Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

"Riders". I really don't like the "Doors" so I don't care enuff to try it. As I said, I've read that it's tough. Maybe it's the repetition over and over and over and over, ad nauseum that's the factor.

Doors fan here - "Riders" is pretty simple and once worked out can be played in your sleep. We play "I'm A Spy" (In the House of Love) with a female vocalist in the style of Amy Winehouse. She (AW) would have killed on that song.

 

[TBird1958]

I really like playing "Riders on the Storm" at home, it's a great simple bass line and certainly my fave Doors song though there are a few more that I enjoy a lot. My band plays Billy Idol's version of LA Woman, essentially the same but with a bass guitar driving it, plus more guitar.

 

[GonePlaid]

I really like playing "Riders on the Storm" at home, it's a great simple bass line and certainly my fave Doors song though there are a few more that I enjoy a lot. My band plays Billy Idol's version of LA Woman, essentially the same but with a bass guitar driving it, plus more guitar.

Yeesh! I didn't mean to start a "love 'em/ hate 'em" thing here. I like a few of their songs. Just not them performing said songs. Then again, I doubt if there are all that many fans of "The Greater Hoople Area Off-Season Philharmonic"* with the "Okeh Chorale" in THUNDERBIRD Club.

* the performing orchestra of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. See: PDQ Bach

 

[StephnG]

I really like playing "Riders on the Storm" at home, it's a great simple bass line and certainly my fave Doors song though there are a few more that I enjoy a lot. My band plays Billy Idol's version of LA Woman, essentially the same but with a bass guitar driving it, plus more guitar.

Cool,
Check out this version..

 

[JIO]

I really like playing "Riders on the Storm" at home, it's a great simple bass line and certainly my fave Doors song though there are a few more that I enjoy a lot. My band plays Billy Idol's version of LA Woman, essentially the same but with a bass guitar driving it, plus more guitar.

I was with my family on a summer vacation out west (Denver) when Light My Fire (the AM radio short version) hit. I loved it and when we got back home (Omaha) I rushed to our local dept store that sold records to buy the single and they didn't have it yet! My older sister eventually bought the LP for herself but gave it to me because she didn't like it. It got a lot of play back then. My dad liked the Three Penny Opera "Whiskey Song" but wasn't keen on The End. (for some reason...) He liked "Penny Lane" also.

 

[JIO]

Yeesh! I didn't mean to start a "love 'em/ hate 'em" thing here. I like a few of their songs. Just not them performing said songs. Then again, I doubt if there are all that many fans of "The Greater Hoople Area Off-Season Philharmonic"* with the "Okeh Chorale" in THUNDERBIRD Club.

* the performing orchestra of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. See: PDQ Bach

I saw PDQ Bach a couple times playing with the KC Symphony - what a hoot!

 

[BklynKen]

Thunderbird sighting, via Brooklyn Vegan's coverage of SXSW.

 

[Gaolee]

Thunderbird sighting, via Brooklyn Vegan's coverage of SXSW.



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The video that popped up on YouTube right after that one was a bit of a surprise. A music video in Arabic, but most definitely not one that would get past the censors. I'm at work, and it was a borderline real problem for that. But, in the interest of science, I had to see what happened. Not much by modern Western standards for music videos about a man and a woman in a hotel room, but you get the idea. And, after a Thunderbird sighting at SXSW, it was not what I was expecting at all.

 

[JIO]

Thunderbird sighting, via Brooklyn Vegan's coverage of SXSW.



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tre cool that a T-bird is present - but most any bass would work with that music. just sayin'

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I never liked them either, but I've played a few of their tunes.

I liked the Doors. Still do. But have never tried to play a bass part. I tried guitar parts starting out as a teen, gave that up to work on Roundabout. Which I never mastered, but I felt better about it.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was with my family on a summer vacation out west (Denver) when Light My Fire (the AM radio short version) hit. I loved it and when we got back home (Omaha) I rushed to our local dept store that sold records to buy the single and they didn't have it yet! My older sister eventually bought the LP for herself but gave it to me because she didn't like it. It got a lot of play back then. My dad liked the Three Penny Opera "Whiskey Song" but wasn't keen on The End. (for some reason...) He liked "Penny Lane" also.

Mom was morally opposed to what the media told her the Beatles were, but she liked some of their music. I remember her dancing around the house when John Steiner came over and blasted, “Can’t Buy Me Love”.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The video that popped up on YouTube right after that one was a bit of a surprise. A music video in Arabic, but most definitely not one that would get past the censors. I'm at work, and it was a borderline real problem for that. But, in the interest of science, I had to see what happened. Not much by modern Western standards for music videos about a man and a woman in a hotel room, but you get the idea. And, after a Thunderbird sighting at SXSW, it was not what I was expecting at all.

OB is named after a love hotel, so that isn’t surprising.

 

[Gaolee]

OB is named after a love hotel, so that isn’t surprising.

I did not know that. Now I do. This club provides education as well as entertainment.

 

[RedVee]

I missed The Doors their first time around. I first heard Light My Fire as a Jose Feliciano song. At least that was the version played on the kitchen radio in the mornings.

learnt about them in later teens, got right into them through my 20s and 30s but don’t play them much these days.

faves - Texas Radio; Love me Two Times; Love Her Madly. and more that I can’t think of at the moment.
Like, Hello I Love You. Roadhouse Blues ( which I knew from Status Quo first)

 

[dagrev]

I like the first 3-4 albums.[/QUOTE]
I like the early--first version music. Their live album (5th) is really, really good. I wore out my first One More From The Road and had to buy a second (years ago). It contains the best versions of every song on the album(s). Every song is so much better. The early recordings don't sound all that great, but the live album greatly improved the sound. To me it's classic Like the Allman's Live From The Fillmore. I liked the Live also because it has pics of Thunderbirds!

 

[JIO]

I missed The Doors their first time around. I first heard Light My Fire as a Jose Feliciano song. At least that was the version played on the kitchen radio in the mornings.

learnt about them in later teens, got right into them through my 20s and 30s but don’t play them much these days.

faves - Texas Radio; Love me Two Times; Love Her Madly. and more that I can’t think of at the moment.
Like, Hello I Love You. Roadhouse Blues ( which I knew from Status Quo first)

Being a mid-westerner who hadn't yet visited the west coast, The Doors were LA. Even before I heard LA Woman, which was later - they represented the archetypical, mythical LA to me. Other bands represented "the west coast" and "SF" but The Doors were specifically all about LA in lyrics, style and sound.

 

[JIO]

Cool,
Check out this version..

Cool version - and I like the artwork, not generally being drawn to that sort of image/style.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Thunderbird sighting, via Brooklyn Vegan's coverage of SXSW.



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nice GK..

 

[JJR58]

nice GK..

On top of what looks like an Ampeg 8x10. Unless it's a 6x10. i can't tell for sure.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

On top of what looks like an Ampeg 8x10. Unless it's a 6x10. i can't tell for sure.

looks like the 8 X 10...Bird into a 400B into that cab makes for a pretty bangin’ setup...