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mc2NY

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1964-65 Thunderbird
« on: November 16, 2015, 09:50:44 AM »

Are there any famous "smashings" of early Gibson Thunderbirds, on a scale of Hendrix smashing his Strat at Monterey or Paul Simonon smashing his bass on The Clash's "London Calling" LP ?

Any photos?

....smashing Leon Wilkinson's TBird in the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash doesn't count. :)
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2015, 09:56:50 AM »
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2015, 12:42:56 PM »
Did that headstock break off on the singer's face? Metal as fvck!  ???

And Ed Roman had the audacity to claim Gibson should have broken and repaired all headstocks at the factory...
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2015, 07:19:52 PM »
No video and most likely it was the Bicentennial version Roger Glover speaks of in a Guitarist interview on the subject of adjusting to headless basses:

http://www.thehighwaystar.com/interviews/glover/rg19910400.html

Did you have any trouble adjusting to the headless style?

Yeah, it was a bit strange at first. I kept thinking I'd fall off the end
of the fretboard! Mind you, that wasn't my first experience with headless
basses... When I was playing with Rainbow, I had a Gibson Thunderbird bass,
a lovely bass to play - I wish I'd been in Purple when I had that. Anyway,
we were playing one night and it was virtually the last chord of the last
song in the encore. I was playing away, and I suddenly became aware that I
couldn't feel any strings, so I looked down and the strings were just
hanging down off the bass. I looked up at the fretboard and the head had
disappeared! The T-birds were very weak, construction-wise, directly behind
the nut, and I must have accidently touched my mike stand with the head of
the guitar and - WHACK! - instant headless bass..!

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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2015, 07:04:45 AM »
Quote from: Alanko on November 16, 2015, 12:42:56 PM
Did that headstock break off on the singer's face? Metal as fvck!  ???

Shoulder. The Thunderbird actually committed suicide rather than play a U2 song.
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2015, 07:54:01 PM »
Quote from: lowend1 on November 17, 2015, 07:04:45 AM
Shoulder. The Thunderbird actually committed suicide rather than play a U2 song.

 :mrgreen:
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2015, 09:19:02 AM »
Quote from: lowend1 on November 17, 2015, 07:04:45 AM
Shoulder. The Thunderbird actually committed suicide rather than play a U2 song.

 :mrgreen:x2
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2015, 04:17:18 PM »

Speaking of U2.....they pussied out and cancelled their Paris show the  day after the ISIS terrorist attack, yet Madonna had the balls to show up and still do HER show there.

....so much for all those Irish revolution songs U2 did. :)

Fall of a bicycle and Bono becomes a wuss.
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2015, 06:54:28 PM »
I really can't blame them for cancelling.
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2015, 09:00:16 PM »
Quote from: Dave W on November 18, 2015, 06:54:28 PM
I really can't blame them for cancelling.

Me either. Large assemblies of people in Paris had "target" written all over them.
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2015, 02:09:42 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on November 18, 2015, 06:54:28 PM
I really can't blame them for cancelling.

me neither,  EODM lost two of their touring crew, I would hope the band were thinking of more than just their own safety.
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2015, 07:20:02 AM »
Quote from: mc2NY on November 18, 2015, 04:17:18 PM
Speaking of U2.....they pussied out and cancelled their Paris show the  day after the ISIS terrorist attack, yet Madonna had the balls to show up and still do HER show there.

....so much for all those Irish revolution songs U2 did. :)

Fall of a bicycle and Bono becomes a wuss.

I've been hearing about a LOT of guys in their 40's wiping out on bicycles...and they ALWAYS say that if they didn't wear their Helmets they would be F'ed up.....WTF??? When I was growing up, NOBODY wore helmets...and we wiped out many times...and Nobody died... What the hell has happened to mankind?? A Culture of Wimps??
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2015, 07:21:00 AM »
OK, We DID wear helmets when we rode on 10 foot tall 1/2 pipe ramps...
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2015, 07:30:48 AM »
Stop your bellyaching Baz. What are you, on your man period?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/health/quarter-of-men-believe-they-have-man-periods/
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Re: 1964-65 Thunderbird
« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2015, 08:30:20 AM »

 I'm the only one here that gets to have a "Man Period"  :-*
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