Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[uwe]

Great as Halford is, he sounds best within Priest.

[uwe]

Sums up what I consider to be a great bass line should be: melodic, rhythmically interesting, immediately catchy, yet also simple and played here with a modern day TBird:



With vocals & violins, but sans TBird ...



A soul number by Paul Stanley long before there was his Soul Station. Is it just my ears or is Tommy Thayer's lead line towards the end flat, flat, flatter than hell?

[uwe]

No one rocks with a TBird like the mighty Wombles!

[4stringer77]

Rex Brown and his T bird in action. Good to see Pantera giving it a go again.

[Basvarken]

Terry Hall died yesterday.
I'm now on a trip down memory lane, checking out some live videos of The Specials.
I was a huge fan when I was 12/13 years old back in 1980 /1981

Horace Panter used a Thunderbird on the 30th anniversary reunion tour.
Love the energy. What a band!

[uwe]

Anthony Jones with a 60ies TBird in a latter-day "and then there were two" (Marriott & Shirley) Humple Pie line-up together with Jeff Beck alumni Bobby Tench. "Performance - Rockin' the Fillmore" it wasn't, but not bad either.

[gearHed289]

I actually saw Humble Pie in 1980. I'm assuming it's this same lineup. Fun show with Mahogany Rush and Angel.

[uwe]

I'm assuming it's this same lineup.


Easy, two black guys were in the band then (the only time in Humble Pie's history), an Englishman on lead guitar and co-lead vocals and a Yank on bass. That last line-up never changed, and Marriott was finally playing with the people he had appropriated his style from. But as a concert draw, Humble Pie were beyond their prime by then and the approaching 80ies just weren't a good time for their jammy arena blues rock. Marriott's alcoholism and drug consumption did not help either.

Glenn Hughes wanted Dave "Clem" Clempson as Ritchie's replacement in Purple and he actually jammed/auditioned with them, but the band felt that Dave - though he played beautifully - lacked flamboyant star quality and wasn't the dominant songwriter they were looking for to fill the gap left by Ritchie. Enter Tommy Bolin who seemed to have all that in spades. Though given the strength of Clempson's songwriting on the Rough Diamond album with David Byron I sometimes wonder whether a DP album with his compositional input would not have been at least interesting.

[gearHed289]

Yeah, I definitely remember the black bass player. I don't remember the T-bird, but that was a long time ago.

[uwe]

The Speedsters in 1974 sans Herr Cronin (his both succ- and prede-cessor Mike Murphy - REO's third lead vocalist in their recorded phase - sings as Cronin would rejoin after Murphy's departure), but with a TB II Rev played very smoothly by Gregg Philbin, the man they criminally kicked out for allegedly overplaying and perhaps not looking the part. 

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/gregg-philbin-reo-speedwagon-dead/

[gearHed289]

REO was a good, heartland, rock 'n roll band, and Gregg was a great bass player. They slid down into the syrupy, reverb-drenched AOR style in the early 80s.

[uwe]

But they did try rearrangements once in a while!



Cronin - love him or hate him - had a highly recognizable voice. Most of the major AOR bands actually did. People said they all sound the same (and the ingredients were similar), but once the lead vocals set in, you were never in two minds whether you were hearing REO, Foreigner, Styx, Toto or Journey.

[westen44]

It's hard to beat Kevin Cronin's voice.  Here he is with his daughter.  (This could also go under the Les Paul bass section.)

[uwe]

She has more timbre than her dad!

But I'm not knocking Cronin, never my favorite AOR singer (I'm more the Steve Perry guy), he does what he does well.

[westen44]

Cronin's voice had quite a purity when he was in his prime.  But singing in your 20s is way easier than in your 70s.  Very few can pull off that feat.  Very few.  There are a few exceptions.  Maybe Biff Byford would be one.  It's just that a lot of people have never seemed to like Saxon very much, though.  I can't say that Biff does better than Wishbone Ash, but I think he does a pretty good job on this.