Picked up a new 2018 Thunderbird bass on the weekend and OMG I love this thing!! It is beautifully made and sounds fantastic. Super light as well...
Congrats. And welcome to the Outpost.
Welcome home to the Dark Side Redhed! :vader: :toast:
Congrats!
You'll need chrome hardware and 60ies pups with it or you won't be taken serious here. :rolleyes:
I'm the sensible exception. Stick with that lovely black hardware and the modern day TB Plus pups, son! TBirds of all ages are a joy to play, you'll be hooked soon.
Quote from: uwe on October 29, 2019, 10:12:21 AM
You'll need chrome hardware and 60ies pups with it or you won't be taken serious here. :rolleyes:
I'm the sensible exception. Stick with that lovely black hardware and the modern day TB Plus pups, son! TBirds of all ages are a joy to play, you'll be hooked soon.
Do not listen to this disciple of black plastic, he spouts villainy! Chrome is your friend, your expensive friend ;)
Welcome!
Great and congrats! Show it to us!
You have one of the Lemmy heads?
I tried to upload some pic's but could not get it to work!
Quote from: Chris P. on October 29, 2019, 01:26:45 PM
Great and congrats! Show it to us!
You have one of the Lemmy heads?
I did have a Lemmy SuperBass but unfortunately had to sell it.
Quote from: REDHED on November 03, 2019, 06:26:26 PM
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Welcome, and stay away from the chrome, it is a poison after all.
Quote from: uwe on October 29, 2019, 10:12:21 AM
You'll need chrome hardware and 60ies pups with it or you won't be taken serious here. :rolleyes:
I'm the sensible exception. Stick with that lovely black hardware and the modern day TB Plus pups, son! TBirds of all ages are a joy to play, you'll be hooked soon.
With Uwe it's always a Deep Purple thing - "more black" hardware is simply a subliminal palindrome of sorts for "Blackmore".
Now, tolerant human that I am, I own a Thunderbird Studio, where the chrome and the black peacefully coexist.
(https://i.imgur.com/sDllj5R.jpg)
Deep w h a t ?!!!!
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(https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2016/01/Jimmy-Bain-Fin-Costello.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Didn't Glover remark about accidentally breaking the headstock of his on stage?
Since when is Jimmy Bain considered a Deep Purple member?
Quote from: Basvarken on November 09, 2019, 12:17:10 PM
Since when is Jimmy Bain considered a Deep Purple member?
Rainbow & Dio - guilt by association.
Quote from: TBird1958 on November 09, 2019, 07:02:45 AM
Didn't Glover remark about accidentally breaking the headstock of his on stage?
Yes. It was with Rainbow, though. Ritchie probably gave it a dirty look.
Quote from: TBird1958 on November 09, 2019, 07:02:45 AM
Didn't Glover remark about accidentally breaking the headstock of his on stage?
Yes, and it came like a surprise, he did'nt really know what happened. Suddenly the headstock was dangling from the strings.
(Edit) Found it:
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..!
"Since when is Jimmy Bain considered a Deep Purple member?"
But I have a catholic approach in the truest sense of the word!
Anything from The Artwoods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCL3rVoHqhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRPZZDsZ2Jo
to Zephyr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9tcMqHlKgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I93uiaJ9cs
is Deep Purple Family to me.
That of course includes Heinz because Ritchie B played the solo on Just like Eddie (here reenacted for a Joe Meek movie, but the song and solo is original).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0B301wdcgc
Those dance moves sure stuck.
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So in your "catholic approach" anybody who has played with a Deep Purple member is part of the family?
Wow! That are a lot of family members then! :mrgreen:
Of course. I have collected them all - anything the gentlemen below have done before, during, in, outside and after Deep Purple.
Diehard sessioneers such as Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner, Don Airey and Steve Morse have cost me a fortune. Blackmore's sixties work - due to his affiliation with Joe Meek - is endless too. Rod Evans is the one with the least releases. Some singles with The Maze/M.I. Five (also featuring Ian Paice),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5biqT9x4IW8
his Purple stint (three albums), a never really released solo single (already quaint and outdated sounding in 1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_73faQPjLpo
and two - brilliant - albums with Captain Beyond,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5D_6GHBBVg
that's it. When he was not trying to sing hard rock, he had a really lovely voice.
It's only 13 of them!
Don Airey
Ritchie Blackmore
Tommy Bolin
David Coverdale
Rod Evans
Ian Gillan
Roger Glover
Glenn Hughes
Jon Lord
Steve Morse
Ian Paice
Joe Lynn Turner
Nick Simper
Couple of hundred CDs (not counting the ones with Purple), nothing more.
I do not regard Joe Satriani as a full-fledged member as he never recorded or wrote with them.
Haha, you are one of a kind :toast:
Quote from: uwe on November 14, 2019, 03:35:02 PM
and two - brilliant - albums with Captain Beyond,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5D_6GHBBVg
that's it. When he was not trying to sing hard rock, he had a really lovely voice.
Wow, I have that first captain beyond album but never knew the DP connection.
You can't be serious?! ;D Captain Beyond was basically an Iron Butterfly/Deep Purple Mk I mash-up erroneously marooned on a Southern Rock label (Capricorn), which did them no good.
Essentially a prog band, they should have gone further than they did. I actually like the 2nd album better for the more mature songwriting, but the debut is a definite fan cult favorite.
Quote from: uwe on November 15, 2019, 06:21:58 AM
You can't be serious?! ;D Captain Beyond was basically an Iron Butterfly/Deep Purple Mk I mash-up erroneously marooned on a Southern Rock label (Capricorn), which did them no good.
Essentially a prog band, they should have gone further than they did. I actually like the 2nd album better for the more mature songwriting, but the debut is a definite fan cult favorite.
Can't say I listen to it much, it just belongs in my 'early prog' collection. Many great pieces of music within, but the whole album lacks a thread. I'll give that 2nd. album a listen one day, but they'd have to be matured a great deal for me to buy a CD or LP of them!