Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

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I always called that the Boris the Spider bass.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was asking just because my oldest is a forensic psychologist and board certified clinical psychologist. Government really screwed up in the 70s when they decided mental healthcare was an infringement on civil liberties and dismantled the system.

We gotta be careful to not get political, but I'll just say we've been sorely lacking in the mental healthcare arena for decades.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Were money no object(IT IS!), I'd have sumpin' like this, on modern running gear.

Oh, HECK yeah!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'd love to own an Alembic anything

Me, too, but especially an early Phil Lesh Alembic..

 

[MCF]

Uh. Ok then

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Guess I was lucky, rode from 1972 to 2018 (2 years in England), always kept the shiny side up. Our singer lost half a leg and died twice, years ago, in a motorcycle/car accdent.

In ~25 years of motorcycling, I only had one bad wreck. Broken collarbone (three main pieces), messed up knee (they didn't x-ray), undiagnosed closed head trauma (also, not checked out, we maybe should have sued the hospital).

 

[GonePlaid]

Me, too, but especially an early Phil Lesh Alembic..

If there was a lottery to win one of those basses, would it be the Alembic Games.
I'll see myself out.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

You could paint, "Thunderbird for Hire" on the side. Thundervan? Thundertruck? (Not to be confused with with a thunderpot or mug.)

With multiple birds, it could be ThundersTruck, complete with AC/DC logo.

 

[Stealth57]

We gotta be careful to not get political, but I'll just say we've been sorely lacking in the mental healthcare arena for decades.

Not sure that’s political as much as an acknowledgment that we have a serious mental health issue that needs addressing.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Here's Frank's ride taking off yesterday........And a shot over Bellevue, WA

I'm so happy for Frank! That's just as cool as it gets. You're one heck of a wife!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

B-17.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Garage? My Mesa 410 sits proudly in the master bedroom.

My gear is all in the Room of Requirement.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I don't usually like pop or listen to it ABBA and Roxette being exceptions, but I wanted to see what you all thought of this:

As someone else said, not my cup of tea, but well done pop music.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

….maybe soon….gigs in September / October ….

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…with the red one…or the rev chinese/korean hybrid with eybuckers and original hipshot mini clovers….

You gig through that amp? Wow!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Yeah. Ours are pretty lame. Maybe I’ll take a stab at some when I finally retire.

Microwaves or wikis?

 

[MCF]

Probably my favorite current band. And that video is fantastic. Allie needs to switch to a Spector Thunderbird to complete the picture.

They are good. Not at the top of my list, but certainly a great listen. I would see them live if possible. I didn’t the last tour because I’m still very concerned about gatherings with people I don’t know. But that’s just me.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Hmmmm.

Veronica = Granny
GonePlaid = Jed
JJR = Jethro
KaraQ = Elly May
GBassNorth = Mr. Drysdale
??? = Miss Hathaway

(raises hand)
Oh, Jethroooo...

 

[MCF]

At the gym several years ago, one of the staff was wearing a t-shirt with this:
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as he had done an event for them (for those that don't know, it is an anti-starvation charity).

I casually asked to what he intended to feed the children... The look was priceless.

And I’m not surprised.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I think it is a matter of having gotten into weird experimental music in high school, Zappa made sense. If you didn't, it is just weird for weird sake.

I could hear the brilliance even in the stuff I didn't care for. It's funny because at the same time my brain was tuning out a lot of Zappa and experimental jazz, it was getting very intimately involved with Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

.....I miss the cars that made my Suburban seem small.

The '61 Caddy I had was wider (by a not-insignificant amount), longer (by quite a bit), had more room in the passenger area, and weighed (almost) as much.
And had a trunk nearly big enough to fit a Smart Car in.....

(just like this one, but - perhaps unsurprisingly - not nearly as pretty)
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Cool car and killer band. That's the first track tonight that didn't quickly send me back to my previously scheduled program (coming in a post below).