Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

nice pic Irv….those pups have always been a topic of conversation….would love to try one of those Orvilles, neck through? set?..

I have read that the Orvilles had MIJ pickups and the Orville by Gibsons (which mine is) had MIA Gibson pickups. It is a set neck all mahogany.

 

[GonePlaid]

Thanks Mike, that particular song was my reaction to a particular cultural situation of the time. I won't get into here other than to say I saw hypocrisy and I was venting about it.
Now that I think about it, I really should start another punk band.

Hypocrisy? Where? Did I miss something?

 

[Engle]

Hopefully this will work. Here's two from a kind of a one off project where I and the second guitarist I played with for several years were asked to play a concert at a youth camp. This was about 1984 maybe 85. We found out later it was professionally recorded with a boom box.... Therefore the quality is not good. I did have a guy clean it up a little.
The singer (Ron) was the guy who gave me my one bass lesson and let me use his old Ampeg PF. (That was early on--I used my Peavey and 215s.) Ron was crazy good and still does studio work and does jazz gigs. He played a late 60s 335 through a Twin Reverb (maybe Princeton). He knew how to play and fantastic thick, cutting tone. Always sounded crazy good live. Ron was playing the Southern circuit in the late 60s and his band played with some that later were well known. His band did one album that I know of. Chris played a Kramer strat type guitar which is thin sounding--a guitar I never cared for. Ron does the playing at the beginning.
His wife sang as well as any I've ever heard. She could play double bass (didn't like electric), chello, piano, oboe, flute, and likely something I'm forgetting. The drummer was the only one who really didn't play much at that time. I was playing a 80ish Jazz.
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One with Lynette singing.
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Had about a few songs from being asked to play on some demos, but who knows where those might be.

Nice playing! And great sounding band!

 

[Engle]

nice pic Irv….those pups have always been a topic of conversation….would love to try one of those Orvilles, neck through? set?..

Just to add the MIJ Epiphones of that era are essentially the same construction. I don't know about the pickups. This could be a cool project:
Epiphone Japan Thunderbird / Electric Bass Guitar / made in Japan | eBay

 

[Stealth57]

Let the fun begin.

 

[Engle]

Let the fun begin.

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Yes it's party season. Glad to finally have a few xmas party gigs again this year!

 

[dagrev]

Nice playing! And great sounding band!

Thanks, Irv. Very kind of you. It was short-lived and we hoped it would turn into a few more opportunities after taking the time learn enough songs for a decent concert. It was great to get to play with Ron, Lynette, and Chris, who are all amazing musicians. All could/can play anything from Bluegrass to Classical. Me, not so much!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Yes'm. Y'all got it right.

Funny thing about translation of American culture. I worked in Norway as foreign labor, meaning doing factory stuff Norwegians didn't want to do. At the time, they had some kind of cowboy thing going on. That meant a new looking denim jacket, new looking denim jeans, and loafers. If that wasn't weird enough, they would wear cowboy hats, but wear them backwards. It drove me nuts. I had a big, beat up hat that was perfect for rain and cold and wore it right way around. That got the occasional comment. My reply in inadequate Norwegian made it pretty obvious that I wasn't translated. There were lots of other amusing translation of being American things I ran across in that part of Norway.

I almost didn't come back. It was the first and only time I have ever been exotic.

Nonsense! Trollmeister is exotic!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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I’ve noticed the TV News now often has misspelled words in the captions when they go out to external reporters. I don’t know whether to scream or cry. So I just laugh ryely and shake my head

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Carthaginian….
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Voldemort's behind y'all!

 

[Gaolee]

Hypocrisy? Where? Did I miss something?

Nah. Nothing to see. Move along.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

If any y'all have questions about eyeball surgery message me.

But leave an audio message because he's still all bandaged up.

 

[The EDP]

All this talk of punky fun makes me wonder if these guys made much of a splash outside the UK? If they made any music you enjoyed raise a glass to Geordie who passed away last Sunday. I loved them, could've been my friends and I in the vid (tho it wasn't, was some other fans). If these guys are new to you there's a whole catalogue of fun for you to unearth.
This riff sound reminiscent of anything?

 

[BklynKen]

All this talk of punky fun makes me wonder if these guys made much of a splash outside the UK? If they made any music you enjoyed raise a glass to Geordie who passed away last Sunday. I loved them, could've been my friends and I in the vid (tho it wasn't, was some other fans). If these guys are new to you there's a whole catalogue of fun for you to unearth.
This riff sound reminiscent of anything?

Yeah, they're well known here. RIP, Geordie.

 

[RedVee]

I'm actually from way down south, more southerly than London - but as a youngster I played in a band with a drummer from near Wigan, my 2nd pro gig, and much prefer League to Union. Says it all that the refs have to shout at the players in Union to "use it" or all the fat blokes will just lay on the ground doing bugga all!
Tho I don't like St. Helens one of fave players is Paul Sculthorpe, but I hate Sean Long so much I'll never get over it!
Kevin Sinfield is another fave but my all-time favourite is definitely Mark Gasnier - it was like watching mercury running downhill seeing him bob and weave, and step and accelerate past entire teams. The few interviews I saw he seemed a genuine lad, if I recall correctly he's involved in kids sports now

Yep, Gas was excellent.

We are a bit off topic, I’ll PM you.

 

[WillyW]

All this talk of punky fun makes me wonder if these guys made much of a splash outside the UK? If they made any music you enjoyed raise a glass to Geordie who passed away last Sunday. I loved them, could've been my friends and I in the vid (tho it wasn't, was some other fans). If these guys are new to you there's a whole catalogue of fun for you to unearth.
This riff sound reminiscent of anything?

I had heard The Wait in the midwest but I had a hard time getting much british stuff, I had working knowledge of the UK subs, Buzzcocks, Exploited, Adverts etc...

Here's another group I didn't get to hear enough of....

 

[Engle]

I really like it. I’m a late convert to this genre/style; bought my first Black Flag and Minutemen recordings in 2019.

Thanks! Yeah I'm an old punk... I started with Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown EP. Still have it and those songs still run through my head on a regular basis!

 

[Engle]

All this talk of punky fun makes me wonder if these guys made much of a splash outside the UK? If they made any music you enjoyed raise a glass to Geordie who passed away last Sunday. I loved them, could've been my friends and I in the vid (tho it wasn't, was some other fans). If these guys are new to you there's a whole catalogue of fun for you to unearth.
This riff sound reminiscent of anything?

I don't remember them, but I like that!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Well, technically y'all are Americans. As are Mexicans.

wonder if that criteria would make French Canadians Latin Americans?...

 

[The EDP]

I had heard The Wait in the midwest but I had a hard time getting much british stuff, I had working knowledge of the UK subs, Buzzcocks, Exploited, Adverts etc...

Here's another group I didn't get to hear enough of....

That just made me laugh out loud! I'd forgotten that lot as well as the "Where's Spock?" right at the end!
I'm not sure they had too many other songs that I recall anyway - but they may have used slightly different names as a good few of them bands back then did that?