Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

This one’s for my buddy @PillO. Exciting news! The Red Menace dropped this single yesterday!

James Blunt redeems himself with his viscous sense of humour on social media.
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[bobyoung53]

Ha!!! So true!
For the short time he was in NYC.
She actually hung out with him.
As I got older. My brother and I got introduced to some that crowd.
Great people.

I like Archie Shepp and have a few of his albums. Coincidentally I was listening to Ornette Coleman this morning.

Archie Shepp:

 

[PillO]

For me, this is the one that drove me to drink. The girls are cute though.

You could at least post the better take on the song

 

[GonePlaid]

For me, this is the one that drove me to drink. The girls are cute though.

At my age, "Afternoon Delight" is a nap.

 

[Gaolee]

Caterwauling?
That’s a word you just don’t see enough these days!

I love that word. It says exactly what it needs to say.

 

[Gaolee]

Me too - it gives you much more freedom to mute, partial mute and/or not mute during the same song. It's part of my criteria for considering the sonic worth of any bass I play - it's got to sound good using a pick & palm-muting. And yes, the bridge will either have a friendly interface with your right hand... or not. I can deal with both, but I definitely prefer a smooth surface compared to a scratchy one. (saddle adjustment set-screws)

It works with a cover as well somehow. I also mute with the fretting hand at times, depending. There are endless ways to be expressive.

 

[Gaolee]

"If" was extremely popular for 'first dance' wedding songs.

I had expunged that song. Until now. Thanks a bunch, pal!

 

[GonePlaid]

I had expunged that song. Until now. Thanks a bunch, pal!

Happy earworm.

 

[Engle]

Steppenwolf, Jefferson Airplane, CSN&Y spring immediately to mind, but there are plenty more.

This one pops into my mind regularly:

 

[JIO]

Agreed. And for some reason I have been able to use the technique with my '91 4003 too. I didn't think about it until I started to read comments that it's impossible to do that with the stock bridge. Mine is stock. It has the tail lift but...I said it was stock!

This is how Rickenbacker "addressed" bridge-plate tail-lift in the late '80s... I had one in Fireglo and when I saw the two wood-screws through the bridge I thought someone did a crude DIY on it. These (4004) were the ones with the tr access at the neck heal, so they had a 2-piece pg for access.

 

[JIO]

For me, this is the one that drove me to drink. The girls are cute though.

I won't mention yellow ribbons or tiny bubbles...

 

[GonePlaid]

I won't mention yellow ribbons or tiny bubbles...

Thanx for not mentioning those(one of which we used to get a lot of requests for. Yes, we played it-but we f---ed* with it for own amusement)


*ool

 

[Miles_ONeal]

For me, this is the one that drove me to drink. The girls are cute though.

Yep. Abomination.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

At my age, "Afternoon Delight" is a nap.

“At my age” my aardvark. I know you’re a bit ahead of me, but hush that nonsense!

 

[JIO]

I always liked Bread, David Gates wrote a lot of great tunes, Larry Knechtel the great session player was the bassist. He played bass on half the songs on the first Doors album and his first instrument was keyboards.

There's a thread his son started in "Bassists"

Larry Knechtel, Bassist

See - that's what I'm talking about. Slag some band you don't like and the person you are conversing with likes that band. I ran into that slagging Magma, mostly/specifically this vid with Magma drummer/founder Christian Vander. I do enjoy it, just possibly differently than a die-hard fan. What can I saw, he's French.

 

[Engle]

This is how Rickenbacker "addressed" bridge-plate tail-lift in the late '80s... I had one in Fireglo and when I saw the two wood-screws through the bridge I thought someone did a crude DIY on it. These (4004) were the ones with the tr access at the neck heal, so they had a 2-piece pg for access.

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My MIJ copy was faithfully made with the same flaw. And I solved the problem the same way, but with screws that match:

 

[PillO]

See - that's what I'm talking about. Slag some band you don't like and the person you are conversing with likes that band. I ran into that slagging Magma, mostly/specifically this vid with Magma drummer/founder Christian Vander. I do enjoy it, just possibly differently than a die-hard fan. What can I saw, he's French.

I think it is important to not take anything too seriously.

There are bands I like and ones that I don't care for. But for humour purposes, all are fair game. Most of you know that I am a big Rush fan, but that doesn't stop me from poking fun at Geddy's vocals. I like a bunch of Neil Young songs although I do not like him as a person and don't like his singing. I will often poke fun at the pop tarts, but I do enjoy a bunch of Katy Perry, Brittney Spears, and Taylor Swift because a good song is a good song no matter who wrote and performed it. We shouldn't take any of the poking of fun at artists we like or dislike too seriously.

I like Ted Nugent, but I still think he might be bat shizzle crazy these days. An interesting point to note, although clearly on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Tom Morello and Ted Nugent are friends.

 

[Stealth57]

I think it is important to not take anything too seriously.

There are bands I like and ones that I don't care for. But for humour purposes, all are fair game. Most of you know that I am a big Rush fan, but that doesn't stop me from poking fun at Geddy's vocals. I like a bunch of Neil Young songs although I do not like him as a person and don't like his singing. I will often poke fun at the pop tarts, but I do enjoy a bunch of Katy Perry, Brittney Spears, and Taylor Swift because a good song is a good song no matter who wrote and performed it. We shouldn't take any of the poking of fun at artists we like or dislike too seriously.

I like Ted Nugent, but I still think he might be bat shizzle crazy these days. An interesting point to note, although clearly on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Tom Morello and Ted Nugent are friends.

It is possible to have friends you disagree with. Too bad the press and politicians want to convince you otherwise. I have a friend I’ve been calling a pinko for almost 40 years. Still friends.

 

[bobyoung53]

See - that's what I'm talking about. Slag some band you don't like and the person you are conversing with likes that band. I ran into that slagging Magma, mostly/specifically this vid with Magma drummer/founder Christian Vander. I do enjoy it, just possibly differently than a die-hard fan. What can I saw, he's French.

I think I might appreciate him more on drums.

 

[bobyoung53]

This is how Rickenbacker "addressed" bridge-plate tail-lift in the late '80s... I had one in Fireglo and when I saw the two wood-screws through the bridge I thought someone did a crude DIY on it. These (4004) were the ones with the tr access at the neck heal, so they had a 2-piece pg for access.

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I have an '85 4003FL that came stock like that, funny but I've owned probably thirty Rics over the years and never had serious tail lift on any. I have a '79 4001 right now I've had for years with 105 Rotos and it's lifted maybe 1/16ths on an inch.

You can barely see the screws in this picture of the '85 4003FL:

Incidentally, that photo you put in is of an early 4003. They turned the truss rods around and put big nuts of them for three or 4 years after they started making 4003's and made two piece pickguards so you could access them. It was actually quite an improvement.