It strikes me as odd that page #1991 came & went without somebody mentioning Nirvana's "Nevermind". Especially with the concentration of Seattlites we have here...
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Thunderbird Club
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
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There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Ahhh,,,,,, Ballard.
If these videos aren't on the Ballard City website... they certainly should be! They seem like perfect cultural assimilation tools
Is that what it is?
I thought someone had gone paisley on that 'Bird.
(In my defence, I'm home sick with a throat infection and the burn off smoke yesterday upset my asthma. I'm off my game)
Took a little road trip down to Vancouver today and caught a show.
I often get "Oh, you grew up in the Northwest/Seattle in the 90s, you must love Nirvana!" No, no I don't, I'm burnt out from hearing them so much. I mean, I get why people like them, but I'm much more fond of Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. Nirvana always strikes me as angsty and angry, but Soundgarden and Alice in Chains always sounded more sinister, desolate, ominous, portentous. Plus I always gotta give Soundgarden props for their unusual time signatures. Maybe it's because those two were more overtly heavy and metal influenced than the more punk Nirvana.
But really, my favorite band of the 90s and the Northwest? The Presidents of The United States of America.
Louder Than Love has always been my favorite Soundgarden album, and though Alice in Chains never made a bad album, "Dirt" is undoubtedly the one that tickled my sense of despair & self-loathing the most (somewhere, Layne Staley is half-smirking)
Tins: 2 x oatcake, 1 x shortbread, 1 x tea, 2 x Danish butter biscuits, 1 x Quality Street assortment, 1 x gingersnaps ... Gibson tin awol on shelf above.
LA --> Portland --> Queens.
The picture becomes clearer, it appears that @JJR58 is a hipster... It could be other things, but the image of hipster amuses me.
I was never clear on the appeal of Nirvana in the broad market. I much preferred Alice in Chains (and Soundgarden and Faith No More). It seemed to me that if you liked the content of Nirvana, you should similarly like Alice in Chains. If you didn't appreciate both, then why Nirvana (I would leap to the conclusion; because you are a poser).
4/4 is great, but have some variety!
Can't people just like what they like? Can't it just be that simple?
If that was the case, we'd have nothing to talk about on TB... like tort.
But TORT is just an allegory for FSO's of which it's fun to joke about. But honestly, I'd own a 7ender with a tort PG if I needed one and wouldn't care what anyone thought of it.
But jumping on people for liking certain bands and their music seems odd to me for a group of musicians. Saying that this or that isn't to your liking is one thing, labeling their fans is quite another.
...and then the Juggalos destroy my argument.
In my younger days, when typically young people label people as belonging or not to their self-identified peer group, those pretending to be something they aren't, were often labelled posers. It is the psychology of youth.
Having said that, there are styles of music that simply go together. I suspect that the vast majority of Rush fans also like Yes (or would if they were exposed to it). Most Miley Cyrus fans also like Katy Perry; most Jimi Hendrix fans also like Cream etc. So, my not understanding stems from two bands that play a similar style of music and fans that like one but do not like the other (Metallica and Megadeth excepted).
People can indeed like what they like. I don't have to understand it (but I do try to understand even if it doesn't match my own preferences).
