Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

I would love to play this one with the kid and see what he does with the trumpet part.

 

[Gaolee]

As long as we are into the percussive thing that leads somewhere, there's this. Plus the bit at the beginning we all probably know.


The video got cut off, which kinda sucks.

 

[Gaolee]

More Meters. Time relevant. Probably the straightest beat ever on a Meters recording. Their drummer is one of my favorites to fail at emulating.

 

[TBird1958]

Time to dumb it down...…..


Yeah, white Thunderbirds, still rule.

 

[Gaolee]

I'll stop eventually, because I have to get up and go to work in the morning, but the music has me for now.

 

[Gaolee]

They're older, but so are we now!

 

[Gaolee]

No such thing as dumbing down for 'Bird content.

 

[GonePlaid]

Time to dumb it down...…..


Yeah, white Thunderbirds, still rule.

The Bird sounds amazing-and looks good too. Made that SVT roar. BTW(FWIW),though I'm a bass/baritone vocally, I can hit his last note on "Never Let You Go"-and higher-and hold it. Surprises the hell outta people first time I hit the high stuff on the gig since I do our announcements in my FM DJ voice. Oh, another thing, I know a girl named Eileen, one of her legs is shorter than the other.

 

[Gaolee]

In an interview, Steve Miller said that they used to carry a synthesizer to do the sounds at the beginning of "Jungle Love" 'til one day in a toy store he found a $2 'ray gun' that made the same noise.

My furnace used to make a really great noise when the fan kicked in. My brother and I really wanted that sound for whatever purpose revealed itself. The furnace died one January, and we never got the sound. It is a shame, because it's the same kind of thing.

 

[Gaolee]

I need a Tabasco bass!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'll just leave this here..

Speaking of union cards, I believe the union gave that job ("I'll just leave this here.") to DirtyBird.

 

[GonePlaid]

I need a Tabasco bass!

All you need is a nice piece of Honduran mahogany, some rosewood and some paint then print the label.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Just for the halibut, I went a'Googling. There are big band, concert band and orchestra arrangements of Free Bird. I was thinkin' of writing one. For $45. I can buy one-much easier.

And now I wanna hear some of these- but they have to have the intensity of Skynyrd playing it live. Nothing else will do.

 

[Gaolee]

And now I wanna hear some of these- but they have to have the intensity of Skynyrd playing it live. Nothing else will do.

Ask and ye shall receive. Whether it's a good idea or not.

 

[RedVee]

Just for the halibut, I went a'Googling. There are big band, concert band and orchestra arrangements of Free Bird. I was thinkin' of writing one. For $45. I can buy one-much easier.

But how do you get the rest of the big band to play it?

Fat Tuesday is coming up, then Lent, when I don't drink. Got to get it in now.


Doggone, she's cute!

Today I was asked about the rules of Lent on fast & abstinence by somebody, and by trying to help them found out something strange interesting.

A request for a local exception in Florida allows alligator to be considered “fish” and therefore can be eaten on meat free days. Odd, but nothing on the French settlers into Quebec (Québécois?) a few hundred years ago. They asked for, and were granted, a dispensation to eat Beaver on meat abstinence days.
There you go Canadians, permission to eat beaver on fish days.

Reads like a Monty Python script.

 

[TBird1958]

L.S. made palatable by the Russkis, who knew!

I could probably stand Freebird done by these guys

 

[Gaolee]

But how do you get the rest of the big band to play it?



Today I was asked about the rules of Lent on fast & abstinence by somebody, and by trying to help them found out something strange interesting.

A request for a local exception in Florida allows alligator to be considered “fish” and therefore can be eaten on meat free days. Odd, but nothing on the French settlers into Quebec (Québécois?) a few hundred years ago. They asked for, and were granted, a dispensation to eat Beaver on meat abstinence days.
There you go Canadians, permission to eat beaver on fish days.

Reads like a Monty Python script.

It's goofier than that. If you do it traditionally, the fast is during the week, so no booze then. But on Sunday, the fast is broken, so you can drink if 40 days and 40 nights is just a bit to biblical to deal with. So, no lyin' cheatin' stealin' and drinkin' on Saturday night, but it's all OK on Sunday. And then if you are in New Orleans and Cajun, which is French, then there's probably other stuff that's even odder. I'm just Appalachian and protestant. We don't get quite as many rules or exceptions to enjoy the weirdness of.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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That's some wild stuff, but I think kissing a cottonmouth (the snake, not a stoner) 13 times, only going to the hospital once, and living to tell the story (not that I would) is doggone impressive. Doggone STUPID, but impressive.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

No 'Bird content, but I really like the drummer in this one. IT's a great song. Plus Rachael Price. No need to think too much beyond that. She's got to be the most expressive and blisteringly great singer of our current era.



Edited because I suck at the internet.

Nobody who introduces me to a voice like that sucks at the internet. Yow!

 

[GonePlaid]

But how do you get the rest of the big band to play it?



Today I was asked about the rules of Lent on fast & abstinence by somebody, and by trying to help them found out something strange interesting.

A request for a local exception in Florida allows alligator to be considered “fish” and therefore can be eaten on meat free days. Odd, but nothing on the French settlers into Quebec (Québécois?) a few hundred years ago. They asked for, and were granted, a dispensation to eat Beaver on meat abstinence days.
There you go Canadians, permission to eat beaver on fish days.

Reads like a Monty Python script.

In South America, missionaries granted the native indians an exception for capybara because they (capybara) swim.