Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

I’m going to take your word for it



The ‘English’ Beat are just called ‘The Beat’ except in the US, as far as I know. There were two other (that I know of) American bands called The Beat that were signed to a major before the ‘English’ Beat. One became The Paul Collins Beat, the other became Hi-Fi, which was also taken, so they became The Prime Movers and had a side band called Dread Zeppelin. Fun facts

Dread Zeppelin are outstanding in all ways. I have never seen them play live, which is a failure on my part.

 

[Gaolee]

The anatomy of a seven day cold:

Monday - scratchy feeling in nasopharynx
Tuesday - runny nose and aching joints
Wednesday - head full of snot and rocks
Thursday - head still full of snot and rocks
Friday - fluid mainly moved to lungs, cough, cough, weird barking sneezes
Saturday - slight residual cough, talking like Iggy Pop
Sunday - should be right as rain

It being Saturday, are you doing vocal recordings today?

 

[Gaolee]

Well you know how it is. There were the Musos who hung around the Musos' Club and then there were upstarts. I recall I went into the Musos' Club once for some reason and you could have bottled the hostility. How dare a girl violate their sacred temple? Anyway ... there was a series of programs on the local AOR radio station (4XO) in which the presenter and various local 'experts' railed against these terrible young bands with their disgusting original songs -- how dare they presume to deviate from the standard repertoire, etc, etc, blah, blah, fvcketty blah... You know what they say about the last laugh? If there was a NZ 'Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame', I would be in it. Not seeking to big myself up here, merely extending a couple of post facto digits to those experts.

It is a little like blues or bluegrass purists who turn music into a dusty page in a forgotten tome. Big Brother and the Holding Company were advised to get rid of the girl singer at one point, too. Another fine idea that was beneficially ignored.

 

[Gaolee]

One of the radio stations I frequent has been playing a cover of Smooth Criminal the past few days and it got stuck in my head... I must pass on the ear worm...

Thanks. A lot. #$#@!! Rotten Kid...

 

[Gaolee]

Clearly not! Heck, I don’t even know!

We do. You are the Forrest Gump of TB who has met and played with everyone who ever was. They should treat you with the reverence due a person with credentials like that. They are fired!

 

[dukeorock]

We do. You are the Forrest Gump of TB who has met and played with everyone who ever was. They should treat you with the reverence due a person with credentials like that. They are fired!

I wish!

 

[Gaolee]

Crap. I just opened a fortune cookie and it was empty.
This can’t be good.

It is very good. You get to write you own.

 

[Gaolee]

I'd extrapolate that to the human race. We screw everything up.

We are not really from this planet. Or maybe we are yeast, and some great cosmic entity will swill the planet when we drown in our own mess. And catch a good cosmic entity buzz. That would be a reasonable use for humans.

 

[Gaolee]

Who wants to join “BYRDS OF THUNDER?”

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All of us.

 

[Count Bassie]

Kind of a groovy scene.

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Cool. My kind of setup.

 

[Gaolee]

A live show without mistakes is an edited show. I love real, raw, live music.

Looking forward to it.

Count mistakes. First to 100 is the winner.

 

[GonePlaid]

it did thanks. friendly folks the Australian party...they said they wanna move to Santa Cruz 'cause the surf was excellent..
this thing was huffing and puffing......built in 1912, year of the Titanic sinking as was pointed out by the proud driver..
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Well, yeah, but will it float?(Shays are cool-all that machinery flailing!)

 

[Mantis Tobaggan]

All of us.

That would be an awesome band!

 

[GonePlaid]

Interesting locomotive. I'm a gear head at heart but never considered myself a train buff.
That said, I don't think I've ever seen a vertical piston driven horizontal crank bevel gear drive train on any other locomotive. And if the front driven wheels (trucks?) weren't cool enough it looks like the drive shaft extends back to the coal car (tender?) to drive additional wheels, which I dont think I've ever seen on another train either. Very unique design, with all the boiler and tender weight over the drive wheels I assume it would get better traction and have less slip. If so, was this a special purpose built engine for mountainous logging tracks?

Basically, yes.
There are also these:Heisler

2 cylinders in a V configuration, central drive shafts; Climax

1 cylinder each side, central drive shafts.
All 3 types designed for steep, rough trackage.

 

[Engle]

A live show without mistakes is an edited show. I love real, raw, live music.

^This! So much “live” music these days is sequenced and/or performed with click tracks for consistency that it has lost its soul.
Give me mistakes and varying tempos any day!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

^This! So much “live” music these days is sequenced and/or performed with click tracks for consistency that it has lost its soul.
Give me mistakes and varying tempos any day!

we were discussing Honky Tonk Women (Stones) the other day at practice...that recording speeds up quite a bit by the end...

 

[godofthunder59]

A little off topic. I am a picker and collector, have been all my life. I found this really cool vintage RCA portable record player, it's tube powered! It needed a good cleaning and some tweaking to get working. At first I was going to flip it but I think I'm keeping it : )

 

[fasterpussycat]

Hour 13 of the burn-in. The cat's a big help here.

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You are well on your way to the FX forum's requisite four flavours of dirt. You need a fuzz to complete the set.

 

[godofthunder59]

A little off topic. I am a picker and collector, have been all my life. I found this really cool vintage RCA portable record player, it's tube powered! It needed a good cleaning and some tweaking to get working. At first I was going to flip it but I think I'm keeping it : )

 

[fasterpussycat]

The bands i saw last night were pretty polished acts. But tonight is going to be another story.
I don't know any better, so more live music tonight. Some Queens punk bands.

Queens punk bands? Whoever heard of such a thing? Are they all from the same family?