Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

Amen, brother, Amen. One thing I liked was that the words made sense and didn't sound like a drunken interpretation of Camus, pretending to be more insightful than the the rest of the rubes on earth listening. The music wasn't bad either!

Interesting thing about Ronnie was that he didn't write words down and "work" on them. They just came out when he heard rif or new song.

Everyone in Skynyrd was interesting, and the band was interesting in lots of ways, but Ronnie was a big part of everything, from the way songs were typically written to their insane practice schedule at Hell House to their stage show. He knew what audiences wanted in general, and he could read a crowd’s mood.

 

[JIO]

The perfect gigmobile. . . for those who don't gig:

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[MCF]

I like to be informed with a morning paper accompanied by a tasty pastry. Slim Jim at the ready!!

Haven’t seen a paper in about five years. Remnant of a kinder, gentler age.

 

[GonePlaid]

Jeez. I showed up at a blues jam a couple of weeks ago. There were as many bassists as there were guitar players. And no one knows me. Frustrating.

Show up with a THUNDERBIRD and they will.

 

[Gaolee]

Arco with guts and synthetic? Sweet! I’m trying to go lower tension with spiro mittel’s but the E that I have is a Pirasto that sounds like a cinder block dropped on a bag of wet cement. On it’s head yet. Thinking about golden slaps but I’m not sure if the orchestral nerd in me could deal. You know how string anxiety goes.

I am not an orchestral player. Not a chance of ever fooling anybody with that. The strings are called Evah Pirazzi Slaps. They are a set with the two guts and two synthetic. Evahs are good as a full synthetic set, too. I had those for a number of years before going with the slaps. The slaps work just fine for the arco I do. I never liked steels that much, and they do not last as well. It may be what I do with them, too. It was jazz/blues for a while and for now it is a combination of pop, rockabilly, and straight ahead rock and roll bordering on punk. You can do anything on an upright, just like you can on a 'Bird.

 

[Gaolee]

Haven’t seen a paper in about five years. Remnant of a kinder, gentler age.

Official geezer alert - we get the paper and I do the crossword every morning with coffee.

 

[GonePlaid]

I am not an orchestral player. Not a chance of ever fooling anybody with that. The strings are called Evah Pirazzi Slaps. They are a set with the two guts and two synthetic. Evahs are good as a full synthetic set, too. I had those for a number of years before going with the slaps. The slaps work just fine for the arco I do. I never liked steels that much, and they do not last as well. It may be what I do with them, too. It was jazz/blues for a while and for now it is a combination of pop, rockabilly, and straight ahead rock and roll bordering on punk. You can do anything on an upright, just like you can on a 'Bird.

I would agree that you can play anything on an upright if you can play an upright at all. OK, maybe not the bass line to "Riders on the Storm".

 

[GonePlaid]

Official geezer alert - we get the paper and I do the crossword every morning with coffee.

Come on over to the "Get off my lawn, Grumpy Old Fart's" club.

 

[Gaolee]

I would agree that you can play anything on an upright if you can play an upright at all. OK, maybe not the bass line to "Riders on the Storm".

Is that a challenge? For what it is worth, I play the James Brown song "I Feel Good" on it. That song has another name, too, but I do not remember what it is.

 

[Gaolee]

Come on over to the "Get off my lawn, Grumpy Old Fart's" club.

Already there.

 

[GonePlaid]

Is that a challenge? For what it is worth, I play the James Brown song "I Feel Good" on it. That song has another name, too, but I do not remember what it is.

Challenge? No. I prolly can't play it on any of my basses including this one:

 

[GonePlaid]

Already there.

I know. J/K.

 

[RedVee]

I hate today’s cars....
globalization for you...we rented a Jeep “Renegade” that had a Fiat chassis and a Mopar engine.....

Fiat 500X in disguise

Skynyrd confused a lot of people. It’s easy for a lot of the country to dismiss the South as nothing but ignorant rednecks. That’s how the news, movies, etc. have portrayed it for years. Through such a lens, it’s then easy to take the lyrics literally to key songs, and it’s all over. But there’s a lot more depth- and occasionally subtlety- than many realize.

I was a huge fan and they occasionally confused me! Why the heck “Gimme Back My Bullets” after a sincere song against Saturday night specials (deeper than that but enough for now)? Eventually I found it was about Billboard hit song bullets, and it all made sense. But literals fans missed that and even started throwing bullets on stage. Lots of fans got it, but lots didn’t. Meanwhile, Leon held down the low end, oft on a mighty THUNDERBIRD.

I only started listening to Skynyrd about 10 years ago. It was a pleasant surprise to find The Ballad of Curtis Loewe and Saturday Night Special.

I know of 2 Skynyrd songs, they sort of bypassed me. Until TB I thought the band ceased due to the plane crash.[/QUOTE]

 

[Engle]

Ouch! Two of them!

The first finger starts hurting, so you start using the second finger more...

 

[Engle]

I know of 2 Skynyrd songs, they sort of bypassed me. Until TB I thought the band ceased due to the plane crash.

[/QUOTE]
I like the first 3-4 albums.

 

[gaffster]

Struggling with the fast part of "cult of personality". Gonna have to go super slowdown reverse-warp speed on my trainer for a few days. I think it would be great to go blast into "good times, bad times" after singer uses megaphone to say "only thing we have to fear is fear itself", with the first two "good time" hits right on top of "it-self".

 

[Count Bassie]

I would agree that you can play anything on an upright if you can play an upright at all. OK, maybe not the bass line to "Riders on the Storm".

Why not? Lot of open strings on that one, unless I've been playing in the wrong key. Which is entirely possible...

 

[Count Bassie]

Struggling with the fast part of "cult of personality". Gonna have to go super slowdown reverse-warp speed on my trainer for a few days. I think it would be great to go blast into "good times, bad times" after singer uses megaphone to say "only thing we have to fear is fear itself", with the first two "good time" hits right on top of "it-self".

Two good tunes to spend time with...
"Slow is smooth... smooth is fast."

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Struggling with the fast part of "cult of personality". Gonna have to go super slowdown reverse-warp speed on my trainer for a few days. I think it would be great to go blast into "good times, bad times" after singer uses megaphone to say "only thing we have to fear is fear itself", with the first two "good time" hits right on top of "it-self".

some repeated string jumping on the LC song...that bar of six is pretty cool..

 

[Engle]

Is that a challenge? For what it is worth, I play the James Brown song "I Feel Good" on it. That song has another name, too, but I do not remember what it is.

It’s I Got You (I Feel Good)
Depends on the action on the upright. Mine has a “jazz” setup, so it plays like butta (as they say). Basses with an orchestral or bluegrass setup would be much more difficult.
My cover band does I Got You straight into Pappas Got a Brand New Bag, which then goes much faster than the original. We stretch out a sax solo, and it’s an endurance test on bass guitar.
I wouldn’t attempt it on upright