Some great woman and woman-led bands, too. The Go-Gos, Bangles, Indigo Girls, Voice of the Beehive.
REM, Talking Heads, Sisters of Mercy, Tears for Fear, The Cure, GnR, Van Halen, U2, Iron Maiden, Dire Straits, The Smiths…
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Some great woman and woman-led bands, too. The Go-Gos, Bangles, Indigo Girls, Voice of the Beehive.
REM, Talking Heads, Sisters of Mercy, Tears for Fear, The Cure, GnR, Van Halen, U2, Iron Maiden, Dire Straits, The Smiths…
I was briefly in Miami twice many years ago - once to do a photo-shoot for TREK bicycles (#38) in Sept 1983 - ad (both as one & two-page format) appeared in cycling magazines in '84.The days of steel-frames, leather "hairnets", toe-clips/rat-traps and skinny sew-up tyres. Definitely a different time for racing bikes. Honestly - the bikes have gotten more sophisticated but bike racing is pretty much the same.
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Back at about that same time frame, my dad was introduced to cross-country bicycles by a friend who lived about five miles away in the rural area we lived in which was about 40 miles south of the DFW area in Texas.
Now I wasn't quite the aficionado that they were, but I do remember that my dad's bud had a Trek frame with a number of custom components, some of whose brand name was referred to as 'Campy' (Campagnolo I believe was the real name)-
My dad ultimately wound up with a Raleigh and he handed me down his gold framed Motobecane Grand Jubilee-
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Those accordion solos were mind blowing! Do you know what Lawrence Welk named his twin daughters?
Anna1…Anna2
bada boom
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I liked a a song by a few of those bands ok... mostly Talking Heads until they got popular... also liked Chrissie Hynde more than most or the rest.
(T-bird content)
As of late, I've been in a composition mode and have not put so much into the honing of my bass sound (strings, pedals, pickups, and amp mods/tweaks) as I've had in the past.
These days it has come to any functional four string bass tuned to standard drop D (or has some apparatus to make that happen quickly) and a five string fretless. And a fretted bass tuned to Eb for some Trower tunes I either want to cover or learn from.
I will say that my favorite of the former would be my most recent purchase- the G2 (Gene Simmons Model) T-Bird upgraded with the Hipshot X-Tender-
However- that one currently resides at my drummer bro's studio, since the close quarters of my current abode (at least to my sensibilities) isn't the place that I want to keep an instrument that expensive (though by an unforeseen miracle, I obtained new this past January for far less than they currently go for)-
You can see by what I mean- here where my robust and pre-battered 80's Aria Pro II ZZB's trade places from time to time-
Here you see the black one, whose double-barred single coil MJS pickups give it a sound reminiscent of either a Rickenbacker 4003 or a Fender Jazz who ran away from home and came back with bad habits, depending on pickup and EQ settings- I was in the mood for something different-
So here she is at the plate at standard drop-D tuning via Hipshot X-Tender, having for the past six months or so been off to the side, tuned to Eb- where now resides the white one, albeit in standard tuning, with a Steinberger Spirit XT-25 (upgraded with active EMG 35 J and J-CSX pickups -sounds great by the way). Note the bubble wrap inserted to discourage unwanted fraternization and sharing of finishes.
Now that white one sports a split inline coil in the neck and a humbucker at the bridge which gives it a tone more like a P-Bass, only a bit more focused- which I like, but every now and again I want to switch up-
(Wouldn't want to put my T-Bird in this compromising position!)
The other thing is I'm in the process of replacing some wood, the settee backing, which will be finished when I've done with repainting the deck-
Regarding fretless five duties- my Warwick Thumb NT 5 currently resides at the studio, while my Steinberger XL-25 with its headless convenience resides on the boat. The two cases to the right of Marilyn-- a gift from one of my illustrators to whom I sent reference photos of her for character inspiration in a graphic short story- funny thing about that is women who have seen the character comment "Hey that's Marilyn Monroe!" when I don't see that close of a resemblance, but I digress. So one case houses the XL-25, and the other an XT-2DB (drop D to B lever) upgraded with active EMG HBCS pickups. That one is not fretless but let me just say this-- I don't know if it was the earlier style Steinberger EMG pickups or the HAZ 2 electronics but the XL-25 shrieks like a banshee when you merely slide your fingers from, let's say the G position (E string, third fret) to B (seventh fret), without even doing a slide, just a mere brush with underside of the fingers, whereas the HBCS pickups providing a cool mid-range punch. The XL-25 does sound great, but those pickups are really high octane-
The Banshee and the Spirit-
These days it has come to any functional four string bass tuned to standard drop D (or has some apparatus to make that happen quickly) and a five string fretless. And a fretted bass tuned to Eb for some Trower tunes I either want to cover or learn from.
I will say that my favorite of the former would be my most recent purchase- the G2 (Gene Simmons Model) T-Bird upgraded with the Hipshot X-Tender-
However- that one currently resides at my drummer bro's studio, since the close quarters of my current abode (at least to my sensibilities) isn't the place that I want to keep an instrument that expensive (though by an unforeseen miracle, I obtained new this past January for far less than they currently go for)-
You can see by what I mean- here where my robust and pre-battered 80's Aria Pro II ZZB's trade places from time to time-
Here you see the black one, whose double-barred single coil MJS pickups give it a sound reminiscent of either a Rickenbacker 4003 or a Fender Jazz who ran away from home and came back with bad habits, depending on pickup and EQ settings- I was in the mood for something different-
So here she is at the plate at standard drop-D tuning via Hipshot X-Tender, having for the past six months or so been off to the side, tuned to Eb- where now resides the white one, albeit in standard tuning, with a Steinberger Spirit XT-25 (upgraded with active EMG 35 J and J-CSX pickups -sounds great by the way). Note the bubble wrap inserted to discourage unwanted fraternization and sharing of finishes.
Now that white one sports a split inline coil in the neck and a humbucker at the bridge which gives it a tone more like a P-Bass, only a bit more focused- which I like, but every now and again I want to switch up-
(Wouldn't want to put my T-Bird in this compromising position!)
The other thing is I'm in the process of replacing some wood, the settee backing, which will be finished when I've done with repainting the deck-
Regarding fretless five duties- my Warwick Thumb NT 5 currently resides at the studio, while my Steinberger XL-25 with its headless convenience resides on the boat. The two cases to the right of Marilyn-- a gift from one of my illustrators to whom I sent reference photos of her for character inspiration in a graphic short story- funny thing about that is women who have seen the character comment "Hey that's Marilyn Monroe!" when I don't see that close of a resemblance, but I digress. So one case houses the XL-25, and the other an XT-2DB (drop D to B lever) upgraded with active EMG HBCS pickups. That one is not fretless but let me just say this-- I don't know if it was the earlier style Steinberger EMG pickups or the HAZ 2 electronics but the XL-25 shrieks like a banshee when you merely slide your fingers from, let's say the G position (E string, third fret) to B (seventh fret), without even doing a slide, just a mere brush with underside of the fingers, whereas the HBCS pickups providing a cool mid-range punch. The XL-25 does sound great, but those pickups are really high octane-
The Banshee and the Spirit-
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I'm familiar with that era... when a 10-speed was actually 10 gears. I currently run Campy Carbon Chorus 10-speed (20 gears) on my road-bike (now "old school") ... things have dramatically changed today as far as gearing goes.
Back then Trek (late '70s/early '80s) was a small sorta' hippy/grassroots Waterloo Wisconsin company when it started. Touring bikes mostly and a fledgling race-bike line. When in Chicago I raced against Trek employees on their own custom made frames back then.
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Never heard a Fishbone song. I'm aware they are popular. One of many popular bands I'm not familiar with. Something for everyone.
I remember seeing the Talking Heads on SNL back in '79 and remember how much I liked their cool cover of "Take Me to the River"- which is saying a lot since I was a blues-rock/classic rock fan at the time-
How can you enjoy your albums without paying attention to the labels?
By listening?
Do you have "In A Glass House" as a US release?
It's a trick question...
I liked Chrysalis records back when the label was green (Robin Trower, Rory Block, and Jethro Tull, among others)- but the blue/white ones were still cool=
Remember A&M with the floating LP's on the sleeve?
Arista was cool too (early Alan Parsons Project)-
Speaking of LP labels and the Beatles- As a kid I used to love watching the rainbow pattern spin on the 60's Beatles records my aunt and uncle had-
Are there any contemporary bands maiming T-birds? By contemporary I mean troubling the radio and charts.
As a teenager I loved Marilyn Manson, Twiggy and his T-Bird inspired me to play bass. Then in my twenty's The Kings of Leon were incredible, with a T-Bird right there on stage. Now… I cannot recall seeing a Thunderbird in the wild.
As a teenager I loved Marilyn Manson, Twiggy and his T-Bird inspired me to play bass. Then in my twenty's The Kings of Leon were incredible, with a T-Bird right there on stage. Now… I cannot recall seeing a Thunderbird in the wild.
Something for everyone describes fish bone well. Rock, punk, ska, reggae, funk. All albums 1,986-93 I recommend. "WHEN PROBLEMS ARISE" would be a good funk starting point.
The albums are highly schizophrenic, as they had some people riding trying to crossover into mainstream. I believe this is because of pressure from being on a major label. Then you had other guys riding punk rock songs so it's really a mishmash. writing......damn voice to text
Sounds like a plan! And I wish I could enjoy music without being so into the technical side of the pressing (CD or vinyl). It does not take anything away from the music but makes life sometimes a bit difficult if I know there's an insert missing or I could have a gatefold sleeve instead of an insert if I had a French Charisma pressing of Van Der Graaf's "Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome" in place of my UK edition which does have the early pressing typo in the label ("Van Der Graff"). The solution is to buy more copies.
And no hurry with the GG pressing info. You have most likely Capitol pressings of the post-"Octopus" stuff. "In A Glass House" is on WWA (UK) or Vertigo (European) as there is no US edition. Columbia deemed the album too uncommercial and passed. The album sold a handsome amount as an import and the next album was released in the US too. By Capitol.
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80's bands/artist? I like these (of course some of them started in the late 70's):
Nik Kershaw
The Replacements
Prefab Sprout
It Bites
Ultravox
Iron Maiden
Hüsker Dü
Dalbello
The Police
The Fixx
Saga
Nik Kershaw
The Replacements
Prefab Sprout
It Bites
Ultravox
Iron Maiden
Hüsker Dü
Dalbello
The Police
The Fixx
Saga
That's what I've done as well. I used to always organize by last name if it was an artists name, but years ago when I started using iTunes it was too much of a pain to go through and manually enter Sort By in the song/album files, and eventually I've just come to sort by first name. Still kind of annoys me every now and then, but it seems to be easier by and large.
The bass (Rascal) is arriving today. I'm a bit stoked to say the least.
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At one point in the mid-late '80s ... every house party I attended had a big screen TV on with "Stop Making Sense". (live Talking Heads) I was over saturated with TH's at that point and nothing they did after that did anything for me. I personally thought their groundbreaking "Remain In Light" LP was their 'peak' (Eno produced) and then they retreated into milk-toast (sellable) "happy pop" on their next LP. I've gone through the same trajectory with many bands - usually after the 3rd or 4th LP... I'm done.
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