Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

Hey, you Seattle types, keep the rain to yourselves.

 

[TBird1958]

Did you buy that?

No, Rob made that bass for Uwe Hornung - The man that owns 99% of the basses in the BOOK.

 

[TBird1958]

Hey, you Seattle types, keep the rain to yourselves.

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Just spreading the Love, keep your earthquakes!

 

[Gaolee]

Hey, you Seattle types, keep the rain to yourselves.

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We love our rain. When we get dry, we start acting weird(er).

 

[Stealth57]

We love our rain. When we get dry, we start acting weird(er).

I’d go with er er.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Been wankeling away since 1989, yah.

Ahem!

 

[JIO]

makes one wonder, in over 10yrs with JMB we only rehearsed once.....for better or worse, probably why the project lasted as long..

Being in two bands that play as much as possible ATC, rehearsals are important to me for a number of reasons. And yes, depending on our lives (job/family comes 1st) it can be challenging. Developing new original music, keeping tight on all our songs, breaking in a new drummer and just hangin' together. We many times record our new material to hear/assess it later. I feel lucky to rehearse twice a week with two very different bands.

 

[JIO]

and that's my point, ultimately I want to play live bass (without singing vocals if possible).....with Beat Street (first GTG band) we would practice once a week (like you say 3 and 4 part harmonies) and after all that effort the band no longer plays out which makes me wonder if I should have just stuck with JMB alone.....

We were just joking about that scenario at BG rehearsal tonight... It started out talking about playing a song and experiencing "magic" (song played well together) and devolved into humor... "creating the magic takes more rehearsing... after a while you'd get so good at rehearsing that you didn't need to play out!"

 

[JIO]

3 and 4 part vocal harmonies, plus a couple of horns and challenging material meant the Motown thing needed some rehearsal. If we could have put a couple of solid sets together, it wouldn't have needed as much to maintain it.

With Code Delta there are usually one or two rehearsals before a gig. It's mostly to figure out the harmonies on new tunes and the keyboard player isn't that experienced, so he likes to sort out all his patches.

I need to practice with a band if I'm going to sing and play.

word -

 

[GonePlaid]

We will be working this up in '26. we've decided to put together a set of '60s -'70s stuff that's a little off the beaten path and perform as Ornamental Bush, it should be a kick.

Ya mean this? (using my LPB2/5)

BTW, no rehearsals involved.

 

[RedVee]

This is OT but I’ll put it up for discussion as we were talking about Roger Glover a few days ago.

Spoiler: Glover is in the top 10 of this list, as are the usual people you would expect pretty much. BUT I reckon the order of his top 10 - esp the top 5 or so - is pretty debatable.


All in all a good list, there are a few I don’t know of, one or more the comments are suggesting didn’t play a Rick or at least not on the track he selected, plus I’m sure there will be others that people will think should be in there that aren’t.
Glad he made it though.

 

[GonePlaid]

We will be working this up in '26. we've decided to put together a set of '60s -'70s stuff that's a little off the beaten path and perform as Ornamental Bush, it should be a kick.

You could also perform as "Merkin".

 

[JIO]

Ya mean this? (using my LPB2/5)

BTW, no rehearsals involved.

That's the spirit! (ducks...)

 

[bylar13]

Only playing bands that do original material, requires regular rehearsals to accomplish anything.

We practice (Highfield) once a week pretty consistently.

I don’t have time for folks who don’t want to rehearse or always have schedule issues.

I understand that people’s lives get complicated/busy and you need to be flexible regarding finding the time.

That said, people also need to be honest about their realistic ability to commit to the time, prioritize it and if not, realize that your behavior affects other people.

As you can tell by this “mini rant”, this is something I have experienced……

 

[dagrev]

Only playing bands that do original material, requires regular rehearsals to accomplish anything.

We practice (Highfield) once a week pretty consistently.

I don’t have time for folks who don’t want to rehearse or always have schedule issues.

I understand that people’s lives get complicated/busy and you need to be flexible regarding finding the time.

That said, people also need to be honest about their realistic ability to commit to the time, prioritize it and if not, realize that your behavior affects other people.

As you can tell by this “mini rant”, this is something I have experienced……

Amen. This should be in the first chapter of a, "So, You Want To Play In A Band" book.
Followed by a chapter entitled, "You may be great--but no one want's your attitude." Or maybe it's "Feel free to join--when you grow up." Who knows.

 

[Ringhammer]

I’m in two bands, both originals. One band is pretty insistent that we do 2 nights, while the other only schedules 1 night. The band I want to play with two nights a week only does one night a week at best. The band that does two nights a week, I really only want to do one. Neither of them practice on the weekends. Three nights during the week with a five day work week make for a busy week most of the time.

Both bands have good recordings of most all of the songs, so I stay practiced up during the weekends, since I can play at a good volume at home (which I am very grateful for).

In either case, playing together in our rehearsal spaces, where everything is comfortable, still isn’t the same as playing live, and both bands need to play live, in front of people, ready to handle whatever unexpected situation or weird stage sound, more often.

Going with long gaps between live shows means you kind of start over. Having experience dealing with whatever is thrown at you in a live situation is a valuable talent that can only be practiced by the experience.

 

[bylar13]

I’m in two bands, both originals. One band is pretty insistent that we do 2 nights, while the other only schedules 1 night. The band I want to play with two nights a week only does one night a week at best. The band that does two nights a week, I really only want to do one. Neither of them practice on the weekends. Three nights during the week with a five day work week make for a busy week most of the time.

Both bands have good recordings of most all of the songs, so I stay practiced up during the weekends, since I can play at a good volume at home (which I am very grateful for).

In either case, playing together in our rehearsal spaces, where everything is comfortable, still isn’t the same as playing live, and both bands need to play live, in front of people, ready to handle whatever unexpected situation or weird stage sound, more often.

Going with long gaps between live shows means you kind of start over. Having experience dealing with whatever is thrown at you in a live situation is a valuable talent that can only be practiced by the experience.

Agreed. You never know what the live situation will present except that it will be unexpected. If you are struggling with the basics, it will only get worse….

 

[MCF]

Hey, you Seattle types, keep the rain to yourselves.

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Yeah. Atmospheric river time. Rather have that than low forties and the fog we’ve been socked in with for almost two weeks in the south valley. Was up on the mountain Monday and Tuesday. When I left to go home, it was 67 at 2:00 PM. When I got to Bako, it was a miserable 45. Really weird.

 

[MCF]

This is OT but I’ll put it up for discussion as we were talking about Roger Glover a few days ago.

Spoiler: Glover is in the top 10 of this list, as are the usual people you would expect pretty much. BUT I reckon the order of his top 10 - esp the top 5 or so - is pretty debatable.


All in all a good list, there are a few I don’t know of, one or more the comments are suggesting didn’t play a Rick or at least not on the track he selected, plus I’m sure there will be others that people will think should be in there that aren’t.
Glad he made it though.

I usually don’t care much for lists. He has Burton too high. And Foxton is top five IMO. Squire not at the top is ridiculous. But he identified most who matter except Martin Turner who played a Ric before he became a Thunderbird player.

 

[Stealth57]

Yeah. Atmospheric river time. Rather have that than low forties and the fog we’ve been socked in with for almost two weeks in the south valley. Was was up on the mountain Monday and Tuesday. When I left to go home, it was 67 at 2:00 PM. When I got to Bako, it was a miserable 45. Really weird.

Just would prefer a break every other day. The dogs hate to go out in the rain...