Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

It's a great ad. Peter Murphy from Bauhaus did a version of it.

I love the Bloom County version.

 

[JIO]

Jerry was right. No denying that very few, if any, Motown, Muscle Sholes or Stax recordings the bass was not present and heard. I'm sure some exist, but I can't recall one.

It goes on today. We, The Sean Conneries recorded 4 songs a couple weeks ago, and each post-production 'note' from me is - more bass! What's so hard to understand about that?

 

[JIO]

As someone said earlier in the forum, this place is like one big family sitting around the dinner table. If someone asks a question everyone is free to answer, in fact the more the merrier. I did like the remake much more than the original. My only complaint is that they’ve taken too long to release the second part. I’ll need to rewatch the first part all over again before seeing the second part.

The original Dune ended up being a shrewdly calculated 'save' by David Lynch when the original directer was fired or quit. (I don't know all the details) All & all kind of a mess, but Lynch agreeing to do it gave him the industry cred he needed to launch his career. (starting with Blue Velvet) So in historical context - it all worked out for the best.

 

[GonePlaid]

I suspect most of the old Big Rigs were targeted more at outdoor venues.

IDK if the Ka$ino was aimed at outdoor venues, but it was once the only bass amp at a jam in a small-ish valley in WI and held its own. It wasn't LOUD, but there was bottom.
EDIT: I still woulda liked to have had the second 2x15 powered cab.

 

[PillO]

Interesting Marshall... when I was in High School I ran Cross-Country. I loved the solitude of running alone. It later evolved into being a road cyclist/bike racer. I did all disciplines but excelled in road-races (especially a solo breakaway) and individual time-trials. (suffer-fest) I imagine you know of this classic film - I toyed with writing a cycling-centric version of this classic British film. For me it's about the joys of freedom.

My career as a marathoner was not nearly as high-minded... I started when I was posted to Petawawa. When you live in the middle of nowhere, you need hobbies that chew up a lot of time. It was a great hobby as I am not built for distance running; I'm built for lifting heavy things, so it used much time and I had definite progress I could measure.

But I did enjoy the quiet contemplation time.

My running days are behind me. Running with a 40lb pack and a number of other poor decisions have left me with knees that will complain at such abuse now.

 

[PillO]

Yep.

I’d still be running but for basically bone on bone knee joints. 100 + miles a week in seventies shoes did that. It really wasn’t until the mid-nineties that shoe companies figured out how to make distance running shoes that were light and protected the lower extremity joints.

There is a reason that all those old runners are really skinny - it made the pounding on their knees much lighter.

 

[PillO]

There used to be (still is?) a local talk/call-in radio show in the area (WPB-Vero Bch, FL). The host was telling the audience that his wife wanted a new car. "What kind", he asked. She said, "Blue".

A good friend in the army, a nurse, announced that she had bought a new car. When asked what kind, she looked at me and said in her best dumb blonde voice "a blue one". It was the funniest joke.

 

[bobyoung53]

My career as a marathoner was not nearly as high-minded... I started when I was posted to Petawawa. When you live in the middle of nowhere, you need hobbies that chew up a lot of time. It was a great hobby as I am not built for distance running; I'm built for lifting heavy things, so it used much time and I had definite progress I could measure.

But I did enjoy the quiet contemplation time.

My running days are behind me. Running with a 40lb pack and a number of other poor decisions have left me with knees that will complain at such abuse now.

I'm not a slightly built person either, the first time I ran I only ran for a little over 6 months, I was a Jim Fixx devotee who died of a massive MI while running, that helped changed my mind, I had gotten up to about 30-35 miles a day and really enjoyed it but work and other things also got in the way.
Since then I've run off and on, or walked, the thing I like about it is once you get into the zone you just seem to glide almost effortlessly, and it also regulates my appetite, I actually eat less when I run.
I never ran enough to hurt my knees, I was pretty light back the though, I'm not as light now as I was so I'm taking it easy and building up. It's not really easy to run in this city though, lots of cars and intersecting streets. I run to the next main street and back, about two miles, that's enough for now. I do feel a lot better since I started again though, we could only go out for an hour a day during the pandemic so I couldn't wait to do some kind of exercise.

 

[PillO]

The old flight from SJC to AUS was called the nerd bird...we are just bird nerds...

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Back in the day, I think everything flying direct to SJC was called "the Nerd Bird". As I recall, that was the name given for both BOS-SJC and YYZ-SJC.

SJC was a great airport when it had international flights. I flew SJC-NAR. Too bad it seems to be a regional domestic airport these days.

 

[PillO]

My daughter and son-in-law were going to name their second Alia if it was a girl.

That was a Donnie Iris song (Ok, spelled differently).


Not a great song, but given some of the schlock that was coming out at the time, it was a pleasant reprieve when it came on the AM radio in the car.

 

[PillO]

I believe him. Who would admit to something like that unless they really did lt?

Translation: Please don't make him post the pictures!

 

[MCF]

The original Dune ended up being a shrewdly calculated 'save' by David Lynch when the original directer was fired or quit. (I don't know all the details) All & all kind of a mess, but Lynch agreeing to do it gave him the industry credit he needed to launch his career. (starting with Blue Velvet) So in historical context - it all worked out for the best.

I’ll admit to not being into a lot of classic Sci-Fi. But I love Lynch. I never watched the whole movie. But it certainly was an important landmark. It put him together with Kyle MacLachlan. And for that I’m grateful.

 

[PillO]

As someone said earlier in the forum, this place is like one big family sitting around the dinner table. If someone asks a question everyone is free to answer, in fact the more the merrier. I did like the remake much more than the original. My only complaint is that they’ve taken too long to release the second part. I’ll need to rewatch the first part all over again before seeing the second part.

That was likely the plan... Re-release part 1 a month or two before part 2.

 

[MCF]

Back in the day, I think everything flying direct to SJC was called "the Nerd Bird". As I recall, that was the name given for both BOS-SJC and YYZ-SJC.

SJC was a great airport when it had international flights. I flew SJC-NAR. Too bad it seems to be a regional domestic airport these days.

My brother lived in Cupertino when he worked for NASA for a few years. We used to take turns visiting. PSA for $29.00 between OC and San Jose. You walked up the stairs, found a seat and the attendant slid your credit card through one of the old fashioned carbon paper sliders. Simpler times. I miss them.

 

[MCF]

Translation: Please don't make him post the pictures!

Yep.

 

[PillO]

I'm not a slightly built person either, the first time I ran I only ran for a little over 6 months, I was a Jim Fixx devotee who died of a massive MI while running, that changed me mind, I had gotten up to about 30-35 miles a day and really enjoyed it but work and other things also got in the way.
Since then I've run off and on, or walked, the thing I like about it is once you get into the zone I just seem to glide almost effortlessly, and it also regulates my appetite, I actually eat less when I run.
I never ran enough to hurt my knees, I was pretty light back the though, I'm not as light now as I was so I'm taking it easy and building up. It's not really easy to run in this city though, lots of cars and cross streets. I run to the next main street and back, about two miles, that's enough for now. I do feel a lot better since I started again though, we could only go out for an hour a day during the pandemic so I couldn't wait to do some kind of exercise.

Back then, I was lifting at lunchtime and running after work.

We used to say "I don't eat like this because I run, I run so that I can eat like this".

 

[Stealth57]

Back in the day, I think everything flying direct to SJC was called "the Nerd Bird". As I recall, that was the name given for both BOS-SJC and YYZ-SJC.

SJC was a great airport when it had international flights. I flew SJC-NAR. Too bad it seems to be a regional domestic airport these days.

My cousin was the Red Coat on those AA SJC-NAR flights. I always got a free upgrade. Then AA stopped the flights and just did a code share with JAL.

 

[Stealth57]

My brother lived in Cupertino when he worked for NASA for a few years. We used to take turns visiting. PSA for $29.00 between OC and San Jose. You walked up the stairs, found a seat and the attendant slid your credit card through one of the old fashioned carbon paper sliders. Simpler times. I miss them.

You miss their hot pants

 

[PillO]

My cousin was the Red Coat on those AA SJC-NAR flights. I always got a free upgrade. Then AA stopped the flights and just did a code share with JAL.

IIRC, I flew an AA 777 SJC-NAR (business). It was a 2 hour shorter flight from SFO as it was on a 747. But SJC was so damned convenient.

 

[Stealth57]

IIRC, I flew an AA 777 SJC-ANR (business). It was a 2 hour shorter flight from SFO as it was on a 747. But SJC was so damned convenient.

777 had the private “cubes” in first class. We both had the Narita code wrong - NRT. Memory ain’t what it used to be