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Thunderbird Club
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Adults don't know everything. Rings on the tree have nothing to do with maturity. Of course, we all painfully know that as an all too personal fact by now.
For some reason (maybe many reasons) the ladies are far more likely to have things get complicated in weddings and in-laws relations. Not meant to stereotype, just an observation that's held true for decades now.
So glad your Mom was wrong! At least in this respect.
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ironically, both sets of parents divorced but we’re still happily married. Our marriage is older than both our parents’ made it to. Those were tough to watch.
I've been using an Apogee Jam 96k with GarageBand and it works great. Works with both Mac (USB) and iOS (Lightning).
What I like is it’s just the 4 of them and they were good! It’s the Sex Pistols, not the Sex Pistols show.
Iggy is pretty amazing considering the abuse he put his body through
Not everyone follows their parents’ patterns. Good on you Miles!
Good to know. That was one I was looking at around April but they weren’t in stock at Sweetwater. They seem to be now. Maybe I’ll give it a try.
No doubt. I have to be honest, I like a lot of genres of music, but punk just isn't one of them. For me it's right there with rap and likely below disco, but I know many love it, so I'm not meaning to dis what others love in any way. So the few times I've seen Iggy, between the music which isn't for me, and his mannerisms/theatrics I'm in the confirmed it's not for me category. Clearly he's made it work, because I'm talking about him and he's never talked about me!
Gibby 2013 Bird in the classifieds... Pretty sweet looking.
For Sale/Trade - 2013 Gibson Thunderbird
For Sale/Trade - 2013 Gibson Thunderbird
Used the 06 Gibson today, and as much as I love the VPs, the Gibson just feels much better. Almost custom made for me, you might say--and I can't say anything bad about about the feel of the VPs. One could even say the Gibson plays like..... Barbecue. I love barbecue, so that makes more sense to me than a thick dairy product.
Tried some GHS Balanced Nickles today. Will be putting the Black Beauties back on. Or might try the Dragon Skins, which haven't had a go yet. Seem to the same string construction as the BBs.
Tried some GHS Balanced Nickles today. Will be putting the Black Beauties back on. Or might try the Dragon Skins, which haven't had a go yet. Seem to the same string construction as the BBs.
Just had to post that didn't you!
Looks really good from the pics. I love the chrome and the price.
How can they drink alone when there are so many of them?
How does the 2006 compare to your '60s one in feel?
Totally get that. I’m not sure I would’ve had gotten into punk had I not spent a good part of ‘77 in Britain. Just kinda got caught up in it a bit after seeing the vibrators. Never did the safety pin thing or anything wild. But it was pretty fun. And easy to play.
Dunno WT7 to call our 65-75 y/o band members.
Gericore?Dunno WT7 to call our 65-75 y/o band members.
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Something really nice in my FB feed from Geddy Lee and the passing of Pete Way.
Lovely tribute from Geddy Lee of Rush: We're very sorry to hear that the legendary bass player Pete Way has died. Having played in UFO for more than 30 years, Pete also had stints with Ozzy Osbourne and formed the bands Waysted and Fastway. UFO opened for Rush on many dates of the A Farewell To Kings Tour as well as a few of dates on the Hemispheres Tour. Fastway also supported Rush on the Grace Under Pressure Tour. As a result, Rush and Pete became good friends.
Geddy recalls the A Farewell to Kings Tour : "I do remember him falling off the stage on two occasions on that tour. The second time the three of us in Rush were sat talking in our dressing room and Pete’s bass just vanished from the stage. It was like, "Uh-oh, Pete's gone over the edge again." But everybody partied back then; we were all of us younger and making the most of our opportunity to be out on the road.
That tour was my introduction to UFO and their music. They were all very friendly, but you couldn't help but notice that they would all be in their cups, shall we say, and before every show. They would pound a few drinks and then hit the stage flying. That was their thing. I recall us doing one show in a dry county in Texas, which meant there was no alcohol allowed the building. We were backstage and I’d hear the UFO guys bitching and moaning about not having any booze. I looked out of our dressing room window into the car park, and there they were all in their stage gear, brown bagging it out of the boot of their car. Hey, necessity is the mother of adventure.
They were also always insulting each other for the sake of humour. That soon extended to us, which I took to be a good sign and a compliment. We used to play the song Xanadu at the time, and yes, all kinds of dry ice would come on stage. Pete and Phil Mogg would stand at the side of the stage and yell things about honeydew and melons at us, because one of the lines in the song goes "I have dined on honeydew". On one occasion, they even snuck up on stage and nailed a pair of slippers beside my foot pedals. There the slippers were when the dry ice dissipated, I guess to go along with my kimono.
Pete and I spent a lot of time together on the tour and I enjoyed his company a lot. He was, of course, a very different kind of musician to me. He was this guy in skin-tight pants with his shag haircut and playing his big Thunderbird bass. He had a typical Thunderbird sound, too, with a really heavy bottom end. He described it to me once as "three-quarters nice, one quarter not very nice".
Whenever Pete's name comes up between the three of us today we all smile. He was a lot of fun to be around, but also very sweet. He truly was a wouldn't-hurt-a-fly kind of guy and dedicated to his music. And he was very rock and roll. I was on our tour bus one time and listening to the new Bill Bruford solo album, which had just then come out. There was a great bass player on that record named named Jeff Berlin, and it was pretty complex sort of jazz-rock. Pete came stumbling around the bus and was just appalled at the sound of it. He sat down beside me and said, as if in profound pain, "Glee", which he used to call me, "don't listen to this, it isn't rock and roll." You know, Pete's a rocker at heart and he's remained true to that from the music that he's played to the way he's lived his life."
Rock in Peace Pete.
Lovely tribute from Geddy Lee of Rush: We're very sorry to hear that the legendary bass player Pete Way has died. Having played in UFO for more than 30 years, Pete also had stints with Ozzy Osbourne and formed the bands Waysted and Fastway. UFO opened for Rush on many dates of the A Farewell To Kings Tour as well as a few of dates on the Hemispheres Tour. Fastway also supported Rush on the Grace Under Pressure Tour. As a result, Rush and Pete became good friends.
Geddy recalls the A Farewell to Kings Tour : "I do remember him falling off the stage on two occasions on that tour. The second time the three of us in Rush were sat talking in our dressing room and Pete’s bass just vanished from the stage. It was like, "Uh-oh, Pete's gone over the edge again." But everybody partied back then; we were all of us younger and making the most of our opportunity to be out on the road.
That tour was my introduction to UFO and their music. They were all very friendly, but you couldn't help but notice that they would all be in their cups, shall we say, and before every show. They would pound a few drinks and then hit the stage flying. That was their thing. I recall us doing one show in a dry county in Texas, which meant there was no alcohol allowed the building. We were backstage and I’d hear the UFO guys bitching and moaning about not having any booze. I looked out of our dressing room window into the car park, and there they were all in their stage gear, brown bagging it out of the boot of their car. Hey, necessity is the mother of adventure.
They were also always insulting each other for the sake of humour. That soon extended to us, which I took to be a good sign and a compliment. We used to play the song Xanadu at the time, and yes, all kinds of dry ice would come on stage. Pete and Phil Mogg would stand at the side of the stage and yell things about honeydew and melons at us, because one of the lines in the song goes "I have dined on honeydew". On one occasion, they even snuck up on stage and nailed a pair of slippers beside my foot pedals. There the slippers were when the dry ice dissipated, I guess to go along with my kimono.
Pete and I spent a lot of time together on the tour and I enjoyed his company a lot. He was, of course, a very different kind of musician to me. He was this guy in skin-tight pants with his shag haircut and playing his big Thunderbird bass. He had a typical Thunderbird sound, too, with a really heavy bottom end. He described it to me once as "three-quarters nice, one quarter not very nice".
Whenever Pete's name comes up between the three of us today we all smile. He was a lot of fun to be around, but also very sweet. He truly was a wouldn't-hurt-a-fly kind of guy and dedicated to his music. And he was very rock and roll. I was on our tour bus one time and listening to the new Bill Bruford solo album, which had just then come out. There was a great bass player on that record named named Jeff Berlin, and it was pretty complex sort of jazz-rock. Pete came stumbling around the bus and was just appalled at the sound of it. He sat down beside me and said, as if in profound pain, "Glee", which he used to call me, "don't listen to this, it isn't rock and roll." You know, Pete's a rocker at heart and he's remained true to that from the music that he's played to the way he's lived his life."
Rock in Peace Pete.
