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Thunderbird Club

Awesome - always liked Nilsson and that song but never saw this 'of the time' vid. re: "The Goon Show", "The Monkees" and various other uses of gorilla costumes in that era. I saw Steve Miller in around '72-'73 and the band started w/o him on stage and he ran through the audience from the back in a gorilla-suit, jumped up on the stage while they were playing, took off the gorilla head, grabbed his guitar and started the set. I can't recall how he got out of the gorilla suit but he did.


I love early Steve Miller Band up until the mid 70's, this was my favorite Nilsson tune:


 
I love early Steve Miller Band up until the mid 70's, this was my favorite Nilsson tune:




For sure! Love that song - Steve Miller was (still is?) a Bay Area guy. When SF luthier Gary Brawer got his Plek machine in the late '80s, Steve Miller had one of his guitars Plek'd. After he had it done, he sent a truck-load of guitars to be Plek'd. True story that...
 
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No chance of that. A jumper is the same as a sweater I think.

yep - Lamingtons are very good. Not fancy but good.
I found several recipes on the net. This one looks easy. But I’ll have to figure out the conversions for the measurements. Why can’t the world just measure in cups and spoons?
 
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Porterhouse hey? Another thing we don’t share the same name for.
If I assume the bone is in we call it a T-bone Steak (I love ‘em). Otherwise the bigger piece of meat (without the bone) is Sirloin, and the small side is Porterhouse - NY strip I’ve been told.

We also have Chuck steak lol. A guy I went to school with had the name Stuart. Of course he was known to all and sundry as Chuck.

(Stuart > Stu > Chuck because you use Chuck steak in a stew (or braise)).

Lucky we all speak the same language!
Reminds me of my buddy in the Army, George. We had to call him "Lance" because we called Jim "George".
 
Bread "rock tune" some good bass playing in this tune by Larry Knechtel.


This my fav "rock tune" of Bread. It's live and not a polished, but I prefer live instead of the 56 takes of a song anyway. Larry here as well. Or some guy that looks like him.

And it has some words that are as important today as then.
 
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Bird craze….:cautious:
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I’ll make an exception in this case. Let me know when you’re ready for mr to PM you my address.
@MCF-A bit of a sad(read: stupid)story for you. When I bought my 67 NR in NYC in 73(Jeff knows the place-I can never remember), there was a similar vintage blue(PB?) NR right next to it. I think it was a II. I paid $250 for mine, coulda bought bofem. Shoulda, but I'm not crazy about blue.:sorry: Mighta been able to find a buyer for it though. Or I coulda had it refinished.:smug:
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I love early Steve Miller Band up until the mid 70's, this was my favorite Nilsson tune:





I like Klaus Voorman's playing on that song, IIRC correctly when I've played along with it you tune your E to D, and during the downward run he does when it's just him and the drums you manually keep down tuning the E string until it gets stuck on the pickup :laugh: