Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

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I was 13: puka shell necklace, flared pants and platform boots!

 

[Mvf]

I was 2 years old in 1977. Here's me as a 29 years old with my (then 28 years old) T-Bird. Don't have it anymore (my friend owns it now) but I still have the Ric, the Hiwatt, the Hamer ('though modded with a new body...) and the hair. The suit should fit too if I had it. Easy to say now before Christmas...View attachment 4504066

EDIT: and while it may look that we as baby faced young men played some kind of smooth jazz or easy listening fuzak that was not the case. OK, maybe my choice of gear would not steer anyone into thoughts like that but the sax could. We were a sort of blues band, sort of. The only clip I could find:

Nice clip, and the playing rocked. Are you guys still active, could come and see you sometimes.

 

[Mvf]

I was 16 in 1977. I got my first bass around that time, a Yamaha SB5A from 1967, still have it.

 

[Mvf]

Here is a new song the band I am in recently finished.



I used my Thunderbird and my Hiwatt 200 to record this and a couple of other songs.

Very good

 

[PhR75]

Nice clip, and the playing rocked. Are you guys still active, could come and see you sometimes.

Thanks. Not active, I'm afraid. All players still alive and playing, thankfully. The sax player is very employed in the Helsinki area and the guitarist works as a tech for many high profile bands. Plays too. I play with the drummer in another band and I have (too) many bands and projects too.
We managed a reunion just before the first lockdown in 2020. It was fun.

 

[RedVee]

I was 32 in77.

15 in 77 and that was about the time I got my first bass. A nice Japanese thing in natural, looked a bit like Gene Simmons (?Grabber?) bass from the back of a Kiss album (maybe Alive!)

 

[Blazer]

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The Eagle has landed. The Blue Bird has landed? Whatever. It's hear.

Ooh, very Jaco!

I love it!

 

[PillO]

Because Watermelon.

Once you go melon, you will never go back.

...wwwhat...

It's like a retrovirus. Once you are infected, it never goes away.

Obviously filmed on location in Canada.

Actually, that looks like S California. We have branches worldwide, but head office is Canada...

 

[Larry V]

I was 32 in77.

Ya got me by 12 years Mike.

...and you got me by 12 years, George.

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3rd grade.

2nd grade. January birthday.

 

[Nocturnal]

Here is a new song the band I am in recently finished.



I used my Thunderbird and my Hiwatt 200 to record this and a couple of other songs.

Good stuff!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[dagrev]

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Where were you in 1977? the sign said.
Under the influence. (HIGH School years, making $50 the half hour before school began....) Some things in life you'd do differently.

 

[dagrev]

In '77 I still had my '63 II.

Ouch! I still hate to be reminded of your story.

 

[dagrev]

Here is a new song the band I am in recently finished.



I used my Thunderbird and my Hiwatt 200 to record this and a couple of other songs.

Any song that starts with bass is a good song! Like what you chose to play.

 

[dagrev]

Thanks. Not active, I'm afraid. All players still alive and playing, thankfully. The sax player is very employed in the Helsinki area and the guitarist works as a tech for many high profile bands. Plays too. I play with the drummer in another band and I have (too) many bands and projects too.
We managed a reunion just before the first lockdown in 2020. It was fun.

Love it!

 

[BklynKen]

Where were you in 1977? the sign said.
Under the influence. (HIGH School years, making $50 the half hour before school began....) Some things in life you'd do differently.

That's a Sex Pistols bootleg. I've had it since I was teenager. Image taken off the Internet, though.

 

[TBird1958]

I keep finding fun stuff from The Darkness, note the bra that lands onstage @2:30, Justin Hawkins slips it on - later has trouble with a guitar and the band just plays on without blinking. Remember 1 guitar = 0, 2 guitars =1.

 

[BklynKen]

I keep finding fun stuff from The Darkness, note the bra that lands onstage @2:30, Justin Hawkins slips it on - later has trouble with a guitar and the band just plays on without blinking. Remember 1 guitar = 0, 2 guitars =1.

Was that your bra?

 

[WillyW]

I keep finding fun stuff from The Darkness, note the bra that lands onstage @2:30, Justin Hawkins slips it on - later has trouble with a guitar and the band just plays on without blinking. Remember 1 guitar = 0, 2 guitars =1.

dunno, trio or solo,

solo I only have one jackass to deal with....

 

[Gaolee]

I'm discounting the fact that I was an awkward, unpopular teenager - playing the bass actually got me out of the house and invited to play at parties, I even met girls

I was an awkward, unpopular teenager but hadn't discovered bass yet in 1977. It was another year before that happened, and it happened by way of guitar. Which I still suck at. Oh, well. I could have had a '64 or '65 Thunderbird back then for a relatively minimal cost. But no, I didn't know what a Thunderbird was and spent the money I had on gasoline and beer bought with a fake ID since I only turned 17 in 1977.

 

[Gaolee]

That's a shame. As great as it is to play with really talented people, I'd MUCH rather play with those who may be average (like me), and have a good personality and don't get their panties in an emotional wad if band discussions don't go their way (i.e., they can't dominate as they want). I don't play with children--or adults who have the emotional maturity of children. Life is too short to deal with the emotionally incontinent, hard-heads and drama queens. It may make for some good music, but it can't be fun, and I play music for fun not a living.

My goal is to play with friends who are all better musicians than I am. Being spectacularly mediocre at both bass and drums means it's easier for me to do that than it would be if I had talent and had put in the appropriate amount of practice.