I recently made a quick move to Portland. My basses and bikes are stranded in Washington. Thinking about getting an Epiphone Vintage Pro Thunderbird to fill thr void. until I can get back to my Jaguar with Lollar TBird pickups.
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Thunderbird Club
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What was funny was once I "reversed polarity" I initially went for the D key & wondered why it wasn't changing pitchOh yah.., forgot about the BEADG thing... shows how much I (don't) play one...
OK, less common.
Been there, done that with my 5er(s)-used to have 2.What was funny was once I "reversed polarity" I initially went for the D key & wondered why it wasn't changing pitch
1) Hope your move puts yo in a better position. 2) with this being the Thunderbird Club, full of enablers, I hope you realize we will ALL suggest you BUY IT!
But Washington has the space needle!
"Suggest", hell. Require!1) Hope your move puts yo in a better position. 2) with this being the Thunderbird Club, full of enablers, I hope you realize we will ALL suggest you BUY IT!
My Embassy Pro (with those same pickups) really does often sound like a piano.
They always say "angry piano", but I'm a lover not a fighter.
To me, early Chicago music is tremendous. After Kath's untimely death, and Cetera basically took over, is when the music got too sappy for my taste, though there were exceptions.
Best is ALWAYS subjective.
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There's actually a rather interesting and funny back story to my sappy comment to the Chicago band. I've posted it here before, so I'm sure many have seen it but here's the back story for those that haven't already seen it...
When I first saw Chicago, I didn't even know who they were, never really paid any attention to that kind of music. It was May or June of 1973. I was living in the mountains above Boulder Colorado and going to high school in Nederland while casually dating a girl named Gina. She asked me if I wanted to come over to her ranch for dinner. Food was the second most important thing to me at that age, so I said sure.
Got off the school bus with her at the entrance to her ranch, with a big arching sign that said Caribou Ranch. A big black limo picked us up and drove us about a mile back to the house. I'm thinkin this limo ride is so cool, was wondering what her dad did for a living, must be in the mafia or something! We got out of the limo and she introduced me to her dad named Jim. Dinner wasn't going to be served for a couple more hours so she asked if I wanted to fool around for a while. Will at that age that was the first most important thing to me, so I said sure.
We went to one of the buildings that wasn't too close to the house and started making out when music started playing. Gina asked if I liked the song, it was called "Just You and Me". I told her it was a bit sappy but sounded ok for that kind of music. She took me by the hand and said, let's go see how sappy it is. I followed and as we came around the side of the building there was an outdoor stage and a band just playing away with no audience. We stood in front of the stage and listened to them play a couple more songs and when they took a break she told Cetera, "my boyfriend thinks you guys sound sappy". Of course now I'm looking for a tree to hide behind before these 6 or 7 guys kick my ass. Cetera replied back, "you need a new boyfriend" and we all laughed. Gina and I got up on stage and danced around while they played a couple more songs.
Turned out that her father was James William Guercio, manager of the band Chicago and I think also with The Beach Boys at the time. The songs they were playing hadn't been released yet but were going to be on their Chicago VI album. They said they were practicing for an upcoming TV show, which I think was a Dick Clark Special called Chicago in the Rockies.
A couple weeks later school was out for summer and I moved to San Jose California. Gina and I only had the one date but it was a cool one.
And as most would guess by now, Caribou Ranch was a major recording studio nestled in the mountains above Boulder. Elton John and many others used that studio back in the early 1970's before it burned down.
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And once Cetera was gone, they got back to being Chicago.
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ran into John Daniels last night...as they say, “ You play, you pay”...trying to wake up here.....this is helping...
