Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

For someone not from this area it’s kinda hard to believe, but where we live (just outside of Simi Valley) in SoCal we have about a two month window (Dec/Jan) that we have any real hope of getting a meaningful amount of rain. If we’re lucky we get a couple of inches in that period, the rest of the year virtually nothing, maybe a fraction of an inch total. So in a good year we have emerald green hills in Feb/Mar but after that it all dies and turns brown just waiting for a spark or cigarette butt to set it off.
The daily weather report here is quite entertaining, starting at the ocean and moving about 25 miles inland you have about seven distinct micro climates, each with their own weather report and 7 day forecast.
Seven SoCal Microclimates
1) Coast
2) Los Angeles and Orange County Basins (this could be two separate forecasts during peak heat)
3) Valleys
4) Inland Empire
5) Mountains
6) High Desert
7) Low Desert

On the bright side - the Thunderbirds love it here, not much humidity and temperature change from day to day and season to season.

Interesting!

I always thought a San Diego weather report would go something like...
Today, sunny and 75. Tuesday sunny and 74. Wed Sunny and 74 with a 10% chance of a cloud. Thursday the cloud will move out and be Sunny and 75. Friday a cold front hammers the area with highs falling below 70. A blistering heat wave moves in Saturday with highs over 79...... I also wondered how you make what to someone back east would basically be the same weather every day seem like news.

 

[Gaolee]

I'm awake and in Pioneer Square..............Wish I was at home snoozing with the cat.

As am I, and if you substitute wife for cat, then we are in 100% agreement. We had somebody pull a fire alarm this morning, which meant for a little noise on a Monday. I suspect a vagrant got in, since there's a couple empty offices on the second floor where the alarm got pulled.

 

[dagrev]

As am I, and if you substitute wife for cat, then we are in 100% agreement. We had somebody pull a fire alarm this morning, which meant for a little noise on a Monday. I suspect a vagrant got in, since there's a couple empty offices on the second floor where the alarm got pulled.

Difficult, at least for me, to go back to sleep after something like that. Ours went off last week in the wee hours of the morning. My Mother, who has her residence in the walkout basement let her dog out and bypassing that door apparently didn't take. With her opening the door in the middle of the night I am concerned that someone could be on her deck and just brush her aside and be in the house unobstructed. Thinking the alarm was bypassed, I and my security team of Glock and Associates headed out of the bedroom thinking someone must be in the house while my wife went to the alarm pad. She told me it was mom's main exterior door before I got downstairs. After the excitement it took a couple of hours to does off. Made for a long next day.

 

[TBird1958]

As am I, and if you substitute wife for cat, then we are in 100% agreement. We had somebody pull a fire alarm this morning, which meant for a little noise on a Monday. I suspect a vagrant got in, since there's a couple empty offices on the second floor where the alarm got pulled.

Has your building had any windows broken?

 

[JJR58]

OK, the official line is: Thunderbirds, have neck dive, are uncomfortable to play, made for rounds only and are not versatile at all. Now repeat after me..... And headstocks fly off if that isn't convincing enough.

Several of us love flats on a Bird or two.

I’m one of em.

 

[Gaolee]

Has your building had any windows broken?

There's an architect on the ground floor, and one of their windows is currently plywood. The main entrance to the building has glass panels, and one of those was broken and repaired a couple weeks ago. So we have had some issues, but not that many. The big excitement was when a few bricks fell off the building facade and landed on Yesler. That led to the building being wrapped in scaffolding for a number of months. It's all pointed up and rebuilt, so no more excitement.

The only other issue was when an obviously crazy woman wandered into the office one day. I'm not sure how she got in since both the elevator and stairs have a code you have to punch in to get to our floor. She was harmless, though.

 

[JIO]

That would be so cool! Hopefully it turns into more gigs. Book one down here please!

Now you know as well as anyone that Thundbirds can't do Motown. Gotta have a FSO.

The Chambers Brothers would tend to disagree. More Psychodelic Soul than Motown but close enough.

For live footage - enter this in YouTube :
Chambers Brothers - Wade in the Water/People Get Ready/Time Has Come Today

 

[PillO]

I am starting a Motown cover band with my drummer friend, and on Sunday I did a 5 hour rehearsal/jam for a food bank benefit gig next Saturday. Seize the day!

That sounds like fun! Love me some Motown.

 

[PillO]

the Bay Area is an excellent compromise……that said, I really like deserts…

Silicon valley traps in the smog/pollution; I remember all too well the brown haze over the endless suburbia. And I too am partial to cakes and pies though.

 

[dagrev]

The Chambers Brothers would tend to disagree. More Psychodelic Soul than Motown but close enough.
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For live footage - enter this in YouTube :
Chambers Brothers - Wade in the Water/People Get Ready/Time Has Come Today

Clearly they didn't get the memo.

Thunderbird and cowbell. The sound of angels wings!

 

[BklynKen]

Have we seen this one? Michael Steele playing a NR.

 

[MCF]

You know, I never thought of it that way... but then, imagine that '78 Thunderbird in place of the Corvette...

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A Sydney (just one, there are more) mbr of the Brutalist school of the 1970s.
Public Housing - the Sirius Building, a giant collection of cement cubes stacked on top and beside each other.
Plonked down between the Harbour Bridge and circular quay and Opera House…. Where millions can see it.

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That has to be in the top ten ugliest buildings. Horrible.

 

[MCF]

Very unusual trees--for a person in Ky. Looks to be a very peaceful setting.

California Coastal oaks.

 

[bobyoung53]

I'm jelly you got to play thee NR out live! I do love the pickups, the sound really good through my rig, can't wait to hopefully crank it up in 2022.

This thing sounds so good I could see it becoming my go to bass.

 

[JIO]

Clearly they didn't get the memo.

Thunderbird and cowbell. The sound of angels wings!

They be jammin' on Time Has Come Today! Really awesome - they got into some gnarly Screaming' Jay vocalizing! I think if I (as a teen) had played this performance when my father was around he would have had me committed! This Is The End (Doors) was one he wasn't fond of! Great extended ending/outro also.

Bass player appears to have what looks like a Mustang (car) emblem over the thunderbird on the pg.

 

[RedVee]

A Sydney (just one, there are more) mbr of the Brutalist school of the 1970s.
Public Housing - the Sirius Building, a giant collection of cement cubes stacked on top and beside each other.
Plonked down between the Harbour Bridge and circular quay and Opera House…. Where millions can see it.

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That has to be in the top ten ugliest buildings. Horrible.[/QUOTE]
And the train line across the bridge to North Sydney goes right past it. You look over to check out todays cruise liner in the overseas terminal or the Opera House and you have to look around that carbuncle

 

[bobyoung53]

It was a stylistic "look" then but I feel a particular bass/instrument will dictate where it is to be optimally played. As in - no "one size fits all" .

Yes as no matter what kind of bass they played they usually had it up to neck level like Pete Quaife. This thing is much easier to play high, I love the bass so far.

 

[MCF]

Have we seen this one? Michael Steele playing a NR.

Cool Thunderbird and all. But I couldn’t help but only pay attention to Susanna.

 

[Engle]

Are you using a Thunderbird with that?

Maybe the VP and Casady. Both can nail the tone.

 

[Engle]

The Chambers Brothers would tend to disagree. More Psychodelic Soul than Motown but close enough.
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For live footage - enter this in YouTube :
Chambers Brothers - Wade in the Water/People Get Ready/Time Has Come Today

That’s exactly what I was thinking.