Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

Well, you look like rich rock stars.

Rich or eccentric?

 

[TBird1958]

Emerald City used to let people like me pick up and play everything. I'm resisting going into Mike & Mike's because this is all the enabling I need right here.

Emerald City was quite accommodating with us, very friendly really - Lotta fine stuff too.

 

[MCF]

Thank you my brother.
And naturally, the flight is now delayed

Let us know when you’re safe at home.

 

[Gaolee]

I can barely read bass clef. Mar can read both as well as alto and tenor clefs...
This piece is relatively easy. Some of the classical the charts will switch key signatures, clefs and time

I could read music as a kid. Now? Nope.

 

[Gaolee]

Rich or eccentric?

You have to pick one?

 

[dagrev]

Emerald City used to let people like me pick up and play everything. I'm resisting going into Mike & Mike's because this is all the enabling I need right here.

Who says this kind of thing and what does it even mean?

 

[Stealth57]

Mark just dropped me off at the airport.
My estranged confused traveling look.

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Safe travels

 

[BklynKen]

You have to pick one?

Preferably not.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Yes, with an almost certainly slow rate of return at those prices. Unless one is going to live another 50 yrs maybe. More like for the artist who receives weekly checks the size of most people's quarterly income or more. Good on them for getting there, I wish more could live the dream, but it sure makes vintage instruments unaffordable for most average players. Which is why my '58, '64 Pbasses and '62 J have all have the body professionally refined at some point. Which is fine by me. Made them "reasonable" to justifiable in buying given they are not making me any money via playing.

Oh, and I have a 1971 Jazz with the rare pickup spacing in a custom order black for $25,000 if any one is interested! Even has the covers and original Fender strap. (Everyone here would get the family discount--better than normal price.)
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"The low, low, this week only, found family price of $24,999.99999 plus tax, tag, title, undercoating, dealer prep, 39 point inspection, setup to my personal specifications, and shipping! I'll even throw in a used pick!"

 

[Miles_ONeal]

So, to be a pro like you and your daughter, you need to be able to play bass and read both clefs. That concept makes my head hurt.

I learned bass clef on trombone, and later treble clef for guitar, dinking around on piano, and just because. Now ofta clef, that's ones painful.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I had been playing my semi-hollow Ibanez in the community concert band 'cos it comes 'close'(?) to sounding like an upright. Sorta. But the program for our next concert has some selections that I felt would sound better on the TBird. I was right and yet with small adjustments on the tone knob it sounds perfectly fine in that setting. FYI, we do classical pieces, movie theme medleys, marches, etc. I've often said that if I could have just one, it'd be the 67NR.
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Being an ex-saxist(and B4 that, pianist), I also read treble clef. And I don't have Marty Feldman eyes.

Yeah, I can get a couple of my birds to do decent upright tones. Not perfect, but good enough.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I can barely read bass clef. Mar can read both as well as alto and tenor clefs...
This piece is relatively easy. Some of the classical the charts will switch key signatures, clefs and time

I don't recall details, but I do recall a couple of pieces like that in my senior year in HS band (the one year we had a truly excellent director). The worst was the piece that had time changes every bar for N bars, then dropped back to something sane. You could count, follow the music with one eye, or just pay attention to the director if you had teh music memorized; he'd always have little cues (as he should).

I played around doing a version of "Hey, Joe" like that (4/4-4/3 switches on the interlude).

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Thank you my brother.
And naturally, the flight is now delayed

Hopefully you are in the air at this point.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

GTG Phun Pholks Photos........

It looks like only Chuck is having fun!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Because it has to be done.

Where have all the DCs gone?
Loooong time flying.
Where have all the DCs gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the DCs gone?
Lost in Boeing, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they evvverr learn?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

They were up until they sold Reverb to Etsy a few years ago.

I forgot about that.

 

[TBird1958]

GTG Folks...........

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Rich or eccentric?

Looks like != are

 

[Miles_ONeal]

You have to pick one?

I think rich is a subset of eccentric.

 

[Stealth57]

It looks like only Chuck is having fun!

That’s because he doesn’t need to concentrate.