Thunderbird Club

[bobyoung53]

Ditto.

Yup eerie time.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Uh, ok. You're still my friend Donnie. But Elton John? Seriously? The guy has one great song. Funeral For a Friend. The rest is, well….

Hey, now. He had my attention with Tiny Dancer.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was in Kindergarten, but remember it like it was yesterday. All TV that AM was the assassination coverage (I was in a PM class). When my Mom took me to school, they told us to go home.

Not just that morning. Days.

 

[5StringBlues]

My biggest problem with school was often boredom. I was reading at a 4th grade level when I started 1st grade, and could do the four basic math operations. My teachers typically had no idea what to do with me. There were a couple of awesome exceptions.

I had been reading all my sister's (12 years older ) books all of fifth and sixth grade: Electric Koolaid Acid Test, Vonnegut, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Shagging.......




Tested as college level reading in summer school after 6th grade.

 

[bobyoung53]

Saw that in 76…

I saw this in about '76 too. I actually emailed the drummer years ago and asked him about this and he loved it. I think I still have the email. He was actually a very well known jazz drummer who played with some of the greats, he said doing this show was the "most fun he ever had with his pants on"

Colin Bailey (drummer) - Wikipedia

 

[Stealth57]

My biggest problem with school was often boredom. I was reading at a 4th grade level when I started 1st grade, and could do the four basic math operations. My teachers typically had no idea what to do with me. There were a couple of awesome exceptions.

Drove my teachers and admins crazy. Got A's on tests and 8's on behavior. 10 meant you got asked to find another school…and not in a good way.

 

[bobyoung53]

Drove my teachers and admins crazy. Got A's on tests and 8's on behavior. 10 meant you got asked to find another school…and not in a good way.

Oh yeah, I was terrible in school. My ninth grade algebra teacher had me sit in the front row next to the door so I "didn't have to walk so far to the office" when she threw me out.

 

[GBassNorth]

I quite like venison (deer), moose, elk, and buffalo (bison). More complex and interesting than the factory famed beef you get these days.

Meat from any of the grazing animals is quite simply a reflection of what they eat. Grazers that dine on scrub brush and tumble weeds (like here in SoCal) taste horrid and gamey. On the other hand, deer and elk in the Midwest that feed in corn fields and wheat fields and on green leafy plants taste quite good.

Now that one I like that one for some reason. I love some of his stuff and really don't like some of his stuff.

Can't deny that Elton John was top of the charts in his day. I find his music ok, actually a bit too pop or AM for me but still catchy songs. Odd thing is, for some strange reason I've never liked playing bass with most of his songs. I just never felt a lot of bass love in a lot of his music, it's more vocal, piano and guitar with backup orchestra to my ears.

 

[PhR75]

Ugh. Video unavailable here. I'll definitely search her music out. Thanks for the post!

This is another great track featuring Dalbello:


She does the 70's Geddy scream almost better than Geddy (not heard on a record since "Battlescar" in 1980).

 

[PhR75]

Re: Elton John
I love his rockier tracks like Saturday Nights All Right, Grey Seal, Take Me To The Pilot etc. The old live album 17-11-1970 is superb and the aforementioned Love Lies Bleeding is probably my most fav track of his. Kevin Gilbert did an amazing version live with Toy Matinee in 1991.

Speaking of piano trios, Ben Folds Five is a great band. They get the usual Elton comparison but they have also the 10CC influence and also some proggier things. This could be Elton, Lake & Palmer.



The bass player Robert Sledge used a lot an Epiphone Les Paul bass and also played some synth too. He had an OSCar and some other analog monosynth (Moog Prodigy perhaps?).

 

[RedVee]

Meat from any of the grazing animals is quite simply a reflection of what they eat. Grazers that dine on scrub brush and tumble weeds (like here in SoCal) taste horrid and gamey. On the other hand, deer and elk in the Midwest that feed in corn fields and wheat fields and on green leafy plants taste quite good.
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There has been a thing here selling Salt Bush meat. Basically meat from animals that graze in areas with a lot of Salt Bush. It is supposed to be really good… but I haven't tried it.

 

[PillO]

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.

My daughter's drum teacher Shared his opinion on the Beatles - McCartney overplays on everything; "be better if he just played roots". There was some consideration to changing teachers at that point...

 

[PillO]

They were everywhere. The Beatles completely changed music. My cousins lived in LI, NY and went to Shea Stadium, they said all you could hear were the girls screaming. First it was Frank Sinatra, Elvis and The Beatles, nothing has really had the impact of those three since then. I mean it's a different time, three major networks, no computers, no cell phones, no cable. I really don't know if phenomenons like those three could happen again.

Not even these guys? They came along after the Beatles, had legions of screaming girls at appearances... Maybe not as big an impact on music...

 

[PillO]

It wasn't until this forum that I recall knowing there were other humans who just didn't like or even care about the Beatles. I thought I was the only person on earth who wasn't a fan. A best friend I grew up with loved them. I would listen to albums at his house and was kind of like, "I don't get the fascination. Put on one of your Chicago albums." I liked a few songs. Lucy In the Sky, but liked the Elton version better. In fact, I would much prefer to listen to Elton than the Beatles. I don't know why they never clicked for me, but they just didn't.

I remember when Elton John was a rocker...

 

[dagrev]

Uh, ok. You're still my friend Donnie. But Elton John? Seriously? The guy has one great song. Funeral For a Friend. The rest is, well….

That is a cool song.

Come on Marshall, you have to love this one... Haunting chorus.


I have to admit I was a big Elton fan. Still like much of his music. He's got a great voice and is a real deal talent. I can't stand Crocodile Rock. Clever I suppose, but stupid in my book. I either love his songs or hate them.

 

[dagrev]

how can one not dig EJ?…,

Some people are just weird I guess.

 

[dagrev]

Not garlic, but
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A breakfast Beer.

 

[dagrev]

Saw that in 76…

...When SNL was actually clever and funny. Talk about a show that has lasted way past it's useful expiration date.

 

[dagrev]

I can't stop laughing. I don't recall that from back in the day, but SNL was a dorm ritual back then.

I remember that one. Laughing and thinking, he didn't just do that... with more laughing. It was something that caused a lot of talk at the time. ("Did you see that last night...") Real talking between people, but type talking.

 

[dagrev]

I'm a bit boring. I like plain stuff, so if you offer me a beer with added coffee or chocolate or whatever, I'd probably prefer the original beer.
I guess I like stuff that tastes authentic to itself. This is "whatever" but it tastes like "whatever else" leaves me a bit cold.

Exceptions of course, chocolate, strawberry or vanilla flavoured ice cream or milk shakes.
But not coffee flavoured yet I drink coffee…
and I can't stand vanilla flavoured Coke yuck! or even "vanilla tones" in a wine - that gives me a slimy mouth feeling which I hate.

Beers, I like the no preservatives, no additives (I can't handle much added sulphite as a preservative - allergic) commercial beers (mostly) but haven't really found 'craft beers' that I'm crazy about. Hate IPAs - they border on undrinkable.

I know, I'm an odd duck.

(But there is plenty I do like so I'm not in danger of starving or dying of thirst.)

Sounds normal to me. Who wants Fish Beer or Dunkin Donut flavored beer anyway? I'm (was) boring with you. We'd get on just fine.