I just found your forum, and had to join. Finding fellow-Gibson bass players, alone, is certainly worth it.
I began playing bass back in the mid-80s, when I purchased a '76 ebony Thunderbird (for $400!) and fell in love with it. But, sadly, not enough to keep it, and it went the way of selling and buying, and buying and selling, basses, which continued for the following decades.
Then, about 4 or 5 years ago, I happened upon an ebony '79 Thunderbird. It was in fantastic shape (no headstock crack) and was reminded why I loved these basses so much. So, I bought it. During this time, I began reading the (possibly apocryphal?) claim that Gibson shipped only 7 ebony Thunderbirds in 1979...at least according to the Fly Guitars website http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1976.php (ftp://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1976.php) which quoted Larry Meiners' book "Gibson Shipment Totals 1937-1979". Almost exactly a year later, I saw that another was up for bidding on eBay. So, I bought it.
Flash forward to today, and I'm now looking at this ridiculous collection. All ebony. All from 1979. All sound amazing.
(By the way, The Guitar Dater Project webpage was very helpful in determining on what days the basses were produced at the Kalamazoo plant)
cheers!
Andy
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Willkommen, what took you so long?!
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I've got no excuse whatsoever!
(hanging head in severe shame)
very nice murder you have there.
Aren't they all rather much the same shape and color? :-X You know, there is a rüle here: Thöü shält nicht köllekt für fins oder Jahre der Produktion!!!
:mrgreen: Lovely herd of Bicents!
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You know noffin, Uwe; tis no herd of lumbering bovine, but a group of elegant and alternately disgregarded or feared bird. An omnivore and not a strict herbivore. Adaptable to any situation.
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Until she got shot with that arrow or crossbow, I thought she was kind of hot with her underbite, fur 'n' all. That Night's Watch chastity oath sure is overrated.
Quote from: uwe on November 01, 2016, 03:44:03 PM
I thought she was kind of hot with her underbite, fur 'n' all.
didn't we all
Wow , very nice! What does the engraving on the bridge cover of the top 'bird say?
Quote from: clankenstein on November 01, 2016, 04:16:52 PM
Wow , very nice! What does the engraving on the bridge cover of the top 'bird say?
Good eye, man!
That bridge cover was on the most recent one I picked up. It's got the word (name, presumably) "STRIKER" engraved above the ...what else?....Wiccan Rede:
"An it harm none Do what thou wilt"
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Ah, you're an Aleister Crowley disciple!
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Gentlemen, we have a satanist among us!
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About time too.
Andy, be truthful, do you by any chance like Led Zeppelin too? Sure enough, a most innocent query ...
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Quote from: Kingface66 on November 01, 2016, 01:38:27 PM
I just found your forum, and had to join. Finding fellow-Gibson bass players, alone, is certainly worth it.
I began playing bass back in the mid-80s, when I purchased a '76 ebony Thunderbird (for $400!) and fell in love with it. But, sadly, not enough to keep it, and it went the way of selling and buying, and buying and selling, basses, which continued for the following decades.
Then, about 4 or 5 years ago, I happened upon an ebony '79 Thunderbird. It was in fantastic shape (no headstock crack) and was reminded why I loved these basses so much. So, I bought it. During this time, I began reading the (possibly apocryphal?) claim that Gibson shipped only 7 ebony Thunderbirds in 1979...at least according to the Fly Guitars website http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1976.php (ftp://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/Thunderbird_1976.php) which quoted Larry Meiners' book "Gibson Shipment Totals 1937-1979". Almost exactly a year later, I saw that another was up for bidding on eBay. So, I bought it.
Flash forward to today, and I'm now looking at this ridiculous collection. All ebony. All from 1979. All sound amazing.
(By the way, The Guitar Dater Project webpage was very helpful in determining on what days the basses were produced at the Kalamazoo plant)
cheers!
Andy
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d14/kingface66/FullSizeRender-1%202.jpg)
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d14/kingface66/IMG_5024.jpg)
Lovely group!
Nice to have you aboard, I collect for fins too, used have a black '77.
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Quote from: uwe on November 01, 2016, 05:02:28 PM
Andy, be truthful, do you by any chance like Led Zeppelin too? Sure enough, a most innocent query ...
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Ha!! The engraving was there when I bought the bass! I swear...(on Satan?)
Truthfully, I was kinda bummed at first, but it's such a badass quote, i gotta love it.
He avoided answering the Led Zep question ... Must I be worried?
So you dare to walk in here with a Tbird foursome doin' that 69 thing? If so, you are very welcome! ;)
I like the way the Greek fruit vendor thinks.
Quote from: uwe on November 01, 2016, 05:33:21 PM
He avoided answering the Led Zep question ... Must I be worried?
I thought you got round the "He who shalt not be named" defence rather neatly too, but lets not get too deep... :mrgreen:
Velcum T'Birder... :vader:
I'm already turning Purple in shame & guilt!
:gay:
But I guess you'll always be a soldier of fortune... :mrgreen:
That's pink :-*
He's outing the man in black...
Beautiful birds! You are most welcome here.
Ok, now after a night out with my cardiologist, drinking scotch and sharing a cigarette (what IS it with doctors and smoking?) I can answer all your questions.
I love Zeppelin. John Paul Jones...well, let's just say, left an impression on me. My very first band, when I had a '63 Jazz Bass (...that I sold a year later for $600....to buy a Guild Pilot bass! (it was 1987. Things were weird back then) I was in my first recording studio and nervous as hell. Ian MacKaye (for anyone who followed DC punk, or has heard of Fugazi) was producing our first record. He, and the engineer, asked what kind of bass tone I was looking for. I, obviously, said, "uh....Led Zeppelin II."
They laughed.
A lot.
And kept laughing.
But, yes, I love Zeppelin, though I haven't dabbled in the black arts...or, read much Crowley.
That all said, I'm beginning to like this forum a whole lot.
Welcome to the Outpost.
That's a unique collection you got there.
welcome
to the place where all threads get derailed,
sooner or later you'll also have to fess up an opinion on Deep Purple, world war two aircraft, trains and anal play
nice birds BTW
I've been vocal in my support for Led Zep and their much deserved success here at all times!
Doctors smoke because they know that all medicine and surgery is ultimately futile. And they tend to rely on statistical survival rates. My dad has been a smoker of 10 to a pack a day since his teenage days, he is 85 now, no matter what he does, cancer won't catch up with him anymore. That's not me advocating smoking, I never did (I would have been allowed to from at home no sweat, so there was no revolutionary point ever starting it). But as a liberal non-smoker, I've ironically been surrounded by smokers all my life. Smoking friends, smoking parents, smoking wives and even smoking kids! My dad, the perennial smoker, raised non-smokers (my brothers don't smoke either) and I, the non-smoker, did the reverse with my kids.
Quote from: Kingface66 on November 01, 2016, 10:44:20 PMI had a '63 Jazz Bass (...that I sold a year later for $600....to buy a Guild Pilot bass!
Ouch! Late 81/early 82 I sold my 79 Ric to buy an aluminum neck Kramer. Which was eventually replaced by a Guild Pilot. Which was eventually replaced by a Ric. ;D
Welcome Kingface!
Quote from: wellREDman on November 02, 2016, 02:24:00 AM
welcome
to the place where all threads get derailed,
sooner or later you'll also have to fess up an opinion on Deep Purple, world war two aircraft, trains and anal play
nice birds BTW
Ok. Let's see:
- I love Deep Purple, but am not crazy at all about Rickenbacker basses. I still play Machine Head at least every few weeks.
- In order of personal favorites: Spitfire Mk Vb, F4U-4 Corsair (I grew up watching "Baa Baa Blacksheep"), Bf 109k, and the MiG3, (just 'cause the winter white camo with the red arrow on its fuselage was so cool-looking).
- Not a train guy. Nothing
against them, just never got into them.
- Gonna hold-off on that last one.
Quote from: gearHed289 on November 02, 2016, 09:20:35 AM
Ouch! Late 81/early 82 I sold my 79 Ric to buy an aluminum neck Kramer. Which was eventually replaced by a Guild Pilot. Which was eventually replaced by a Ric. ;D
Welcome Kingface!
There was an electric blue aluminum neck Kramer floating around a group of friends back in the day! It was bought by someone's girlfriend, but co-opted by the dude's brother, who then traded it to the brother (the one w the girlfriend) for a bunch of X-Men comics....including X-Men #1. During that time, every one of us used it at least once or twice.
That thing weighed a TON.
Welcome!
I understand about half of what is going on in this thread.
Par for the course for me here, I'm afraid.
:mrgreen:
Refer to earlier WWII threads, the Tom Brady dildo thread, and see miscellaneous T-bird worship throughout the forum.
That's all the context you need.
Quote from: Kingface66 on November 02, 2016, 09:25:54 AM
Ok. Let's see:
- I love Deep Purple, but am not crazy at all about Rickenbacker basses. I still play Machine Head at least every few weeks.
- In order of personal favorites: Spitfire Mk Vb, F4U-4 Corsair (I grew up watching "Baa Baa Blacksheep"), Bf 109k, and the MiG3, (just 'cause the winter white camo with the red arrow on its fuselage was so cool-looking).
- Not a train guy. Nothing against them, just never got into them.
- Gonna hold-off on that last one.
Corsairs are cool (It's helpful to be able to recognize them vs. a Hellcat, ask Kenny!) and as the resident model train and provocateur of "the love that dare not speak it's name" I can only say that it's never too late to try something new :-*
Ah yes... the "Hellcat Incident..." :mrgreen:
Do your research, Mr K66, or ensure your resilience in the face of a frontal assault, or a posterial... :vader:
"I still play Machine Head at least every few weeks."
Ok, I think we have something to work with then. :mrgreen:
You already fit in just fine (no pun intended). Glad to add another to our ranks!
NICE collection ! I have a black 77 in the herd.
Quote from: godofthunder on November 02, 2016, 08:13:18 PM
NICE collection ! I have a black 77 in the herd.
Why is it always so great seeing one out in the wild??
My first Thunderbird was a 76 I bought new, then a year or so later I discovered nonrevese Thunderbirds. Sadly I sold the 76 in '84. I found the black 77 on GCs website about 5 years ago. It filled the void nicely. One of my NRs 😉
Oh yeah, welcome!
Great collection!! Nice to see another Andy with a fetish for black Thunderbirds 8) Welcome to the Outpost!!
Nice looking quartet!
Quote from: uwe on November 02, 2016, 05:27:18 AM
I've been vocal in my support for Led Zep and their much deserved success here at all times!
Doctors smoke because they know that all medicine and surgery is ultimately futile. And they tend to rely on statistical survival rates. My dad has been a smoker of 10 to a pack a day since his teenage days, he is 85 now, no matter what he does, cancer won't catch up with him anymore. That's not me advocating smoking, I never did (I would have been allowed to from at home no sweat, so there was no revolutionary point ever starting it). But as a liberal non-smoker, I've ironically been surrounded by smokers all my life. Smoking friends, smoking parents, smoking wives and even smoking kids! My dad, the perennial smoker, raised non-smokers (my brothers don't smoke either) and I, the non-smoker, did the reverse with my kids.
We've got a saying for this, "a priests son is devils grandson". My father smokes like a chimney, almost 2 packs a day, my brother and me both hate it. Lets see what happens with the little one...