Looks good! Maybe even better if the fretboard were darkened a bit.
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Thunderbird Club
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Understood. Biscuits, biscotti, digestiv, galleta, cookie...still, sorry, they don't make those. But, they are working on kadayif. That's the fine noodles that are used to make the "bird's nest" type baklava and also to cover knafeh.
finally a use for frets!
I was discussing akahol with somebunny and mentioned crown royal… they proceeded to saw how much they liked apple or vanilla flavored crown… it made me lose respect for the brand… and gave me flashbacks of chatting college girls up that were doing shots of fireball…
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Let's have a Chanson, shall we?
This is Cornelis Pieters, AKA Manke Nelis (Nelis the cripple) who got his nickname because of having lost a leg in a motorbike accident. Now he played Upright bass as a way to prop himself up on stage. The Amsterdam native scored big hits through a fifty-year career in the Dutch Chanson genre until his death in 1993.
Now in the late eighties, Manke Nelis made a very unexpected come back when scoring a number one single in the Dutch charts with "Kleine Jodel Jongen" (Little Yodeller boy.) Here he is performing the song live in 1987, showing that even in the year of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, a Chanson still had people singing along.
BUT keen eyed viewers will quickly see that Nelis himself doesn't put in much effort playing his upright, because the most BADASS musician on stage was Johnny Meijer, the accordion player.
- Note that there's a Leslie behind him.
- Note also a bass amp behind him.
His accordion, had MIDI capability, and he played both the lead lines, in traditional accordion tone and Hammond tones. But he also played the basslines which are surprising tricky, allowing Nelis to do vocals.
And for the ones who don't speak Dutch, that final Chorus, shows Nelis' self deprecating humor as he sings:
"Oh, if only I still had two legs
then I still would have ten toes too
And boy how I would have jumped around
And I would scale the highest mountain
And I would go on a skying trip
Have snow come up to my knees
And I'd go down the ski jump and the toboggan run, you can bet your life
Legs, if only I still had two
And all my ten toes
That would be my biggest wish."
This is Cornelis Pieters, AKA Manke Nelis (Nelis the cripple) who got his nickname because of having lost a leg in a motorbike accident. Now he played Upright bass as a way to prop himself up on stage. The Amsterdam native scored big hits through a fifty-year career in the Dutch Chanson genre until his death in 1993.
Now in the late eighties, Manke Nelis made a very unexpected come back when scoring a number one single in the Dutch charts with "Kleine Jodel Jongen" (Little Yodeller boy.) Here he is performing the song live in 1987, showing that even in the year of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, a Chanson still had people singing along.
BUT keen eyed viewers will quickly see that Nelis himself doesn't put in much effort playing his upright, because the most BADASS musician on stage was Johnny Meijer, the accordion player.
- Note that there's a Leslie behind him.
- Note also a bass amp behind him.
His accordion, had MIDI capability, and he played both the lead lines, in traditional accordion tone and Hammond tones. But he also played the basslines which are surprising tricky, allowing Nelis to do vocals.
And for the ones who don't speak Dutch, that final Chorus, shows Nelis' self deprecating humor as he sings:
"Oh, if only I still had two legs
then I still would have ten toes too
And boy how I would have jumped around
And I would scale the highest mountain
And I would go on a skying trip
Have snow come up to my knees
And I'd go down the ski jump and the toboggan run, you can bet your life
Legs, if only I still had two
And all my ten toes
That would be my biggest wish."
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Let's have a Chanson, shall we?
This is Cornelis Pieters, AKA Manke Nelis (Nelis the cripple) who got his nickname because of having lost a leg in a motorbike accident. Now he played Upright bass as a way to prop himself up on stage. The Amsterdam native scored big hits through a fifty-year career in the Dutch Chanson genre until his death in 1993.
Now in the late eighties, Manke Nelis made a very unexpected come back when scoring a number one single in the Dutch charts with "Kleine Jodel Jongen" (Little Yodeller boy.) Here he is performing the song live in 1987, showing that even in the year of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, a Chanson still had people singing along.
BUT keen eyed viewers will quickly see that Nelis himself doesn't put in much effort playing his upright, because the most BADASS musician on stage was Johnny Meijer, the accordion player.
- Note that there's a Leslie behind him.
- Note also a bass amp behind him.
His accordion, had MIDI capability, and he played both the lead lines, in traditional accordion tone and Hammond tones. But he also played the basslines which are surprising tricky, allowing Nelis to do vocals.
And for the ones who don't speak Dutch, that final Chorus, shows Nelis' self deprecating humor as he sings:
"Oh, if only I still had two legs
then I still would have ten toes too
And boy how I would have jumped around
And I would scale the highest mountain
And I would go on a skying trip
Have snow come up to my knees
And I'd go down the ski jump and the toboggan run, you can bet your life
Legs, if only I still two
And all my ten toes
That would be my biggest wish."
The magic of music as a means of unification/communication, regardless of details. Something we all need to keep alive if we are performers of music.
All of that looks incredible! Hummus and tabbouleh with fresh pita bread is a wonderful veggie meal.
I’m not a fan of tabbouleh, but my son in law makes a different salad from labneh, cucumber, tomato, and green chile.
I meant for you to learn how to make it. It shouldn’t take too much time out of messing around here and playing Thunderbirds.
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Yep. Martin got his first bird from Watts when his Ric was stolen during a tour.
The dough requires high protein flour so it has elasticity to be sheeted down to 53 microns. Much easier with this machine.
Because of triple distillation.
Am I understanding the story right ? MT asked OW for a loaner and OW basically said "take this 13-piece puzzle and if you can make it work, you can buy it from me" ?
Either way, great piece of Thunderbird history
.PS: haven't touched another bass since I got my Fenderbird. Got I missed playing that type of bass.
Sweet rides!
Rear wheel drive on this one.
Both ways worked for me, equally beautiful both ways!
you’d be surprised how much Irish whisky goes into the blended Scotch stuff..
yeah, something (not right among the elitists) about using Peavey stuff back then….saw DP on the Perfect Strangers tour mid 80’s and Glover and his Foundation were the star of the show….call me biased but….
Pretty much. Except once Martin fixed it, Watts wanted it back. But Martin shamed Watts into selling it to him.Am I understanding the story right ? MT asked OW for a loaner and OW basically said "take this 13-piece puzzle and if you can make it work, you can buy it from me" ?
Either way, great piece of Thunderbird history
PS: haven't touched another bass since I got my Fenderbird. Got I missed playing that type of bass.
