Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[TBird1958]

Ye mortals, make way for the Imperial Wizard of Circumcisionvention! Your hapless attempts thwart me not, I'm a lawyer, no loophole, however small, is safe from me! Thunderpelican Yacht Rock, voilà!

While the 'Bird is amazing in it's own right, Skunk Baxter as a Defense Consultant.......................mindblown!

[uwe]

Notably, he was still standing on stage back then and not sitting on a bar stool playing guitar.

Baxter did have a guitar sound all of his own though.

I always got him and Les Dudek mixed up.

[wellREDman]

Here's the Yacht Rock Revue setlist from Denver in Feb.2020:

Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)
(Joey Scarbury cover)

What a Fool Believes
(Kenny Loggins cover)

Somebody's Baby
(Jackson Browne cover)

Hey Nineteen
(Steely Dan cover)

Step

Lido Shuffle
(Boz Scaggs cover)

Love Will Find a Way
(Pablo Cruise cover)

Heart to Heart
(Kenny Loggins cover)

Sister Golden Hair
(America cover)

Lady
(Little River Band cover)

Rich Girl
(Daryl Hall & John Oates cover)

Steal Away
(Robbie Dupree cover)

Bad Tequila

Africa
(Toto cover)

Running With the Night
(Lionel Richie cover)

How Long
(Ace cover)

Don't Stop
(Fleetwood Mac cover)

Biggest Part of Me
(Ambrosia cover)

Late in the Evening
(Paul Simon cover)

Turn Your Love Around
(George Benson cover)

She's Gone
(Daryl Hall & John Oates cover)

Reelin' in the Years
(Steely Dan cover)

Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
(Rupert Holmes cover)

Baker Street
(Gerry Rafferty cover)

Ride Like the Wind
(Christopher Cross cover)

Encore:
You Can Call Me Al
(Paul Simon cover)

More Than a Feeling
(Boston cover)

so yacht rock is basically just men of a certain age avoiding the term Pop-rock

[westen44]

I hate to admit it, but I actually watched enough of a Steely Dan video to see the Thunderbird. Didn't think I could make it that far.

That must have been pretty painful.  I can endure a lot, but certainly not that. 

[Pilgrim]

so yacht rock is basically just men of a certain age avoiding the term Pop-rock

Enough beer solves that problem. 

[Dave W]

so yacht rock is basically just men of a certain age avoiding the term Pop-rock

Apparently so.

That must have been pretty painful.  I can endure a lot, but certainly not that. 

Normally I can't switch stations or hit the off switch fast enough when I hear the opening bars of a Steely Dan song.

[westen44]

Apparently so.

Normally I can't switch stations or hit the off switch fast enough when I hear the opening bars of a Steely Dan song.

Sometimes bands such as Steely Dan or U2 come on the scene.  People all around me are really liking them.  I might even try to like them, too.  But especially in the case of Steely Dan the appeal for me just never seemed to be there. 

[Pilgrim]

The Steely Dan song that I most dislike is "Dirty Work". To me it sounds whiny. My band has played it and it's one that I had to "shut up and play" rather than argue about. Others accommodated me on tunes I liked better than they did.

Overall, not a fan of theirs.  A tune like "Reelin' in the Years" that moves along is OK with me.

[westen44]

Just like anything else, it's just a matter of taste.  However, the genre isn't something I'll ever be interested in. 

[Ken]

wrong thread 
it should go here:
http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=5698.0


Anyway. Back to t-birds: 

I think that's also a really underrated Cult album.  I've really liked it a lot since it came out in the mid-'90s.

[Dave W]

If you can stand to listen to this, you'll see Kim with a Thunderbird as well as several other instruments.

Don't blame me if you're traumatized.

[Pilgrim]

Couldn't handle it enough to see the T-bird. Yeeeesh. 

[uwe]

I like it. Einstürzende Neubauten rule!

[gearHed289]

Strangely compelling. And just all around strange, but enjoyable, at least one time.

[uwe]

You just like anything that's weird. 

Speaking of ...



A national treasure, no less. Alexander Hacke, the bassist, tunes his Birds D A D A.