Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

I like Klaus Voorman's playing on that song, IIRC correctly when I've played along with it you tune your E to D, and during the downward run he does when it's just him and the drums you manually keep down tuning the E string until it gets stuck on the pickup

Dang! Think if he'd been using a 5er. It woulda gone below human hearing. Mighta bothered some whales, though.

 

[JIO]

This my fav "rock tune" of Bread. It's live and not a polished, but I prefer live instead of the 56 takes of a song anyway. Larry here as well. Or some guy that looks like him.

And it has some words that are as important today as then.

There were a number of bands then that were known for their commercial hit songs but rocked otherwise. I inadvertently saw the "1910 Fruit-gum Company" who did "Yummy Yummy Yummy I Got Love In My Tummy" ~ and they did a rockin' version of the Vanilla Fudges "You Keep Me Hangin On" ... so do the math, The Vanilla Fudge covered a Supremes song, and the 1910 Fruit-gum Company covered their cover!

Lead singer looks a little to much like a young F'r Carlson...


To cleanse the pallet -

 

[JIO]

Bird craze….
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Well, a lucite-bodied bird would certainly eliminate neck dive...

 

[GonePlaid]

Well, a lucite-bodied bird would certainly eliminate neck dive...

And induce hernia surgery.

 

[JIO]

And induce hernia surgery.

You can find a picture of Geezer Butler playing a clear lucite Dan Armstrong/Ampeg bass. I read that he bought it during a Black Sabbath tour of the US when his bass was stollen. (in Michigan if I recall) He went to a local music store and bought it for their next show. Hated it - said it was the worst bass he ever played. Heavy too... but the wrong kind of heavy.

 

[RedVee]

I found several recipes on the net. This one looks easy. But I’ll have to figure out the conversions for the measurements. Why can’t the world just measure in cups and spoons?

I’ll give you a head start. They should be* a cube 2” x 2” (x 2”) which is about 5cms x about 5cms etc.

Even easier if you buy a rectangular sponge cake instead of cooking one. The rest is so easy us kids used to be allowed to help.
Another hint, push the coconut firmly on.

* should be. The Country Womens Association will fail any that don’t measure up correctly.

All gone now. Well do a pork shoulder in about 4 weeks. I’ll take better pictures

I love a Greek style Lamb Shoulder with lemon potatoes…. Yum

@MCF-A bit of a sad(read: stupid)story for you. When I bought my 67 NR in NYC in 73(Jeff knows the place-I can never remember), there was a similar vintage blue(PB?) NR right next to it. I think it was a II. I paid $250 for mine, coulda bought bofem. Shoulda, but I'm not crazy about blue. Mighta been able to find a buyer for it though. Or I coulda had it refinished.

That would have been a great investment

 

[JIO]

No cowbell and they still KILL it!

 

[Stealth57]

I love a Greek style Lamb Shoulder with lemon potatoes….

I’ll take some mansaf please.

 

[PhR75]

I like Klaus Voorman's playing on that song, IIRC correctly when I've played along with it you tune your E to D, and during the downward run he does when it's just him and the drums you manually keep down tuning the E string until it gets stuck on the pickup

It's actually Herbie Flowers playing bass on that track, not Voorman (who did play on a lot of Nilsson stuff at that time).
Great song and album. "Son Of Schmilsson" might be even better.

 

[GonePlaid]

I’ll give you a head start. They should be* a cube 2” x 2” (x 2”) which is about 5cms x about 5cms etc.

Even easier if you buy a rectangular sponge cake instead of cooking one. The rest is so easy us kids used to be allowed to help.
Another hint, push the coconut firmly on.

* should be. The Country Womens Association will fail any that don’t measure up correctly.




I love a Greek style Lamb Shoulder with lemon potatoes…. Yum



That would have been a great investment

There's a Greek restaurant near me that does...well, everything beautifully-including a pork chop with them thar lemon potatoes. First time I heard of lemon potatoes I was WT7?-'til I tasted them . Mmmm.

 

[PhR75]

You can find a picture of Geezer Butler playing a clear lucite Dan Armstrong/Ampeg bass. I read that he bought it during a Black Sabbath tour of the US when his bass was stollen. (in Michigan if I recall) He went to a local music store and bought it for their next show. Hated it - said it was the worst bass he ever played. Heavy too... but the wrong kind of heavy.

And yet still he used/had to use it on "Vol 4" too. One would think they could've afforded another P-bass for Geezer when he found out the shortcomings of the Dan Armstrong/Ampeg (I believe it was his only option and they were in a hurry).

His next bass was the white John Birch with the "Cocaine" sticker and it was also a short scale. I guess he did like some of the aspects of a short scale combined with the C# tuning.

 

[GonePlaid]

No cowbell and they still KILL it!

That shirt made him look fat.

 

[GBassNorth]

I take your point, but he does keep returning here. So there is that....

The definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. One of these days I’ll learn.

I've always liked guitarist Terje Rypdal and lately have been listening to an LP called Sky Music that I mentioned a number of posts ago. Really good mix of material by different artists/guitarists. If you like proggy music - this one checks all the right boxes.

I’ll have to check it out tomorrow. Thx!

 

[JIO]

The definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. One of these days I’ll learn.


I’ll have to check it out tomorrow. Thx!

I'm listening to/playing along with cut 6 at about 44:09 (Rolling Stone?) - a very funky repetitive bass-line (doubled on guitar) like I generally gravitate to in a jam-session to provide a greasy base for everybody else to extrapolate. Another fave is cut 3 - Chaser (a real rocker!) and cut 4 What Comes After with Nels Cline.

 

[Gaolee]

The definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. One of these days I’ll learn.


I’ll have to check it out tomorrow. Thx!

My definition: never doing it the same way but expecting the same result. Standard operating procedure. Improvisation and no idea what I did last time.

 

[PhR75]

What Comes After with Nels Cline.

I love the sleeve of "What Comes After", something ominous in it. Even if it's just a photo of a white line.

 

[JIO]

I love the sleeve of "What Comes After", something ominous in it. Even if it's just a photo of a white line.
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Ok, I'll have to preview that ... I wasn't aware it was a direct reference -

 

[PhR75]

It has Sveinung Hovensjo on bass plus Barre Phillips on double bass...whose album "Three Day Moon" has Terje on guitar. It's excellent too.

 

[GBassNorth]

Had some time to kill today (not a big football fan) so I put the BlingBird through its paces back to back with 5 of my other birds on a recorded shoot out. I set each volume knob on each bass at 80% and all tone knobs at 50% before running each bass through three different heats. I kept the on board volume and tone settings unchanged throughout the three heats. However, I did adjust the recording levels so every bass would be roughly the same recorded volume.

The First heat was a bit of G and D string noodeling, highlighting clarity on the top end and uncovering any mid and upper mid register weaknesses, dead spots and unbalanced outputs.

The second heat was a trip up the A string with a simple Led Zeppelin riff, again checking for clarity of notes as well as presence of mids and low mids and pickup and string response to some minor vibrato.

The third heat was a short E and A string bass riff to check note definition and balanced output in the low register as well as highlighting any punch and grind or smooth and creamy nature of the bass.

The results were very interesting and very much a mixed bag, I’m sure different people will have different favorites, but the experience was very enlightening and informative (especially once you get past my playing ability). It’s all on cassette right now, so I’ll need to figure out how to convert it to something I can post here (anyone that’s done this before is welcome to PM me with some helpful advice).

Test notes
Basses and their configurations were:
BlingBird with Three China Buckers and Optima Gold round wound strings
Gibson 2013 Anniversary Bird with stock Tbird pups and Optima Gold round wound strings
Epiphone VP with stock Probuckers and Fender 7150 nickel round wound strings
1990 Greco with stock pups and GHS Boomer nickel round wound strings
Epiphone Goth with stock pups but a .022 tone cap in place of the stock cap and fitted with Cobalt flat strings
Gibson 2015 Tbird with stock DeCola pups and light gauge La Bella Black tape wound strings

All basses used the same cables, recording console tone stacks were set flat, no compression and no pedals of any type. Recording levels were adjusted at the console so each bass had the same recording level, this eliminated clipping and over saturation from the hotter basses (BlingBird, Greco and Goth). I chose not to adjust volume levels at the bass because that can have an impact on the tone of the bass. While sitting on the couch recording a couple of the passages I received some unanticipated K9 assistance, I’m sure you’ll be able to spot the passages. And good bad or indifferent, I chose to only do one take on each recording, no practice runs, that way I couldn’t massage the output of any bass to make it sound better than the others.

(Fingers crossed) Hopefully I’ll be able to post the sound clips in the next couple of days.

 

[RedVee]

Had some time to kill today (not a big football fan) so I put the BlingBird through its paces back to back with 5 of my other birds on a recorded shoot out. I set each volume knob on each bass at 80% and all tone knobs at 50% before running each bass through three different heats. I kept the on board volume and tone settings unchanged throughout the three heats. However, I did adjust the recording levels so every bass would be roughly the same recorded volume.

The First heat was a bit of G and D string noodeling, highlighting clarity on the top end and uncovering any mid and upper mid register weaknesses, dead spots and unbalanced outputs.

The second heat was a trip up the A string with a simple Led Zeppelin riff, again checking for clarity of notes as well as presence of mids and low mids and pickup and string response to some minor vibrato.

The third heat was a short E and A string bass riff to check note definition and balanced output in the low register as well as highlighting any punch and grind or smooth and creamy nature of the bass.

The results were very interesting and very much a mixed bag, I’m sure different people will have different favorites, but the experience was very enlightening and informative (especially once you get past my playing ability). It’s all on cassette right now, so I’ll need to figure out how to convert it to something I can post here (anyone that’s done this before is welcome to PM me with some helpful advice).

Test notes
Basses and their configurations were:
BlingBird with Three China Buckers and Optima Gold round wound strings
Gibson 2013 Anniversary Bird with stock Tbird pups and Optima Gold round wound strings
Epiphone VP with stock Probuckers and Fender 7150 nickel round wound strings
1990 Greco with stock pups and GHS Boomer nickel round wound strings
Epiphone Goth with stock pups but a .022 tone cap in place of the stock cap and fitted with Cobalt flat strings
Gibson 2015 Tbird with stock DeCola pups and light gauge La Bella Black tape wound strings

All basses used the same cables, recording console tone stacks were set flat, no compression and no pedals of any type. Recording levels were adjusted at the console so each bass had the same recording level, this eliminated clipping and over saturation from the hotter basses (BlingBird, Greco and Goth). I chose not to adjust volume levels at the bass because that can have an impact on the tone of the bass. While sitting on the couch recording a couple of the passages I received some unanticipated K9 assistance, I’m sure you’ll be able to spot the passages. And good bad or indifferent, I chose to only do one take on each recording, no practice runs, that way I couldn’t massage the output of any bass to make it sound better than the others.

(Fingers crossed) Hopefully I’ll be able to post the sound clips in the next couple of days.

Favourite from your live run through?