Thunderbird Club

[bobyoung53]

I don't like Lawrence Welk or "elevator" music. But love Big Band, as far as older popular music goes. I know they were very talented, but watching Lawrence Welk makes me want to drink heavily (which I don't do anymore). Give me Hee-Haw any day. It was funny and stupid and supposed to be stupid and funny, and I'm not a Country fan.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to denigrate your musical taste , I didn't have a very open mind toward other types of music when I was a kid.

 

[GBassNorth]

Politics ruins everything.
Last year I was working at a 'green' company; removal of CO2 from stack gas. No one wanted to discuss thermodynamics and the conservation of energy - any energy you get out of the product came from somewhere. There is no free lunch. But the CEO had no problems misrepresenting what could be done (probably because he didn't understand), then expected everyone else to cover for him. My reputation is more valuable that anything they could pay me.

I left as I uncovered unethical behaviour that was threatening to become criminal.

Good move! At the end of the day the only thing you really own - like it or not - is your reputation. Keep it intact.

it’s true, see kids wearing Sabbath, Floyd, Zep T-shirts all the time……don’t remember us wearing Crosby or Sinatra ones…

I see the same thing down here. Kids born in the early 2000’s wearing band shirts from 30 and 40 years before they were born. I was born in 1957, I can’t fathom walking around high school campus in 1975 wearing a tee shirt with Irving Berlin or other artists from the 1920’s on it.

Micro nuclear is getting a lot of attention. One reason is several companies are finding a use for the spent fuel that doesn't require 50,000 years in a salt mine. Plus, they don't generate a lot of waste. Not sure the manufacturing techniques of these companies are fully thought out, but it is a possible solution.
A new technique to recycle nuclear waste with synthetic diamond batteries - Foro Nuclear

Micro does sound interesting, of course you’ll have to contend with the “not in my backyard” issues (same issue with every power generation method regardless of how green it is). Heck, As much as I love Thunderbirds, I wouldn’t be thrilled if Gibson opened up a Thunderbird manufacturing facility across the street from my house.

I had the same type of issue at Solyndra. We were providing software to model and optimize their complex manufacturing environment. Our software can also predict product costs. We found that they were essentially paying people to take their product. When we let them know, management said no one was allowed to do anymore cost modeling...can't have the DOE loans getting pulled for lying on the applications.

But it sure looked good on paper for a while. Good rule of thumb for me - if the government is involved, I’m not.

 

[PhR75]

Hummm... I thought it might be a Gretsch but I can't find any like it. I'd have to see a clearer pic. It appears to be a hollow-body w/a bound body. Neck-hugging bucker is definitely '60s... that's all I got.

Here's another picture:

 

[bobyoung53]

So much of the 60s stuff(pre-Motown, anyway)was recorded using UB's, which were almost inaudible, esp. on small speakers.

The uprights were also mixed low on a lot of those old records, I couldn't even hear Bill Wyman's electric bass on my first record player.

 

[PillO]

Pitbull puppy bite and pic of the day

Who's a good dog?
WHO'S A GOOD DOG!

 

[PillO]

I don't like Lawrence Welk or "elevator" music. But love Big Band, as far as older popular music goes. I know they were very talented, but watching Lawrence Welk makes me want to drink heavily (which I don't do anymore). Give me Hee-Haw any day. It was funny and stupid and supposed to be stupid and funny, and I'm not a Country fan.

I too am a fan of big band - Buddy Rich, Count Bassie, Duke Ellington*, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass... Probably got that from my Dad (who was a musical bigot).

But I will do you all one better too. I also enjoy opera.

* Pretty much any nobility based band I suppose.

 

[bobyoung53]

I've always wanted a Voice of the Theater rig (amps and speakers), but they've always cost more than I was able or willing to pay.
That said, the sweetest stereo I ever used was based off the 1978 Technics Professional Series[1] gear and Bose speakers[2]. Their turntable into their parametric EQ pre into their 15 band(?) stereo EQ into their amp into a pair of Bose 901 speakers. Forget the 901 pre, just play with the EQs until everything is perfect. Once it was set, it was set. You could feel your insides resonate with the phased bass, and it felt good. We sold those brands at Melton's Stereo and HiFi, but on my pay, they were waaaay out of reach.

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[2] Bose were always all over the map for me. I liked the 802s and 901s, but the lower end stuff was not so hot, although the 201s were OK for the money. Even the 802s and 901s could be fiddly.

The problem with Voice of The theatre cabs from home use is I'm pretty sure they dropped off on the low end, they didn't have a lot of deep bass. I always liked the Large advents, those things went low and had a lot of punch.

 

[bobyoung53]

I too am a fan of big band - Buddy Rich, Count Bassie, Duke Ellington*, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass... Probably got that from my Dad (who was a musical bigot).

But I will do you all one better too. I also enjoy opera.

* Pretty much any nobility based band I suppose.

My first exposure to live jazz was the Count Basie band during the early 90's, it was not a "big band" at the time and I wasn't into jazz at all and my at the time girlfriend dragged me to a club to see them. They converted me, just the dynamics even floored me, Count Basie of course was dead by that time but they were led by the great tenor player, Frank foster.

 

[PillO]

Good rule of thumb for me - if the government is involved, I’m not.

In any business endeavour, government is the worst partner you can have. When I was in venture capital, government involvement of any kind was the kiss of death. They were always told to go and get the money from their deep pocketed partner.

Later, when in investment banking, everything that required government partnership/cooperation was a sell. To investors I would simply point out - what happens when government changes (and it will)?

Good move! At the end of the day the only thing you really own - like it or not - is your reputation. Keep it intact.

Yep. When I was in investment banking, that was all you had. People would forgive 'unforeseen circumstances' on a buy. But on a sell, you absolutely had to be right. I was never wrong on a sell and it became an interesting position for the trading desk - clients would want my time to find out what I didn't like (because those were often not written about).

 

[Instagator]

A little bit of ebony VP magic from Friday night..


Cheers

 

[PillO]

The uprights were also mixed low on a lot of those old records, I couldn't even hear Bill Wyman's electric bass on my first record player.

That may not (only) be the mix. The cheap speakers in those entry level stereos (and below) would be had pressed to reproduce any sound lower than 120hz or perhaps higher.

 

[PillO]

Do we have a bunch of new members to initiate?

I think @JJR58 has been falling behind on initiations...

 

[JJR58]

I think @JJR58 has been falling behind on initiations...

I'll make up for that after i get to Cali.

 

[bobyoung53]

That may not (only) be the mix. The cheap speakers in those entry level stereos (and below) would be had pressed to reproduce any sound lower than 120hz or perhaps higher.

My post wasn't very clear like a lot of mine, I meant the 50's rock & roll upright stuff wasn't usually mixed very loud, I think The Beatles changed all that, they were the first band I remember with loud bass.. With The Stones it was the speaker not the LP, it was a cheap mono record player I had gotten for Christmas, it had one 4 inch speaker, they had some deep bass in some of their tunes.

 

[GonePlaid]

The problem with Voice of The theatre cabs from home use is I'm pretty sure they dropped off on the low end, they didn't have a lot of deep bass. I always liked the Large advents, those things went low and had a lot of punch.

Well, mine were being used in a(almost)double wide "tornado magnet". The trailer would distort b4 the speakers did. Plenty of lows.

 

[GonePlaid]

A little bit of ebony VP magic from Friday night..


Cheers

 

[TBird1958]

I'll make up for that after i get to Cali.

You're bringing a grass skirt and coconut shell bra on the plane?

 

[GonePlaid]

You're bringing a grass skirt and coconut shell bra on the plane?

Wearing.

 

[bobyoung53]

Well, mine were being used in a(almost)double wide "tornado magnet". The trailer would distort b4 the speakers did. Plenty of lows.

I guess I was wrong, I had read somewhere that they were deficient in the low end but I just looked it up and one was measured at 42 Hz -12 KHz which is pretty good. In case you want to read it:

Altec A7 Voice Of Theatre Speakers

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

My first exposure to live jazz was the Count Basie band during the early 90's, it was not a "big band" at the time and I wasn't into jazz at all and my at the time girlfriend dragged me to a club to see them. They converted me, just the dynamics even floored me, Count Basie of course was dead by that time but they were led by the great tenor player, Frank foster.

saw Ray Brown here many moons ago….