Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

Good comparison - I usually dig Italian design... but it screams (something...) I feel they're going the route of Trace Elliot with an eye-grabbing "look" to set them apart. Orange has a very designed 'look' also but is a bit easier on the eyes.

Italian design is often over the top gaudy but seeing that in a relatively short time MB has outsold Ampeg historic unit volumes makes one wonder...
all I can say is that an amp that can square wave 20kHz at 800 Watt into 4 Ohm and weighs 12 pounds can be pink for all I care but then again, that’s just me....I’ll bring it along next time so you can check it out if you’d like..we may be on to a niche market restyling these lol..

 

[Larry V]

My uncle’s place....off to Geneve tomorrow..
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Che bello!

 

[JJR58]

Thank you, Roger I am feeling a lot better and I'm really looking forward to being able to do some cardio in the next ten days or so.

What happened? this is what i get for not keeping up.

EDIT; ok, after some more reading. I'll leave well enough alone.
You're getting better, that's all that counts.

 

[Engle]

I'm sure it's a very good amp - but I wish the overly bright yellow design wasn't angled. (or overly yellow) Just me. I much prefer the look of my Heathkit... er, Ashdown -

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Yeah I don’t dig the yellow. Last time I played one on stage, I got a tone that worked. I’m sure it will be fine.

 

[JJR58]

This guy, Vinnie Colaiuta. Incredible control and dynamics.

Here playing with the very talented Rhonda Smith and some old English guy on guitar (maybe a Nigel Tufnel impersonator?).

The guy is a master. Saw him when he toured with Zappa.

 

[JJR58]

Is that Hiram Bullock there?

 

[JIO]

Is that Hiram Bullock there?

yep

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The guy is a master. Saw him when he toured with Zappa.

saw him with Marcus in Oakland in the late 90’s....tore it up..

 

[dagrev]

Nah man, it's all just....... New beginning.

 

[dagrev]

I saw SRV with Jeff Beck and Jeff Healy in Toronto November 1989! Incredible show. The finale was all three playing together.

I got to see SRV a couple times. Once right after the first album and then a few years later. I don't often walk away super impressed, but did then. After the first time I was almost speechless. Very few people become one with their instrument and with him he was the guitar and the guitar was him. To use corny language. I guitar player friend worked at a local station and got to drive him around that evening after the show.

 

[dagrev]

My uncle’s place....off to Geneve tomorrow..
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Cool! Thanks letting us tag along vicariously via pics!

 

[dagrev]

I'm sure it's a very good amp - but I wish the overly bright yellow design wasn't angled. (or overly yellow) Just me. I much prefer the look of my Heathkit... er, Ashdown -

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[TBird1958]

Headstock fun.

 

[fasterpussycat]

I'll play.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I got to see SRV a couple times. Once right after the first album and then a few years later. I don't often walk away super impressed, but did then. After the first time I was almost speechless. Very few people become one with their instrument and with him he was the guitar and the guitar was him. To use corny language. I guitar player friend worked at a local station and got to drive him around that evening after the show.

And his amp, he would almost after every show, have his amp tech with his head buried inside an amp chassis for hours replacing components until he was satisfied....days on end incessantly tuning his setup...it’s not surprising his tone was so organically delicious...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Cool! Thanks letting us tag along vicariously via pics!

sun makes all the difference, Rockefeller Foundation on top of the hill to the right...

 

[Kriegs]

Headstock fun.

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Moar hedstahks!

 

[Count Bassie]

I remember SRV's work on Bowie's Let's Dance album, and being way impressed. After he became a big star on his own stage I was less so.

It wasn't that I didn't like his playing, but now that sound was no longer trapped in a specific context, and relied only on itself as the attraction. I find it difficult to be engaged with virtuosity on its own merit, and his songwriting was just a vehicle for his guitar prowess.

Great player, fun to watch him in a good band, but I still see him as just a part of something and not a sensation, per se.

I may just bore easily.

 

[godofthunder59]

Mines bigger.

 

[Glenn Johnson]

I remember SRV's work on Bowie's Let's Dance album, and being way impressed. After he became a big star on his own stage I was less so.

It wasn't that I didn't like his playing, but now that sound was no longer trapped in a specific context, and relied only on itself as the attraction. I find it difficult to be engaged with virtuosity on its own merit, and his songwriting was just a vehicle for his guitar prowess.

Great player, fun to watch him in a good band, but I still see him as just a part of something and not a sensation, per se.

I may just bore easily.

Well, he IS a legend, and I think he WAS a sensation. Plus his voice suited his music so well.