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Thunderbird Club
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Nope!So really no excuse then...
Back in the day in Austin, there were a number of bars and small clubs with great music reputations, so people went to catch new acts. It was a great way to build a fan base, and still symbiotic. Now most of them bring in most anyone who will play for tips. Ugh.
Exactly. If a bar has a reputation for great acts, a new band can draw a crowd and if they dont suck, they can be a draw for the bar. And a band with a good reputation acc bring on the punters.
I was just in my local L&M. October used to be Yorkville month. But they have a new moniker Rocktober \m/.
Because Yorkville is the distributor for Roto, they will have 2 sets of Roto 66 for C$40 about 30% off. I may have to delay the flat/tape bird experiment because that is a good deal on strings that sounded good on the bird!
Because Yorkville is the distributor for Roto, they will have 2 sets of Roto 66 for C$40 about 30% off. I may have to delay the flat/tape bird experiment because that is a good deal on strings that sounded good on the bird!
Brought in its own fan
That bass has fans. I see at least two in the picture!
I have absolutely no control on what goes on here in my apartment. And those 2 on the right, always co-mingling.
You say that like hair-metal was all bad. As much as I agree that there was terrible hair-metal, there were some great bands/songs as well.Yep it’s recycled hair band music.
Hair-metal gave us (in no particular order and not exhaustive):
Guns n Roses,
Motley Crue (Thunderbird)
Scorpions,
Iron Maiden,
Bon Jovi,
The Cult,
Lynch Mob (George Lynch)
Joe Satriani (although without hair)
Steve Vai
Judas Priest,
Billy Sheehan,
Michael Schenker Group,
All great players/bands. But there was a lot of terrible bands/music too.
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(MusicVox) - no contest, just that G&L isn't the worst out there. The ones I posted are deliberately ugly (ugly as an anti-aesthetic) but there are many attempting to be good designs that fall far shorter than G&L. No need to post examples because taste is subjective and owners of said basses probably like their basses head-stock design.
This local beer goes well with my THUNDERBIRD. More coconut than others like it. Lip-smacking sour pineapple. This one is a winner.
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Celebrating the first Wednesday of the week.
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Original G&L headstock. They changed to the ugly one when Fender complained to Leo.
No lawsuit necessary.
One of mine
No lawsuit necessary.
One of mine
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Nope. Unskilled import labor tuned out to be against union rules.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Dives have said they would allow us to touch their stage if we brought 50 people at 1 am on a Tuesday night. Uh, right. Skipping that great honor was tough, but we did it.
I make less per gig now than I did in the 70s-including inflation adjustment. It's a subsidised hobby.
In at least one video, Skorps had 2 Firebirds and a THUNDERBIRD.
