Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

The Bee Gees were a five piece band when they left Aust to return to England. A couple of locals were in the band on drums and guitar I think.

I get the idea that Mo was the Ringo of the Bee Gees, sorta off centre from the others but ‘the glue’ to a certain extent. When they were broken up and making solo records the other brothers would call Mo in to help them. Evidently he used Rickenbackers early on because he was in awe of Sir Paul. Later John Lennon gave him one of his Gibson acoustics and he was a neighbour and drinking buddy of Ringo.

I’ve tried to learn a bit more about him as he died on my 51st birthday, which was a bit of a downer.
(Prince died on my wife’s birthday).

He played bass, keys, guitar (lead guitar on at least one BG song) and mellotron (sp?), And he can sing (after his silly voice intro).

https://youtube.com/shorts/tRiZvEAYxKg?feature=share

From what I've read, he also did engineering, mixing and production work for the band - he was more like John Paul Jones was for LZ. My band TSC's uses an Electro-Harmonics Mel9 (Mellotron pedal) on a few songs - such an iconic tone-print. I loved it then used by many groups (Moody Blues, King Crimson, Beefheart - to name a few)

 

[Ringhammer]

And I'll be there on Saturday Feb 4th to attend both of your bands. We're playing the next day (Sunday Feb 5th) at the newly re-opened Hotel Utah - 7-10pm.

Great! It’ll be great to meet you in person! The drummer/vox of my new band is in LoFi Satellites, and they played there last night. They will be opening on 2/4, then he gets a break while my 1st band, Bad Lemon, plays, and then the band were in together, Red Sun Ruins, plays last. For me, RSR is more my style, while Bad Lemon, which I have been with for many years is really more the guitar player’s and drummer’s project. I really don’t have much input as far as song ideas, so I just play pretty straightforward rock basslines, as he likes to keep it simple and tight. Nothing wrong with that!. RSR is a project I started because I wanted to play a different style and a bit heavier and interesting/fun stuff to play. Since RSR plays last that night I’m hoping people stick around to catch the set.

 

[JIO]

That was a nice song and clip. I’d never heard of them before this.

My partner Beth saw them live in Big Sur opening for another band over 10 years ago before I met her and she said they blew the 'headliner' band away. She bought a CD there and when I heard it I was like - who is this? Later I read in Mojo that Radiohead acknowledged them as a band they were listening to. Consistently good and very unique. Maybe someday they'll play in the Bay Area.

Another good one -

 

[JIO]

Great! It’ll be great to meet you in person! The drummer/vox of my new band is in LoFi Satellites, and they played there last night. They will be opening on 2/4, then he gets a break while my 1st band, Bad Lemon, plays, and then the band were in together, Red Sun Ruins, plays last. For me, RSR is more my style, while Bad Lemon, which I have been with for many years is really more the guitar player’s and drummer’s project. I really don’t have much input as far as song ideas, so I just play pretty straightforward rock basslines, as he likes to keep it simple and tight. Nothing wrong with that!. RSR is a project I started because I wanted to play a different style and a bit heavier and interesting/fun stuff to play. Since RSR plays last that night I’m hoping people stick around to catch the set.

Will look forward to meeting you and hearing your bands! I'll walk up to you and say "I have the Yo-Yo", to which you will replay, "I have the string". This way we'll make the connection...

 

[JIO]

Great song/production/bass tone -

 

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0:48 to skip to their performance -

 

[PhR75]

Sounds like a bass to me. Soulful playing showing his R&B roots.
I get people don't like his bridge pickup tone which (depends on a mix) could sound too nasal but for example Marcus Miller commented that he didn't like Jaco's sound at first because it was too dark. Compared to high flying players like Stanley Clarke, Squire, Entwistle etc. at the time (mid seventies) it was dark indeed.

My fav Jaco playing is on those Joni Mitchell albums, the Ian Hunter record, Pat Metheny's fabulous debut "Bright Size Life" and all the Weather Report albums he did. When he got into the fuzz territory using two amps and that MXR Digital Delay...man, there's some crazy and scary stuff there. The '80 "Night Passage" live recordings are my favourites. They really were a jazz band not playing safe and Jaco was the perfect bassist for them.

 

[RedVee]

Great song/production/bass tone -

Saw TI back in the early days when they were a support act in a 3 or 4 act list. They’ve basically been a Kevin Parker solo project for a good while now. TI’s Elephant being covered by The Wiggles became a bit of an internet sensation a year or so ago down here. Pretty sure there was an Epi T’bird IV involved.

 

[RedVee]

From what I've read, he also did engineering, mixing and production work for the band - he was more like John Paul Jones was for LZ. My band TSC's uses an Electro-Harmonics Mel9 (Mellotron pedal) on a few songs - such an iconic tone-print. I loved it then used by many groups (Moody Blues, King Crimson, Beefheart - to name a few)

https://youtu.be/WPMfMl9LhEo

 

[Hondapunk]

Can any of you Alembic aficionados tell me what model this is ? I think it's gorgeous. The player is Charnett Moffett Sorry for the crappy image

 

[MCF]

My partner Beth saw them live in Big Sur opening for another band over 10 years ago before I met her and she said they blew the 'headliner' band away. She bought a CD there and when I heard it I was like - who is this? Later I read in Mojo that Radiohead acknowledged them as a band they were listening to. Consistently good and very unique. Maybe someday they'll play in the Bay Area.

Another good one -

They pop up in my Spotify mixes. I’ll have to pay more attention.

 

[dagrev]

The rating on the pedal is the max current the pedal will pull, so it’s the minimum current needed from the supply. Does that make sense? In your case, a 40mA or larger power supply is fine.

Thanks Miles! That was how I understood it worked, but wanted to confirm. One of those areas I have a higher than average amount of ignorance in.

 

[dagrev]

Unavailable tube compliment from Amazon for a Mesa 400 Plus head. I think the plain 400 used three pairs.

Christmas lights!

 

[UpperBout]

Can any of you Alembic aficionados tell me what model this is ? I think it's gorgeous. The player is Charnett Moffett Sorry for the crappy imageView attachment 4921467

Hard to say exactly, but it's a "Balance K" body style. The electronics are Signature, not Series. Probably a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. Better pic of entire bass here. Still pretty low-res, though.

 

[dagrev]

According to Winters, @JIO is a bad boy

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Apparently he goes around digging through walls of businesses during the daytime. Bad dude!

 

[Ringhammer]

Will look forward to meeting you and hearing your bands! I'll walk up to you and say "I have the Yo-Yo", to which you will replay, "I have the string". This way we'll make the connection...

Funny! Good thing you warned me or I’m sure I’d be confused.

I may even use my Thunderbird for the Bad Lemon set.

 

[Count Bassie]

Pickups question time:

Some of you guys may remember Fixer- aka Mike... He left the club a few years ago, not sure why. Anyway, he'd sent me an old pair of BaCH p'ups. I'm looking to do something with them, and I've got a black-&-maple Peavey Foundtion, 90s era, here that's a good player. It had an alignment problem between the nut and the bridge- the string travel was closer to one side of the neck than the other and it bugged me- so I put a Hipshot bridge on it and moved it over an eighth of an inch or so to fix that. It's my spare, really, one I'd bring to an open jam or a keg party, etc. I do like playing it since I decided it wasn't worth it to sell it... the Peavy-ness is now compromised, and it's just not so sellable anymore.

Anyway, the p'ups in it aren't bad really, but maybe I'd swap in these BaCHs if they had something to offer in heft, or were a little more aggressive.

So who's got some experience with these? I'm all ears, THaNKs!