Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

keep listening to it and become really intimate with it...after that what the guitarist proposes may make more sense....it also may not but worth the process..

Maybe it would all make sense if I play through that Orange.

I played through a Markbass head and an Acoustic cab. Sounded terrible. I really don't like Markbass.

 

[JJR58]

Can't think of a better derail than this.

 

[MCF]

Love that pic guard. Looks like Ebony with MOP inlay, did you do that?


Hey, you're not aloud to ahem while in the corner with JJR. Keep it up and you'll end up in double secret probation.


All three are sweet (as is the ride in the back) but of the three, which one is your go to when trying to learn a new bass line?


Shame, she was beautiful. But I gotta say, looks like those strings were right up against the pup covers. That will make it pretty hard to play.


One of my favorite bird pics!


Haven't checked out the link yet. So the new management isn't making a positive impact? Or is this just a bunch of dated carryover pissing from the old leadership days?

Spare yourself. It’s an endless rabbit hole. Not even the caterpillar can help you.

 

[Count Bassie]

Auditions and other people's material can be great, if you like the material and it's music to you. Then, even if they spell out a part/ parts for you, you are playing music, and that by its very nature is going to evolve- you'll be applying your signature to their sound no matter what you do- and that makes you a part of that evolution. That's what you want to happen when you join a band you like.
Hopefully they're not musical megalomaniacs and plan on keeping you in a metaphorical box... in which case, of course, you can leave. I prefer to be optimistic! It's good you like the music, now see what's in you to offer to it. Maybe you find yourself in a cool working partnership.

 

[RedVee]

What would Lemmy do...

Too bad Phil Lynott never went Thunderbird. I think it good have been a good match.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Maybe it would all make sense if I play through that Orange.

I played through a Markbass head and an Acoustic cab. Sounded terrible. I really don't like Markbass.

don't think they liked your tone? how come that rig?

 

[MCF]

Love me some Jack Casady up in the mix. Some nice Garcia as well.

You’re the man Miles. Found a vid:

 

[GBassNorth]

While its still Thunderbird Thursday...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Too bad Phil Lynott never went Thunderbird. I think it good have been a good match.

he played a Rick before the P.....just wore them so high up..

 

[MCF]

I've listened well over 100 times to the 1972/08/27 (Venetta, OR) version of "I Know You Rider" I posted last week, absorbing the bass line (or playing along with it). The only problem is that I now think the song ends with the rap about "my friend Durango" and a water report.

It's been way too long since I did this with a song!

This SF oriented discussion made me want to hear this:

 

[BklynKen]

don't think they liked your tone? how come that rig?

Oh, they liked it even though everyone acknowledged that the amp sucked. My comment was related to my earlier one about having loved the tone playing through an Orange guitar amp.

 

[GonePlaid]

Oh, they liked it even though everyone acknowledged that the amp sucked. My comment was related to my earlier one about having loved the tone playing through an Orange guitar amp.

Ah! Now it all becomes clear.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Ah! Now it all becomes clear.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

This SF oriented discussion made me want to hear this:

Yet another band I have long wished I had seen live.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Need some advice. You audition for a band and prepare three of their songs. The guitarist basically insists on you playing a couple of the parts as he wants them, instead of how you did them. Is this ok or does it get into the territory of, "If you tell me what to play you'd better be paying me?"

Once things are played a certain way, there's probably an expectation that when you come in, you'll play it something like it was previously. Effectively you are 'covering' the previous bass player. I don't tell people what to play (95% of the time) but once the parts are worked out, that's what I'm expecting to hear.

 

[RedVee]

I recall reading an interview with Roger Glover. He said something to the effect of he was showing off on the recording of Smoke on the Water but now he plays something simpler and better.

Why do I mention this? Well, recording is one thing, playing live is another. In the end, although a band may be playing their own songs, during the show, they are a cover/tribute band of themselves. Things change and evolve. If you see Alice Cooper now, you will find that School's Out has changed drastically; he now includes a verse of Another Brick in the Wall.

An audition - in the corporate world - is an interview. Finding out if both parties are suited to each other. If all else is good, what is the assessment of evolving the songs over time? And this is a question that you can't answer after one audition. The question is better phrased, is it worth getting together with these guys again?

That’s what they did on the Hollywood Vampires from memory

 

[Bassmike62]

While its still Thunderbird Thursday...
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Which da main one ?

 

[Kriegs]

I'm going to need amps that work.
And more basses.

And...

 

[Kriegs]

Hopefully they're not musical megalomaniacs and plan on keeping you in a metaphorical box

Or a real one!

 

[BklynKen]

Once things are played a certain way, there's probably an expectation that when you come in, you'll play it something like it was previously. Effectively you are 'covering' the previous bass player. I don't tell people what to play (95% of the time) but once the parts are worked out, that's what I'm expecting to hear.

Thanks. Definitely makes sense.