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Thunderbird Club

#110,201
godofthunder59 said:
Thank you very much, your comments mean a lot. Finding a real singer is a stroke of luck. Early in this project we decided that we wanted to work on sounding like The Who live, not necessarily looking like them.
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Best approach. The best tribute bands I ever saw just did the songs, did them their justice within their scope. Dressing the part is pretend, and fine, but I prefer a band of people coming from themselves. Cool band.
 
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#110,202
PillO said:
Social media apps - There are people that you know, like, and want to interact with in person and by phone. You know how you phone one or more of them to tell them that you did/liked/didn't like a thing/place/person/group of people? An app is a way of doing that without having all the inconvenience of actually talking to someone.
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As much as I get why people shun social media, it does connect people.
YOU control what you put out there and you can block people that you don’t want to hear from.
 
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Engle said:
As much as I get why people shun social media, it does connect people.
YOU control what you put out there and you can block people that you don’t want to hear from.
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I've known just enuff people who've gotten their @$$3$ in a sling* to stay away from FB.

*and who came up with that expression?
 
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A shot of big red in action from last night. Photo credit Dennis Jones.
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fasterpussycat said:
Anyway that was probably my first and last foray into the world of hair metal.
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This has probably already been stated/asked before, if that the case I apologize for repeating...

1) So what did you listen to?

2) if you didn't listen to hair metal are you aware of the band Faster Pussycat? a Hair metal band. oh and BTW a Bird player on bass.
 
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KB5 said:
Heres a video of Aerosmith in 1976, Tom Hamilton on an early 60's bird. I love Areosmith from this period. It's like watching speeding train about to go off the tracks. Pure rock and roll magic. It's stuff like this that made me want to be in a band.

Here's a true story about me meeting Tom Hamilton as a kid.

I was lucky enough at 15 to meet the band minus Joe Perry. Jimmy Crespo was Joe's stand-in at the time. I knew a girl that had tickets and back stage passes to see them at a smaller venue in NY. She was totally not my type. She asked me to be her date for the show. She said I had to make out with her during Dream On. I took one for the team and went. It was one of the coolest nights of my teen life. The show was amazing. Oddly Anvil was the opening act and they were insane. Lol.

Back stage after the show we waited for the band to come out. Tom Hamilton and Jimmy Crespo were the first to come out and greet people. Everyone sort of ignored them. I walked up and shook their hands and told Tom I was a bass player too. He chuckled and we talked for a few minutes. Being 15 and ballsy I asked him if he could show me bass line to Sweet Emotion because I didn't think I was playing it right. He looked at me incredulously than said to give him minute. He returned with a white Stingray and sat down and showed me the line. Then he handed me the bass and told me to give it a try. He coached me a bit until I got it right. Then the back door opened and Dee Snider and Mark Mendoza walked through the door. Dee walked over and shook Tom's hand and then asked me if I could give Mark a lesson after I was through teaching Tom. It was absolutely surreal for me. I handed the bass back and we mingled with rock stars for an hour. I'll never forget that night and how gracious Tom was. Everyone was there was very cool to the two star struck kids. I still have the autographed pass somewhere.

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I’d like to hear more about your experience front-stage during Dream On, please.
 
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Mike.C. said:
I honestly don’t consider Crue heavy metal. They are heavy, for sure and look the part, but not heavy enough for that moniker, IMO.
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Well I called them 'hair metal' and others may call them 'glam metal', but really those two genre names are referring to a variety of hard rock (or even heavy pop) not metal.
 
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GBassNorth said:
...and a sexy Sunday morning shot for those of you that like Gibson Birds of the 6 string persuasion...
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Suggested to my guitarist she might like a Firebird. She shut that down pretty quickly!

Les Pauls only. Prefereably an LP custom. We'd better get on and make some money.
 
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