Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

18:32 - no truer words were spoken...

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[GonePlaid]

Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies were all related.

Of course they're all related-they're Southern.

 

[JIO]

Of course they're all related-they're Southern.

Hah! Trust me I wanted to go there...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

signs of life just in time for tubey Tues....

 

[RedVee]

This was a staple of Aussie radio right through the 70s. A hit here, and a minor hit in the UK but it didn’t land well in the US - only got to 73 or so - until an American, Mac Davis, covered it.
Evidently it was written in 1973 and by 1975 there were 27 covers of it. Good going I think, not Yesterday good in number of covers but what is?
Recorded in Sydney, and the lead guitar is supplied by the late Rory O’Donaghue most recognised as Thin Arthur from the Aunty Jack TV comedy series. He also did lots of stage work and commercials etc.

It might hit a memory maybe. It is imbedded in my generations memory here.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

This was a staple of Aussie radio right through the 70s. A hit here, and a minor hit in the UK but it didn’t land well in the US - only got to 73 or so - until an American, Mac Davis, covered it.
Evidently it was written in 1973 and by 1975 there were 27 covers of it. Good going I think, not Yesterday good in number of covers but what is?
Recorded in Sydney, and the lead guitar is supplied by the late Rory O’Donaghue most recognised as Thin Arthur from the Aunty Jack TV comedy series. He also did lots of stage work and commercials etc.

It might hit a memory maybe. It is imbedded in my generations memory here.

New to me, but I tended to ignore Mac Davis.

 

[JIO]

beauty -

 

[godofthunder59]

RUSH update from the road. Scully was kind enough to send me a picture of the Cardinal Red Thunderbird IV on his bench, I'm posting it here first a little exclusive for my fellow Tbirders. I have a few more but Scully has asked me to wait to post them. Hopefully more to come .

 

[Count Bassie]

From my kid who lives in Washington, part of a Mother's/Father's Day parcel, for the fridge...

 

[Engle]

This was a staple of Aussie radio right through the 70s. A hit here, and a minor hit in the UK but it didn’t land well in the US - only got to 73 or so - until an American, Mac Davis, covered it.
Evidently it was written in 1973 and by 1975 there were 27 covers of it. Good going I think, not Yesterday good in number of covers but what is?
Recorded in Sydney, and the lead guitar is supplied by the late Rory O’Donaghue most recognised as Thin Arthur from the Aunty Jack TV comedy series. He also did lots of stage work and commercials etc.

It might hit a memory maybe. It is imbedded in my generations memory here.

I guess it wasn't on the radio here.

 

[Engle]

But they have a keyboard player now so Geddy doesn’t have to handle keys and bass.

Not all the keys. He was playing synth on the clip of Tom Sawyer I saw the other day

 

[Engle]

I don’t know the circumstances behind that vid. Sound check? They are carrying a keyboardist on the tour. But it does sound like a bass guitar track in the vid.

I think someone added better quality audio to that phone video.

 

[Engle]

To my ears, the ‘15 pickups in full humbucker mode are very close the to the vintage reissues. At their core, I believe they are pretty much the same pickups. I have Thunderbirds with both. Although the 15’s are wound hotter. EQing on the amp can make them sound pretty much the same played through a Mesa M6 Carbine, a Mesa TT800, and an SVT reissue.

As far as construction: The Decolas have cylindrical magnets. Most other Tbird pickups have blades.

 

[Stealth57]

beauty -


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Ah, low and wide. Mura motor? I had CanAm style bodies and a rail.

 

[JIO]

Ah, low and wide. Mura motor? I had CanAm style bodies and a rail.

I don't know the details but that was like what the elite guys raced w/vacuum-formed bodies -

 

[TBird1958]

From my kid who lives in Washington, part of a Mother's/Father's Day parcel, for the fridge...

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It's horrible here! No one should ever visit.

 

[Count Bassie]

It's horrible here! No one should ever visit.

Well then I'm definitely coming!!

 

[dagrev]

It's horrible here! No one should ever visit.

I hear it's so bad people had to resort to eating oysters.
(Harking back to a time when they were working-class food before becoming more well-to-do fare.)

I hope to find out just how horrible it is one day.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

It's horrible here! No one should ever visit.

scary place and people....

 

[Gaolee]

Of course they're all related-they're Southern.

Hey! ... oh... Never mind...