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Thunderbird Club
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Pre-kimono Geddy didn't play a Thunderbird, but post-kimono Geddy has. He isn't French either but he did sing about the guillotine claiming her bloody prize.
For all the technowizardry they were later known for, they could seriously rock it at will.
Right up until he starts to sing.... jeebus, that's bad. My ears will never get use to Geddy's voice. 
Do you think Alex or Neil ever considered trying to get a vocalist to round out the band early on?
Do you think Alex or Neil ever considered trying to get a vocalist to round out the band early on?
Right up until he starts to sing.... jeebus, that's bad. My ears will never get use to Geddy's voice.
Do you think Alex or Neil ever considered trying to get a vocalist to round out the band early on?
Who knows, right ? Maybe they did and ended up philcollinsing it
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LOL - I made it about a minute and a half into the song before I had to pull the plug. Phenomenal instrumentals!Right up until he starts to sing.... jeebus, that's bad. My ears will never get use to Geddy's voice.
Do you think Alex or Neil ever considered trying to get a vocalist to round out the band early on?
But that voice! Gads, just hammer an ice pick through each of my eardrums, it would feel better. I’d LMAO if someone played an isolated vocal track of this recording with no identification attached and asked a talent scout what they thought. Heck, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan sound like Opera singers compared to Geddy on this song (and most of his other songs).
To be clear, this is only slagging on Geddys vocals, his bass playing is beyond stellar.
Yeah, now all of it won't be under the table.
Geddy and I are opposites. He can carry a tune well, but my voice sounds better. We're kind of tied on opening up a bass. My case latch skills are every bid as good as his. Mainly because he never had to do it the last 40 years.Right up until he starts to sing.... jeebus, that's bad. My ears will never get use to Geddy's voice.
Do you think Alex or Neil ever considered trying to get a vocalist to round out the band early on?
I've often wondered how often early on Alex or Neil were thinking while playing, "He sure can play, but maybe we ought to consider...."
I would have liked to have heard some of the record companies who listened early on and made comments.
But who's laughing now!
All the Geddy bashing aside ( 
), been a busy couple of weeks. Last week was in the studio for 3 days at Boulevard Recording, previous the Producer's Workshop (where Steely Dan recorded a majority of Aja and Gaucho, as well as Pink Floyd did all the overdubs and mix/mastering for The Wall) working with one of the bands I'm playing in, Indigo Skyship. Then a gig Saturday with Dream Phases for a couple hundred people at a park in LA, and then last night played a smoking show with Hair. Going to be going into the studio to cut our 2nd album in September with Hair, so our live set is pretty much all new material. Anyhow, here are some photos from the studio. Ran the Sunn (switched to the Hiwatt for some stuff) into it's matching cab in an iso booth mic'd with a telefunken and NS10 speaker converted to a sub mic. Did probably half and half Thunderbird and Precision, and then they had a nice Rick in their too so threw that on a song too (a rarity, given I'm not overly fond of flats, but it sounded great).
), been a busy couple of weeks. Last week was in the studio for 3 days at Boulevard Recording, previous the Producer's Workshop (where Steely Dan recorded a majority of Aja and Gaucho, as well as Pink Floyd did all the overdubs and mix/mastering for The Wall) working with one of the bands I'm playing in, Indigo Skyship. Then a gig Saturday with Dream Phases for a couple hundred people at a park in LA, and then last night played a smoking show with Hair. Going to be going into the studio to cut our 2nd album in September with Hair, so our live set is pretty much all new material. Anyhow, here are some photos from the studio. Ran the Sunn (switched to the Hiwatt for some stuff) into it's matching cab in an iso booth mic'd with a telefunken and NS10 speaker converted to a sub mic. Did probably half and half Thunderbird and Precision, and then they had a nice Rick in their too so threw that on a song too (a rarity, given I'm not overly fond of flats, but it sounded great).
Greetings from the North,
For those that don't know Geddy Lee has one of the most extensive collection of Gibson Thunderbirds in the world. Check out 'Geddy Lee's Book Of Bass' and I'm sure you will be in awe. And yes he does love playing them too.
Rezdog
For those that don't know Geddy Lee has one of the most extensive collection of Gibson Thunderbirds in the world. Check out 'Geddy Lee's Book Of Bass' and I'm sure you will be in awe. And yes he does love playing them too.
Rezdog
Nice! What's that one pedal you're using?All the Geddy bashing aside (
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Nice. Thanks for posting the pics. And good, but not surprising to see that Epi VP is studio worthy!All the Geddy bashing aside (
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That's one I put together, essentially a Catalinbread Naga Viper/Modified Rangemaster I tweaked the input caps on. I actually don't think I ended up recording anything with it, was going to use it to accentuate the tapping fills in one song but after listening to a few takes just used the Hiwatt turned up with some hair on it.
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Same with professional rugby in the US. It's only professional in name. I don't think those guys get paid much at all.
