Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[uwe]

Someday, when time machines are invented, there will be a photograph of a Nazi playing a Gibson bass, possibly while riding tail gunner in some form of WWII aircraft, and this board will reach a cosmic singularity. 

Cosmic singularity. What a brilliant concept. This forum should not settle for anything less.

[Basvarken]

Swedish funk rockers Electric Boys

[Dave W]

Uwe, that's a new one on me. Never heard the song before yesterday, never heard of Steve Harley or Cockney Rebel until now.

[Basvarken]

Wow...never heard of their song Sebastian either?

[Dave W]

No. If they were played in the US, I missed it.

[uwe]

I'm not that surprised, Cockney Rebel were with their artsy/glam image, the lack of a guitarist in their original line up (they had a violinist taking that role) and Harley's overt "Britness" and highly mannered singing very much an English (not even European) phenomenon, bit like Roxy Music or Sparks (though the Mael brothers were exile yanks). He was also a former music journalist turned rock star and he had a big mouth which ensured that his former fellow scribes followed what he did closely if not sympathetically, he was always good for a contentious quote.

The cover of their first album probably turned a few heads in the US too as it had that David Bowie/Jobriath look en vogue at the time



But now that Dave says it I distinctly remember that I heard a tape of it at the American school in Kinshasa only after an English fellow pupil had lent it to me (together with his Status Quo tapes, kind of an odd combination but I liked both!). Cockney Rebel's two other major hits were the quirky Mr Soft and the orchestral ballad Sebastian (which for its line "and you are so gay" became a gay anthem though Harley wasn't/isn't and claims not to have had gay rights on his mind when writing it), both from their artsy guitar-less phase:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m84qt2NGQtI&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv4Kc0mSBsc&feature=related


"Come up and see me (Make me smile)" was after the breakup of the original line up and after Harley had tightened the reins even more  calling the new line up "Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel".

He still tours and records. Clubsize gigs in Germany. Saw him last year and the one before. Mysteriously, his always thin hair has regrown too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO4ZiwzwgyQ&feature=related

[uwe]

Lest we forget:

Tiran Porter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RvK7OI2Fg&feature=related

And since we're eclectic here, listen to the industrial music: Twiggy Ramirez!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05OI1ZxeSqU&feature=related

[n!k]

Chevelle (Dean Bernardini)


Gov't Mule (with Allen Woody on bass)


W.I.N.D. (with Fabio Drusin on bass)

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Since this was mentioned in Uwe's thread about the new Tbird, I figured you guys might like it:

[TBird1958]

Oh man........That *was* a five string Studio 

[uwe]

Slapping (bass) appeals to women. I always wondered why, but now I have my thoughts. You US guys have an edge though, I would imagine that parts of the anatomy that generally are remnant in Europe might dampen the strings in unwanted fashion.

[n!k]

Anvil (Glenn Gyoffry)

[Highlander]

Sweet...

I knew there was one I remembered from back then... tooks some digging... not one of their better tunes but it meets the criteria required... Found two different ones of the same song...

[Denis]

Slapping (bass) appeals to women all the guys who try out basses in Guitar Center and want to show off.

Fixed that.

[Hornisse]

Fixed that.

LOL!!

I have a buddy who is very good at that type of playing. (slapping)  Problem is he always does the same riff for the past 15 years I've known him.  I'll only slap on the songs we play that require it.