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[gearHed289]

Now that's a rare sight: Foreigner with a TBird? Must be a later line-up, I don't even know who the bassist is, he's not Rick Wills who recorded this initially.

Nice color. I don't know who that is either.

[uwe]

I had to do research, but I had a hunch that it might me the era when Lou Gramm rejoined after his first departure and failed solo career: Bruce Turgon.



He was basically best buddies with Gramm, both had played with Black Sheep (Gramm's pre-Foreigner outfit), he was also Gramm's guitarist/bassist (+ co-songwriter) in his solo years and with Shadow King



plus of course that mid-nineties return stint with the mothership where Gramm dragged him along after Rick Wills had departed.

So the lineage of Foreigner bassists is Ed Gagliardi - Rick Wills - Bruce Turgon - Jeff Pilson, now memorize it! 

[Basvarken]

I think that's Bruce Turgon. Later in Shadow King (with Lou Gramm)
EDIT:
Uwe beat me to it. But yeah that's him

[uwe]

That's were Gramm and Turgon came from,  quite a bluesy lot, kinda rootsy Foreigner (like the organ work, but then I'm Deep Purple corrupted, Turgon's bass work is almost jazzy at times, he must have listened to a lot of Jack Bruce/Tim Bogert):

[Basvarken]

They sounded like Bad Company with an added (prominent) Hammond.

Turgon shure lost his jazzy feel over time:

[uwe]

He was with Warrior? I had no idea!

Really liked that band. As if Judas Priest had been 10 years younger and Americans. 

"They sounded like Bad Company with an added (prominent) Hammond."

I read that Black Sheep heard that a lot. 

Or like Bad Co would have sounded if Paul Rodgers had allowed Jon Lord in after the Purple split in 1976. Ralphs, Kirke and Burrell wanted Lord in, Rodgers vetoed it, concerned that there would be too much Purple baggage attached. It might have sounded a bit like this here (Lord, Burrell, Kirke, Ralphs + Tony Ashton on vocals), Jon was a funky player if you let him.



Boz Burrell on vocals and bass together with Blackmore, Lord and Paice in pre-Bad Company days:

[Granny Gremlin]

I always preferred Tony with a TBird.  This may be the absolute worst lip synch ever on TotP though.

[Pilgrim]

I just found Clapton on a T-bird guitar when Cream appeared on Glen Campbell's short lived variety show...not a bass, but looks T-Bird to me.  Also, evidently he passed on the guitar distortion. Sounds weird with a clean guitar signal.

[Dave W]

I just found Clapton on a T-bird guitar when Cream appeared on Glen Campbell's short lived variety show...not a bass, but looks T-Bird to me.  Also, evidently he passed on the guitar distortion. Sounds weird with a clean guitar signal.

It's called a Firebird. 

Notice that he introduced them as "The Cream." I remember that Carson introduced them the same way.

[westen44]

Here is an article about the performance I happened to run across earlier in the day. 

https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-glen-campbell-introduce-cream-to-the-american-tv-audience-in-1968

[Dave W]

Here is an article about the performance I happened to run across earlier in the day. 

https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-glen-campbell-introduce-cream-to-the-american-tv-audience-in-1968

He introduced Cream to the American audience on July 14, 1968? 

For pity's sake. They were halfway through their second US tour by then, and Wheels of Fire had already been released by then.

[Granny Gremlin]

I just found Clapton on a T-bird guitar when Cream appeared on Glen Campbell's short lived variety show...not a bass, but looks T-Bird to me.  Also, evidently he passed on the guitar distortion. Sounds weird with a clean guitar signal.

With the middishness of the Firebird, I bet it's one of those situations where it sounds dirtier live in the moment and kinda cleans up on tape.  Happenned to me a lot of times.

[westen44]

He introduced Cream to the American audience on July 14, 1968? 

For pity's sake. They were halfway through their second US tour by then, and Wheels of Fire had already been released by then.

In general, I tend to not pay much attention to dates.  However, although I'm not sure of his age, I'm pretty sure the author wasn't around at the time of Cream.  He may have missed a few details.  Also, it appears he is a New Zealander, someone who is unlikely to know much about Glen Campbell's early days, etc.  Having said that, I used to have an American guitarist friend who lived several years in New Zealand during the 1980s and had the time of his life playing punk rock there. 

[Pilgrim]

Firebird, huh?

Shows you how much I know about Gibsons.............but I do learn more from being here.

[Dave W]

Firebird, huh?

Shows you how much I know about Gibsons.............but I do learn more from being here.

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