Thunderbird Club

[ectoflanger]

That is miraculous my friend!

have you seen captions on the news lately? all kinds of grammar and spelling inconsistencies….definitely makes one wonder…. lack of personnel? bandwidth? wasn’t like this…

I first noticed misspellings on the MSN home page 20 years ago- and have seen them on TV commercials in the pasr few years -

(was checking myself to make sure I didn’t say - “I seen it”)

 

[bobyoung53]

It's been a few days but I thought I'd like to plant this here for all you T-Birders

Mott The Hoople Live on The Midnight Special- 1973

All the Way From Memphis

Always loved this band

 

[Count Bassie]

have you seen captions on the news lately? all kinds of grammar and spelling inconsistencies….definitely makes one wonder…. lack of personnel? bandwidth? wasn’t like this…

Interesting there is less emphasis on reading, on books, on the mechanics of academic functionality. It's all about code, your social media activity, computer literacy.
These are not human interfacing skills, they are about commerce. Our actual society is being swallowed up by late stage, economic liberalism. It's all run by a few, ultimately.
A book is not connected to data miners or Google's locator.
This is a bad thing, this is like being corraled.

 

[ectoflanger]

It's been a few days but I thought I'd like to plant this here for all you T-Birders

Mott The Hoople Live on The Midnight Special- 1973

All the Way From Memphis

Always loved this band

Same blonde T-Bird first in the camera’s eye in the vid of “All the Young Dudes”

btw, Mick Ralphs backing on guitar -

 

[Count Bassie]

It's been a few days but I thought I'd like to plant this here for all you T-Birders

Mott The Hoople Live on The Midnight Special- 1973

All the Way From Memphis

Always loved this band

Hayill yeah.

 

[ectoflanger]

Interesting there is less emphasis on reading, on books, on the mechanics of academic functionality. It's all about code, your social media activity, computer literacy.
These are not human interfacing skills, they are about commerce. Our actual society is being swallowed up by late stage, economic liberalism. It's all run by a few, ultimately.
A book is not connected to data miners or Google's locator.
This is a bad thing, this is like being corraled.

Ray Bradbury was prescient when he wrote Fahrenheit 451.

In fact so prescient that when I once mentioned it, someone admonished me for mentioning a Michael Moore film-

 

[TBird1958]

It's been a few days but I thought I'd like to plant this here for all you T-Birders

Mott The Hoople Live on The Midnight Special- 1973

All the Way From Memphis

Always loved this band

Whoa! Hi Bob!

 

[RedVee]

Same blonde T-Bird first in the camera’s eye in the vid of “All the Young Dudes”

btw, Mick Ralphs backing on guitar -

Firebird?

 

[JIO]

They fired all the proof readers.

Considering no-one accepts facts anymore, who needs proof readers?

 

[JIO]

Ray Bradbury was prescient when he wrote Fahrenheit 451.

In fact so prescient that when I once mentioned it, someone admonished me for mentioning a Michael Moore film-

François Truffaut - 1966

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

and like a marriage, it takes some patience to deal with moods, personalities, etc.

To be involved with 5 other musicians between the 2 bands, and for none of those guys to be immature, irresponsible, and/or drug or alcohol abusing, is also a good luck of the draw.

I think you hit it on the head with the abuse comment….

 

[JIO]

Firebird?

T-bird

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That is miraculous my friend!


I first noticed misspellings on the MSN home page 20 years ago- and have seen them on TV commercials in the pasr few years -

(was checking myself to make sure I didn’t say - “I seen it”)

yeah, notice I missed grammatical….oops…

 

[SubHuman]

It's been a few days but I thought I'd like to plant this here for all you T-Birders

Mott The Hoople Live on The Midnight Special- 1973

All the Way From Memphis

Always loved this band

Very cool performance! One of the God Father’s of T-Birds, Overend Watts. That wasn’t lip synced and they rocked! I saw the original Mott the Hoople and their energy was infectious. Overend (RIP) had the platforms and his favorite ‘63 T-Bird.

 

[SubHuman]

François Truffaut - 1966
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Great but prophetic warning movie…

 

[Miles_ONeal]

So I must say that I wasn’t influenced by some famous artist to purchase a T-Bird. In fact for the longest I was pretty skeptical-

Then one day I watched a click bait comparison video on commonly known basses played clean finger style and slap with a funky rock riff-

Precision, Jazz, Stingray, Ric, Warwick Thumb (? Yeah I know), and T-Bird. And I thought- wow! - I never heard a T-Bird played clean where the majority of demos played them overdriven-

So thought- I’m digging the clean dark mellow tone of the ‘Bird-

I never heard a demo. But Leon Wilkeson and John Entwhistle filled an indoor aren in Atlanta with very different, belly liquefying sounds from Thunderbirds one November night in Atlanta, and that stuck with me through a few decades. When I switched to bass, nothing else would do.

 

[GonePlaid]

When you are in a band where things are stable and just work, you need to hold on for dear life. Bands are like being married to that many people at the same time. When it all works, it's magic.

My current band works, partly b/c we all have so much experience in multiple genres. There are some fairly minor personality conflicts, but musically we're all pretty much on the same page. Been together since 2014.

 

[RedVee]

T-bird

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This is in the film clip

 

[GonePlaid]

Thank you but I was


I was concerned about repeating myself- these past few months have been a blur-

Thank you for your kind words -

Shoot!(sp?) This past decade has been a blur.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Firebird?

Looks like!