Lefthanded bassplayers playing Thunderbirds.

[Blazer]

Let's face it, the Thunderbird is one of the few designs that continues to look cool when strapped on upside-down.


The Breeders "Cannonball"


Some guy playing along with Iron maiden's "The Trooper" on his Jackson 'bird

[Basvarken]

Let's face it:
we already knew that.
Check the BacHbird thread...

[TBird1958]

Well how about a Firebird..................Here's Paul Raymond of UFO playing one lefty and taking care of the keyboard chores as well.
Lights out in London from 1978, how I love this band!

Rock on 

[uwe]

And Raymond even played that righty lefty strung righty! 

Which is why Schenker always liked him as a rhythm guitarist because he found that "Paul's chords always sound different from regular strumming".

[gweimer]

I remember seeing Raymond with Savoy Brown on the Street Corner Talking tour.

[amimbari]

thank you for the warm "video welcome" .

as to the lefthanded upsidedown thing and most importantly:
notes are notes, chords are chords, EVERYthing has a pattern...it is all about memorization. ( and quick fingers ) 

My friend Mark said he posted my video, and he never knew it was me until today, after the many times we messaged each other...so I had to come say HI to the gang.

and p.s. uh, that video is probably one of the worst you could have picked of the 10 or so Maiden tunes I have on the channel that I do using one of the Tbirds. ---hahahaha


hi gang

[TBird1958]

Hey Mike,

It was actually Mr Blazer that posted the vid, all same thanks for coming over and find us Thunderbird  (and all other basses too) fans here at The Outpost. Welcome!

[amimbari]

Hey Mike,

It was actually Mr Blazer that posted the vid, all same thanks for coming over and find us Thunderbird  (and all other basses too) fans here at The Outpost. Welcome!

Ya I figured that out now -duh...well my statement still stands about picking the worst video 

[Chris P.]

Well, mr. Blazer has a strange taste in bad eighties tunes too


Welcome

[amimbari]

thank you ChrisP. I posted a couple non-gibson Tbirds in the "other basses" section. just in case anyone wanted to see that JackBird in a real picture next to my DillionBird.

unlike TbirdMark who has a dozen or so GibsonBirds, ( even a good looking [cough-cough] FenderBird ) I never owned one.

for me playing upside down it was the ideal shape, and flipped, there is ZERO neckdive. my other basses are p/j looking charvels, and although they look retarded flipped over, I made my money as a player, not as a model for a photoshoot.

[Blazer]

Well I chose that particullar video because it love the way your Jackson looks with the black body and white binding, it looks really sophisticated.

[amimbari]

Well I chose that particullar video because it love the way your Jackson looks with the black body and white binding, it looks really sophisticated.

I always liked the Fender Aerodyne black+bound for that reason, just never liked the way it played. and a black+bound Ric was always out of my price reach.

[amimbari]

I'll stir up the pot a little.....

Since I'm one to play EVERYTHING, old/new/fast/slow... because it is no longer a JOB with a 50 song setlist... it is just for 100% pure FUN, with 10's of thousands of song to choose from 

so with that introduction, here is your inverted lefty playing my SB EPI-tBbird on TWO very short worldwide songs EVERYONE over 30 years old knows, and NO ONE else on all of youtube has a cover of. ( among the other videos I did that are total "noone else would cover that" videos )

http://www.youtube.com/v/TxqK8cQZ36s&hl=en&fs=1

http://www.youtube.com/v/2i-fShVyxIw&hl=en&fs=1

[Chris P.]

I like the mirrored Carvin logo:)

A couple of years ago I saw a band consiting of only lefties. Two lefty guitards, a lefty drummer and a lefty bassplayer. I adviced them to put a mirrored Premier logo on the drums and the same with Marshall on the amps and they totally couldn't laugh about it....

[amimbari]

well you know Chris...upsidedown bass, upside down monitor.

there was one nutcase on the TB board that asked if I got dizzy playing inverted before he knew what it meant ( I guess he thought I played "truly" upside down ) --