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Thunderbird Club

#100,621
RedVee said:
Yep, for me it was trying my nephews Tbird... wow this is nice! I like this!



Actually, being more Irish than anything else in my Licorice Allsort DNA mix, I have been wandering along the green a bit over the last couple of years.
Currently on my liquor cabinet I have:

Tullamore DEW
The Dubliner
Jameson
Jameson Black Barrel

To honour another piece of my Mums heritage I been sniffing around the French Champagne aisle. Jumped in and bought a Moet et Chandon bottle for Christmas... a success. Will try another soon though they are expensive, and Australian wines are very good.
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oh man, Champagne.. now we're talking!..unfortunately not everything gets exported and Perrier Jouet, or Cristal (aside from the MC house and all it's products including Dom) seem to be the norm.....
these are a couple of my favorites...
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#100,622
Nocturnal said:
Sami is another fave of mine. Still listen to Hanoi Rocks semi regularly.

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I like the first album best but Too Much Too Soon has some great moments. Not everyone's taste but the Dolls have a raw, aggressive sound that I really enjoy.
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forgot this guy........WARNING! Opening may produce uncontrollable urge to acquire NR.
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Chucky Stiletti said:
Cliff Williams from AC/DC
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Ah! Never got to see them. Especially with "80s hair". I was playing 6 nites/week through 84, then on the road in the 18 wheeler.. I thought I'd seen some videos with a Bird in the background, but we all know how much camera people hate bass players.:banghead:(except V)
 
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GonePlaid said:
Every close up he looks like he's in pain-prolly from playing an FSO. Love the high water pants.:rollno:
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I love how exaggerated/theatrical they all were. Like, "we're playing heavy psychedelic rock and we have to look electrified!" :bassist: Hendrix could look electrified back then...
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
WRT the Vanilla Fudge video...
  1. Mark Stein (keys, vocals) is clearly mimicking black players with the gestures. Or trying to. Then again, white boys with soul is where their name came from. Mark had the vocal chops but needed someone to teach him how to move. Or was this whitened for TV?
  2. Tim Bogert is a trip to watch! Almost as much fun as Peter Buck in REM (especially early on).
  3. Ditto Carmine Appice (drums).
  4. Poor Stein and Vince Martell (guitar) never really had much of a career outside VF.
  5. I never in my entire life liked high waisted pants. Fought against them as a little kid, rebelled against the rebels wearing them as a teen, and have had no interest since, except as a goofy costume.
  6. The Supremes original version and VF versions are easily my favorites. Kim Wilde's vocals were pretty good, but no match for the Supremes, and I didn't care for the arrangement. I always wanted to like Wilson Pickett's version, but never really did. (Full disclosure: I had a huge crush on the Supremes, which was EXTREMELY verboten for an 11 year old in 1966 in small town Georgia. Potentially deadly, certainly painful, if exposed.)
  7. Is this really a live on TV version? Unusual for 1967.
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It was live lip-syching as far as it looks as many bands still did then. (1968) Yes, "Vanilla (white) Fudge" - never made that connection back then. Most bands in the 60's were emulating black groups/singers/material. (blues, R&B) Their falsetto singing was obvious gospel influence. I do think they were probably pushing their exaggerated moves because it was TV. Carmine Appice is a trip to watch twirling his stick on every beat!
 
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A coupla people asked if there'd be any video of my NYE gig. There are 3 songs featuring our gorgeous singer on Facebook @ "Jordan Thomas Odyssey." As previously mentioned, I had to use my 5quier VM Jag SS instead of my Bird due to lack of space. Ya can't see him, but the drummer is to my left and I kept bumping his 'ride' cymbal w/ the headstock.
 
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GonePlaid said:
A coupla people asked if there'd be any video of my NYE gig. There are 3 songs featuring our gorgeous singer on Facebook @ "Jordan Thomas Odyssey." As previously mentioned, I had to use my 5quier VM Jag SS instead of my Bird due to lack of space. Ya can't see him, but the drummer is to my left and I kept bumping his 'ride' cymbal w/ the headstock.
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Funny, I was doing the same that evening. No room for a Bird..:crying:...check out the proximity to his cymbal...
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JIO said:
It was live lip-syching as far as it looks as many bands still did then. (1968) Yes, "Vanilla (white) Fudge" - never made that connection back then. Most bands in the 60's were emulating black groups/singers/material. (blues, R&B) Their falsetto singing was obvious gospel influence. I do think they were probably pushing their exaggerated moves because it was TV. Carmine Appice is a trip to watch twirling his stick on every beat!
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The length doesn’t match the recordings I know, for one thing.
 
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#100,637
Chucky Stiletti said:
Damn Ampegs......why did the designers (Piazza mostly) decide upon the most obscure available tubes at the time?....sourcing tubes for these can be a nightmare not to mention the X100 price markup these days..:banghead:

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Sometimes it was because those tubes were really cheap back then. Other times, a designer just wanted to play with the tube based on teh specs or possibilities, or looking for something different or "better".
The *real* question here is why you're worrying about that for an accordion amp. :eek::p

What tubes are you looking for?
 
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Funny thing about tubes - I have been messing with tube substitutions in the little guitar amps to see what I can to do make them even less powerful. The Epi Valve Junior will remain as loud as possible for a 5 watter, but I have been doing experiments with the other two to see how to make them so wimpy that you can get them to distort before they get loud enough to irritate the neighbors even if I'm on the back porch.
 
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Gaolee said:
Funny thing about tubes - I have been messing with tube substitutions in the little guitar amps to see what I can to do make them even less powerful. The Epi Valve Junior will remain as loud as possible for a 5 watter, but I have been doing experiments with the other two to see how to make them so wimpy that you can get them to distort before they get loud enough to irritate the neighbors even if I'm on the back porch.
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Probably something like this is what you want:

Portable Variac Variable Transformers
 
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