Thunderbird Club

[RedVee]

So, my wife took me to the Def Leppard (she is a big fan) and Motley Crüe show last night.
A night of surprises:
1. Def Leppard were the first band up. (Very good).
2. Motley were good. Nikki using TSOs rather than T’birds. I think they might have been Sandburg 48’s ? That’s what they reminded me of anyway. They all seemed to be PJ format. He also used a FSO for a number or two, looked like a Schecter? J. At least one of the TSO’s may have been a Schecter as well.
3. My favourite part of their set was the medley of covers. Hmmm.

And the biggest shock!
4. When Vince introduced the backup singers dancers as the
NASTY HABITS!

 

[GonePlaid]

You ran it ?

I’m in the 5km walk category these days. Which reminds me that I need to start attempting the local Park Run again.

 

[RedVee]

@GonePlaid and I think @WillyW Happy Veteran's Day. Thanks for serving. If I missed anyone else, it was by accident. We can definitely include @PillO as well.

Yes it was Rememberance Day yesterday. I met my sister for a coffee and the shopping centre played the bugler, the Ode and we had a minutes silence. That was a nice piece of tradition that is still going.

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The Ode of Remembrance is a poem that is commonly recited at Anzac Day services to commemorate wartime sacrifice.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

The Ode comes from For the Fallen, a poem by English poet and writer Laurence Binyon. The poem was first published in The Times on 21 September 1914. It was later published in the Winnowing Fan - Poems of the Great War.

By mid-September 1914, less than seven weeks after the outbreak of war, the British Expeditionary Force in France had already suffered severe casualties. Long lists of the dead and wounded appeared in British newspapers. It was against this background that Binyon wrote For the Fallen.

The Ode is the fourth stanza of the poem. The verse, which became the League Ode, was already used in association with Link Removed commemoration services in Australia in 1921.

 

[GonePlaid]

@GonePlaid and I think @WillyW Happy Veteran's Day. Thanks for serving. If I missed anyone else, it was by accident. We can definitely include @PillO as well.

TY.

 

[RedVee]

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Me too, also.

My plan was to build up to running it. But then the world tilted on its axis a couple of years ago and I lost the habit.

 

[GonePlaid]

Me too, also.

My plan was to build up to running it. But then the world tilted on its axis a couple of years ago and I lost the habit.

At my last job interview, I was encouraged to join their 401K. I told 'em "I can't run that far".

 

[JIO]

Me too, also.

My plan was to build up to running it. But then the world tilted on its axis a couple of years ago and I lost the habit.

I ran on the cross-country team in high school but once I started riding bikes seriously/& racing - I stopped running. Running is very hard on your body over the years. (as if crashing your bike isn't!)

Young Geo - lean, mean bike racing machine.

 

[TBird1958]

How do you know this about women's clothes?

Everyone was out of the house one evening when I was about 10................The rest is history

 

[Count Bassie]

Run and done…
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My daughter and I wrapped up our memorial run for my late wife and spread some ashes at Otter Point in Monterey (one of my wife’s favorite spots in the area). Can’t wait to get back home and get back to figuring a few new songs out on the bass and putting some of the last touches on the two Tbird builds I have in the works.

Hold each other up, that's it right there. Loss is hard, but life just *is*. I don't know who came up with this beginning and ending business...

 

[dagrev]

At my last job interview, I was encouraged to join their 401K. I told 'em "I can't run that far".

And that was the end of the interview I guess?

 

[dagrev]

Everyone was out of the house one evening when I was about 10................The rest is history

And as Paul Harvey would say, And that is the rest of the story!

 

[dagrev]

TY.

You are most welcome.

And we're really glad you haven't been moved to Memorial Day!

 

[JIO]

And as Paul Harvey would say, And that is the rest of the story!

 

[Nocturnal]

So, my wife took me to the Def Leppard (she is a big fan) and Motley Crüe show last night.
A night of surprises:
1. Def Leppard were the first band up. (Very good).
2. Motley were good. Nikki using TSOs rather than T’birds. I think they might have been Sandburg 48’s ? That’s what they reminded me of anyway. They all seemed to be PJ format. He also used a FSO for a number or two, looked like a Schecter? J. At least one of the TSO’s may have been a Schecter as well.
3. My favourite part of their set was the medley of covers. Hmmm.

And the biggest shock!
4. When Vince introduced the backup singers dancers as the
NASTY HABITS!

Nikki plays the Schecter Sixx model as well as a Schecter Jazz bass. His main signature looks a lot like a Gibson RD and the neck is definitely closer to a P bass than a Tbird. Here is an old for sale post for one here on TB. I have the Pelham Blue version like in this listing but paid way less than this one sold for. I have to say, it is a very well made bass but its heavy.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/schecter-nikki-sixx-signature.1327847/

 

[WillyW]

@GonePlaid and I think @WillyW Happy Veteran's Day. Thanks for serving. If I missed anyone else, it was by accident. We can definitely include @PillO as well.

much appreciated

 

[GBassNorth]

You ran it ?

I’m in the 5km walk category these days. Which reminds me that I need to start attempting the local Park Run again.

Actually it’s a run, but I walked it because of a recent pulled groin muscle. Still finished about mid pack (I walk pretty fast).

 

[RedVee]

Nikki plays the Schecter Sixx model as well as a Schecter Jazz bass. His main signature looks a lot like a Gibson RD and the neck is definitely closer to a P bass than a Tbird. Here is an old for sale post for one here on TB. I have the Pelham Blue version like in this listing but paid way less than this one sold for. I have to say, it is a very well made bass but its heavy.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/schecter-nikki-sixx-signature.1327847/

Thanks. Definitely those for the most part, but one or two had a Tbird like headstock. Looking at the 48 again now I’m pretty sure it wasn’t one of them.
I couldn’t get a good look, a bit far for me and for the video screens they cut away from subject to subject very quickly.

 

[RedVee]

Actually it’s a run, but I walked it because of a recent pulled groin muscle. Still finished about mid pack (I walk pretty fast).

Our course is an out and back thing on a bike path along the Nepean River. Nice. But it’s a bit of a slap when I’m halfway (if that) on the ‘out’ stage and the 15-30yo’s are passing me on the ‘back’ run.

Some of these people are doing the 5km in 17 - 20 mins. Sort of humbling as I’m striding along setting a 57min pace.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

67NR, 95 LPB2/5, '09 Epi EB-0/'23 Epi Embassy, '13 Ibanez AGB200(tapes).
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I forgot about the EB(SG).

 

[BklynKen]

Run and done…
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My daughter and I wrapped up our memorial run for my late wife and spread some ashes at Otter Point in Monterey (one of my wife’s favorite spots in the area). Can’t wait to get back home and get back to figuring a few new songs out on the bass and putting some of the last touches on the two Tbird builds I have in the works.

Well done! I hope you had a beer after. My favorite thing after a run. And a dive. And basically any activity.