Loooove the Smithereens, and yeah, always great bass.
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Thunderbird Club
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Is that near a Pet Sematery?
- Mar 13, 2008
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I thought that was an exceptional demonstration, V! Some playing 'in context' with music (tough to do, but gets the point across), then a great descriptive overview of the instrument, followed by some solo sounds. That's how it's done! Thanks so much for sharing that!
The Lollars are outstanding! My main daily driver ('02 Gibson reverse) has em and I love them.
Ken and I discussed this privately the other day, but I'll share here if maybe it could be helpful to someone. I currently have 4 basses with TBird style pickups and I think I recently posted audio of all 4 playing with a drum beat. One day I'll string em all up exactly the same so the differences are more noticeable. Based on the comments from that audio clip everyone had different favorites, but based on the clip I'd be happy recording with any of them. For live playing I tend to favor the Gibson w/Lollars over the others. Just a bit beefier in the lows. For recording aggressive stuff I tend to prefer my Cataldo MR41 with a single ThunderBucker '66 pickup. It sits in a track a bit easier than the Gibson and I'm really not sure why…it just often tends to.
For less aggressive stuff I like my Fano w/ Dennis Fano TB style pickups. I don't have enough playing time with my Greco reverse to have much of an opinion, but it recorded nicely, even with those Pure Blues strings that I really don't care for. The Greco is also a tad heavy and neck dives, so I either have to try some ultra light tuners to see if that helps, or sell it once my '21 Gibson NR shows up. It's a great bass, but I have way more basses than room at the moment
Mine look very similar
Thanks Mark!
Re the number of Thunderbirds, your obvious solution is to add on another room to the house.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
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It's here! I stopped by this evening to visit. I have to wait till tomorrow to get the final price. Pictures and video soon.
No Chechen blood, maybe it's the Irish whiskey…..?
Thanks Scott!! It really is beautiful in person. Some friends stopped by last night to see our new house and all 4 of them kept commenting on how much they loved the color and overall look of the bass. Its a keeper!
Good deal!!
They couldn't move the piano on my side of the stage..Oh well..
makes a good amp stand
Thanks for the great compare and contrast. Thunderbucker seems to be my first choice if I were going to do a swap, but the Lollars are right there with them. Lollar's are what RS Guitar Works uses in these. And I want one of these as well..... Not distressed....Ken and I discussed this privately the other day, but I'll share here if maybe it could be helpful to someone. I currently have 4 basses with TBird style pickups and I think I recently posted audio of all 4 playing with a drum beat. One day I'll string em all up exactly the same so the differences are more noticeable. Based on the comments from that audio clip everyone had different favorites, but based on the clip I'd be happy recording with any of them. For live playing I tend to favor the Gibson w/Lollars over the others. Just a bit beefier in the lows. For recording aggressive stuff I tend to prefer my Cataldo MR41 with a single ThunderBucker '66 pickup. It sits in a track a bit easier than the Gibson and I'm really not sure why…it just often tends to.
For less aggressive stuff I like my Fano w/ Dennis Fano TB style pickups. I don't have enough playing time with my Greco reverse to have much of an opinion, but it recorded nicely, even with those Pure Blues strings that I really don't care for. The Greco is also a tad heavy and neck dives, so I either have to try some ultra light tuners to see if that helps, or sell it once my '21 Gibson NR shows up. It's a great bass, but I have way more basses than room at the moment
There's a Sunburst with.......tort. So that's not going to get any attention.
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It's good to be the god!
On the bridge off center question. I think Gibson must drill/route before they surface the sides of the center block to prepare them for gluing of the wings.
Is it still a V joint on modern Gibson's?
Is it still a V joint on modern Gibson's?
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Yes, for reasons of strength still a V joint.
Please stop using that four letter word.
Some more Non Reverse fun, I do a bit of explanation after the song, feel free to FF through my pedestrian playing
Crap! Now I'm gonna hafta seriously consider melting a credit card. Great sound and explanation. Maybe if we get a few more bookings-that don't get 86'ed.
Happy black Thunderbird Friday!
Same as I did on the Pro V- plug the holes and drill new ones. But those were small screws and the bridge was much further off. The VP bugs me once in a while, but not enough to demand I do that.
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How do they not know the price???
I've wondered since day one- why the tort hate here?
