Thunderbird Club

[JJR58]

Great lookin' basses!

My usual antics.
I'm pretty predictable.

 

[GBassNorth]

totally agree, don’t think Gibson ever adopted tort….wasn’t originally a 7ender exclusive thing? sure looks good on butterscotch….
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I have a Gibson FSO (called an 2013 EB ) and it came stock with 3TSB and a Tort guard and humbuckers with coil switching (essentially the same pups and switching as the 2015 Tbird). I think Gibson was trying to out Fender Fender with that very short lived model. In fact IIRC 2013 was the only year tort was offered on the EB, they came to their senses after that.

My 2013 EB came originally with a tort pick guard. It's different from Fender tort, but it's been replaced with black anyway.

Kept mine stock with the tort. I figure not many Gibson owners would do that. Haven’t played that bass in a while. Might have to give it a spin tonight.

I didn't know Alvin was still recording.

LOL - I turned that clip on and it wasn’t 5 seconds after the singing started that my wife told me to turn it off or go in another room. I’m sure there are plenty of listeners and fans and groupies for this kind of music, but I’ll pass.

 

[JJR58]

Doublers Friday?
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F'n Bad A$$ Mark

 

[JJR58]

Oh heck, why not.......

don't care much at this point.

 

[RedVee]

Same. I just don't bother much with tv in general.
Just give me re-runs of My Favorite Martian.

Ha! It is coming up to census time here and my lil sister messaged me that she put Mauritian Creole as 2nd heritage after Irish, as a nod to Mum.

Unfortunately she made a typo and it came out Martian Creole!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

This isn't strictly (or remotely, I guess ) Thunderbird related but....

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....I don't know if I should be inspired to practice more , or inspired to just give up & sell off all my music stuff

(assuming that link works, of course)

I think that's how old Alejandra was in the first Warning video I saw.

I just remember that I do this first for me. At 9 I think a bicycle was one of the few things I was coordinated on, and even then I had some embarrassing moments.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'm likely the only one here who doesn't have Netflix....

Nope. But we do have all the MCU, LoTR, and Star Wars movies on DVD or BluRay. And some chill.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'm not sure I like you any more..... That's a heavy dose of humility to dump on someone Kara!

I wish I'd had someone musical in my life when really young to get me consistently playing more than the radio. Had I started at her age I would unmistakably be less bad than I am.

One of the reasons I'm as good as I am (which is so-so) is that I started playing trombone at the age of 10. I learned some music theory, and had to get a lot more coordinated quickly. It also got me paying more attention to bass lines, even though from high school until ~10 years ago, I mainly played guitar if I played anything.

But I have as much fun playing likely as those with real talent--and I don't have to work as hard to have the same amount of fun playing. So there!

Little fart! Don't think I ever got my Stingray to sound that good either!

You just need that Tech21 Geddy pedal.

Plus, Thunderbirds chose you. Ask them to fill in where you need it. They're vested.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

practice rig tonight…

space in the middle of nowhere so CRANK IT UP!!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Ha! It is coming up to census time here and my lil sister messaged me that she put Mauritian Creole as 2nd heritage after Irish, as a nod to Mum.

Unfortunately she made a typo and it came out Martian Creole!

Rats. Typo? And here I thought maybe we were related!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Teenage mutant ninja tort?
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Daaaang. Now I want a bird like that.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Have just one hit off that vape.

but since you were wearing these no one could tell right?....

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Easily. We don't have Netflix or anything like that. We don't have cable TV, either. Neither my wife nor I have missed either one.

We have no time for that. There's a "how many of these 100 shows have you watched" thing that's been going around facebook. They're all within the last decade or so. While I've heard of almost all of them, I have seen nary an episode of any.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

So hard not to say “That’s it, I quit”. Being trounced by an 8 year old is beyond humbling, it’s borderline discouraging. I just keep telling myself - I’m not trying to be the best bass player out there, I’m in it for the fun and to maintain mental and physical dexterity. Besides, I’d hate to give up my membership number in the “Lousy bass players with expensive gear” club.

Hats off to the kid, she looks like she’s having fun and sounds like she is a relatively accomplished player at a ridiculously young age. She has her whole life in front of her, I hope she makes the most of it.

She's 9, not 8, so you're fine.

 

[Nocturnal]

Thanks! Might even get here in time for the next TT. Coming from PA.

Was that the one on Reverb?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Same. I just don't bother much with tv in general.
Just give me re-runs of My Favorite Martian.

I do miss that show.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Isn't that just you looking in the mirror? ;-)

I'm the resident half Martian.

 

[JJR58]

I'm the resident half Martian.

I'm that and then some.

 

[GBassNorth]

She's 9, not 8, so you're fine.

LOL - well, that changes everything. I’m 12.5% less depressed now.

 

[BklynKen]

That's great. That's not very far, so hopefully you're right. I'm sure finding decent lefties is a huge understatement.

Being a lefty myself, I'm curious how to started playing. Did you start out playing lefty because it seemed more natural or did you switch at some point?

When I was a lot younger I payed guitar right-handed, but never really stuck with it. Fast forward many years and friend asked me to play bass in his band. I had to basically start all over again and playing left-handed just felt "right." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯