Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

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.

I saw Alice with Chuck Garrick on Thunderbird, and Hurricane Nita Strauss on guitar

 

[MCF]

I have never burned a school to the ground...

And they were mostly accidental explosions in the lab... Accidental. Purely accidental.*

* Statute of limitations, 5th amendment etc.

I set the blinds on fire in 8th grade science lab. Does that count?

 

[JIO]

It's a custom built by a friend in 2010 if I remember correctly, I think he is here under the name MPU. The bridge is a Schaller roller bridge.

Never seen that style of Schaller - I'm a big fan of the 3D roller-saddle bridge they make.

 

[Nocturnal]

I saw Alice with Chuck Garrick on Thunderbird, and Hurricane Nita Strauss on guitar

Same. She is nice to listen to and look at.

 

[dagrev]

Cool
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

Nice. Isolators seem like a no-brainer, but I wonder how many houses in utilize them? I imagine they have to be designed anew for each type and size (all directions) of structure. Thunderbirds don't like sudden movements. Or things falling on them.

 

[dagrev]

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.

Cool. I still find that kind of thing interesting. Sometimes I miss being in construction. There was something very satisfying about looking at prints and taking truck loads of stuff and making something both useful and attractive at the same time. I don't know if you get that in designing and overseeing projects or not, but I do miss my part of the process. Working in crappy weather and working crazy hours not so much.

 

[dagrev]

I saw Alice with Chuck Garrick on Thunderbird, and Hurricane Nita Strauss on guitar

I went with a friend who really liked him and saw Alice about 1978/9. Never seen any thing like it or since. Not really my thing, but my goodness, he's fantastic at what he does. I was impressed. What I remember.

 

[WillyW]

Cleaning fret slots, choosing the filler veneer….

 

[PillO]

I set the blinds on fire in 8th grade science lab. Does that count?

In chemistry class we had a student teacher. The teacher encouraged us to misbehave. She lasted one class and one lab.

 

[Bent77]

Cleaning fret slots, choosing the filler veneer….

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You know what fills those slots well?

Frets...

 

[dagrev]

Cleaning fret slots, choosing the filler veneer….

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I read somewhere on the interwebs that these work nicely.

Seriously, take some pics after you do a couple. I'd like to see what you're doing after you pic a veneer.

 

[KaraQ]

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.

For the moment, planning for some EMG Thunderbird-shape pickups, with their pots (Vol, Vol, bass/treble stacked). It's already cut in the factory spot for a battery box.
Likely to end up buying (at least) three pickups with different insides - a DC, a CS, and a reverse P - and then see what I like best in what positions.





Someday....

 

[WillyW]

I read somewhere on the interwebs that these work nicely.







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Seriously, take some pics after you do a couple. I'd like to see what you're doing after you pic a veneer.

 

[TBird1958]

It's always good to see Chuck doing such a good job representing Thunderbirds....

I have seen Alice a few times over the last 6 years and he puts some much younger performers to shame.

I think I have it here, I saw Alice Cooper with his original band (Dennis Dunaway, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, and Neil Smith) 49 years ago at Seattle's Colisuem on the Billion Dollar Babies tour. Was all of $5.00, well, 10.00 I was on my first date.

 

[RedVee]

I saw Alice with Chuck Garrick on Thunderbird, and Hurricane Nita Strauss on guitar

Yes, me too. In March 2020 at the tail end of the bushfires. Great song and band. Supports were the new MC5 and Airbourne. Well worth the ticket price.

I also saw Alice in 1990 with my then pregnant wife. She then spent the rest of the pregnancy worried that the baby would be born deaf. Thankfully she was not.

 

[GonePlaid]

7 to ~16, piano; 11 on, clarinet and sax; went into Navy music program on sax(1964), started playing bass in 67. Kept up the multi instruments 'til ~10 years ago, I 'hung up' the horns and keys. Still f---* with them occasionally. As a matter of fact, just got the tenor sax playable again; might go 'sit in' with our regular band Friday night(gig's being done as a trio-my turn to be off). See if I still remember how to play the effing thing. Back at same place Saturday night playing the 67 TBird.

*ool

Well, I still remember the fingerings on the sax. However, it didn't take long for me to realize I need to build up my lip. Tomorrow, it's back to my major:

 

[Miles_ONeal]

All Gibson show with a new Burgandy Red NR front and center, turn it up!

How can you tell the vocals are Gibson?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

That’s nice, minus the Strat jack. Worst jack ever

Why do you hate those jacks?

 

[Gaolee]

Cool. I still find that kind of thing interesting. Sometimes I miss being in construction. There was something very satisfying about looking at prints and taking truck loads of stuff and making something both useful and attractive at the same time. I don't know if you get that in designing and overseeing projects or not, but I do miss my part of the process. Working in crappy weather and working crazy hours not so much.

I did both. Picking up tools was pretty common for me, although I don't do it any more for work. Around the house is a different story. The parts of the basement that aren't for music and laundry are where tools live and occasionally get used.

I don't miss arguing with everyone as the general and I don't miss working in the rain and cold as a carpenter. Being a consultant with an office ain't bad!

 

[PhR75]

Never seen that style of Schaller - I'm a big fan of the 3D roller-saddle bridge they make.

It's a Schaller 460. The tailpiece is bolted to the body.

https://reverb.com/item/7359578-schaller-460-bass-bridge