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Thunderbird Club

#219,761
PillO said:
Well, as long as we are discussing old bass players who played Thunderbirds...
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And I'll up the ante with:
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'Well, Glee … it's uh … 3/4 good, and 1/4 not very nice!'
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Pete Way was a friend of Bon Scott. AC/DC toured a bit with UFO in their early US tours. I'm not sure which was more injurious to the others health.
 
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PillO said:
IIRC, post break up, Ringo earned the most money. He was industrious - always a project on the go with all the friends he had made along the way. And was the conductor at Shining Time Station; a role later filled by George Carlin.
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He probably did. He played with anybody and everybody. He's such a great guy. Beloved in the industry. And in my book, one of the best, most versatile drummers in history. He may not be as technically proficient as a Gene Krupa, Bruford, or Baker. But who else than Ringo would you want to lock in and grove with?
 
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GonePlaid said:
Actually, the 2 "Toms" are displaying toward each other in preparation for fighting over the hens.
Here in FL, hunters will spend $$$ on weapons, camping gear/RVs, etc. to go 'get' wild turkeys which, I'm told, are quite 'gamey' in taste.
Nope.
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Likely tastes as bad as venison as well.

(I know, I know..."if you know how to fix it, it's pretty good." But I had a guy tell me that about possum as well, so apparently if you know how to fix anything it can be pretty good. I had deer stew once and jerky was was pretty good due to the abundance of other flavors per oz of meat no doubt.)
 
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dagrev said:
Likely tastes as bad as venison as well.

(I know, I know..."if you know how to fix it, it's pretty good." But I had a guy tell me that about possum as well, so apparently if you know how to fix anything it can be pretty good. I had deer stew once and jerky was was pretty good due to the abundance of other flavors per oz of meat no doubt.)
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I quite like venison (deer), moose, elk, and buffalo (bison). More complex and interesting than the factory famed beef you get these days.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Our last house sat on a lake in KY. So we had all the same critters you mentioned plus rabbit, Fox, muskrat, mink or weasel, alligator snapping turtles, box turtles, moles, chipmunks, squirrels, tree frogs, toads, king fisher birds, green grebes, geese, several kinds of ducks, and even an occasional turkey buzzard. Oddly enough we never had any turkey in our yard. I suspect you probably have a lot of the critters I mentioned as well.

Of the bunch, the geese were the most messy (thanks Canada) and the rabbits, moles and deer were the most destructive. I did end up devising a way to "control" the deer and keep them from eating all the flowers in the yard, and no it doesn't involve cooking venison. Let me know if your interested and I'll post a sketch of the device. With patience, perseverance and a shovel I wiped out the mole population. The rabbit situation improved once the fox moved in.
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Yes, I did forget a few, rabbit, fox, snapping turtles, box turtles, moles, chipmunks, squirrels, tree frogs, toads, and an on occasion ducks. Like you the moles are the worst followed by deer. The guy the lived here before us feed the deer and they would come and eat out of his had. One day they got aggressive and he stopped that. TO help with the moles consisted of spraying the yard for the bugs they look for. That has gotten rid of 90% of the that problem. For the occasional run that shows up I have spikes that vibrate and make a noise powered by the Sun. They do help and will eventually Deter them from staying in the area. Only one problem area so far this year.
 
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#219,774
MCF said:
I can still sing along to every song. And the song order on the US Capitol albums is deeply ingrained in my brain. I'm not exaggerating when I say I've listened to their albums thousands of times.
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Same here. I know almost of the basslines too, they got ingrained in my brain, lyrics, chords etc. I was ten when they hit and I fell right away. The Ed Sullivan Show appearance cemented it. They were so talented that along with George Martin's production every single they did was totally different than the preceding one, there were times when a new one was released and I wasn't even sure it was The Beatles. I play bass because of McCartney. I Wanna Hold Your Hand did it, they were the first band with bass up loud in the mix, uprights were still fairly common in rock n roll back then and played basic lines and were down in the mix, McCartney played it more like a lead instrument. That probably sounds funny today with so many bass virtuosos out there.
 
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GBassNorth said:
I was never a huge Beatles fan. Liked a number of their songs but never went out of my way to buy many of their albums.
One thing I have to acknowledge about the Beatles though is they were very good at evolving their music and style over the years. Unlike, let's say - Boston, who had a dynamite first album and unfortunately every album after that sounded exactly the same, it got old quick. The Beatles were never really like that. It seems like every album they put out was a slight departure from the previous but still unmistakably the Beatles. Probably my favorite of their albums was Abby Road.
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We must be related. Though I can't say I have a favorite album. A few songs I like and I can't deny they were good (or first) at what they did and impacted music like maybe no other band other than maybe Bread.

(I just through that last part in to hear chains begin to rattle.) They did change music.
 
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dagrev said:
We must be related. Though I can't say I have a favorite album. A few songs I like and I can't deny they were good (or first) at what they did and impacted music like maybe no other band other than maybe Bread.

(I just through that last part in to hear chains begin to rattle.) They did change music.
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So we're the same age. I can't believe you guys weren't bigger fans.
 
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dagrev said:
We must be related. Though I can't say I have a favorite album. A few songs I like and I can't deny they were good (or first) at what they did and impacted music like maybe no other band other than maybe Bread.

(I just through that last part in to hear chains begin to rattle.) They did change music.
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I've always liked Bread and think David Gates was a great song writer and singer, I don't think they had quite the impact on the world as the Beatles though. :laugh:
 
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MCF said:
I was six. And we were glued to the TV that night and the following Sunday night. Then the movie. And then Help. And Yellow Submarine. And the cartoon show. It's hard to imagine what life would have been like growing up without them.
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They changed my whole world, I was ten, there hasn't been a musical phenomenon like that since, we were lucky to have lived through that. I used to play with the keyboard player from The Remains who opened for them on their last U.S. tour in 1966, he had some great stories, they used to share funny cigarettes before going on.
 
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