one a couple of years ago when I had the chance. You'd be hard pressed to find one within $500 of what you paid, many are running nearly double of what they were just three years ago. Truly makes no sense from a player standpoint, it almost looks like speculators are driving the used bass market right now.

BTW, have I ever mentioned I detest "flippers". This is exactly why. They artificially drive prices up and end up pricing honest players out of the market. If you want to collect, collect. But buying for the soul purpose of immediately reselling at substantial profit really irks me. I don't sell basses often, but when I do, one of the first things I try to confirm is that the buyer isn't a flipper.

100

 

[Miles_ONeal]

My old band used the same tuning as well. I'm sure you thought of it, but I used the next heavier gage in RS66s(50-110) and never had to file the nut at all. They felt great and I was able to go back to 45-105 without having to do any nut filling(ahem). I just changed the strings and kept on truckn!

Not sure what gauge these are; they came with the VP.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I always kept myself busy making things in our "rec-room" (dad improved basement - knotty pine walls, drop acoustic tile ceiling & brown/white checkered linoleum tiled floor). My record-player was there and I would hang for hours listening to singles/LP's (Beatles. Rolling Stones, Steppenwolf, Bowie, Led Zep, Vanilla Fudge, Cream, Hendrix etc...) and doing things on the ping-pong table in the center of the space. Model cars primarily, but any number of invented 'projects' then occupied me. I also liked to be outside, riding my bike and playing sports so I didn't leave myself much opportunity to get into boredom-inspired trouble.

On my own, that was me, but I fell in with some people with less savory tastes. we all kind of fed off each other (not in a vampirish way). Thankfully I started hanging with Martin in 10th or 11th grade.

 

[Klondike]

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oh man that gig bag says "broken neck" all over it.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

As a kid I liked Seasons in the Sun but not sure why because it was a bummer even when it was a new song. As an adult I find it even more depressing.

I'd probably have liked it had it come out in 8th grade instead of the year I graduated HS. If the tune was atchy I often gave the lyrics no thought back then. Sometimes I'd be singing along with a song and someone would point out what I was singing, and I'd freak out, having subconsciously learned the song without "hearing" the words being sung.
If only I could do that with bass parts reliably.