Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

Occasionally use an octaver plugin to indicate what the guitar should be playing.

Octaver up and down, with flange, sounds odd with a bow. I like it. Opinions may vary.

 

[Gaolee]

I wouldn't have minded getting wrecked with Ella Fitzgerald.

A former and maybe upcoming singer is a kinda sorta Billie Holliday. If her intonation was just a bit better, she would be awesome. It isn't, but I love her anyway.

 

[RedVee]

Need to do a tidy up around the house (will take some time) but am planning to sneak a bit of area to have a proper, if small, area for personal (or maybe for 2/3) practice.

I’m wondering what would be the minimum, but decent, area I would need?

Needs to fit 2 amp/cab stacks, a few/6 guitars & basses (floor or wall), daughters small DXP drum kit, a Casio keyboard on a stand, a couple of chairs and eventually a desk for using a pc for recording, track playing etc.

I understand more being better than less, could I get away with 2m x 3m ?

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Need to do a tidy up around the house (will take some time) but am planning to sneak a bit of area to have a proper, if small, area for personal (or maybe for 2/3) practice.

I’m wondering what would be the minimum, but decent, area I would need?

Needs to fit 2 amp/cab stacks, a few/6 guitars & basses (floor or wall), daughters small DXP drum kit, a Casio keyboard on a stand, a couple of chairs and eventually a desk for using a pc for recording, track playing etc.

I understand more being better than less, could I get away with 2m x 3m ?

You might be able to pull it off with 2x3m but I’d say at least 3x3m maybe more depending on the desk.

 

[PillO]

I have to say that I rather liked this take it, I probably didn't have to hear the original as many times as you so it still retains it's goodness for me, unlike the entire works of Led Zep or Pink Floyd, which to this day are impossible to escape from here.

I appreciate this take on the song also. Despite playing very true to the original arrangement, they have made the song their own. I am looking forward to seeing the Headstones in about 6 weeks; should be a really good show. I got very tired of Led Zeppelin because all the radio stations played the same 5 songs all the time. I didn't listen to any for more than a decade. But I have since gone back and explored the less played tracks and have a whole new appreciation. But, I still turn it off if it comes on the radio because it will be one of the 5 tracks that are over played.

 

[PillO]

Octaver up and down, with flange, sounds odd with a bow. I like it. Opinions may vary.

Try envelope filter with flanger. That gets really strange.

 

[Dadagoboi]

I wouldn't have minded getting wrecked with Ella Fitzgerald.

In his twenties my dad danced with Lena Horne at the Cotton Club, first getting Duke Ellington's permission. He was a helluva dancer.

1983 or so. After a 'Flames' gig, he remarked of our singer, "Back in the day she'd be going home with me." He was 70 but hadn't lost his eye for talent.

 

[dagrev]

This depends primarily on the pickups, the circuit, and the pickup heights. If you want more bridge volume, try raising that pickup.
But I wouldn't be concerned about anything.

The bridge PU is up as far as it can go without touching. Too close maybe, I don't know.

 

[dagrev]

We just need to hunt you down ant steal your toys. Just sayin'.

They would like having someone who actually plays well for a change and might not want to come home!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

There are a few cringers in my band's set list, and some of them are phasing out. I am grateful for small favors!
The way I see it though, is that if I'm at a gig under the auspices of someone else, and am getting paid for my service of rhythm section support, I'm playing 1) to the band, and 2) to the crowd. That means everything is fair game. Even Mustang Sadly. Fine.

In a band I have more influence with, I'll voice my opinion/preference/sage advice, maybe even stand my ground. But that's negotiating, and a process of keeping it as happy/worthwhile as possible for everyone.

Art, different deal. That's a more originally oriented effort, wherein I get to choose, or at least strongly influence, direction, goal, end result.

Choose your battles.

cringers...hmmmm...."Girls Like to Have Fun"?..."Walk Like an Egyptian"?....the bandleader told me to look at the crowd and not the Giants game when playing these.......I can't stand weddings...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

We're a cover band too, yet we don't do requests. I write a set list (3 one hour sets) and we go from one song to the next in pretty business like fashion, occasionally on set breaks folks will ask if we do a certain song, if we know it, and it's on the set, great, if not, too bad. We're never going to be a "jukebox" and don't aspire to that, no one has ever requested Mustang Sally or Old time RnR from us in more than 15years of us being a band.
Is it a regional thing?

good point you bring up about regional....Mustang Sally seems to be universal in biker bars..Old Time gets replaced with " Born to be Wild" in CA...
Your band, although a cover band, seems like more of a show band from the pics you post....people are probably intimidated to request anything.....be like someone asking Gene Simmons to play "Dancing Queen".....
we play everything and anything, hate to think about it as a "jukebox" but we're working musicians, not Rock Stars and our next gigs depend on us pleasing the crowds...we go through an agency where the customers can rate us and thus get called back to do more or not. that's the reason I play in more than one band..

 

[Mike.C.]

I have an unwritten rule that we all have 1 veto on a song going into our list. For example one of our gents has some philosophical issue with “don’t worry, be happy’. I don’t understand it but there ware plenty of songs to choose from.

Our guitarist asked after our next open mic to retire a song, to which (since I am the default BL) I replied no problem but we have to replace it. No going backwards with song count. The other guitarist then asked how many songs we need to learn b/c there are only so many hours in the day.

I didn't respond to that one.

If it sounds good don’t worry about it.

My Epi VP has a funny thing in that when you turn both PU volumes down you can still hear them. I asked my tech about it and he asked me if I liked the sound of it when I have the volumes set. I said yes. He said then don't F with it.

 

[GonePlaid]

G.P.-Are you telling us that you can turn a song about a shipwreck into a train wreck?

Probably. The guys in our band can play pretty much anything. But "Wreck of......" ain't much of a song w/o lyrics. It's not something we'd memorize for one play a year and there's not enough room on a music stand for an epic.

 

[GonePlaid]

Nothing personal, but I would hack my own arm off with a plastic spork before I would play Mustang Sally. I play a TBird for Gods sake, I've got an image to uphold!

Good for you. We have an image too. It's called continuing to work.

 

[GonePlaid]

Your band has a very defined personality, it's really, very much a show. You all are very forward and "brave" in your posturing, and you're good players. It seems like a good band, the entertainment factor is high, and you're accepted for what you've got to offer. You don't need to do requests.
I'd love to catch one of your gigs.

Yeah. Me, too, also. Kinda far from S.E. FL, though.

 

[GonePlaid]

How could anyone not like a song in Dorian mode?

Oh and that video is cinematic.

Very Gray and moody. Loved the 'custom' lighting in the band shots.

 

[GonePlaid]

G.P.-Are you telling us that you can turn a song about a shipwreck into a train wreck?

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[PillO]

Our guitarist asked after our next open mic to retire a song, to which (since I am the default BL) I replied no problem but we have to replace it.

The other guitarist then asked how many songs we need to learn b/c there are only so many hours in the day.

When you are sleeping less than 6 hours a night because you are too busy learning new material, then we can slow down.

The joys of being an entrepreneur - there is always more to do than there are hours in a day. Success happens when you correctly choose how to prioritize.

 

[GonePlaid]

Our guitarist asked after our next open mic to retire a song, to which (since I am the default BL) I replied no problem but we have to replace it. No going backwards with song count. The other guitarist then asked how many songs we need to learn b/c there are only so many hours in the day.

I didn't respond to that one.



My Epi VP has a funny thing in that when you turn both PU volumes down you can still hear them. I asked my tech about it and he asked me if I liked the sound of it when I have the volumes set. I said yes. He said then don't F with it.

Sage advice. I eliminate that problem by never using the bridge(or 'superfluous') pup.

 

[PillO]

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I think that is turning a train wreck into a shipwreck.