Thunderbird Club

[godofthunder59]

I know but we're talking about altering it to make the headstock bigger... just putting out a design idea.

I'm a purists, what can I say? Lol

 

[Bent77]

My dream car would be a big GM car of the 60's, a 1956 Cadillac Coupe Deville would be among them.

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Always like the 62-64 Cads
Here is a 62

 

[Stealth57]

Van Zandt was a GREAT songwriter, his lyrics were very clever, I especially liked the lyrics in Gimme Three Steps.

excuse meeee

 

[GonePlaid]

Always like the 62-64 Cads
Here is a 62

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My first car was one of these(lotsa room for amp and Thunderbird in trunk):

 

[Bent77]

My first car was one of these(lotsa room for amp and Thunderbird in trunk):
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I also have love for impalas. I like old cars...

 

[WillyW]

 

[Engle]

Yes, IIRC "Tonight's The Night" was his fav from Neil. Definitely is one of mine from NY, not to mention "On The Beach".

Jammed with some friends last night and did a fast instrumental version of Harvest Moon

 

[Bent77]

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A friend of mine had a perfect motor for that in his shop one day. Weird looking thing, plugs in the top, some odd chain drive. Lumpy looking valve cover...

 

[Engle]

I've not heard that. I've only seen that because of the words of SHA, didn't mean he was a NY hater. I liked Cinnamon Girl and used to play in in a band, other than that I never liked his music or him. I like a lot of the CSN catalogue, but without the Y! I really like the vocals, that's why NY didn't help!

I think the whole LS-NY thing was intentionally overblown for the sake of publicity.

 

[WillyW]

A friend of mine had a perfect motor for that in his shop one day. Weird looking thing, plugs in the top, some odd chain drive. Lumpy looking valve cover...

I think I'm maybe getting 12-14 miles per gallon as it is....

4MPG would be fun....

 

[Engle]

Van Zandt was a GREAT songwriter, his lyrics were very clever, I especially liked the lyrics in Gimme Three Steps.

Check out Saturday Night Special.

 

[Bent77]

I think I'm maybe getting 12-14 miles per gallon as it is....

4MPG would be fun....

I had seen the SOHC motor before. But never with the pan and covers off. Must’ve looked at it for 20 minutes
It made my pants fit funny, and I’m not a Ford guy

 

[Engle]

I'm a purists, what can I say? Lol

Jeez, we need to find a luthier to build a run of NRs the way we want them.

 

[GonePlaid]

Jeez, we need to find a luthier to build a run of NRs the way we want them.

Yeah. And a coupla old growth Honduran mahogany tree trunks too.

 

[JIO]

My dream car would be a big GM car of the '50's or 60's, a 1956 Cadillac Coupe Deville would be among them.

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I'm pretty sure Perry drove one of those! I would like one of these - sporty but with cargo space to transport a bass and amp!

 

[bobyoung53]

I'm pretty sure Perry drove one of those! I would like one of these - space to transport a bass and amp! View attachment 4578669

Don't get me going on cars . '65 GTO 4 speed positraction 389 tripower, '66 440 Plymouth GTX on and on and on.......

Incidentally this is the Beach Boys playing not the Wrecking Crew.

 

[JIO]

I doubt they're the same company . Nope:

Gibson Manufacturing Corporation - Wikipedia


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[GonePlaid]

Don't get me going on cars . '65 GTO 4 speed positraction 389 tripower, '66 440 Plymouth GTX on and on and on.......

Incidentally this is the Beach Boys playing not the Wrecking Crew.

My understanding of their recordings was that the Wrecking Crew would lay down things-perfectly-that the BB's could, at least, come close to playing live.

 

[GonePlaid]

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But did they do a NR?

 

[bobyoung53]

My understanding of their recordings was that the Wrecking Crew would lay down things-perfectly-that the BB's could, at least, come close to playing live.

They played on their first seven albums, Brian Wilson realized that the stuff he was beginning to write was beyond their capabilities so he started hiring the Wrecking Crew. They actually didn't really start using them a lot until 'The Beach Boys Today' 1965, which was their 8th album and was a big step, great album.
People think that they couldn't play, that's not true. The Wrecking Crew actually copied the Beach Boys sound and played just WAY better, Hal Blaine could do a perfect Dennis Wilson drum part perfectly, something he would have done rather, then they played it like that live. This was during about a 3 or 4 year period during the mid to late 60's, they started playing on their own albums again '68 or '69. These dates are of course fuzzy.