Thunderbird Club

[ectoflanger]

I'm so glad that song is off our set list! Had to be a fricken machine to play it, not fun!

I have no idea why I'm wearing a long dress and Cons........

So what about this one?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I'm so glad that song is off our set list! Had to be a fricken machine to play it, not fun!

I have no idea why I'm wearing a long dress and Cons........

yeah, sequencers are for the birds….glad when we dropped Cruel Summer (tune 4)

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Speaking of Bond, James Bond I ran across this exotic sounding Bond theme song by Björk. She has a beautiful voice!

This is my favorite Bond Movie and theme song was originally sung by Nancy Sinatra...I like her version too!

Sugarcubes….

 

[Count Bassie]

I'm so glad that song is off our set list! Had to be a fricken machine to play it, not fun!

I have no idea why I'm wearing a long dress and Cons........

Elegance, perhaps, your Grace?...

 

[ectoflanger]

So- another band/musician of the 80's I liked was Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry-

Quite taken by Ferry's Boys and Girls and Béte Noir albums-

Choice songs -







So, regarding this one I was impressed with Vinnie Coliauta's syncopation and Guy Pratt's melodic Fretless playing, but it was the slow, understated guitar arpeggios comping the verses that knocked me out-

 

[JIO]

I too was interested in a Kubicki back in around 2014-2015 when Phil was still alive.

Sent him an email and he responded saying that all he had at the time was a yellow one. I was wanting a black one and by the time I thought I might pre-order one, other budgetary concerns arose and it didn't happen. But he was a really nice guy.

So was Ned Steinberger when I sent an email asking if the XL series carbon fiber basses would ever be resurrected.

He said that it just wasn't profitable but was gracious in his response-

I spoke to Phil quite a few times on the phone - yes, he was a very nice man and always willing to talk. He was a pivotal luthier in the world of guitars, first working at Fender in the late '60s and then starting his own biz first making aftermarket Fender necks & some bodies and then innovating/producing Ex-Factors. I personally feel that bass has a timeless design that other '80s basses didn't have - it was right the first time with no need to 'update'. I can't afford what they go for these days, but as I mentioned I have 3 basses with Kubicki parts so I'm still very much a devotee.

 

[ectoflanger]

Some more Bryan Ferry I liked where Nathan East did the bass work-

From Taxi -

 

[JIO]

Speaking of Bond, James Bond I ran across this exotic sounding Bond theme song by Björk. She has a beautiful voice!

This is my favorite Bond Movie and theme song was originally sung by Nancy Sinatra...I like her version too!

Yes, one of my faves and I dig Björk's version also! My current fave that we play w/BG is Skyfall - big theatrical drama.

 

[Count Bassie]

I spoke to Phil quite a few times on the phone - yes, he was a very nice man and always willing to talk. He was a pivotal luthier in the world of guitars, first woking at Fender in the late '60s and then starting his own biz first making aftermarket Fender necks & some bodies and then innovating/producing Ex-Factors. I personally feel that bass has a timeless design that other '80s basses didn't have - it was right the first time with no need to 'update'. I can't afford what they go for these days, but as I mentioned I have 3 basses with Kubicki parts so I'm still very much a devotee.

Those are still a bucketlist bass.

 

[ectoflanger]

Sorry my T-Bird family, but gotta post one more on Bryan Ferry because the bass riff is too cool- video is darker than I like though-

 

[BklynKen]

So- another band/musician of the 80's I liked was Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry-

Quite taken by Ferry's Boys and Girls and Béte Noir albums-

Choice songs -







So, regarding this one I was impressed with Vinnie Coliauta's syncopation and Guy Pratt's melodic Fretless playing, but it was the slow, understated guitar arpeggios comping the verses that knocked me out-

I took at class at NYU called Theory of the Avant-Garde, and the professor would play Don't Stop the Dance every time we'd enter the room.

 

[JIO]

I'm so glad that song is off our set list! Had to be a fricken machine to play it, not fun!

I have no idea why I'm wearing a long dress and Cons........

That's some rockin' playing. Great tone too!

 

[Count Bassie]

Always dug this bassline. Slightly subdued, a little dirty, down to business.

 

[ectoflanger]

Here's the first time I discovered a Kubicki bass- this video-

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Always dug this bassline. Slightly subdued, a little dirty, down to business.

notice the quality of that door closing shut on the intro…..don't need the exhaust note to tell one it's gotta be an Aston….

 

[PillO]

I don't have that much vinyl, but I have never got rid of any of it over the years. Sometimes inertia is good.

Inertia is just another name for laziness, which, as previously discussed, pays off immediately, unlike hard work and perseverance.

 

[PillO]

I remember when one could pay for a mortgage with a regular gig at the local Ramada Inn....

FTFY...

 

[Stealth57]

FTFY...

Fortunately, I don't have one. Cheap shot, I know.

 

[ectoflanger]

Dan K. Brown is an excellent bassist. Didn't know he played a Wal too, I only assumed him with the Steinberger he started to use on "Phantoms" and onwards.
He had a fusion background and played on Isotope's last album "The Deep End" in 1976. Gary Boyle on guitar.

Another great player was Matthew Seligman who played with Dolby too and was a member of The Soft Boys, one of the best bands of the punk/new wave era who didn't really fit.

So, it hasn't been one of my better days and I'm definitely lagging, but here's a great example of Dan weilding an XL-2,

Great punchy bass line by the way-

Studio-



Live-

 

[Ringhammer]

Wasn't someone on the lookout for one of these?

https://reverb.com/item/82298961-gi...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=82298961