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Thunderbird Club
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
There can be more than one Flamingo. And there is!
Nashville has a great music scene. I’d bet you could find an open mike venue somewhere, you’d just have to bone up on your Rawhide and Stand By Your Man tunes.
I'm finalizing the concept here in the next week or so, I had a ground come loose and I put her in the case for a year to see if that would fix it.
I need to relocate the side dots still, and I have a headstock decal and pink strings on the way!
I thought about making a stand for her out of two wires so I don't have to hold her or use a strap...
So is that a refinish you did or a factory colour? do I spy some sparkle in there?
It's been a few years since I built a bass, so decided to look in my parts cupboard to see what I had lying about.
I dug out a body I had made for a previous T-bird type build ( made from 2 pieces of sepele ) that had been painted a few times, so I stripped it back to wood.
Then I started getting "creative", shortened the shape, rounded off the back edge and power filed some "modern looking" chamfers on the edges.
Here's where it is now after several passes of hi-build primer and wet-sanding.
Mocked up a possible scratchplate design in card, which kinda works.
I have a neck set aside for it ( maple board with black block inlays ), a pair of Gibson Thunderbird pickups and some black Hipshot ultralights.
I'll source a nice black bridge then try and decide on a colour.
I initially thought blue or purple, but I'm expecting a Dingwall D-roc 5 string in blue to purple colour shift shortly, so need to come up with a different scheme.
I dug out a body I had made for a previous T-bird type build ( made from 2 pieces of sepele ) that had been painted a few times, so I stripped it back to wood.
Then I started getting "creative", shortened the shape, rounded off the back edge and power filed some "modern looking" chamfers on the edges.
Here's where it is now after several passes of hi-build primer and wet-sanding.
Mocked up a possible scratchplate design in card, which kinda works.
I have a neck set aside for it ( maple board with black block inlays ), a pair of Gibson Thunderbird pickups and some black Hipshot ultralights.
I'll source a nice black bridge then try and decide on a colour.
I initially thought blue or purple, but I'm expecting a Dingwall D-roc 5 string in blue to purple colour shift shortly, so need to come up with a different scheme.
Nashville has a great music scene. I’d bet you could find an open mike venue somewhere, you’d just have to bone up on your Rawhide and Stand By Your Man tunes.
I want to know when that happens.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
You do spy some sparkle there! It is a refin. I spent a fair amount of money to get it shot in nitro. The refin turned up a bunch of issues where the bass was kinda pounded before the refin. Burst hides flaws that Burgundy Mist Metallic just doesn't. That's fine. 20 years from now, it will have more bumps and bruises and wear. It gets played a lot. It competes with the pixie dust 2001 for my favorite bass guitar.
New pic from new(flip)phone. Missed TT. Didn't get to AT&T Store to be able to send 'til today. Oh, well.
I'm talking attracting unwanted mod bad idea. Let's not!
Loved The Guess Who clip. Hope to never see the other two ever again. Would rather watch ABBA.
The Guess Who was the only one I watched. The announcer was a hoot (unintentionally, I'm sure).
Good version, but would rather hear ABBA so it.
My feelings exactly (other than not listening to this Z version).
I love Barry - he's a helluva performer; while this may not be one of his best clips, he does throw a great show. My wife has dragged me to Vegas 3 times to see him and once in San Antonio. Well maybe she didn't "drag" me to Vegas (I would go willingly of course). Barry used to do 3-5 shows a week in Vegas for years and he's in his 70s. I get tickets to Aerosmith in Vegas and they cancel after 3 months of 3 shows a week cause Steven Tyler's voice is out? What the Hell? Then I check for plane tickets to see if I can catch the reschedule on the Saturday when we're supposed to leave and it's $1800 to change our flights. This was 2019. Sucks.
Kirshner was a great producer but on camera had the personality of a dishrag. Dick Clark he was not.
I hear he's a great performer. I simply can't stand listening to him. <shrug>
That does suck.
Not fond of ABBA at all, never really latched on to Zappa (it’s an acquired taste), always liked the Guess Who, and I usually cringe when I hear Barry Manilow’s name. But I watched all three clips just to keep an open mind.
I found Zappa’s rendition painful to watch, it’s like wired Al Yankovich trying to be serious. I’ll give it 2 thumbs down.
The Guess Who clip wasn’t bad, for some reason it kinda reminded me of something the Doobie Brothers would do. It scores 1 thumb up in my book. Could have been higher if I actually liked the song, but they did do a nice job of un-disco-ing it.
Surprisingly, Barry did a pretty good job of making a Las Vegas production out of it and it was even watchable (which is more than I can say for a lot of his work). I’d give it 2 thumbs up, mostly because it’s, in my mind, the way the song should have been originally if disco hadn’t been influencing everything.
JMHO YMMV
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I like it so far. 'sepele' - is that an alder-like wood?
