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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 05, 2015, 01:53:56 PM »
Cool to see the Bell Aircobra up there. I read recently about a restoration team that had gathered up Kingcobra wrecks from across Russia;

http://p63kingcobra.com/63_kingcobra_restoration.html

Back to T-birds... why did Jeff Ament specify the 20% increase in body and headstock size on his Mike Lull sig? He doesn't seem like the biggest of dudes, and a T-bird is pretty big to start with!

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 05, 2015, 08:15:03 AM »
Quote from: uwe on August 05, 2015, 08:09:22 AM
No, blindingly ugly!!!  :mrgreen: (Uwe)

Get out!  :o  :mrgreen:

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 05, 2015, 03:14:09 AM »
Alanko, forgive me, I accidentally modified and overwrote your post when I only wanted to extract quotes from it. I'll go shoot myself now ... Uwe

"For Brits I would have to go for the Westland Whirlwind;



Much overlooked ..."

No, blindingly ugly!!!  :mrgreen: (Uwe)


"For American WW2-era designs, I really like the Catalina flying boats. Don't ask why!"


The PBYs had something Art Deco-ish to them, I like them a lot too. It's difficult to give a flight boat elegance, they succeeded in this case.



But even unelegant amphibious aircraft warm my heart. I love the Short Sunderland. (Uwe)

 

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 04, 2015, 10:53:28 AM »
WW2 aircraft I can do!

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 04, 2015, 02:13:14 AM »
Speaking of Ritchie Blackmore, I have to vent a little. Great player who definitely brought a lot of speed into the hard rock world, paving the way for shredders, but he smashed guitars in the weakest most pathetic manner. Most smasher guitarists used the thing like a pickaxe, but Blackers always limply threw the thing around by the neck then bounced the headstock off the stage until it broke. Pretty boring. I watched that Rainbow live video once, where he has Taurus bass pedals onstage and slowly, and tediously, smashes a black Strat.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Thunderbirds
« on: August 03, 2015, 02:15:31 PM »
Pond - Rock Collection (live)



Quite a mundane punk ballad, but with a really filthy bass tone.

I know nothing about Pond other than that they spanned a weird musical chasm between US hardcore, post-punk and (proto) emo music. So niche that my buddy who is into hardcore (American Football et al) hadn't even heard of them. Their album "The Practice of Joy Before Death' has some suitably chunky bass tones.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 03, 2015, 02:12:39 PM »
Quite a boring tale actually... I had an account on there for a few years and racket up a healthy number of infractions. That account was registered with my college email address, and when I graduated I lost my login details for the email system, which was then synched up with Office 365. I set up another Talkbass account, somehow get checked out by the mods a few months later and end up getting banned for having a duplicate account. No wiggle room there!

Spare time is something of a luxury.  :o

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 03, 2015, 01:59:38 PM »
Fair shout, every forum has a different vibe.  ;D

If y'all real nice I'll tell you how I got banned from Talkbass.  :sad:

Apart from Heesey, some select Wishbone Ash live cuts, Nirvana (eek) and isolated bass tracks from Who's Next and Quadraphenia, where can I hear some nice old Thunderbird basses in the wild?


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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 03, 2015, 12:02:20 PM »
Is that an inferiority complex I detect?  :bored:

Not sure why you are posting this shit in my thread about Thunderbird basses.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 03, 2015, 02:15:58 AM »
I have to watch what I say round here.  8)

Slap is a valid technique; Peg by Steely Dan wouldn't be the same without it. Slapping seems to be the go-to technique for a lot of Youtube videos and, for me, it doesn't really tell me a lot about how a bass sounds. To give the example before (possibly the Bluesman vintage dude), there is a bald fellow on Youtube that demoes a bunch of '70s Rickenbacker 4001 basses. He A/Bs them in some videos. He talks about the nuances of the tone, but he has a really spiky, peaky slap thing going on the whole time. Or he tries to play finger style as fast as possible. Nothing else, and you can hear the acoustic sound of the Rick over whatever amp he's using. It seems like a wasted opportunity to hear some cool old Ricks.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: July 31, 2015, 08:04:50 AM »
I would rather buy a vintage carcass and pay somebody to do it up...  :o

$2,800 is a lot of money for a copy... surely you could get Mike Lull to build one for that?

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Chroming up black Thunderbird hardware.
« on: July 31, 2015, 04:49:57 AM »
I don't yet own a Tokai Thunderbird so I don't have the pickups in front of me to study. I've pulled apart about a dozen cheap soapbars at this point in time, and often 'epoxy potting' is nothing of the sort! I suppose I could bury the coils of the Tokai pickups in something like Envirotex Lite, within the chrome covers sold on Ebay? That way madness lies. I would also have to check that there are other aftermarket pickups that fit the Tokai routes.

I purchased an Epi T-bird body off of Ebay last year which is slowly turning into a Thunderbird II Fenderbird with an original WRHB as the engine. The previous owner routed it (with a flathead screwdriver and dremel sanding wheels) for some aftermarket chrome T-bird pickups and it looked like the pickup routes needed a fair bit of widening to accommodate vintage repro pickups.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: July 31, 2015, 02:16:36 AM »
Ya, have to agree as well, but then again I don't enjoy slapping that much. No idea why Youtube bassists always have to slap. There is one guy (might be the Bluesman Vintage dude actually) that pulls out all these old '70s Ricks and then slaps away on them so that the sound from the bass is louder than the amplified tone.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: July 30, 2015, 02:14:51 PM »
The hardware looks a cut above the BaCH stuff, and the pin striping is a nice touch.

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Chroming up black Thunderbird hardware.
« on: July 30, 2015, 11:04:28 AM »
The Tokai pickups seems to be quite deep, whereas the covers appear to be quite shallow. Is there a good workaround for this?

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