Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

Ok, Australian Bandstand 1966 in glorious blank n white.

Includes dorky presenter (who later was the premier TV newsreader in Sydney for a generation), early Easybeats (wish it didn’t cut off when Wedding Ring was starting up), and a smattering of Brown Eyed Girls dancing.

Sydney TV when I was 4.

You could have dancing brown eyes on TV in Australia!?

 

[JIO]

Hey! I resemble that remark!

 

[JIO]

NSD. New straps day! I love the smell of new premium leather.
And happy THUNDERBIRD Friday! I’m in a totally great mood. After seeing an amazing Son Volt show last night, I came home from work to new Italia straps in the mail. I ordered twin black with black suede backs for the Epi Goth and the Epi Pelham Blue birds. With decent straps, THUNDERBIRDS do not neck dive. Even the blue with the strap button on the upper bout.
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Nice! Straps are an overlooked intregal part of playing a bass - especially on stage. I used to have one strap for all basses but realized that for at least a number of the basses I own they need their own specific strap. Call it shallow as I want it to "look good/right" but call it functional specifically for that bass.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Nice! Straps are an overlooked intregal part of playing a bass - especially on stage. I used to have one strap for all basses but realized that for at least a number of the basses I own they need their own specific strap. Call it shallow as I want it to "look good/right" but call it functional specifically for that bass.

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Luv that bass..

 

[Glenn Johnson]

There is a Chinese restaurant down the block from me called Fuku. No, I'm not kidding.

 

[Glenn Johnson]

Gonna have to play Brown Eyed Girl Nov 3rd. I hate the title most of all.

'Nuff said.

Never liked that song. But audiences LOVE it!

 

[JIO]

Luv that bass..

Me too! It's become my bands go-to bass! It's my 1st Dano and I'm sold on it's unique sound!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Moss Landing Inn tonight...the floor has like a 15 deg gradient..
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[JIO]

Moss Landing Inn tonight...the floor has like a 15 deg gradient..
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There's lots of stuff but not much soft stuff - is it pretty reflective sound-wise? And can't help but wonder... is that a "pole dance" pole?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

There's lots of stuff but not much soft stuff - is it pretty reflective sound-wise?

it’s small enough where reflections aren’t really an issue...the flattest part of the floor is where the pool table sits...for the rest...WATCH YOUR STEP...been around since they opened the power station in the 20’s..

 

[JIO]

it’s small enough where reflections aren’t really an issue...the flattest part of the floor is where the pool table sits...for the rest...WATCH YOUR STEP...been around since they opened the power station in the 20’s..

There was an ancient fried chicken ("we choke our own chickens") restaurant called Stroud's in KC/MO where they kept adding onto it's long narrow space with different levels - had to watch your step going from addition to addition! (but that chicken was tops!) There's no real (southern/midwestern) fried chicken in CA - I miss it so!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

There was an ancient fried chicken ("we choke our own chickens") restaurant called Stroud's in KC/MO where they kept adding onto it's long narrow space with different levels - had to watch your step going from addition to addition! (but that chicken was tops!) There's no real (southern/midwestern) fried chicken in CA - I miss it so!

you’re right, it’ El Pollo Loco or nothing, unless you want KFC or Popeyes..

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have brown eyes, but I'm not a girl. Have known some pretty special females with brown eyes though. My mom used to say it was because I was full of (holding hand at my forehead) "up to here". She was a kidder....

I just listened to BEG - when I first heard it in '66? I thought it was The Rolling Stones because VM sounded like Mick Jagger to my ears. For sure it was overplayed and still is - but it's a pretty decent pop song and the bass-line is simple and fun to play.

I recall riding my bike down Monte Sano Ave at 4am listening to Van sing “...transistor radio...” on my transistor radio and singing along at the top of my lungs. I still like to do that except that I am seldom on a bike at 4 am, Augusta is a thousand miles away, and an iPhone is not a transistor radio (even though it is).

 

[JIO]

Ok, Australian Bandstand 1966 in glorious blank n white.

Includes dorky presenter (who later was the premier TV newsreader in Sydney for a generation), early Easybeats (wish it didn’t cut off when Wedding Ring was starting up), and a smattering of Brown Eyed Girls dancing.

Sydney TV when I was 4.

'66! that was the year I started playing bass! (13) The vid is awesome - were the Easybeats Aussies? The dorky presenters monologue was pretty funny - so condescending "...and by heck, you can't ignore them!" What a stuffed-shirt! Here's my fave of a British introduction of Ska in the early 60's -

 

[JIO]

I recall riding my bike down Monte Sano Ave at 4am listening to Van sing “...transistor radio...” on my transistor radio and singing along at the top of my lungs. I still like to do that except that I am seldom on a bike at 4 am, Augusta is a thousand miles away, and an iPhone is not a transistor radio (even though it is).

Thanks for that reflection. That's one aspect of nostalgia that I will entertain - if you can have a moment, abet fleeting that revisits a point in time when something was so real and pertinent (and potent) that it thrills you with it's memory... lose that completely and consider it a great and eternal loss.

 

[JIO]

My band TSC's play this - so groovy (also from '66)

 

[Engle]

I recall riding my bike down Monte Sano Ave at 4am listening to Van sing “...transistor radio...” on my transistor radio and singing along at the top of my lungs. I still like to do that except that I am seldom on a bike at 4 am, Augusta is a thousand miles away, and an iPhone is not a transistor radio (even though it is).

I wasn’t out at 4am, but I did ride my bike with a little transistor radio to my ear.

 

[Engle]

My band TSC's play this - so groovy (also from '66)

Love that! Do you have horn charts by chance?

 

[JIO]

Love that! Do you have horn charts by chance?

Our guitarist was the horn (trumpet) player in our other spy band Bond Girl but we didn't play it then!

 

[RedVee]

'66! that was the year I started playing bass! (13) The vid is awesome - were the Easybeats Aussies? The dorky presenters monologue was pretty funny - so condescending "...and by heck, you can't ignore them!" What a stuffed-shirt! Here's my fave of a British introduction of Ska in the early 60's -

The Easybeats are an Australian* band. Note the *.

*Formed by recent migrants, the band centred at a migrant hostel in Sydney.

“Little Stevie” Wright, George Young & Snowy Fleet were “10 Pound Poms”. George Young a Scot, the other two English.
Harry Vanda & Dick Diamonde were Dutch migrants.

Yep - that’s Aussie.

If a dramatised TV version is to be believed (so I have a little skepticism) they may not have felt Australian in Australia in the early days, but that came to the fore in England.

Dick Diamonde on Bass was pretty good imo. I saw them on a reunion tour in the late 80s - very good show, great fun.