Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

I have a squire strat (with a repaired hs) I use to test amplificateurs....

Cool. A little Cheap Sunglasses at the beginning.

 

[dagrev]

tonight's line up.....that and prime rib......
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I didn't get the ticket in time for the prime rib gig....

 

[RedVee]

That reminds me, I can play one song on piano. Sly Stone's "Everyday People."






(It has two chords in it.)

I’ll have to look it up. Depending on the chords, I might be able to do that on guitar. Fairly confident on Uke.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

All:
I ask ya’ll to send out positive vibes,we put in yet another offer on a property in Indio, it’s a little low, but property has been on the market for 254 days.

Also my Diablo Grande home is in Escrow. Set to close on Halloween.

 

[ectoflanger]

I was ok on rhythm guitar. Not much on lead at all. Better on bass than either of those.

Rhythym-wise I was never a good strummer and could never do that fast "chaw-wicka-wicky-ka-wicket" muted stuff with a wah pedal. So I tend to arpeggiate chords finger style between occasional one strums. Which translates pretty well to my bass playing. I can do leads but mainly short melodic song intros and brief fills and occasional post chorus solos, and which I mean my original material mostly. No shredding here-

But who needs leads when you have killer grooves, riffs and vocals? Here's one rock band from the 70's I was reflecting on today, who as far as I know had a good career without extensive guitar solos-

 

[MCF]

yours has a broken headstock too?

Nah. My college roommate gave it to me when his son went into a monastery. His son kept the Highway One Jazz he had though.

 

[MCF]

The Studio would just have the then current version of TB+?


Yes, correct.
When something is identified by an inch figure we would still use it. Otherwise it would be the metric figure. Some shops here display their guitars with metric total and scale length but it doesn’t help when 99% of the guitars are known by imperial.
I can’t talk for Canada, but down here we vote for “ease”.


Yeah, but we wouldn’t. We would use mm. So a 32” would be 812.8mm (maybe rounded up to 813).

The HQ series Holden Kingswood was in production under both regimes. Its wheelbase started at 111” but finished at 2819.4mm - which from memory they just wrote as 2820mm (easier), the wagon went from 114” to 2895.4mm but they wrote it as 2896mm.

I remember reading about sone older cars where wheelbase, total length and width were quoted in feet and inches. Which I couldn’t really visualise easily - had to calculate it to inches in my head first. I do remember my Dad and Uncles referring to “that’s a 15’ car”(or 16’ or whatever) talking about the length.

Yes.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Let's DO this!!!

 

[Engle]

Classic SD, love their work.
To my ears it’s in the same vein as most of their other songs, a strong Funk Jazz Fusion bass line backing a smooth jazz soft FM rock vocal.
I gave up trying to play a lot of their songs a long time ago, way outta my league on skill level.

I'm learning Peg for Code Delta (my cover band). The bass lines are challenging. Any even tougher challenge will be singing a harmony in the chorus while playing.

 

[Engle]

Interesting. Kg instead of pounds, but inches instead of mm.

Welcome to Canada!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I'm learning Peg for Code Delta (my cover band). The bass lines are challenging. Any even tougher challenge will be singing a harmony in the chorus while playing.

Another fun one....lotsa ghost notes...Enjoy!

 

[Engle]

Another fun one....lotsa ghost notes...Enjoy!

I'll do what I can, but won't be replicating it.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I’ll have to look it up. Depending on the chords, I might be able to do that on guitar. Fairly confident on Uke.

Just one (G) for the bass.....easy money (no not King Crimson)...

 

[RedVee]

Just one (G) for the bass.....easy money (no not King Crimson)...

Even better

 

[RedVee]

Welcome to Canada!

Ha! If I read right, it’s similar here at least those of us in our late 50s or older.

We might say that bloke is 6’2” and 110kgs. Or 5’7” and 80kgs. Or whatever. My kids, switch height around a little but mainly use the metric. So, my daughter would say she is 164cm. I’d say, “nah, you are nearly 5’4”.”

 

[Ringhammer]

Anyone know how to post (here) videos I take on my iPhone?

 

[GonePlaid]

All:
I ask ya’ll to send out positive vibes,we put in yet another offer on a property in Indio, it’s a little low, but property has been on the market for 254 days.

Also my Diablo Grande home is in Escrow. Set to close on Halloween.

Where the hell is Escrow?

 

[GonePlaid]

I'll do what I can, but won't be replicating it.

No worries. I'd bet their bass player(s) didn't play it the same every time.

 

[GonePlaid]

Just one (G) for the bass.....easy money (no not King Crimson)...

You could 'phone in' the bass "line".

 

[GonePlaid]

Welcome to Canada!

I was there in 81(?), crossing in at Winsor headed for Barrie, Ont., and was trying to figure out how to compute MPH vs KPH. About 10 miles in from Detroit, I realized what those other numbers on my speedometer were for. D'oh!