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Thunderbird Club
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Thank you sir!
I have seen Alice a few times over the last 6 years and he puts some much younger performers to shame.
Gaolee
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Basements aren't an issue in an earthquake. Falling in the hole is. We bolted our 1906 house to the foundation so that the next earthquake is less likely to make it bounce off the foundation. Not that it hasn't had multiple opportunities over the last 115 years to do that. We also built a shear wall down the center of the basement under the central beam, which was just sitting on posts. The posts were sitting on what passed as foundations in 1906, but aren't much more than small concrete blocks. It's sometimes amazing what awful construction has survived.Keep tempting me and I’ll show up at your doorstep with a moving van full of belongings.
Actually, I’d think the Simple flowing lines of the Tbird body would be a good canvass to start on, maybe rework the raised center section in kind of a stylized horizontal empire style shape with a couple of progressively stepped down layers to the body wings…
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…add a Hipshot bridge and use Dano style or Bakelite knobs and you’d be in the ballpark. The headstock would need a total rework but maybe something inspired by the lines of a flowing car hood ornament…
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The perfect “Air Guitar” for those with less imagination.
To put things in perspective, a 7.7 quake in your area would cause significantly more damage than a 7.7 quake in CA. Building codes, home styles and construction methods are completely different in CA (much less brick and fewer basements here) as is the geology. You’re sitting on lots of shale and clay with a high water table that would suffer a substantial liquefaction effect vs most of CA.
The Thunderbirds live down in the basement along with all the rest of my music toys, so the house better not fall in. I don't have enough leash to have something to play in every room in the house. Oh, well. First world problem.
Interesting. Are interior shear walls code on the West Coast in new construction for either homes or buildings or just considered an upgrade? Enhanced structural integrity is important because Thunderbird safety is important.
Totally agree!
Saw his Welcome To My Nightmare tour in NYC. Whenever the hell that was.
Suzi Quatro opened,
OMG!
And Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner
were on guitar for Alice.
CoolKeep tempting me and I’ll show up at your doorstep with a moving van full of belongings.
Actually, I’d think the Simple flowing lines of the Tbird body would be a good canvass to start on, maybe rework the raised center section in kind of a stylized horizontal empire style shape with a couple of progressively stepped down layers to the body wings…
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…add a Hipshot bridge and use Dano style or Bakelite knobs and you’d be in the ballpark. The headstock would need a total rework but maybe something inspired by the lines of a flowing car hood ornament…
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The perfect “Air Guitar” for those with less imagination.
To put things in perspective, a 7.7 quake in your area would cause significantly more damage than a 7.7 quake in CA. Building codes, home styles and construction methods are completely different in CA (much less brick and fewer basements here) as is the geology. You’re sitting on lots of shale and clay with a high water table that would suffer a substantial liquefaction effect vs most of CA.
Air guitar using a prop.
Earthquakes. I was visiting Wellington NZ about 6 years ago. It is in an earthquake zone and my hosts pointed out that is why they have so many timber houses, whereas Sydney is full of brick and brick veneer houses.
While I was there we visited the National Museum, Te Papa. Well worth a visit. They do the bicultural stuff really well in NZ. ( I think Sunday is Waitangi Day celebrating the Treaty between the British & the Maori).
Back to Te Papa - fascinating place. Will go back and do recommend it.
But when we were outside they had an area where you can view the special shock pads the building is built on. Kinda like suspension for the building.
Halting the jolts: How Te Papa resists earthquakes
It's pretty unique!
It has a really great invisible sound, too
It doesn’t matter how high you turn it up - inaudible!Got plans for it?
I’d be tempted to chuck a pair of chinabuckers in it.
Got plans for it?
I’d be tempted to chuck a pair of chinabuckers in it.
Lollar's.......
Lollars = Dollars ?Lollar's.......
I dropped Chinabuckers in my build as a kind of place holder for something better at a later date. The CBs are a good sounding pup, I’m sure not as good as Thunderbucker, Lull or Lollar pups, but at a fraction of the price they get you up and running quick and cheap so you can enjoy your build and still have money left to further mod it if you want.
Got plans for it?
I’d be tempted to chuck a pair of chinabuckers in it.
I paid about $150 total for three gold pups with rings. Lollars would have been closer to $600. Thunderbuckers we’re actually a tempting option that IIRC would have been in the $500 range for three pups. I don’t recall what the Lull option would have cost but it was also well over what I paid for the Chinabuckers.
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From eBay: japanese Burny ZB-85 Norio Toshiro Signature T-Bird, Blue Burst Ash
That’s nice, minus the Strat jack. Worst jack ever
Well, that's certainly true. But if you ever get a chance to play a 60s version like the one on the left, other than a few minutes in a music store, you'll understand all the clamor about how they sound a fair amount different than all later versions. The VPs are close, but still lack something and don't sound as big. The 70s are low output but sound good IMO (many don't like them), have less magic but does sound like a Thunderbird. The modern versions (black PUs), sound like it might be related. Impossible to describe but once you play a 60s version live or in a band the difference is unmistakable. Even at home my '64 doesn't sound very good, but in a decent sized room and with a band...Wow! You need one, even if finding one in PB is nearly impossible!
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Perfection to me, would be:
- right one
- bridge, pickups and knobs from left one
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Still grey and chilly in Seattle, work has been busy as we're down a person so just one day off for me this week - Was really nice to spend some time with this glorious bass, it's still just blowing my ears back. We're off to the Cafe 909 to discuss a road trip to SoCal early this July 
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Shear walls don't have to be anywhere specific. Our house had none at all, and eventually that center beam was going to punch through the concrete foundation. It won't now, since the shear wall is braced to framing bolted to the concrete below the pocket where the beam sits in the concrete. The idea is to make a really big plug that fixes the beam to the concrete so everything moves the same way at the same time. A newer house would have far more reinforced concrete in the foundation walls, bolted connections to the sills in a way that even our retrofit doesn't do, horizontal shear diaphragms at each floor level, and shear walls that transfer horizontal loads to the diaphragms and ultimately to the foundation and then the ground. Taller wood frame buildings have elaborate seismic hold-down tension rods and a whole lot of framing beyond what's necessary for gravity loads. It's its own science and art, both. Retrofitting an old house or building is a whole lot trickier than building from scratch.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
It's also on Reverb. And it's at Mike & Mike. Dammit. Another reason to avoid a longish walk down to their shop.
Awesome. and the II is great too!!Still grey and chilly in Seattle, work has been busy as we're down a person so just one day off for me this week - Was really nice to spend some time with this glorious bass, it's still just blowing my ears back. We're off to the Cafe 909 to discuss a road trip to SoCal early this July
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