Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

IIRC, there's an Em in the section "with you, my B.E.G."-or we play it wrong.

you're right....forgot....for once PillO's right!...

 

[Engle]

you're right....forgot....for once PillO's right!...

OMG I started a BEG derail!

 

[Gaolee]

They are on their way to Colma where the recent tremor woke the dead into the Zombie Apocalypse.

Just in case nobody else got around to this. Ox, if not a Thunderbird.

 

[Mike.C.]

Happy Thunderbird Thursday!!!

 

[JJR58]

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Happy Thunderbird Thursday!!!

Oooo. White ThunderBird Thursday.

 

[GBassNorth]

Having owned the 2001 Ebony Bird and a Desert Burst LP Standard bass at the same time, I can attest to the video being pretty accurate. The humbucker sized pickups are clearer and more aggressive sounding to my ears. I used a pair of the humbucker sized in my Goth rebuild but I stuffed them inside Bicentennial pickup covers.

That's a beautiful rebuild! Very well done!

OMG I started a BEG derail!

Not sure what it is about BEG but I absolutely detest playing that song. I'd rather play Freebird, Mustang Sally and McArthur Park back to back than even think about playing BEG. I think it might be because it's one of those songs every bass player is supposed to know by heart and be able to play in their sleep. I've never even attempted to play it and try to avoid even hearing it when possible. YMMV

 

[Gaolee]

I don't mind playing it. The bass solo gives me a small opportunity to go off on some oddball tangent the throws everyone but jazz players. I don't know what I'm doing, but they don't know that. Then the bass line isn't fixed. So long as you hold the groove and hit the ones in the right place, everything else is completely negotiable. Which is how I generally like to play.

 

[ToddOfThunder]

For clarification, in case you try to 'look it up', it's Testors.

I know! I know! Who teached me how to spoke or spell for that matter. I always say “If I was a rocket surgeon or a brain scientist I wouldn’t be doing hard labor everyday.

 

[Gaolee]

I know! I know! Who teached me how to spoke or spell for that matter. I always say “If I was a rocket surgeon or a brain scientist I wouldn’t be doing hard labor everyday.

Are bears Catholic? Does the Pope...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That's a beautiful rebuild! Very well done!


Not sure what it is about BEG but I absolutely detest playing that song. I'd rather play Freebird, Mustang Sally and McArthur Park back to back than even think about playing BEG. I think it might be because it's one of those songs every bass player is supposed to know by heart and be able to play in their sleep. I've never even attempted to play it and try to avoid even hearing it when possible. YMMV

the song is like a cartoon but a total winner with any crowd...young...old..etc....people love to sing along...soooooo...we play it...

 

[Engle]

Just in case nobody else got around to this. Ox, if not a Thunderbird.

One of the songs I can sing lead and play.

 

[Engle]

the song is like a cartoon but a total winner with any crowd...young...old..etc....people love to sing along...soooooo...we play it...

I don’t mind it with good harmonies and a horn section

 

[Nocturnal]

That's a beautiful rebuild! Very well done!

Thank you!

 

[PillO]

but the song's in Gmaj with no relative minor.....

Yes, but the chords are I IV V and vi from what I looked up.
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (Chords)

And it is a chord progression common in pop songs.

 

[PillO]

you're right....forgot....for once PillO's right!...

I'm often correct, just not around here...

 

[PillO]

OMG I started a BEG derail!

I would argue a Em/B derail. But yeah.

 

[TBird1958]

Some Thunderbird Thursday video, from July.

 

[JJR58]

I can't sing, and barely play. But here's a quick nasty crud sound clip on on the burst bird.
And talk about crud recording. Bird, amp, iphone. Don't hate on me now.
I try to do bad, good. Well, i try to try. Use cans, please. And than you can laugh at me all ya want.

 

[PillO]

I can't sing, and barely play. But here's a quick nasty crud sound clip on on the burst bird.
And talk about crud recording. Bird, amp, iphone. Don't hate on me now.
I try to do bad, good. Well, i try to try. Use cans, please. And than you can laugh at me all ya want.

Any time I hear that riff from I Want to Take You Higher, I say (sometimes out loud, sometimes to myself) "I am the wolfman!" And it is all because of the Hilarious House of Frightenstein.

 

[PillO]

Some Thunderbird Thursday video, from July.

Excellent - more Gloria Jones than Soft Cell. And certainly not Marilyn Manson (although that arrangement is good too).