Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

"Mutiny" is probably my fav Max Webster album even 'though it's a bit thin sounding. My friend is currently compiling a book that collects all the Max Webster concert info from the beginning until the breakup in 1981 and I've been helping him out with some equipment info. He also has a youtube channel (Max Webster Archive) which has some excellent stuff there.
Kim Mitchell's solo stuff is a bit too commercial for me but he's a great guy and one of my favourite guitarists ever (Holdsworth, Rundgren, Ollie Halsall and Hendrix, to mention a few others).

Kim is a great player. If not for his own mis-steps, he would have been much bigger. He lives in the same area of Toronto as my brother, so there is the opportunity to run into him on the street on warm summer weekends. (Of course, if you watch where you are going, you won't run into people...)

 

[WillyW]

They stay up by themselves...

Spoiler: Do Not Open

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Well, mostly by themselves. But no truss.

meanwhile back at the ranch.....

 

[PillO]

meanwhile back at the ranch.....

I prefer my synth-pop with a south-asian flavour.


But my go to is hair-metal with a thunderbird flavour.

 

[bobyoung53]

If you want, I can send my Boston based daughter to fetch it. She can bring it to me and you can pick it up the next time you come to California.

Hmmm, I'll have to think about that one........

 

[bobyoung53]

I loved hearing those and other prop planes as a kid. Still do, but it's so rare these days. One of the coolest mechanical sounds on earth.

Same here, love that sound and it brings me back to Mass summers, when I was a little kid. (not these ) I flew from Boston to the Cape once in a really neat two prop plane, maybe early 90's, I'm going to guess a DC-3, someone here would know it.

Fifi

 

[GonePlaid]

Same here, love that sound and it brings me back to Mass summers, when I was a little kid. (not these ) I flew from Boston to the Cape once in a really neat two prop plane, maybe early 90's, I'm going to guess a DC-3, someone here would know it.

Fifi

Coulda been this: (DC-3)[Provincetown Boston Airlines]

or this: (Martin 4-0-4)

 

[bobyoung53]

Coulda been this: (DC-3)[Provincetown Boston Airlines]
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or this: (Martin 4-0-4)
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I think it would have been the DC-3, it wasn't as big as the other one and Cape Cod Airport would have probably been a stop on the way to P-Town. Thanks, they didn't start the engines until after we were on and I got a seat behind the props, very cool memory.

 

[JJR58]

How about a little B&W, fisheye film action of a restored Connie.
Only restored to drink in.
She’s so not air worthy.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I loved hearing those and other prop planes as a kid. Still do, but it's so rare these days. One of the coolest mechanical sounds on earth.

One of the cool things about flying in Europe is that they still use turboprops for the shorter distances. That happens a lot less here. Edinburgh/Belfast and Germany/Albania I got to fly turboprops. Made my whole being happy.

 

[PillO]

One of the cool things about flying in Europe is that they still use turboprops for the shorter distances. That happens a lot less here. Edinburgh/Belfast and Germany/Albania I got to fly turboprops. Made my whole being happy.

Turboprops make me nervous when I am in a seat aligned with the props because all I can imagine is the prop coming loose and slicing through the thin aluminum of the hull.

 

[Stealth57]

One of the cool things about flying in Europe is that they still use turboprops for the shorter distances. That happens a lot less here. Edinburgh/Belfast and Germany/Albania I got to fly turboprops. Made my whole being happy.

Feel free to do the Salt Lake to Boise run on Scare West running a Fairchild Metroliner III. Really fun during thunderstorm season with a drunk drooling on your shoulder.

 

[PillO]

Feel free to do the Salt Lake to Boise run on Scare West running a Fairchild Metroliner III. Really fun during thunderstorm season with a drunk drooling on your shoulder.

So we have been seatmates on a plane!

 

[Stealth57]

So we have been seatmates on a plane!

Which one were you?

 

[TBird1958]

Still Thursday on the West Coast........Black dress, nylons and a Thunderbird.....

 

[MCF]

How about a little B&W, fisheye film action of a restored Connie.
Only restored to drink in.
She’s so not air worthy.

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That’s the TWA Hotel, right? My daughter stays there when she has layovers in New York.

 

[BklynKen]

Still Thursday on the West Coast........Black dress, nylons and a Thunderbird.....

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So has this bass become your main squeeze?

 

[PillO]

Which one were you?

The one who drooled on your shoulder...

 

[PillO]

Still Thursday on the West Coast........Black dress, nylons and a Thunderbird.....

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Much better legs than @dagrev

 

[Gaolee]

Same here, love that sound and it brings me back to Mass summers, when I was a little kid. (not these ) I flew from Boston to the Cape once in a really neat two prop plane, maybe early 90's, I'm going to guess a DC-3, someone here would know it.

Fifi

That thing is harder to start than my bike is at the moment. That's bad.

 

[Gaolee]

One of the cool things about flying in Europe is that they still use turboprops for the shorter distances. That happens a lot less here. Edinburgh/Belfast and Germany/Albania I got to fly turboprops. Made my whole being happy.

We have plenty of turboprop puddle jumpers in and out of Seattle. I am on them regularly for work.