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Thunderbird Club

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TBird1958 said:
Okay,
A little announcement for the club.

We will have a Get Together July 2 and 3, 2022 in Santa Cruz CA., I will be there with my husband for both days.
Plans for the event are still coming into focus but the thought would be to have a meet up at a restaurant in Santa Cruz and enjoy adult beverages, food and lots of conversation. At some point, possibly the next day we can likely visit the home of @Chucky Stiletti as he's nearby and we could enjoy Thunderbird basses and make some noise as well.
The guest list includes @JJR58 who will be jet setting in from the East Coast, we'll need to let him know how the West Coast throws a Thunderbird Club Get Together.

TLDR; Thunderbird Club get together 7/2,7/3 2022 in Santa Cruz, CA. more details to follow.

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For me, many things will have to come together (personal and professional). But if I can, I'll be there with melons on.
 
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Deja Blue in Seaside…..coolest venue around… world class live music (24/7seems) and soul food like the stuff I grew up on in SoFla….
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cat fish, collared greens, black eyed peas and cornbread…
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Stealth57 said:
Stinkin' academics :D Certainly the Spanish spoken in Colombia is the most formal. Parents even use the usted conjugation with their children. I personally feel that Argentinians sound the most like the accents of central Spain. But there is no lack of different dialects in Spain.
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Unlike English which has no variance in pronunciation... ;)
 
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dagrev said:
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A good friend and colleague and I used to banter about drag and oval type track racing. We enjoyed trying to get on each other's nerves about the silliness of each other's favorite style of racing. He loved drag and I stock car. We both watched a little of the others because both are enjoyable but not enough to know it well. So we just tried to irritate each other with the typical banter:
"What kind brain dead person stares at something going in circles?"
"I can fart longer and maybe louder than a drag race."
Juvenile humor as so much more fun than erudite joking about.
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I like turning both directions.
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bobyoung53 said:
Even in Lima smoking is prohibited in all public places indoors. Not many people here smoke anyway. I was a smoker when I was a kid, started on Lucky straights and they remain the only cigarette that ever tempts me, but they're so rare now it's not a problem.
I had the obligatory cigarette burns under my Fender basses on the headstock, that was VERY common back then and shows how many basses and guitars have been restored or at least touched up.
I once started a thread called something like "What could Fender do to make their relics more authentic", among the choices besides G strings hanging off the side of the neck, etc. was cigarette burns on the headstock, a few years later it was offered on a relic :laugh:. The thread got shut down.
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My Precision has a genuine cigarette burn on the headstock. Only one, though. I don't smoke. Maybe getting a pack of butts to put a bit more "patina" on the headstock would be a good idea.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
This happened to a bass I had shipped to me from Arizona a few years ago and I had warned the seller to be careful with how he protected the headstock. I wasn't in the US when it arrived so I couldn't do anything to the carrier, I'm not sure if it flew or came by truck though.
1970 Gibson EB3-L, I still haven't been able to get it fixed due to time constraints and Covid when I'm there. I have a luthier who's known to be good with them waiting though. One time he got Covid, the other time I did.
At least it's a nice clean break and everything's there.
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Ouch! :blackeye: Interestingly enough, years ago I bought a cheap MIC Epi EB-0 to use to create a "prop"*, and it showed up floating in a flimsy cardboard box (no padding whatsoever) with a similarly severed hs. I gave it back to the USPS agent and ordered another one from GC for cheaper.

*the prop was made to be a prominent fixture in Winters Tavern in Pacifica after Mike Watts playing Steve MaKay's (RIP) tribute there. I modeled it after his "little bass" that was stollen during touring with Iggy Pop.
Neck pu is only a cover with sticker over it, center and bridge pu's are wooden dummies. Guts removed - just for show.
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I had the Watt sign it (long story) and it hangs on the wall behind the bar to this day.
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It has a dedicated spot-light on it now - showcase-style. Watts siggy was tiny! (on the small pic of his ex-wife/bass band-mate) I assumed he'd broad-stroke it! :) (...it was a long night...)
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