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Post by nrtbird on Jan 1, 2018 16:44:11 GMT
Hello all, and Happy New Year to you!
I found this forum while looking around for bass tabs for certain Tull songs I've always loved. Been a big Tull fan since high school and for the past 6 years or so have done a Christmas radio show called "A Very Tull Christmas" on a local college station.
A couple of years ago my wife and I saw Ian Anderson's band here in town and then saw them play "Thick As A Brick" in its entirely. It was amazing! I have special interest in Glenn Cornick's work on the first three albums and John Glascock's on the following ones. Currently I am restoring a '66-69 Gibson Non Reverse Thunderbird and plan on restoring it to resemble Cornick's Inverness Green Tbird before he modified it.
I look forward to being a member here and hope to learn a lot!
Thanks!
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 1, 2018 16:54:20 GMT
Hello all, and Happy New Year to you! I found this forum while looking around for bass tabs for certain Tull songs I've always loved. Been a big Tull fan since high school and for the past 6 years or so have done a Christmas radio show called "A Very Tull Christmas" on a local college station. A couple of years ago my wife and I saw Ian Anderson's band here in town and then saw them play "Thick As A Brick" in its entirely. It was amazing! I have special interest in Glenn Cornick's work on the first three albums and John Glascock's on the following ones. Currently I am restoring a '66-69 Gibson Non Reverse Thunderbird and plan on restoring it to resemble Cornick's Inverness Green Tbird before he modified it. I look forward to being a member here and hope to learn a lot! Thanks! Welcome nrtbird !!! North Carolina 'First in TULL'
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 1, 2018 16:59:20 GMT
Haha, nice, thank you very much!
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 1, 2018 20:59:14 GMT
Hello all, and Happy New Year to you! I found this forum while looking around for bass tabs for certain Tull songs I've always loved. Been a big Tull fan since high school and for the past 6 years or so have done a Christmas radio show called "A Very Tull Christmas" on a local college station. A couple of years ago my wife and I saw Ian Anderson's band here in town and then saw them play "Thick As A Brick" in its entirely. It was amazing! I have special interest in Glenn Cornick's work on the first three albums and John Glascock's on the following ones. Currently I am restoring a '66-69 Gibson Non Reverse Thunderbird and plan on restoring it to resemble Cornick's Inverness Green Tbird before he modified it. I look forward to being a member here and hope to learn a lot! Thanks! Hi nrtbird and welcome to The Jethro Tull Forum. Please keep us up to date with the 66-69 Gibson restoration.
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Post by bassackwards on Jan 1, 2018 21:47:58 GMT
Hello all, and Happy New Year to you! I found this forum while looking around for bass tabs for certain Tull songs I've always loved. Been a big Tull fan since high school and for the past 6 years or so have done a Christmas radio show called "A Very Tull Christmas" on a local college station. A couple of years ago my wife and I saw Ian Anderson's band here in town and then saw them play "Thick As A Brick" in its entirely. It was amazing! I have special interest in Glenn Cornick's work on the first three albums and John Glascock's on the following ones. Currently I am restoring a '66-69 Gibson Non Reverse Thunderbird and plan on restoring it to resemble Cornick's Inverness Green Tbird before he modified it. I look forward to being a member here and hope to learn a lot! Thanks! Welcome nrtbird!!! the more the merrier! Happy New Year to all friends in Tull, what a fortunate lot are we!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 2, 2018 8:36:17 GMT
Hello all, and Happy New Year to you! I found this forum while looking around for bass tabs for certain Tull songs I've always loved. Been a big Tull fan since high school and for the past 6 years or so have done a Christmas radio show called "A Very Tull Christmas" on a local college station. A couple of years ago my wife and I saw Ian Anderson's band here in town and then saw them play "Thick As A Brick" in its entirely. It was amazing! I have special interest in Glenn Cornick's work on the first three albums and John Glascock's on the following ones. Currently I am restoring a '66-69 Gibson Non Reverse Thunderbird and plan on restoring it to resemble Cornick's Inverness Green Tbird before he modified it. I look forward to being a member here and hope to learn a lot! Thanks! Hi nrtbird. Look forward to seeing a picture of the finished restoration
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Post by rredmond on Jan 2, 2018 16:36:17 GMT
Hi nrtbird you found The Best Jethro Tull Forum Eva! Good to have another fan on board! Be well and be welcome! --Ron--
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 2, 2018 19:51:50 GMT
Thank you all! I'll be glad to post updates on the Thunderbird as it progresses. I'm lucky to be the caretaker for this bass! I've only found about 4 photos of Cornick with his and of course there is some controversy surrounding the custom colors that Gibson used. One of the biggest is that many believe the sides of the fretboard were painted on custom colors but I'm pretty convinced by closely looking at a couple of the photos of Cornick's that this wasn't always this case. Inverness Green was a custom color but the visible side of the fretboard is not painted. Also, Gibson tended to to weird things sometimes, so in my opinion the photo is documented proof that the paint varied!
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 2, 2018 19:57:34 GMT
I've attached a couple of the pics I've found. In an interview posted on FlyGuitars.com Cornick said he found a white Non Reverse Thunderbird in a guitar ship in New York, where it and some others languished unsold and bought one for $100. This one was broken shortly afterward but he liked it so much he ordered one from a shop in England. It was Inverness Green. Technically, his Non Reverse Thunderbirds came to him after his time with Jethro Tull. The b/w one shows the bass before any modifications at all. The color photo shows the bass without a pick guard and what appears to be a different pickup installed. If you enlarge this photo it's pretty clear that the sides of the fretboard on his bass are not painted. An internet search does show that some indeed were painted. In any case, it's interesting and a learning experience!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 3, 2018 14:52:59 GMT
I've attached a couple of the pics I've found. In an interview posted on FlyGuitars.com Cornick said he found a white Non Reverse Thunderbird in a guitar ship in New York, where it and some others languished unsold and bought one for $100. This one was broken shortly afterward but he liked it so much he ordered one from a shop in England. It was Inverness Green. Technically, his Non Reverse Thunderbirds came to him after his time with Jethro Tull. The b/w one shows the bass before any modifications at all. The color photo shows the bass without a pick guard and what appears to be a different pickup installed. If you enlarge this photo it's pretty clear that the sides of the fretboard on his bass are not painted. An internet search does show that some indeed were painted. In any case, it's interesting and a learning experience! It would be interesting to catalogue Glenn's basses throughout the years starting with the Hobos and through his days with Tull 'n' Turkey. Perhaps something for the nice hot summer months Btw for interested members, the full article is here: www.flyguitars.com/interviews/GlennCornick4.php
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Post by geostrehl on Jan 4, 2018 1:24:57 GMT
I've attached a couple of the pics I've found. In an interview posted on FlyGuitars.com Cornick said he found a white Non Reverse Thunderbird in a guitar ship in New York, where it and some others languished unsold and bought one for $100. This one was broken shortly afterward but he liked it so much he ordered one from a shop in England. It was Inverness Green. Technically, his Non Reverse Thunderbirds came to him after his time with Jethro Tull. The b/w one shows the bass before any modifications at all. The color photo shows the bass without a pick guard and what appears to be a different pickup installed. If you enlarge this photo it's pretty clear that the sides of the fretboard on his bass are not painted. An internet search does show that some indeed were painted. In any case, it's interesting and a learning experience! Why not just contact his son, Drew Cornick? I've spoken to him on the phone before. I have his number, but I don't think that he would appreciate me giving that out! He's very easy to find online. Track him down, have him give you a ring, and ask away! Heck, he did that for me! Before Glenn died, he tabbed out bass tabs to his bass lines from the Benefit album. I will never distribute them, but I asked Drew if I could have some, and 15 minutes later they were in my email inbox. Great guy. Track him down.
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 5, 2018 15:10:31 GMT
Great idea, thank you for suggesting that! I found Drew and sent him a note, so hopefully he'll consider helping me with additional photos of his dad with his NR Thunderbird that will help me.
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 5, 2018 17:48:49 GMT
'Inverness Green' sounds like a description from 'Lost in Crowds'. ( Very loose association, sign of early dementia).
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 6, 2018 16:57:19 GMT
'Inverness Green' sounds like a description from 'Lost in Crowds'. ( Very loose association, sign of early dementia). Hmm, I am missing the reference! On the guitar bit, I found a clip of Wild Turkey showing Glenn with a Rickenbacker! I never knew he ever had one so it was a pleasant surprise!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 6, 2018 17:23:57 GMT
'Inverness Green' sounds like a description from 'Lost in Crowds'. ( Very loose association, sign of early dementia). Hmm, I am missing the reference! On the guitar bit, I found a clip of Wild Turkey showing Glenn with a Rickenbacker! I never knew he ever had one so it was a pleasant surprise! Glenn must have had quite a collection of bass guitars. There are pictures on the internet of him playing a Gibson SG bass, an inverted Flying Vee and the usual Fenders including one with a custom paint job. I hold to the thought that six string electric guitars always look better when they are standard models (you never see a Gibson Les Paul bass - or do you ?) but bass guitars always look better in custom designs such as Rickenbackers or McCartneys Hofner bass for example. Although the advent of 5 and 6 string basses and even a 12 string type always vexes the brain I've always wondered how a bass player deals initially with the wider neck on the instruments with more than 4 strings.
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 6, 2018 18:40:13 GMT
Yeah, that inverted Flying Vee he had is an odd one indeed! Looked to me like some of the parts, may have come from his modified NR Tbird after it was broken and stripped for parts.
I can understand a 5 string bass, so you get the super low notes, but anything past that is beyond me! I think Rickenbacker only rarely offered a 5 string 4003 model, and most of the 5 string Thunderbirds I've seen were the studio model (set neck vs neck through).
Fender's Bass VI was a six string but set up differently than other 6 string basses. I think the octaves were arranged in such a way that the bass was neither too long nor too wide.
When you get into 8 string basses, they are different yet: 4 pairs of 2 strings each (an octave apart, I think). They aren't all that wide, really.
Someone on FB posted to my page a video of some guy playing a 24 string bass (8 sets of three strings each). The neck was insanely wide.
However, I will not pretend I am any sort of expert on anything other than 4 string basses, and I'm not a real expert on those either, though I have some and play them.
I'll stick with 4 strings! That was all people like Entwistle and our late friends Cornick and Glascock used.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 7, 2018 8:33:17 GMT
Yeah, that inverted Flying Vee he had is an odd one indeed! Looked to me like some of the parts, may have come from his modified NR Tbird after it was broken and stripped for parts. I can understand a 5 string bass, so you get the super low notes, but anything past that is beyond me! I think Rickenbacker only rarely offered a 5 string 4003 model, and most of the 5 string Thunderbirds I've seen were the studio model (set neck vs neck through). Fender's Bass VI was a six string but set up differently than other 6 string basses. I think the octaves were arranged in such a way that the bass was neither too long nor too wide. When you get into 8 string basses, they are different yet: 4 pairs of 2 strings each (an octave apart, I think). They aren't all that wide, really. Someone on FB posted to my page a video of some guy playing a 24 string bass (8 sets of three strings each). The neck was insanely wide. However, I will not pretend I am any sort of expert on anything other than 4 string basses, and I'm not a real expert on those either, though I have some and play them. I'll stick with 4 strings! That was all people like Entwistle and our late friends Cornick and Glascock used. There must be so much reinforcement in the design and building of the more "exotic" bass guitars that the sound etc must be effected to a certain degree. If I could still play a bass I'd stick to four strings. Had a Hofner bass until it was stolen in Germany many years ago
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 7, 2018 14:38:05 GMT
Man, that's awful about your bass. I know you still miss it. I loaned my Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn bass to a buddy for use in recording his band's album. One night someone broke into the studio and stole it, a G&L bass, a rosewood Telecaster and a couple other instruments. The G&L and one other instrument got snagged while someone was trying to pawn them and they were recovered. 2 1/2 years later a friend on a bass forum emailed me and told me about a Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn on eBay in my state. I took a look at the link and it was MY bass! So, I was forced to buy it for a second time and immediately gave the detective the seller's contact information. I was lucky to get it back because by then Jerry Jones retired and quit making instruments.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 7, 2018 15:45:18 GMT
Man, that's awful about your bass. I know you still miss it. I loaned my Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn bass to a buddy for use in recording his band's album. One night someone broke into the studio and stole it, a G&L bass, a rosewood Telecaster and a couple other instruments. The G&L and one other instrument got snagged while someone was trying to pawn them and they were recovered. 2 1/2 years later a friend on a bass forum emailed me and told me about a Jerry Jones Neptune Longhorn on eBay in my state. I took a look at the link and it was MY bass! So, I was forced to buy it for a second time and immediately gave the detective the seller's contact information. I was lucky to get it back because by then Jerry Jones retired and quit making instruments. Luckily it was insured and I got my money back but even after all these years it pisses me off that maybe somewhere some bastard is playing my bass. Up to now I've had quite a few instruments over the years and it has been the only instrument I've had stolen.
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 7, 2018 17:29:28 GMT
I totally know that feeling!!! I hope it brought that thief nothing but bad luck!
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Post by rredmond on Jan 8, 2018 16:18:42 GMT
However, I will not pretend I am any sort of expert on anything other than 4 string basses, and I'm not a real expert on those either, though I have some and play them. Dude! For a non-expert you have some impressive knowledge! And I appreciate you sharing it. I still have my trombone tucked away somewhere, but I think my bass is long gone. Now I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for it. --Ron--
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 8, 2018 19:48:23 GMT
Happy New Year nrtbird and Welcome to the Forumand (apologies for hijacking your thread) HAPPY NEW YEAR JETHRO TULL FORUMThe original, the best and the only Tull Forum in the stratosphere started and run for one reason alone - the fans of Jethro Tull. i68.images obliterated by tinypic/2m2cl53.jpg[/IMG]
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 9, 2018 1:23:25 GMT
However, I will not pretend I am any sort of expert on anything other than 4 string basses, and I'm not a real expert on those either, though I have some and play them. Dude! For a non-expert you have some impressive knowledge! And I appreciate you sharing it. I still have my trombone tucked away somewhere, but I think my bass is long gone. Now I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for it. --Ron-- Thanks, Ron! When I get interested in something: models, cars, motorcycles, guitars, etc I try to learn as much as I can. Sometimes it even shows! My dad played the trombone in his high school marching band and a couple of years ago he bought one to try and relearn it. He's 79!
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 9, 2018 1:24:05 GMT
No worries, Sir Nonrabbit! Thanks!
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 9, 2018 22:36:11 GMT
No worries, Sir Nonrabbit! Thanks! Your very welcome and there's no need to call me Sir - Lady will do!
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Post by nrtbird on Jan 10, 2018 0:59:33 GMT
Ha!!! I beg your pardon!
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