Thunderbird Club

[Syd Rayne]

When our little brother was a kid, my sister and I would pay him to chug fizzy tonic water. More potent than soda pop for gaseous belching. He could say a sentence in one continuous burp. But you could see he hated the nasty stuff.

In retrospect - it may have been the dry heaves and not simply belching.

Somewhere there exists a cassette tape we recorded him on. He's worried I will play it for his wife.

 

[bobyoung53]

I cannot believe this, I started about 16 pages back an hour ago and there are now 9 more pages after one of my posts and I don't even think it's my first post from an hour ago.

 

[Stealth57]

@JIO 's request, I mixed I'm a Man with all three birds. Definitely has a richer feel to me, but then I have no ear...

 

[Syd Rayne]

I cannot believe this, I started about 16 pages back an hour ago and there are now 9 more pages after one of my posts and I don't even think it's my first post from an hour ago.

Is this a math problem? I'm still looking for "What time will Train A meet up with Train B?"

 

[bobyoung53]

Billy Squire, nice Boston boy that just seemed to drop off the edge of the world, it couldn't have all been from that stupid video. He rocks.

 

[bobyoung53]

I bet they did the guitars and basses for Lafayette Electronics, as well. I always wanted one of those.

When I was a kid Lafayette had a triple pickup guitar in their catalogue that I used to drool over and I KNEW that the lead guitar player of Freddie and The Dreamers played one in 'I'm Telling You Now'

 

[JIO]

Word.

A man who knows his stuff and why!

I just thought they made better wood back then!

Well, there is something to that - wood from a certain area of Italy then is considered part of why they sound special.

 

[PhR75]

Palm muting is the real deal. It's pretty easy to do and better than a full-time mute because you can vary your attack/tone within the same song. Bobby Vega uses it but also has many sophisticated right-hand techniques that create his signature sound.

I learned to palm mute with a pick playing along to The Police records. Very handy technique indeed.
When I'm using my fingers I mute with my pinkie.

 

[bobyoung53]

Just where do you get off telling us that?



That's a l-o-n-g highway. What did you do when you got out? Get another ride later on...?

Long story told quick: A buddy and I decided to hitch to California to check out the hippy situation from Mass (1969, two years too late), we got picked up by a few people in Dayton Ohio who were also going to CA, we got onto Rt 66 somewhere or other. I think we went quite a distance on 66, I know we were still on it when the cops woke us up and threw us in the clink for supposedly robbing a safe somewhere in Utah. We were out in the middle of nowhere, they let us go the next morning. But we ended up in San Diego, coincidentally we got to San Diego the same weekend as Altamont in San Francisco but didn't hear of it until it was over, probably good thing for us.

On the way back we also went Rt 66. It was a main thoroughfare back then, not the biggest but was still in use. There were a lot of sections with no speed limits, I can remember a couple of guys picked us up in a 1958 Pontiac, I asked them how good it went and we promptly started going 120 MPH. We were drinking wine and lemon juice, spo-dee-o-dee.

 

[bobyoung53]

Is this a math problem? I'm still looking for "What time will Train A meet up with Train B?"

It may have been a combination of malfunctions between my understanding of computers and TB algorhythms (huh?)

 

[bobyoung53]

When our little brother was a kid, my sister and I would pay him to chug fizzy tonic water. More potent than soda pop for gaseous belching. He could say a sentence in one continuous burp. But you could see he hated the nasty stuff.

In retrospect - it may have been the dry heaves and not simply belching.

Somewhere there exists a cassette tape we recorded him on. He's worried I will play it for his wife.

You should put it on YouTube and send him the link.

 

[bobyoung53]

I learned to palm mute with a pick playing along to The Police records. Very handy technique indeed.
When I'm using my fingers I mute with my pinkie.

I learned palm muting playing guitar to The Ventures when I was a kid. The drummer was Canned Heat's bassist Larry Taylor's brother, Mel Taylor, great drummer.


Edit, new video

 

[Syd Rayne]

You should put it on YouTube and send him the link.

It was defamatory enough what we older siblings put him through back then, without resorting to public humiliation today!

 

[bobyoung53]

It was defamatory enough what we older siblings put him through back then, without resorting to public humiliation today!

I enjoyed younger sibling torture when I was a kid too.

 

[Syd Rayne]

You should put it on YouTube and send him the link.

Of course, now an adult father, he no longer has any use for lowbrow sophmoric humor.

Interesting though, when he could no longer tolerate the tonic water "throat enema", he discovered that he could force gulp air and do the burps that way. Short burp? One or two swallows. Long burp? Multiple swallows. Funny to watch him do that, tilting his head to the side, and making these gulping noises. Sounded like a dog or a cat trying to upchuck a hairball. My sister and I could never do that. It was his natural skill, borne through adaptation.

 

[bobyoung53]

Of course, now an adult father, he no longer has any use for lowbrow sophmoric humor.

Interesting though, when he could no longer tolerate the tonic water "throat enema", he discovered that he could force gulp air and do the burps that way. Short burp? One or two swallows. Long burp? Multiple swallows. Funny to watch him do that, tilting his head to the side, and making these gulping noises. Sounded like a dog or a cat trying to upchuck a hairball. My sister and I could never do that. It was his natural skill.

For some reason I have never lost my taste for sophomoric humor. I still miss National Lampoon.

 

[JIO]

@JIO 's request, I mixed I'm a Man with all three birds. Definitely has a richer feel to me, but then I have no ear...

Triple bass! Starting all three as quickly as possible as I did made for 'trippy' bass! I thought you were going to use each bass for a section of the same song noting which bass and when it enters.

 

[JIO]

For some reason I have never lost my taste for sophomoric humor. I still miss National Lampoon.

Don't you mean MAD magazine?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

my pick/fingers playing levels are fairly even…..although I can play most stuff using either technique, I prefer pick for some stuff, fingers for others…..Anthony Jackson is one of my fave pick players….JPJ (unsung hero) was phenomenal at both, just listen to Dazed and Confused (fingers) and Whole Lotta Love (pick) on the live (The Song Remains the Same) album…..some of the BEST bass playing in rock history imho…

 

[bobyoung53]

Don't you mean MAD magazine?

I was never a big MAD reader. I used to love National Lampoon though, maybe sophomoric humor was the wrong term.