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I’m wearing the jacket and will remain a Browns fan until we get out of Ohio in a couple hours
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Thunderbird Club
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I’m wearing the jacket and will remain a Browns fan until we get out of Ohio in a couple hours
Well great. Now we need to hope some overthinking under-performing government type doesn't read this and think it's a great idea.
Remove those covers and you can get even more tones. Just sayin.....
How cool is that!
It was sounding mighty determined and authoritative...then there was that massive little until word....I’m wearing the jacket and will remain a Browns fan until we get out of Ohio in a couple hours
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I have a Line 6 Live pedal set and it was pretty time intensive on the front end to program to be sure. What I liked about was the I could create a custom program for each of my basses so I could balance or level their output, eq. etc. So when I would step on 8.1 it was the ideal for my purple '76, 8.2 would be set up for the Greco and it's high output pickup. So I made a preset for each of my basses and this allowed my to move between several different basses during a live show without having to do anything more than step on a pedal.
These days I'm just plugging into the amp and enjoying each of my Birds and their various strings without anything else in the chain.
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I’m wearing the jacket and will remain a Browns fan until we get out of Ohio in a couple hours
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
And about room blocks from my work. We haven't been to Emerald City yet. Slackers! I don't think they have a 'Bird any more.The Empire Builder lets you off 1/2 a block from the Queen's work - there's a plus!
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I did go pay homage to it, but yeah it's gone.
There's this one up by you.
1964 Gibson Thunderbird II Vintage Bass Guitar John Entwistle Signed w/ Case | Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar | Reverb
tonight's set at a winery in Saratoga....
seems like an FSO kind of eve.....still debating on whether to take the Eden or the Ashdown rig....
seems like an FSO kind of eve.....still debating on whether to take the Eden or the Ashdown rig....
Hummm..... Ashdown!
Great set list by the way. Most adults will find plenty of tunes they can groove to.
And why do you all live so far away?
And the requisite person staring at their phone.
Good plan!I’m wearing the jacket and will remain a Browns fan until we get out of Ohio in a couple hours
But, but...where do I put my thumb and pinkie? OK, there's the obvious, but that's not gonna help my tone.
See first sentence of post 180539, page 9027.
Just got back from a trip to couple of music stores with my daughter.
The first one had a new black Gibson Thunderbird. The neck had so much forward bow the action had to be at least 3/8 inch at the 12th fret! I pointed it out to the sales clerk and she said it wasn’t like that when when she unpacked it the other day. I suppose it did go from Nashville to Toronto to Vancouver.
One of the guys there tightened the truss rod to get it into playable territory and I tried it out.
Pros: nice and light, good fretwork, sounded good
Cons: finish flaws
. (I like Gibson and want them to succeed, but) they hadn’t filled the pores on the edges of the headstock and where the fingerboard meets the body was a mess. The black finish did not help, because you could see every flaw, including a divot (maybe a pore?) in the middle of the back.
That bass is $3k. Yikes!
Onto the next store, no a Gibson or Eppi Tbirds, but they had a couple of Dingwall D-Rocs. I think I played the standard. It was matte black with 3 pickups. That’s a nice Tbird-ish bass! Very light, set up nicely, and a good range of tones.
Hanging in a back corner was a 1963 Gretsch Country Gentleman bass. Easily the fattest neck I’ve ever seen on a bass guitar! And it has an end pin.
The first one had a new black Gibson Thunderbird. The neck had so much forward bow the action had to be at least 3/8 inch at the 12th fret! I pointed it out to the sales clerk and she said it wasn’t like that when when she unpacked it the other day. I suppose it did go from Nashville to Toronto to Vancouver.
One of the guys there tightened the truss rod to get it into playable territory and I tried it out.
Pros: nice and light, good fretwork, sounded good
Cons: finish flaws
. (I like Gibson and want them to succeed, but) they hadn’t filled the pores on the edges of the headstock and where the fingerboard meets the body was a mess. The black finish did not help, because you could see every flaw, including a divot (maybe a pore?) in the middle of the back.That bass is $3k. Yikes!
Onto the next store, no a Gibson or Eppi Tbirds, but they had a couple of Dingwall D-Rocs. I think I played the standard. It was matte black with 3 pickups. That’s a nice Tbird-ish bass! Very light, set up nicely, and a good range of tones.
Hanging in a back corner was a 1963 Gretsch Country Gentleman bass. Easily the fattest neck I’ve ever seen on a bass guitar! And it has an end pin.
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So, did it follow you home?Just got back from a trip to couple of music stores with my daughter.
The first one had a new black Gibson Thunderbird. The neck had so much forward bow the action had to be at least 3/8 inch at the 12th fret! I pointed it out to the sales clerk and she said it wasn’t like that when when she unpacked it the other day. I suppose it did go from Nashville to Toronto to Vancouver.
One of the guys there tightened the truss rod to get it into playable territory and I tried it out.
Pros: nice and light, good fretwork, sounded good
Cons: finish flaws
That bass is $3k. Yikes!
Onto the next store, no a Gibson or Eppi Tbirds, but they had a couple of Dingwall D-Rocs. I think I played the standard. It was matte black with 3 pickups. That’s a nice Tbird-ish bass! Very light, set up nicely, and a good range of tones.
Hanging in a back corner was a 1963 Gretsch Country Gentleman bass. Easily the fattest neck I’ve ever seen on a bass guitar! And it has an end pin.
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Well, if it is government, they will have to study the issue and consult with stake holders for two decades before making a mess of it...
