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Thunderbird Club

#190,601
JIO said:
At this point, I'm not in the hunt for one - especially since I have same period basses I love. My Coral Deluxe Bass is "like" a NR in body shape and it is such a nice bass. I can't imagine a '68 T-bird IV sounding/feeling/looking better.

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Plus, the mother of toilet seat scratch guard is a Coral only thing. Nobody else comes close. Never did and probably never will. That said, I don't miss the Coral Wasp I had. It wasn't quite like yours. But you already knew that.
 
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#190,602
Engle said:
Sure is nice to be playing right?
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I feel for all musicians that can't play w/their band due to the pandemic. When we couldn't rehearse - it was the hardest part of the lock-down for me. With the new variant, I hope that doesn't re-occur.
 
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#190,603
Bent77 said:
The concrete monolith and a 70s thunderbird do share the same design characteristics.
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Well.., considering the bridge was the (only) major difference, that would assume the original '63-'65 version Reverse was also aligned with concrete monoliths. I tend to equate the original T-bird to something more along theses lines...

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#190,605
Gaolee said:
I would drive one of those - if it was the right color. Not a factory color, either.
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There's a Mk (whatever) Continental in my hood - the hood is like 20' long! How would one ever navigate city streets in a vehicle like that? (oh yah... Shaft)


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#190,606
Gaolee said:
Plus, the mother of toilet seat scratch guard is a Coral only thing. Nobody else comes close. Never did and probably never will. That said, I don't miss the Coral Wasp I had. It wasn't quite like yours. But you already knew that.
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I paid homage...

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#190,608
bobyoung53 said:
Took out my non-reverse Thunderbird with stock strings for the first time tonight to a local Massachusetts jam, that thing REALLY sounds good. Very reminiscent of Entwistle with his. Plenty of bottom and top end. I also found out why British bassists of the 60's wore their basses so high. :laugh:


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I'm jelly you got to play thee NR out live! I do love the pickups, the sound really good through my rig, can't wait to hopefully crank it up in 2022.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
Took out my non-reverse Thunderbird with stock strings for the first time tonight to a local Massachusetts jam, that thing REALLY sounds good. Very reminiscent of Entwistle with his. Plenty of bottom and top end. I also found out why British bassists of the 60's wore their basses so high. :laugh:


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It was a stylistic "look" then but I feel a particular bass/instrument will dictate where it is to be optimally played. As in - no "one size fits all" .
 
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JIO said:
[QUOTE="TBird1958, post: 25893272, member: 113044"]Brutalist industrial design (that has to be a high point!) - The '70s were strange times.
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You know, I never thought of it that way... but then, imagine that '78 Thunderbird in place of the Corvette... :rollno:

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A Sydney (just one, there are more) mbr of the Brutalist school of the 1970s.
Public Housing - the Sirius Building, a giant collection of cement cubes stacked on top and beside each other.
Plonked down between the Harbour Bridge and circular quay and Opera House…. Where millions can see it.

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RedVee said:
You know, I never thought of it that way... but then, imagine that '78 Thunderbird in place of the Corvette... :rollno:

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A Sydney (just one, there are more) mbr of the Brutalist school of the 1970s.
Public Housing - the Sirius Building, a giant collection of cement cubes stacked on top and beside each other.
Plonked down between the Harbour Bridge and circular quay and Opera House…. Where millions can see it.

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Fugly!
 
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GonePlaid said:
A Sydney (just one, there are more) mbr of the Brutalist school of the 1970s.
Public Housing - the Sirius Building, a giant collection of cement cubes stacked on top and beside each other.
Plonked down between the Harbour Bridge and circular quay and Opera House…. Where millions can see it.

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Fugly![/QUOTE]
Yep, now the Govt decided to evict the public housing residents and have sold the building to developers to on sell the units to rich arseholes. Surprisingly, no more complaints about it being ugly.

I exaggerate a little.
 
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dagrev said:
Golf course behind the new (to us) house... Just waiting for you....

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Even get a little of this stuff you don't get in LA with the change of seasons, which you also don't get much of! I don't recommend too much of it.
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And food is delivered to the front door...
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Tired of all that hot, dry air and crazy high taxes yet? ;)
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I’m certainly tired of the Santa Anna winds and the SoCal Edison antics. Taxes are taxes, gonna have em in one form or another to varying degrees just about anywhere you go. We pretty much have three seasons here, a couple months of fall followed by a couple months of spring and about eight months of summer. I really don’t miss winter. But I really do miss the color green, not much of that around here unless it rains, and then it only stays green for a month or so before turning brown again. But hey, it’s SoCal, essentially a desert.

dagrev said:
o_O There was a management team?
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Im pretty sure they had a miss management team. :D

JIO said:
At this point, I'm not in the hunt for one - especially since I have same period basses I love. My Coral Deluxe Bass is "like" a NR in body shape and it is such a nice bass. I can't imagine a '68 T-bird IV sounding/feeling/looking better.

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love that coral bass!:thumbsup:

Bent77 said:
You know, I never thought of it that way... but then, imagine that '78 Thunderbird in place of the Corvette... :rollno:

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The concrete monolith and a 70s thunderbird do share the same design characteristics[/QUOTE]
Probably similar drag coefficients. :cool:
 
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