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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 06, 2015, 09:00:47 AM »
The styling of the rear of the E-type Coupe is a disgrace. It seems like the whole thing should have been lowered at the rear, and the roofline is too tall as well.

[img][/http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/photos-smallwood/79.jpgimg]

I also don't consider the Lockheed Constellation to be the design marvel that many do, so perhaps I'm just a bit odd.

Had Jethro Tull Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 on today. That hearty T-bird tone is pretty amazing.  :mrgreen: The only real problem is that the bass solo in Bouree is so undefined that it sounds like fog pouring out the amps.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 06, 2015, 03:56:34 AM »
Its unfair to drag up any car made in the UK in the '70s. Cars left the factory with trim missing and wiring rat's nests behind the dash. Some were rusty before they left the showroom. Not good!

Having said all that, the E-type Jag leaves me cold.  :rolleyes:

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Other Bass Brands / Re: New two-pickup Starfire by Guild
« on: August 06, 2015, 02:08:26 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on August 05, 2015, 08:37:21 PM
This settles it, and IMHO it's unfortunate. Not just because I don't care for the Darkstar, but because it's not going to sound like the original. What I really find odd is the cult following based on what Jack Casady and Phil Lesh stopped using decades ago.

Of course neither Phil or Jack used stock Starfires either. Guild should do a 'San Fran' special issue with brass hardware and most of the treble side of the body filled with hardcore filter-based preamps built up from military NOS components, topped off with chunky Raytheon knobs. :o

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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbird shootout.
« on: August 06, 2015, 02:00:45 AM »
Quote from: planetgaffnet on August 05, 2015, 02:25:45 PM
I've got a JAX T4...for comparison purposes here's a shot of one of my Thunderbirds riding the Lull (the basses were lined up at the nut):

What did the babies look like?

Speaking of babies (uh oh), I've seen a picture of John Entwistle and his son (Christopher?), both playing T-birds, though the kids is way smaller. Was that a Gibson one off, a Peter Cook creation, and was it even playable? Did John get it as a piccolo bass, or was it a gift for his son?

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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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