Hmm. Last one wouldn't play. I may hafta dig out-and rebattery-my P.O.S. phaser. Just for S&G, ya know. Does add some, IDK, depth(?).
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Thunderbird Club
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Sounds very tasty!Oh, and you ain’t even seen what finish is goin on the body.
I had to do a complete paradigm change on the finish because of a bone head assumption I made (ended up costing me a bunch). The original plan was to match my blonde tiger stripe maple SG, which I could easily do myself at very little cost.
Unfortunately the “Fender sized” neck that I had originally purchased for the bass was a less than perfect fit in the pocket. I thought I could make it work without too much hassle so I drilled all the pilot holes for the bridge and hard tail with the neck in place. Then along came a Fender neck at a price I couldn’t refuse. Installed the Fender neck and much to my surprise, it was 3/4” closer to the bridge. That meant there were now six pilot holes in the wrong spots and there’s no way you can hide those on a blonde finish. I needed to go dark to have any hope of masking the holes.
So she’s now going to be a tiger eye burst. Still plenty gaudy though it should work great with the gold trim and will be a bit closer to a traditional Tbird tobacco burst in color.
if the string spacing works, Hipshot sells a tailpiece with or without their D style bridge. A bit pricy, but it’s there and undoubtedly well made. Surely they aren’t alone.
I just told Sharon the other day its been donkey years since I had a shirt that needed them.
Within your recording parameters, it sounds like that phaser does a good job.
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My 'Thunderbird Thursday' was the early AM delivery of my 'newly aquired '70 (Czech) Jolana Kolorbas. (with metallic art treatment) Took two months to arrive from Russian Federation Czechoslovakia.
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At rehearsal last night, Paul (guitarist) started playing Aqua lung ... I told him to stop it.
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As with typical band-mate "humor", much is trolled for fun. But Freebird would be crossing a line.
Thanks, I'm interested to bring the Phase 90 home and compare.
I know it's a running joke with it being the most requested rock song ever, but I can sure think of an almost endless list of songs I would rather not hear other than Freebird.
…..didn’t know Casady slapped..
Odd. Seems to work for me.
Give it a try sometime. It's not for every song by any means, but does add a little something interesting at times other than just a note ringing out. Slow floaty type songs seem well suited for a little phaser in my experience. I think the trick is subtle--not an outer space kind of sound. Anything about about half way in unusable for typical bass unless you are going for the "out there" sound for the hippy dippy weather man sound.
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Some folks hate on Skynyrd because they were/are good ol' boys. I'll tell you what... I'd rather hang with some good ol' boys any day of the week than snooty uptight types.
And last night, I did just that driving over an hour each way to hangout with the fine members of Pröwess from NC. They're in town for 3 nights of shows and tonight I'll be rocking and hanging with them after their set at The World Famous Machine Shop. Just a 20 minute drive tonight.
These are my people!
When did you get a sparkly VP Thunderbird? Your hand seems all better.
