Peter Hook used a Hondo copy of a Rick (he gave it away to a kid as part of a charity project).
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Thunderbirds are.. ..Not that common?
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Peter Hook used a Hondo copy of a Rick (he gave it away to a kid as part of a charity project).
No mention of Pete Way from UFO.
Yeah he did play an Ibanez and a Washburn sometimes but everytime I saw him live it was a Tbird.
Yeah he did play an Ibanez and a Washburn sometimes but everytime I saw him live it was a Tbird.
I've always associated Gibson Thunderbirds with the bluesier side of "hair metal" from the late 80's and very early 90's for some reason.
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Good lord... and to think that I was part of that scene back then... EEEECHHH!
When I think of T-Bird, I think of The Who...but that's showing my age!
For a memory i think The Who is exactly why Nikki Sixx played a Tbird to begin with.
zombie thread I know, but I recently was involved with a recording project for an Americana band and brought a Fender Jazz, Fender fretless Precision and Thunderbird to the gig. Of the three the Thunderbird had the best recorded sound by far and made it on 90% of the tracks.
Wals are the only thing as rare in my neck o thee woodings as T Birds. I've seen orders of magnitude more Ken Smiths, Allevas, and Rick 4004s than T Birds.
One of the Greatest!
No other bass has the tone, sexiness, or attitude of a T-Bird!
