Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

That just looks so wrong.

But the color is nice.

 

[Gaolee]

Weird. It looks much better on the web site.

Bass : Ultra Bass

That color, it has Marshall's name all over it.

 

[BklynKen]

That color, it has Marshall's name all over it.

It does. I was going to apologize in advance for posting that link.

 

[MCF]

Not surprisingly, there's a lot of T-bird dissing going on in the comment section. Cretans all.

I didn’t bother to look. I think that’s the same channel that did that awful video comparing a VP to a Gibson.

 

[WillyW]

Weird. It looks much better on the web site.

Bass : Ultra Bass

I do kinda like it but not enough to give up my future burgundy NR, even though it’s a bit cheaper…

at least it’s not a crap color…

 

[BklynKen]

I do kinda like it but not enough to give up my future burgundy NR, even though it’s a bit cheaper…

at least it’s not a crap color…

I was talking about the pickguard, but agreed. I'm sure it's no Thunderbird.

 

[ToddOfThunder]

It's kinda like a Tele and Thunderbird love child - Probably my fave shape from Schecter.

It kinda reminds me of a Reverend.

 

[WillyW]

It kinda reminds me of a Reverend.

Yeah, I knew there was something else about it.

I really do admire the Schecter and Reverend geetars, but I got BC Rich, Ric, and Gibson so deeply ingrained it’s hard to stray…

 

[ToddOfThunder]

Yeah, I knew there was something else about it.

I really do admire the Schecter and Reverend geetars, but I got BC Rich, Ric, and Gibson so deeply ingrained it’s hard to stray…

Nothing wrong with that at all! I was just looking at the Reverend basses and I was wrong the Schecter doesn’t look like a Reverend at all!

 

[WillyW]

Nothing wrong with that at all! I was just looking at the Reverend basses and I was wrong the Schecter doesn’t look like a Reverend at all!

Reverend has one that is SG/7ender bass-ish that’s kinda cool, AND it comes in colours other than that god-awful Gibson cherry.

but it’s just this side of weird lookin’ even for me.

 

[ToddOfThunder]

Reverend has one that is SG/7ender bass-ish that’s kinda cool, AND it comes in colours other than that god-awful Gibson cherry.

but it’s just this side of weird lookin’ even for me.

I did see that one and liked the shape

 

[Larry V]

I think hair metal was ripe for parody by the early 80s. As evidenced by Blotto's 1982 song Metalhead

These dudes were from Upstate NY where I grew up and while I agree it was parody, it was also liked by metalheads because it spoke to what was happening in the early 80's with kids my age. We were discovering Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and other harder edged music that resonated with us. The music our parents made us listen to with headphones on was what we wanted because we were becoming metalheads just like the song talks about. 13 y/o me didn't understand that it was making fun of metalheads because it said exactly what we were feeling. I can laugh along with them now but 40 years ago, it spoke to me and I raised my fist in unity!

 

[PillO]

These dudes were from Upstate NY where I grew up and while I agree it was parody, it was also liked by metalheads because it spoke to what was happening in the early 80's with kids my age. We were discovering Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and other harder edged music that resonated with us. The music our parents made us listen to with headphones on was what we wanted because we were becoming metalheads just like the song talks about. 13 y/o me didn't understand that it was making fun of metalheads because it said exactly what we were feeling. I can laugh along with them now but 40 years ago, it spoke to me and I raised my fist in unity!

Hmmm. At the time, I recognized it as parody, but still liked the song. I was also getting into Iron Maiden and Motley Crue.

 

[PillO]

But, I didn't hurt myself wrestling with her. It was on a mat with a referee.

Wrestling with Mat and the Referee... Maybe I lived a sheltered adolescence, but I didn't know anyone who had a threesome.

 

[dagrev]

My girlfriend at the time looked a lot like a young Linda Ronstadt, short hair version. She became the crazy, so the fact that she was very cute became irrelevant. But, I didn't hurt myself wrestling with her. It was on a mat with a referee. Not near as satisfying. I hadn't discovered bass yet at the time, let alone Thunderbirds.

I don't think you are supposed to wrestle the referee. Had you already matted your opponent and still had some aggression to let out or did he not count fast enough? Possibly it was that kind of "wrestling" on TV where chairs, ladders and others get involved!


* I do not watch that form of "wrestling."

 

[MCF]

Having that vintage sound in my head for decades it was somewhat easy to find a lot of faults with the modern sounding pickups. But after some time, many string changes and the fact that the instrument is just as wonderful as one can get, I learned to like it. (Not to the same degree as vintage sounding PUs). In fact, I would not change the TBs out for what was in the video. No way. They do sound better, which means a lot considering it's something I never thought I would say a year ago or so.

I’m a fan of the Tbird+ pickups in the two Thunderbirds I own that have them. I wouldn’t change them for anything else. But the pickups in the new NR are something special. I couldn’t put it down on Sunday, it was so much fun.

 

[Count Bassie]

You don't want pictures of a 16 year old Gaolee lying on the floor with his head cranked over at a weird angle. Really, you don't. And there aren't any pictures of that, either. No pictures of the girlfriend at the time either. You might like those, but I don't have any.

I can deal with that...

 

[Gaolee]

Yeah, I knew there was something else about it.

I really do admire the Schecter and Reverend geetars, but I got BC Rich, Ric, and Gibson so deeply ingrained it’s hard to stray…

I stray on occasion, but come back to Gibsons pretty fast. Straying is rarer and rarer.

 

[GonePlaid]

I think hair metal was ripe for parody by the early 80s. As evidenced by Blotto's 1982 song Metalhead

 

[GonePlaid]

These dudes were from Upstate NY where I grew up and while I agree it was parody, it was also liked by metalheads because it spoke to what was happening in the early 80's with kids my age. We were discovering Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and other harder edged music that resonated with us. The music our parents made us listen to with headphones on was what we wanted because we were becoming metalheads just like the song talks about. 13 y/o me didn't understand that it was making fun of metalheads because it said exactly what we were feeling. I can laugh along with them now but 40 years ago, it spoke to me and I raised my fist in unity!

I have a tendency to listen to the overall sound of a song rather than attempt to understand the sometimes garbled lyrics(think "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida", etc.). Plus, with age my hearing has become less accurate.