Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

have you ever seen both of us in the same place at the same time?

 

[Nocturnal]

Monday AM fun with The Darkness... Open Fire is one of their better songs/

I saw them several years ago and it was one of the most enjoyable I have attended. His voice can get old after a while but they put on a killer show.

 

[JIO]

 

[BklynKen]

I'm thoroughly uncool. I play it like an ape. Thunderbirds need long, long straps extended to their near longest adjustment. At least for me. Funny thing is that other BGs should have much shorter straps. Guitars, especially guitars with big, hollow acoustic bodies are on quite short straps. I think it has to do with both shape and right hand technique.

Peter Hook style.

 

[BklynKen]

have you ever seen both of us in the same place at the same time?

Moot point. I've never seen either of you anywhere at all.

 

[WillyW]

Moot point. I've never seen either of you anywhere at all.

 

[JIO]

Moot point. I've never seen either of you anywhere at all.

there is a resemblance...

 

[Engle]

there is a resemblance...

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I have that same coat. I need one of those masks.

 

[dagrev]

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.

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That was a great vid! Thanks for posting. I loved all of it but the screaming part. I wasn't into that when I was younger and under the influence. But I get it was a thing.

I couldn't make out what that was, but never stopped to look closely. Too bad you couldn't hear the bass. It had to be crazy good through that Acoustic.

 

[dagrev]

There are a lot of cool Motown/R&B/(old school)Funk songs. And many great bass lines!
We are thinking being in that lane will differentiate us from other cover bands.
There’s also some cool newer stuff. I think maybe the bass player in the video is somebody’s son standing in for the real player?

I'm certain there's no genre of music that had better bass lines than Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals R&B recordings. Most of them were songs unto themselves.

 

[JIO]

I'm certain there's no genre of music that had better bass lines than Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals R&B recordings. Most of them were songs unto themselves.

I totally agree - and in general good pop from the '60s also. Being in SF/Bay Area a song today that has clicque cringe-factor is "San Francisco" ... but, it has a great sounding bass-line and is a well crafted pop song. Nothing on the level of Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals (and the Wrecking Crew in LA) but solid listening pop.

 

[Engle]

I'm certain there's no genre of music that had better bass lines than Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals R&B recordings. Most of them were songs unto themselves.

I just listened to the Marvin Gaye version of Heard it through the Grapevine. That’s how you do it!

 

[JIO]

I just listened to the Marvin Gaye version of Heard it through the Grapevine. That’s how you do it!

 

[dagrev]

I totally agree - and in general good pop from the '60s also. Being in SF/Bay Area a song today that has clicque cringe-factor is "San Francisco" ... but, it has a great sounding bass-line and is a well crafted pop song. Nothing on the level of Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals (and the Wrecking Crew in LA) but solid listening pop.

Ha! You mentioned a song I generally dislike, but I like to listen to it! And yes it does.

 

[dagrev]

I just listened to the Marvin Gaye version of Heard it through the Grapevine. That’s how you do it!

Yes, that's a great one. JJ was a magician on bass. I listen to this occasionally as well for a dose of humiliation.

 

[BklynKen]

I'm certain there's no genre of music that had better bass lines than Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals R&B recordings. Most of them were songs unto themselves.

One my favorites is Jerry Jemmott's here.

 

[GonePlaid]

I totally agree - and in general good pop from the '60s also. Being in SF/Bay Area a song today that has clicque cringe-factor is "San Francisco" ... but, it has a great sounding bass-line and is a well crafted pop song. Nothing on the level of Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals (and the Wrecking Crew in LA) but solid listening pop.

Cheesy though it may be, you can hear all the parts/instruments and the vocal isn't buried. I always liked the bass's sound.

 

[Bent77]

I totally agree - and in general good pop from the '60s also. Being in SF/Bay Area a song today that has clicque cringe-factor is "San Francisco" ... but, it has a great sounding bass-line and is a well crafted pop song. Nothing on the level of Motown/Stax/Muscle Shoals (and the Wrecking Crew in LA) but solid listening pop.

That’s Joe Osborn. One of my favorite bass players

 

[TBird1958]

I like his tone on this a lot, stock TB Plus thru the right amp - no problem.

 

[JIO]

One my favorites is Jerry Jemmott's here.

And Bernard 'Pretty' Purdy (known by every drummer of salt for the Purdy shuffle) on drums and Cornel Dupree on guitar! Hard to top that line-up!

JJ holding' it down!