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Thunderbird Club
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Ah, makes sense.
I’ve never done that with them.
But now makes me wanna close my flea bay and verb account.
I’m done buying anyway.
Blaspheme! If it isn't note perfect, it is a trainwreck! [/sarcasm]
One of the things I love about live music is hearing the raw take on what happened in the studio. IIRC, it was some time after the Moving Pictures album that Rush started considering how they would play songs live as they worked in the studio. Until then, they just tried to figure it out when rehearsing a live show.
And I love hearing covers (and I would argue that every band doing their own material is a cover band who happened to record the original) to see different/unusual takes. Devo's take on (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is simultaneously recognizable as a cover and a completely different song.
I was in the music store one day and heard someone playing I Think I'm Going Bald and had to go and take a look. It was a kid about 14 and I commented something to the effect of wow, that's a deep cut. The dad jumped in and told me that he insisted that his son would not just learn the 'hits' but all the good songs. He was there buying the son an amp.
Did Kim Mitchell go bald because of the OPP hat or was the OPP hat to cover up the thinning?*
* There is a popular theory that hats cause baldness. When I was in the army, there was a soldier that wanted the army to pay for Rogaine as he claimed that his baldness was a workplace injury caused by the requirement to wear hats...
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It depends on the year - I moved to Chicago in the fall of '78, and that winter had record snowfall, immobilizing the city. Other winters were average, but cold.
I dislike your organization. Is there a method beyond putting bands together? Albums need to be sorted first by artist (which you appear to have done) and then by release date. Any deviation from this method is wrong.Here is my take on the discussion about Rush and Neil Young. I like them both! And to my defence, I like a lot of other artists and styles too too, from jazz and blues, to pop and rock, heavy, prog, folk… What I listen too depends on the time of day, mood, background music or ”listen to music”…
And below the proof that I actually enjoy Neil and Geddy
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man, you really like those guys huh?.. wonder why GL never used Traynors…
And this is why I always check out as "guest" whenever possible. I have no need to have my data held by any number of random websites.
It’s what I used to do with verb and the bay, I’m going to delete those accounts.
Yeah, don't know, but I would guess something to do with what Chris Squire was using. Also noteworthy that Geddy didn't use Thunderbirds for a long time despite being on tour with UFO/Pete Way.
Well, no one is perfetc.
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When Mahavishnu Orchestra's live 'Between Nothingness and Eternity' ('73) came out, it was impossibly complex and dynamic - a power-house tour de force and their last LP with that line-up. (Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird* and of course John McLaughlin) Twenty-six years later ('99) 'The Lost Trident Sessions' studio version of Trilogy came out, recorded around the same time as the live version. Amazingly it was letter perfect to the live version. Later versions of MO would never top their 3 early '70s LP's
* Rick Laird (bass) quit playing after MO broke-up and became a professional photographer. He said nothing after playing with that band satisfied him as a bass player/musician.
His first proper bass amp was a Traynor.
And after that a Sunn 2000S (IIRC) which he did use until the Hemispheres tour along with SVT's.
Not much Squire copying there (Squire had solid state Sunns and the old Marshall back then).
I dislike your organization. Is there a method beyond putting bands together? Albums need to be sorted first by artist (which you appear to have done) and then by release date. Any deviation from this method is wrong.
I suffer from the same disease with you apparently:
I do make exceptions with solo albums:
What is Steve Swindell's 1980 album "Fresh Blood" doing there between Hawkwind/lords and Dick Heckstall-Smith? Well, Steve was Hawklords' keyboard player, that's why. On the other hand he had quit the 'lords at the time of the recording and also should I put the album after the Hawkwind's '79 release "PXR5" as it fits the time frame better? Damn, there goes the good night's sleep again...
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Even more so in that he can play like that and sing at the same time.
A shot from last night. So much fun playing with the kid!
Of course in the pic I have bass face…
Of course in the pic I have bass face…
Found a really cool example of ostinato from the same Jean Luc Ponty album, a pleasantly melodic one, which reminds me of what Mary Poppins once said about sugar helping the medicine go down. So I would say a cool melody helps the ostinato go down,
And Allan Holdsworth's subtle but searing solo doesn't hurt-
And Allan Holdsworth's subtle but searing solo doesn't hurt-
Yes I am! I won’t be bringing any basses though. The US Border Service is just too unpredictable.
Holdsworth was a genius. Just magnificent player.
Oops!I dislike your organization. Is there a method beyond putting bands together? Albums need to be sorted first by artist (which you appear to have done) and then by release date. Any deviation from this method is wrong.
But to my defence, I actually put all my CD:s into Discogs, doesn't that give me a small plus
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