Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[uwe]

  I enjoyed it.

RRRRRRRRANT!!!

So did I. Yes, she's hurried (so was Alvin Lee), but rhythmically accurate. And towards the end she slows down and is downright tasteful. If I was in a rehearsal room and a chick would play guitar like that, I'd fall to my knees after the jam and ask her her if I can polish her overknee boots AND become her roadie. (Wo)Man, if you are not allowed to play like that at her age, I wonder when you would ever be? Of course I personally prefer Bonnie Raitt's sublime yet understated style, but Lil' Ori can still grow into that. Or not. It's not a crime to play fast - especially if you do it well and with a decent choice of notes like she does. That said, I generally question the wisdom of Jimi Hendrix covers, but that applied to the hallowed Stevie Ray Vaughn too.

In this ageing forum, anything that is fast, youthful, exhuberant and over-energetic automatically gets the "crap"-stamp - unless it has a garage-amateurish sound of course - with no closer look being afforded the time. Lil' Ori is for instance a lot more accurate, tasteful and dynamic than a young John Sykes was when I saw him with Thin Lizzy in 1983 - and he was hailed as an up and coming guitar god at the time. How many wimmin do you know and/or have played with that can play like her? Most women I know play electric guitar as if it was an acoustic.

BTW: Is she also the chick guitarist in Alice Cooper's current band (when he's not playing with that wife-beatin' drunkard that is!)?

[slinkp]

I'm with Uwe and Pilgrim. I thought it was fun, certainly don't hear anything there worthy of ire.  Sounds like pretty well executed if not especially inspiring lead guitar shenanigans to me.  It's not my style, but why the hate?  Haven't we had millions of videos shared here with less than godly lead guitarists that nobody cared to pick on?

[Granny Gremlin]

Oh it's good, just shazzy.  Girl can wank like any dude.

[Basvarken]

It's just soulless shredding over a chewed up Hendrix song.
I don't like that by anybody; man or woman.

[66Atlas]

BTW: Is she also the chick guitarist in Alice Cooper's current band (when he's not playing with that wife-beatin' drunkard that is!)?

Orianthi used to be with Alice Cooper but was replaced by Nita Strauss a couple years ago.  Strauss is a little more of a "showboat" than Orianthi so probably makes more sense in his production/show/vaudeville act.

[Highlander]

Only time I saw Sykes was with Tygers back in the very early 80's...

[Dave W]

It's just soulless shredding over a chewed up Hendrix song.
I don't like that by anybody; man or woman.

Agreed. And her tone was awful.

[wellREDman]

I liked it, nothing exceptional but damn fine blues shredding doing justice to the tune

[Alanko]

The German band 'The Rattles'. Their bassist is using a T-bird II, around 12:05 onwards.



It really underpins the sound of the band nicely.

[Granny Gremlin]

I love how you keep posting Beat Club videos (first came across those when looking for Monks vids), also how they use Sennheisser MD421 (in rare white) for the hosts (and sometimes even vocals for the bands, as they did with The Monks).  Nice to see such a classic and seminal mic given a headlinging slot vs nowadays being mostly relegated to 2nd choice for drums and guitar amp if lucky.

[Alanko]

I love how you keep posting Beat Club videos.

Yeah I've been binging out on them. An astonishing snapshot of the era. The archives seem to have opened up, so you can see all sorts of obscure off-piste bands. Teenage Brits trying to make something of themselves out in Germany, playing covers and clunky originals. Some have the stage moves and clothes, others are barely bigger than their instruments. The bass is captured unusually well on most of the Beat Club videos. My current band has a strong '60s feel, so I'm trying to study the composition of those bass lines a bit more. They might be basic, but they somehow deliver the goods.

[wellREDman]

researching this cos I've been assigned it for the sessioning module at college when i spotted a bird

[Highlander]

Nice find... poor miming though... can't have everything...

[wellREDman]

Nice find... poor miming though... can't have everything...

hadn't picked up on that but not watching it on the smoothest of connections,
what was most disappointing was finding out that Nancy wasn't the lead on this

[Highlander]

Mr Fisher, iirc...