i wanna play!….
that said, If i was in a deserted island and had just one choice for a bass it would hands down be this……
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Thunderbird Club
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that said, If i was in a deserted island and had just one choice for a bass it would hands down be this……
Depends. Got the legs for 'em?
I have heard it said (but doubt the veracity) that it is better for the airline and manufacturer if everyone dies as the death settlement is cheaper than the disability settlement. I have never bothered to do the math around it, but a quick noodling of the costs suggest it can't be true.
When I was 16 I quit high school to become a hippy, (got my education later on when I smartened up) I worked in some dangerous mills, big belts and pulleys, large circular saws, big rollers, razors, you name it, the stuff you see preserved in high end restaurants nowadays.
I still have a scar from a razor that trimmed the edge of a flattened plastic bubble that was later turned into Saran wrap. I never caught my hand in the rollers (I was quick), a few friends did though, they said you could pull your hand out with difficulty.
One place I worked made rubber covered rolls of something or other, the 10 to 15 machines they had were about 20 ft by 8 ft and were basically giant hot water radiators. The place had the biggest fan I've ever seen, maybe 8 ft in diameter, when they shut it off at the end of the day the temp would rise from about 100 degrees to 160 very quickly. One of the guys there had lost one of his arms in a belt. My job was to sit on the floor and make sure there were no wrinkles in the take up roll, the stuff used to emit toluene (the stuff in airplane glue that would evaporate) and I was flying by the time break time came, my boss knew it and used to make funny noises when he walked by, I'd be looking around, "What the hell was that??!!"
.The $1.60 I made an hour made it all worth it though.
There's a bonus if you make it all the way through this post.
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2018 LE Thunderbird with Lollar pickups. I figured I'd better post this before I got kicked out. I need photography lessons too.
I loved hearing those and other prop planes as a kid. Still do, but it's so rare these days. One of the coolest mechanical sounds on earth.
Sound clips Bob. We need sound clips! I'm guessing the Lollars made a huge difference form the stock PUs.
They did, unfortunately it's in a storage space in Mass and I have only looked it for a couple of seconds in the last couple of years. I'm hopefully going back soon for a while and will get some of my stuff. I thought the originals sounded pretty good though too.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
It is probably overreacting. It always does. Just think how wealthy you will feel when it all comes back. You will feel so flush that you will buy a Thunderbird to celebrate.
Yep. You’re right. Last year was very good. A new Mesa amp and cab, and a non-reverse and a short scale Thunderbird.
If you want, I can send my Boston based daughter to fetch it. She can bring it to me and you can pick it up the next time you come to California.
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Wow! I lived in Ruokolahti until I was about 20 and in a certain weather the factory stank felt for us too. Usually it was the Imatra people who could enjoy it...nowadays I live in Imatra.
Luckily it doesn't stink like it used to.
I've never been inside the factory but have drived and cycled in front of it (the so called "mill road") many many times. A lot of my school buddies ended up gettinga job from there. Me? I took the wise road and chose music...
You need compression black nylons (strings)...
And everyone says the melons are bad...
the truss is holding those up
"Mutiny" is probably my fav Max Webster album even 'though it's a bit thin sounding. My friend is currently compiling a book that collects all the Max Webster concert info from the beginning until the breakup in 1981 and I've been helping him out with some equipment info. He also has a youtube channel (Max Webster Archive) which has some excellent stuff there.
Kim Mitchell's solo stuff is a bit too commercial for me but he's a great guy and one of my favourite guitarists ever (Holdsworth, Rundgren, Ollie Halsall and Hendrix, to mention a few others).
