I'm a little bit Jelly of you my Queen. Naz is/was a highly underrated imho.
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Thunderbird Club
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I was never much of an Aerosmith fan, they were good and all but they just didnt hit my vibe button, if you know what I mean. UNTIL! My wife wanted to see them play in Alpine Valley (Troy) Wisconcin. We went and they had this little stage maybe 20'x20' or 25'x25' out in the middle of the grass, we sat next to that. Run DMC played, did a great job. Kid Rock was up second and I was pleasantly grooving, the beer always helps well and the pot everyine was smoking didnt hurt either. Then Aerosmith comes on stage and in the middle of the second song Steven Tyler says "Do you guys see that stage out there? We need you to move so we can get to that stage." We were right in frint of Steven Tyler for the rest of the show! I can definatly say they kick some major boooty!
Gaolee
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Nazareth at the Paramount would be an odd combination.
It's about as odd as seeing the Dead Kennedys at the Beacon Theater in NYC. That was the last big rock and roll show I went to, and it was back in 1982 or 1983. There were about eight bands that came on before the Dead Kennedys, and they were all loud, obnoxious, and awful. It was great! The audience was nuts. If you can imagine stage divers in the Palace of Versailles, that would give you an idea of what it was like.
The most memorable band, other than the Dead Kennedys themselves, was a band that was all female except the singer, who was about 6'-8" tall and skinny as a rail. They were all decked out in army boots and the whole punk uniform of torn black everything. His schtick was to shade his eyes for a while and say "Can you turn down the lights? They are hurting my eyes." Then the band would launch into an indistinct thrash, and he would scream "aggravation" about ten times into the microphone and collapse onto the stage. When he got up, he would shed some clothing and it would start all over again. After about a ten minute set, if you could call it a set, he was down to a pair of sheer pink pantyhose, work boots, and nothing else. Then he dove into the audience and they were done.
That band was awful, but a 6'-8" guy in sheer pink pantyhose in front of a band of the toughest looking women you could ever hope to see was completely unique.
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I went to the show with a my buddy Jim Sadler he snapped this shot - He happened to post it on his FB page a year or so back. A Seattle band named Child opened for them, I met their bass player Lance Baumgatner about four years ago as a customer while at work, the night of the show he played a Rick 4001 and had a '76 Thunderbird as a backup (this was one of the first 'Birds I'd ever seen). While conversing with him I mentioned the ' Bird and recalled regretfully selling it - Been there!
Not my Pinto!
First Thunderbird I ever saw onstage was Tom Hamilton with a sunburst Reverse II at MSG in May of '76 - right before Rocks came out. Two months later it was Bob Seger's bass player, Chris Campbell, with a Sunburst '76 opening for Kiss at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ.
Hagstrom tuners came. Problem is that they're wider, I think, than the tuners on my Epiphone.
Gaolee
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Kinda sorta back on topic. The one thing I didn't like about the '15 is that the G string seemed to have a dead area. Almost like a 7ender. Can't have that. It's not a good thing to find when fingering a G string. I went there so you don't have to.
Anyway, it had DR Sunbeams on it, and I think I may not have folded the G sharply enough to keep the windings tight when I strung it with those strings. The latest experiment is Sadowsky flats. Yeah, I know flats on a 'Bird.... But I came up playing an EB-2 and play an upright string with a gut D and G, so I'm all about the thump. So far, it seems like the new strings may have solved the problem. Next step in sorting this thing is going to be lowering the pickups. Usually, you would raise them to solve a deadness problem, but the magnets are so strong that I think the pickups are damping the thin G string.
It just doesn't have the mass to defend itself. There's probably a Tom Waits song in there somewhere.
Anyway, it had DR Sunbeams on it, and I think I may not have folded the G sharply enough to keep the windings tight when I strung it with those strings. The latest experiment is Sadowsky flats. Yeah, I know flats on a 'Bird.... But I came up playing an EB-2 and play an upright string with a gut D and G, so I'm all about the thump. So far, it seems like the new strings may have solved the problem. Next step in sorting this thing is going to be lowering the pickups. Usually, you would raise them to solve a deadness problem, but the magnets are so strong that I think the pickups are damping the thin G string.
It just doesn't have the mass to defend itself. There's probably a Tom Waits song in there somewhere.
the first time I saw a Thunderbird in 1989) Nikki) Moscow piece festival
Yes but Pete didn't last and was gone, I believe, before the first album was even released. He went on to form WAYsted which released at least one album and toured on it. I saw them open for Ozzy, I think it was, at Boston Garden.
Aerosmith may have been my first as well, I saw them in Oct. '75 (REO Speedwagon and Ted Nugent opening) and do recall Hamilton playing a TBird back in those days.
Right then, my question was because he was not on that first record, which I still like, and my music-can friends still give me grief about. Lol, Dead-heads...
I'm on your side, I still think it's a great album. We covered "Say What You Will" when the album was first released.
Haji
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I was thinking about various live shows and memories of them. I saw...maybe it was Candlebox at SOMA in San Diego with a Green Day clone called Watermelon opening. They were completely forgettable pop punk; I can't remember a single song or what they looked like. All I can remember is that they kept saying "Green Bay is in Wisconsin" due to considerable heckling from the crowd. No idea what happened to them, but whatever it was probably happened anonymously.
Pete Way update from his wife Jenny:
"Pete Way and I would like to thank you all for your messages, kind thoughts and prayers. Pete has been discharged today with a huge amount of medication with a plan to go back in a couple of weeks to have an electric shock put through his heart to get it to beat normally. They are unable to stabilize it with meds. If the shock treatment doesn't work (and we are praying it does) he may have to have an operation to repair a valve. Pete says "I must thank the staff at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital who treated me with such kindness - from the porters and paramedics to the nurses and doctors and all the staff at Ward 22. Nothing was too much trouble and they all had a cheery smile for me. I couldn't have asked for better care anywhere in the world. I would also like to thank my wife Jenny who has been my rock and, like the cancer, I'm sure I wouldn't have beaten it without her and, of course, you guys. I do believe in the power of prayer but, tbh, I really don't feel very well. Jenny won't let me life a finger so hopefully I will start to feel better after some home rest and cooking."
"Pete Way and I would like to thank you all for your messages, kind thoughts and prayers. Pete has been discharged today with a huge amount of medication with a plan to go back in a couple of weeks to have an electric shock put through his heart to get it to beat normally. They are unable to stabilize it with meds. If the shock treatment doesn't work (and we are praying it does) he may have to have an operation to repair a valve. Pete says "I must thank the staff at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital who treated me with such kindness - from the porters and paramedics to the nurses and doctors and all the staff at Ward 22. Nothing was too much trouble and they all had a cheery smile for me. I couldn't have asked for better care anywhere in the world. I would also like to thank my wife Jenny who has been my rock and, like the cancer, I'm sure I wouldn't have beaten it without her and, of course, you guys. I do believe in the power of prayer but, tbh, I really don't feel very well. Jenny won't let me life a finger so hopefully I will start to feel better after some home rest and cooking."
Haji
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Sounds like A Fib. Friend of mine deals with that. The heart gets into an atypical rhythm and can be a bear to get back on track again. My friend is on meds for it, too.
Gaolee
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Do you know what bass he's playing? It's not a Gibson or Epi, and it's got a P-J pickup configuration. The body looks thick, too. Not to mention one control knob and a Strat output jack. Oh, and the headstock. I like it but don't know what it is.the first time I saw a Thunderbird in 1989) Nikki) Moscow piece festival
^ good question, I'd like to know too. I thought it had a Spector logo on the headstock at first look.
Not sure now though!
Not sure now though!
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