Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

... you know life is short and there are times you have to make a choice between John Coltrane and whatever 'product' is at number 1 this week.

Easy choice on that one.

I have discovered a band called the Iguanas and another very different band called Lake Street Dive when friends told me about them. My son told me about Snarky Puppy. I don't care what's on top 40 radio.

 

[kat888]

Can't say I've ever heard of SW before but it was a pretty good performance. Lead singer looks like a Freddie Mercury and Dave Bowie love child, what year was the clip from?

On a side note, my parents who were born in the early 1920's didn't like my Black Sabbath or Lead Zeppelin LPs (too frantic for them) so I'd put a Grateful Dead LP on for a while, which they thought sounded better until they figured out all the counter culture and experiential mind alterering fun that went along with it (gotta love the teddy bears). The one band they never minded me playing was Pink Floyd (of course I never exposed them to The Wall video).

That was 1974 BCT (before colour television). It was a talent show called New Faces and they ended up coming second to a group of children in dungarees singing 'Short'nin' Bread' in faux Ebonic accents that you'd quite rightly have your arse kicked for these days. The performances were not live - one of the judging criteria was 'miming skills'. Another world.

Unfortunately my parents did listen some of the time. They were particularly unhappy with PiL's 'Religion'. They were also good at hearing words which weren't actually there.

 

[Chato]

are those epiphone goth thunderbirds any good?

 

[Dadagoboi]

are those epiphone goth thunderbirds any good?

For what?

 

[Gaolee]

That was 1974 BCT (before colour television). It was a talent show called New Faces and they ended up coming second to a group of children in dungarees singing 'Short'nin' Bread' in faux Ebonic accents that you'd quite rightly have your arse kicked for these days. The performances were not live - one of the judging criteria was 'miming skills'. Another world.

Unfortunately my parents did listen some of the time. They were particularly unhappy with PiL's 'Religion'. They were also good at hearing words which weren't actually there.

BCT
And you got the little white dot the picture disappeared into at the middle of the screen, right?

I'm pretty sure my parents did everything they could to not hear some of the stuff I listened to, especially when I was in my hardcore punk phase. Broadway shows were their thing, up to a point, and I hated that stuff. They also listened to a whole lot of big band jazz, which I liked then and still listen to a lot. I think bebop may have been a bit too much for them, but they listened to Coltrane, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and that kind of thing. Which I also like very much. So, it's a balance, I suppose.

 

[godofthunder59]

I guess it's the music of our generation that appealed to us most at the time, way better than the sodding Osmonds

No apologies Slade were Fn brilliant.

 

[Klondike]

Lol I used to hide my Black Sabbath LPs in my dads Perry Como sleave. A couple times he discovered it and broke my album in half.

 

[godofthunder59]

Provence. Dave Hills Hiwatt DR 201 in my rig and my replica Jim Lea's John Birch bass.

 

[kat888]

@Gaolee

Yes a balance. I'm not keen on opera or musicals, although there are operas I like. Otherwise I'll happily listen to just about anything that didn't come out of a sausage machine. The music I consider myself competent enough to play on electric bass is a different story.

 

[Count Bassie]

Looks like I'll be swapping my GK Neo 212-II for a Peavey Pro 810. Gonna need to move more air, get a little more 'push' for the outdoor, dockside hotel reggae gig this summer. Apparently the Peavey is quite the beast.
Of couese I'll have to move it too.

All those years of therapy, down the drain.

 

[Bent77]

I didn't know the Osmonds did sod work. My lawn sucks...

 

[Bent77]

I know, half a day late with the smart reply. Work.
Sometimes adulting sucks

 

[Gaolee]

Dirty little secret - an 810 sized cabinet has wheels. They are like rolling around a hand truck. I think they are easier to deal with than almost any other sized cabinet if you have a big enough vehicle to handle them. There's a bit of lifting technique involved, but I think my Acoustic 360s are very straight forward to move in spite of weighing almost as much as I do.

 

[Gaolee]

I didn't know the Osmonds did sod work. My lawn sucks...

Its what they should have stuck to instead of music.

 

[Count Bassie]

Dirty little secret - an 810 sized cabinet has wheels. They are like rolling around a hand truck. I think they are easier to deal with than almost any other sized cabinet if you have a big enough vehicle to handle them. There's a bit of lifting technique involved, but I think my Acoustic 360s are very straight forward to move in spite of weighing almost as much as I do.

This one weighs a little more than I do! The worst part of moving it in public is it looks like I'm going to get injured doing it... like I said one time a couple hundred pages ago, I'm 6'1", and built like a #2 pencil.

Give em something to talk about, I always say.

 

[Gaolee]

This one weighs a little more than I do! The worst part of moving it in public is it looks like I'm going to get injured doing it... like I said one time a couple hundred pages ago, I'm 6'1", and built like a #2 pencil.

Give em something to talk about, I always say.

I'm not built like a #2 pencil, but I'm also not the biggest guy who ever lived. A folded horn cabinet with the power section down in the bottom is a load. It takes a little while to lift it up a staircase, but I just set it on a step, hold on and shrug. Up it comes, no problem. Same with going back down. I also use my toes to help, odd as that sounds. It probably looks funny, but when you can crack the concrete back wall and make people puke if necessary, it's worth the effort. Plus, it has a volume knob, so I don't have to be all that loud. It still pushes plenty of air at lower volumes and gets the kind of huge sound that a Thunderbird can make.

 

[Klondike]

I'm not built like a #2 pencil, but I'm also not the biggest guy who ever lived. A folded horn cabinet with the power section down in the bottom is a load. It takes a little while to lift it up a staircase, but I just set it on a step, hold on and shrug. Up it comes, no problem. Same with going back down. I also use my toes to help, odd as that sounds. It probably looks funny, but when you can crack the concrete back wall and make people puke if necessary, it's worth the effort. Plus, it has a volume knob, so I don't have to be all that loud. It still pushes plenty of air at lower volumes and gets the kind of huge sound that a Thunderbird can make.

Hope your using your legs. My back these days is wicked uncool.

 

[Gaolee]

Hope your using your legs. My back these days is wicked uncool.

All legs, straight back, and rolling shoulders. I have done a fair amount of damage to my spine, up and down over the years, so I take pretty good care of it these days. Hitting the gym at lunchtime when I can at work is another way I protect my back and make herking around a big ol' beast amp doable. The most strenuous part is getting it in and out of the van. I lean it against the van's bumper, then lever it up and in on its back. Getting it back out is the reverse.

 

[Count Bassie]

...It probably looks funny, but when you can crack the concrete back wall and make people puke if necessary, it's worth the effort...

LMAO! Yeah...

 

[Count Bassie]

I do the gym now too these days. And with the advent of the 810, it's a fine idea.