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Thunderbird Club

I know it's Wednesday, but I'm on Willy-time. Who wants to look at a white Thunderbird anyway...
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Somebody mentioned metal and being sexegernian?

Not into some aspects of death metal or modern metal's stylistic trappings but appreciate the drive and energy-

Particularly the midi beats that came with may Addictive Drums 2 package- some of them make me want to get up and play just from listening to them and actually modded and incorporate one for an original called "Paradigms"-

Anyhow here is a couple by Saxon from their album Carpe Diem recorded in 2020 when the drummer and singer were 69 going on 70, and the guitarists were in the mid-60's. Bassist Nibs Carter was the youngest at 54.

But my do they wail, getting better with time creatively- most of their material from the late-90's on has been in Eb, sometimes with drop C#-



 
A couple of favorites from their 1999 album Metalhead-



Song has one of the coolest high-energy fadeouts-

And this has one of the coolest rhythm section breaks for the guitar solos and the coda, the first of which shows up at 1:51- I thought it was half-time but my drummer bro says they just changed the accents and cadence- definitely a technique that intends to borrow-

 

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