Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[amptech]

Grace Slick with a twist of Debbie Harry

[Dave W]

Grace Slick with a twist of Debbie Harry

Thankfully I didn't listen long enough to hear Debbie Harry.

[doombass]

I remember I liked this one when it came out. Still do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8V3N6M0toQ

[66Atlas]

Makes me want to watch a Russ Meyer movie   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKIPI47hV6A

Eric Stacy later switched to Vigiers and I'd never seen one before.  I pretty much blame him for making me lust after one back then.

[Highlander]

Russ Meyer...? Sign of a misspent childhood...

[66Atlas]

I consider none of that time misspent 

100% educational 

[Highlander]

Ah, the latter emoji representing all that optic damage...

[Highlander]

Well, this took me a few years to source... 1974... Mike Murphy on vocals... Greg Philbin with the Thunderbird...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuECp89Ya_8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM2TTNILX_k

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDJKAV0SJhs

[uwe]

That's not Kevin Cronin, right? Is it the original singer (Lutrell, who later on co-founded Starcastle?) or the interim guy (Murphy, who followed a leaving and preceded a returning Cronin)?

[Highlander]

I edited, prob you posting... Mike Murphy...

[gearHed289]

Wow, that's quite a different flavor than with Cronin. Sure beats the hell out of "Keep on Loving You"!

[doombass]

At 2:59 157 Riverside Ave. Nice sounding and playing bass break.

[uwe]

Wow, that's quite a different flavor than with Cronin. Sure beats the hell out of "Keep on Loving You"!

Didn't you know, they were a Midwest boogie band once - more akin to Foghat than to, say, Styx. That said, Cronin (luv'im or hate'm) was immediately recognizable and their hits were excruciatingly catchy to the point of painful.

It was an endless US tour with them (Cronin era) that led Blackmore (who was their opener and saw Rainbow struggling every night to win the grace of the REO horde) to unceremoniously dump Dio as a singer and commercialize Rainbow's sound by getting in singers with more "girl appeal". From this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu8HiZepRWo

to this (within a year)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWPqRtozh0

and this (within another year)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gcc3hDC4kI


So blame REO Speedwagon!!! 

[uwe]

Furry Wellies ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1siktyfFxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1QyO4TkWts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpXNSQ2NXPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EtASVAJ5Rg

[gearHed289]

Didn't you know, they were a Midwest boogie band once - more akin to Foghat than to, say, Styx. That said, Cronin (luv'im or hate'm) was immediately recognizable and their hits were excruciatingly catchy to the point of painful.

So blame REO Speedwagon!!! 

Oh, I know (I AM a lifelong Illinois resident). You couldn't get away from their live album around here, not that anybody wanted to back then. I was working my first job at a department store called Venture when Hi Infidelity came out. I was in the camera department, which was next to the records and stereos, and that album was getting played constantly. I can still hear the reverb! 

At 2:59 157 Riverside Ave. Nice sounding and playing bass break.

Extended version here, I beleive played on an Alembic. "Whooooooo! That bass sounds good to me!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljRzqJSx8Wg