Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

We normally end our first set with "Folsom Prison Blues", which features me on vocal and train whistle. Like this one:

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Do you have video of that?

 

[BklynKen]

Stay safe. First case in New York State just reported as well. . .

Yeah, but she'd been to Iran, so it's not like that one appeared for seemingly no reason.

 

[TerribleTim68]

Not to good at keeping up here... but just a buzz: Covid-19/Corona Virus is now documented as present in Rhode Island. My wife has athsma, my daughter is pregnant, and my younger at URI does poorly with respiratory-type illnesses so we're on high notice. I forget things, so as well as hand sanitizer (fwiw) I'll have notes all over the place, and will be washing my hands at every opportunity. And I'm gonna have to stop picking my nose...
Just saying, this is going to stop being somebody elses' problem.

We had our first death from the Wuhan here in Washington State, so we got that going for us.

My boss believes in some pretty wacky theories and he found this guy who says “gans water” is the cure, so he made a bunch and brought it to the office telling us all to drink some each day. TBH I tried a sip just out of curiosity. Tastes like metal and the taste stays for hours after. So yeah, I got that going for me too. The boss believes Bigfoot is real, they came from another planet, they live in a different phase (which is why sightings are so rare and always fuzzy) and they are communicating with him. He also believes you can cure illness with your mind, which contradicts his water theory, but TF do I know.

 

[BklynKen]

We had our first death from the Wuhan here in Washington State, so we got that going for us.

My boss believes in some pretty wacky theories and he found this guy who says “gans water” is the cure, so he made a bunch and brought it to the office telling us all to drink some each day. TBH I tried a sip just out of curiosity. Tastes like metal and the taste stays for hours after. So yeah, I got that going for me too. The boss believes Bigfoot is real, they came from another planet, they live in a different phase (which is why sightings are so rare and always fuzzy) and they are communicating with him. He also believes you can cure illness with your mind, which contradicts his water theory, but TF do I know.

Does he drink bleach, too?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

We normally end our first set with "Folsom Prison Blues", which features me on vocal and train whistle. Like this one:

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Forever a fave!

Also this:

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I thought he meant Teflon as in artificial. Not a real Thunderbird like his 64. Just my take on it.



we get some singing and some clapping, some air conducting.

biggest thing for us is that it jogs a memory and it has a sing-along chorus. Que Sera Sera kills.
As does Morningtown Ride and some Aussie songs like (I love to have a beer with) Duncan, home among the gumleaves, Waltzing Matilda.

I love Waltzing Matilda! 5th grade music class taught us folk songs from around the world. WM was a fave then, and still is.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

LOL - there's a number of good sounding but boring bass line songs. Call Me The Breeze comes to mind. I like the song but nearly fall asleep playing it. I've resorted to playing the entire song with one finger on the E string just to keep myself awake.

It's quite the contrast to Freebird.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Huh? that bassline is a masterpiece.....all about the feel...

And most cover bassists do NOT get the feel!

 

[Count Bassie]

We had our first death from the Wuhan here in Washington State, so we got that going for us.

My boss believes in some pretty wacky theories and he found this guy who says “gans water” is the cure, so he made a bunch and brought it to the office telling us all to drink some each day. TBH I tried a sip just out of curiosity. Tastes like metal and the taste stays for hours after. So yeah, I got that going for me too. The boss believes Bigfoot is real, they came from another planet, they live in a different phase (which is why sightings are so rare and always fuzzy) and they are communicating with him. He also believes you can cure illness with your mind, which contradicts his water theory, but TF do I know.

Does he pay well?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

And most cover bassists do NOT get the feel!

exactly...long legato half notes....less is more on that one....Skynyrd version..

 

[Miles_ONeal]

exactly...long legato half notes....less is more on that one....Skynyrd version..

I was assuming Skynyrd version. Never cared for Cale’s and forgot it existed.

 

[gaffster]

Some barely alive, but ever evolving nucleic acid housed inside a protein shell causing havoc on the prodigal earth beings and cancelling band practices.

 

[gaffster]

I was assuming Skynyrd version. Never cared for Cale’s and forgot it existed.

Oh yeah, they don't let me play bass on that one ever since I nailed that piano solo.

 

[JIO]

Well, we don't do any current hits. I think the 'newest' song we do-sometimes-is "Takin' Care of Business" or "Old Time Rock n roll". Interestingly, 2 that I sing. Oh. And "Tennessee Whiskey", which I don't sing. People love it, I catch a nap. 2 chords: A and Bm. Ad nauseum. Nothin' appropriate one can play to make this song interesting. I considered trying to do something in a different mode but the only one I liked was the com-mode.
I do most of our between song bullsh...., er, patter, and I often say "all the songs we do you've heard before....today....within the last coupla hours."

I'll assume you and the drummer have the rim-shot response down.

 

[JIO]

Hmm. I'll hafta try that-if they reinstate the Sunday open mic/jam at the H-D dealer. At least it's better than droning 16ths on the root, esp. those songs that stay on the droning root 16th(say A) even when the chord changes(to D and/or E-still on A ). It'd be easier to hit the root on a synth and use a sequencer. Then you could go grab a beer. or a groupie

That's what a looper pedal is all about.

 

[JIO]

we get some singing and some clapping, some air conducting.
biggest thing for us is that it jogs a memory and it has a sing-along chorus. Que Sera Sera kills.
As does Morningtown Ride and some Aussie songs like (I love to have a beer with) Duncan, home among the gumleaves, Waltzing Matilda.

We play "I'm So Tired" by the Beatles and sometimes people sing along. I'll have to try and come up with a singalong song - would be fun. We always strike a chord with the women in the audience playing "You Don't Own Me" by Leslie Gore. Kirstin belts it out with appropriate defiance.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

We play "I'm So Tired" by the Beatles and sometimes people sing along. I'll have to try and come up with a singalong song - would be fun. We always strike a chord with the women in the audience playing "You Don't Own Me" by Leslie Gore. Kirstin belts it out with appropriate defiance.

that’s funny, with my corporate band the singalong is “Sweet Caroline” and our song that strikes a chord with the women is “I will survive”.....

 

[TerribleTim68]

Does he drink bleach, too?

It's funny, we all joked that it looked just like really terrible moonshine, all cloudy and milky looking with a white sludge in the bottom. It literally tastes like galvanized steel. So it may save you from the Wuhan by actually killing you from ingesting it, I'm not sure.

Does he pay well?

It's been a decent living, but the stories are the bonus!

 

[JIO]

that’s funny, with my corporate band the singalong is “Sweet Caroline” and our song that strikes a chord with the women is “I will survive”.....

Neil Diamond rules!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Neil Diamond rules!

Lol, not knocking Diamond, just that I must have played that song in every key in what seems like forever.... works every time....