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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
The humidity isn't a bad thing? Or the lack of mountains?
Sounds like the Mid-West... don't miss it for a second.
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,588
- 221,963
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
That's... not stylish. (couldn't think of a better reaction)
I had liked them since Freebird. My cousin said, "Man, you gotta hear this." I was hooked. Still have one of the few original SS albums that were recalled after the crash. I recall hearing on the news the next morning. Actually my Mom was listening as we were getting ready for work and high school and said that band I like was in a plane crash. Still recall her telling me.
Discretionary tipping here. At Restaurants yeah it is common for decent or better service. But no fixed percentage, just whatever you feel.
otherwise no, you don’t tip at a take away, a Maccas, a cinema, a pub/bar. Not at all.
I need to investigate LS. I really only know that one BIG song. Freebird I only know as the butt of jokes, heard it maybe twice.
I did decide to look into them a while ago, but I must have been distracted since.
I was born and grew up in Cu.., er, Miami, but now I feel like a 'furriner' down there.
I really do need to visit Cuba some time just visit a while.
Listen to cuts from the live album. Tuesday's Gone can almost make you cry. "Three Times As Bad" from Rossington Collins Band. Another great slow song is "I Need You." One of my all time favs is "Ask Me No Questions." I could go on. I really love the albums Nothin' Fancy and Gimmie Back My Bullets. Their two least popular LPs but some of the best, unique and thoughtful songs anywhere. Many of them played with a...
They are used to my lack of talent so they will be happy to have someone else playing them.
Door is always open to any of you that make it to AZ for a visit.
Invaded byGee, and all this time I thought Florida was discovered by New Yorkers.
Actually. I haven't been into Miami(Dade County-I can't get used to the "new" name)since the last Miami Edison Over The Hill Gang H.S. reunion about 4 years ago. No reason to go there. Everyone I knew has either moved away or died. Or both.
Freebird is a very well written and executed song; there’s a reason they normally saved it for last. It’s one of my all time favorite songs. It’s been that since I first heard it, on their first big tour (with the Who). These guys were opening for the fnording Who, played their glasses off, and had a crowd jumping and screaming that had come in prepared to hate the opening act. Agree with @dagrev that Tuesday’s Gone is incredible. I’m a big fan of all five of the original-ish band’s albums, especially the first two.
I heard about the crash on the shop radio the next morning. I honestly cried a bit; these guys had been a core piece of my life soundtrack for almost 4 years.
Elvis, Marc Bolan, Mary Ford, Bing Crosby, three dead and all injured in Skynyrd; it was a rough 2.5 months for music lovers of all ages.
They weren’t big here, at least not in my age group.
Never really heard anything Apart from Sweet Home Alabama, which was everywhere, and the plane crash made the news.
Never really heard anything Apart from Sweet Home Alabama, which was everywhere, and the plane crash made the news.
On the LS front - my first exposure to them was the Pronounced album in late 1977, early 1978. I had just installed a new cassette radio and 6x9 coaxial speakers with a power booster in my 1965 mustang. To check out the cassette player I went down to the record store (remember those) and got 3 cassettes (IIRC I didn't actually pay for them, sorry, my stupid years) LS - Pronounced, Eagles - Hotel California, and Boston - the first album.
Hotel California was a nice laid back album but only had about 3 or 4 songs on it that I really liked. At the time Boston was like nothing I'd ever heard before, truly an eye opener and eargasam for me - the entire album was a riveting high energy deep rich complex musical production that sounded best when played so loud you couldn't hear anything else around you. But Pronounced was the one I bonded with the most, it just felt like home, a little raw, southern rock with a strong sense of whiskey and eff you attitude mixed in along with thought provoking and emotional songs like Tuesday's Gone and Freebird.
At the time I wasn't aware the Pronounced album had been released years earlier, and to be honest, I don't even remember hearing about the bands plane crash until maybe the early 1980's. I was too busy doing stupid things, and watching the news was about as far from my normal routine as you could get. But that album did have an impact on me and was probably the strongest driving force for me to take up bass playing years later.
I think the price is right and he'll get it.
To my knowledge he peeled the stock pup's and put covers on. Does anyone know if the pup's are different than the regular TB+ in regular Birds?
Like the students working Tim Hortons' and other likewise places... they favor no-contact payment, so tips are way down and end up lowering their wages.
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Lol! I so loved my Beast of Burden. Had mine for about 4 years in the late 70s -early 80s. We had many a good gig. Best one was an outdoor party where the cops broke it up and tried to confiscate it. The couldn’t fit it in the back seat nor the trunk of their cruiser. Obviously, they were non-musicians. They were pissed. We ended up just getting cited.
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If you like fast blues with triple lead guitars and Honky Tonk piano with story telling lyrics you’ll like them.
Here's a tipping story from 38 years ago.
We had a brand new baby and a toddler when the wife "forced" me to go from Va. to Redding Pa. to shop at the outlet malls for kids clothes. Her parents watched the kids at home as we made it into an overnight get away. I hate shopping of almost any kind,but I toughed it out for the family.
I vividly remember standing at the window inside of a converted factory building in the Osh Kosh store.I was already holding two bags of previously purchased girls outfits..As I looked out the window from two floors up I spotted one of those iconic corner hometown, no frills Pennsylvania bars. I told Mrs Gator that she could shop as long as she wanted and with her permission I would be waiting on a bar stool to carry bags back to the car when she finished.
The inside of the bar was comfortably seedy with a house cat snaking his way passed the booze bottles. There was five gallon glass jar of purple hard boiled eggs on one end of the bar.The dozen or so guys inside seemed to know each other as they watched a baseball game with the sound off.
I ordered a shot of Jack and an Iron City beer..the beer came in a short glass.(is that a PA.thing?) .maybe 10 oz. Bartender said $1.20..I asked for both?.He confirmed that that was the cost was so I put $10 bucks on the bar and said keep em' coming.
After a couple of hours Mrs Gator came to collect me.I thanked the barkeep for his time and stories..and left what I thought was an appropriate tip under the empty shot glass..We were halfway across the street when the bartender came running out and yelled hey mister..you forgot your money!! I told him that that was his..He shook his head and said that nobody does that here..He thanked me and went back inside.
Mrs Gator said,How much did you leave him for a tip..I said $10 bucks on top a six dollar bar tab.
She laughed and considered the money well spent for the adult day care and my lack of complaining while she shopped.
I still hate shopping
We had a brand new baby and a toddler when the wife "forced" me to go from Va. to Redding Pa. to shop at the outlet malls for kids clothes. Her parents watched the kids at home as we made it into an overnight get away. I hate shopping of almost any kind,but I toughed it out for the family.
I vividly remember standing at the window inside of a converted factory building in the Osh Kosh store.I was already holding two bags of previously purchased girls outfits..As I looked out the window from two floors up I spotted one of those iconic corner hometown, no frills Pennsylvania bars. I told Mrs Gator that she could shop as long as she wanted and with her permission I would be waiting on a bar stool to carry bags back to the car when she finished.
The inside of the bar was comfortably seedy with a house cat snaking his way passed the booze bottles. There was five gallon glass jar of purple hard boiled eggs on one end of the bar.The dozen or so guys inside seemed to know each other as they watched a baseball game with the sound off.
I ordered a shot of Jack and an Iron City beer..the beer came in a short glass.(is that a PA.thing?) .maybe 10 oz. Bartender said $1.20..I asked for both?.He confirmed that that was the cost was so I put $10 bucks on the bar and said keep em' coming.
After a couple of hours Mrs Gator came to collect me.I thanked the barkeep for his time and stories..and left what I thought was an appropriate tip under the empty shot glass..We were halfway across the street when the bartender came running out and yelled hey mister..you forgot your money!! I told him that that was his..He shook his head and said that nobody does that here..He thanked me and went back inside.
Mrs Gator said,How much did you leave him for a tip..I said $10 bucks on top a six dollar bar tab.
She laughed and considered the money well spent for the adult day care and my lack of complaining while she shopped.
I still hate shopping
