Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

double whammy this weekend….Birds will be busy..
new venue on cannery row tomorrow…

back in ‘em hills on Sun..

 

[PillO]

I've known a coupla people who got their keesters in a sling on FB 'cos tone of voice doesn't come thru in print. Part of the reason I stay offa FB. I have an account, but dormant would be great description.

Yeah, nothing posted on my FB account in more than a decade...

And I have anti-tracking software to prevent FB et al from following digital footprints.

 

[PillO]

Life is good. Live it to the fullest extent you can.
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That fireplace needs a dog lying in front of it.

 

[PillO]

The other day, my somewhat less than expensive tuner just up and decided it was done with tuning my guitars for me:

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.....so now I have a new (& improved?) somewhat less than expensive tuner:

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So far, it seems to function appropriately, maybe for longer than 15 months?

You used up the allotted tunings allowed. Tune less frequently and it will last longer. Besides, for us hacks, tuning is over-rated.

I would be willing to wager that not only are the electronic guts of those two identical, but that they are also made in the same factory...

 

[icefly]

Not there yet, but some keep trying...

Ms Bullock

 

[PillO]

By way of information, the penalty for international drug trafficking (heroin and perhaps others) in Singapore is death by firing squad.

I believe same penalty in Malaysia. Same stark red warning on the entry card.

 

[Count Bassie]

Not there yet, but some keep trying...

HA! I have to watch this! Awesome.

 

[KaraQ]

You used up the allotted tunings allowed. Tune less frequently and it will last longer. Besides, for us hacks, tuning is over-rated.

I would be willing to wager that not only are the electronic guts of those two identical, but that they are also made in the same factory...

I could just join the fretless folk, and then I'd never need to tune again!

 

[dagrev]

Lol, yeah, good ol' Facebook.

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Ha! Apparently someone has "unacceptable views."

 

[Bent77]

It’s all about WHO you piss off. I posted the exact things my FB incarcerated friend posted. Not even a warning. Apparently I need to try harder

 

[dagrev]

Probably posted this before, but as we know, there can’t be too many bird pics

So introducing my main bass, an all original Gibson Thunderbird 1990.

Have to take some new pics, I’ve changed the strings since, now it’s equiped with Slinkys. Nice stings, and improved the sound hugely compared to those ”to me unknown strings”, that where on when I bought it. But actually thinking of changing those too, to Cobolt flats.

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Interesting that some modern Thunderbirds have/don't have the black edging like the front. Were there years where they did or didn't do that?

 

[dagrev]

double whammy this weekend….Birds will be busy..
new venue on cannery row tomorrow…

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back in ‘em hills on Sun..
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Too late to borrow Plaid's Vespa T-shirt. That wold have been a great conversation starter....

 

[dagrev]

Ms Bullock

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Since my wife won't see this.... Growing up I had a next door neighbor who was my age. We went out a few times, but it always seemed a little odd. I think since we grew up together it kind of felt like going out with your sister. I was tried of dating nonsense and called to see about going out with someone who had no surprises. She said she was sorry but was seriously dating a guy. When I was working for a general contractor one of our projects or some regional Tex-Mex restaurants and lo and behold her boyfriend ended up being one of the managers at one of the locations. I didn't like the dirt ball and politely tired to encourage rethinking this dude. Anyway, they ended up getting married and had a couple kids after about five years of marriage ended. I'm getting there....S Bullock always looked a little familiar. I saw my old neighbor at some kind of gathering and it dawned on me. She looked like S Bullock's sister. Sweet and smart girl. No regrets, but you do wonder at times......

 

[Blazer]

Just because they're awesome: King Crimson live in 1982

 

[Stealth57]

ever notice folks rushing the (plane) bathrooms on approach when that warning was announced over the PA?….

Or immediately standing up after being told to remain in their seats until the plane is parked at the gate...

 

[Stealth57]

A funny (in hind sight) story from my Asia region business travels…

In 2010 I was touring several major research center construction projects in Japan, China and Singapore. While in Beijing I did a little bit of shopping with some local business partners who insisted that we hit some of the back alley mom and pop shops vs department stores. We stopped at a little hole in the wall place to eat lunch, tiny place with maybe three tables and at least a dozen cats crawling all over everything (maybe they kept the rodent population under control, or maybe they were on the menu, who knows). Anyway, I had some of the best green tea I’d ever tasted there.

As I was raving about the tea one of my friends called over the owner and had what sounded like a heated discussion with him, with a lot of going back and fourth, all in Chinese, which I don’t speak. The owner walks off in a huff and a few minutes later comes back with a brick of green tea hand wrapped in cellophane. It was a very nice gift from my friends. The next day I departed to Singapore for my first time traveling to that country.

While in flight but nearing our approach to Singapore an announcement comes over the loud speaker about the penalty for smuggling drugs into the country being death. Then it hit me, in my checked bag I have a brick of tightly packed green leafy material hand wrapped in cellophane with no label or markings of any kind on it that I got from a person I don’t even know who runs a pretty shady looking little dive in a back alley, and I don’t even really know for certain that it’s tea.

No access to the checked bag, so no way to flush it down the plane toilet. Needless to say, for the next half hour I was sweating bullets with all kinds of thoughts about arrest, cavity searches and death by public hanging running around in my head. I started frantically looking up contact info for the US Consulate and emergency legal support.

Once we landed I got off the plane and cautiously made my way towards baggage claim where the infamous yellow line of death is painted on the floor. I debated about leaving the bag unclaimed but figured if I did that they’d just eventually open it and trace it back to me anyway. So I got the bag and made my way towards the immigration check. Much to my relief they rubber stamped my passport and I exited to a waiting limo for a ride to my hotel - where I promptly held my own little Boston Tea Party and broke the brick up and flushed it down the toilet. Lesson learned.

Was the flushing before or after the shorts change?

 

[Stealth57]

who mentioned flushing anything down the toilet?….…
would have been ironic if you got busted for spitting as you left the airport…crazy place..

I never bought one of the t-shirts pictorially showing all the things you can get in trouble for in Singapore. I regret that now. I always like the sketch telling you not to pee in the elevators...

 

[bobyoung53]

Last February 2022 Friday night quiz - name that bass-player! If you "know" me, you'll know who it is. (early '60s... can you tell?)
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Jet Harris?

 

[GBassNorth]

who mentioned flushing anything down the toilet?….…
would have been ironic if you got busted for spitting as you left the airport…crazy place..

I’m not a spitter, but when I fly I do chew gum. Fortunately I was warned ahead of time about the fines associated with gum chewing in that country.

 

[Thumper]

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Hard to tell from this photo, but that jack position doesn't look quite usual for the Epi front jacks. Since you elsewhere affirmed it's a neck through, is there a covered hole on the bout? I'm wondering if a previous owner moved the jack. Either that or it's not a CP, but some rarer bird.

I can't find any filled holes, it is MINT and flawless, and strangely enough another on with case went up for sale today, $400, but shows signs of use, it also has the front jack, so maybe not so rare. Here is the neck plate on mine: