So as not to clutter up the other Thunderbird/video post and to satisfy my unrelenting desire to say "look at me" I ask my brethren to post their Thunderbird moments. I'll start ;D I'm sick as dog here and 20 lbs over weight but the Bird is the word! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_0LWD4talY
I deliberately picked up a vid of Lady Thunderbird and the Nasty's pretty early pretty early on so you most certainly won't be cluttering up the post with any footage of the Smokes, Bro...
We'd be honoured by your inclusion... ;) 8)
Kenny you are way to kind.
Awesome Scott!
Here's a video from a few years ago.
Back in the Stonefly days. This particular gig we were support for John Waite and his band (who had to lend all our gear. And still act as a bunch of arrogant pricks despite the fact that they couldn't even play his biggest hit properly...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zHAjU2R6UY
Rob That's a great version of that song! Always treacherous territory covering The Beatles or any of them solo. By far my favorite cover of that song I have ever heard, well done! You could release that and have a hit! The bird sounds great love the way you improv the bass line.
In this vid you here parts of different songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xh03NNh8mA
All fine examples, guys... 8)
Rob... Floor and you should discuss covering that tune yourselves... her voice would really suit it... that's one of the reasons I posted that Ruby Starr cover of that song... it suits a woman with a powerful voice...
I've got 2 links on youtube to me when I was 19 with my band, "Daisy Chain", which wound up getting signed to Mercury in 1991 and changed the name to Mind Bomb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhdnIPLApdU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNxdijPr9Y8
And of course NEW RISING SON with my NR 8 string that Fraulein Rommel owns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64yBETlKGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKq4E1G1d6E&feature=related
@ Scott
The bass part is sort of a hybrid between Macca's version and Ronnie Lane's version with the Faces.
(I actually prefer the Faces version over Macca's original)
@ Kenny
Interesting thought. This song fitted our lead singer Jan very well. I guess Floor could sing it well too.
Not sure if it would fit in with the rest of the Superfloor repertoire now that we've been steering the ship a little back towards the Blues lately.
@ Baz
Ah the big hair days :mrgreen: Love it: Aerosmith meets UFO.
Too bad the sound is only on the right channel?
Your drummer looked like Tommy Aldridge
This is about the only decent one I've converted from VHS and uploaded. And, yes, it's the Embassy. :mrgreen:
http://www.myspace.com/video/23399699/strange-fascination/51670130 (http://www.myspace.com/video/23399699/strange-fascination/51670130)
Rob - we used to do a version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" with 2 guitars. More like Faces, too, but I don't think we ever heard that version. We just winged ours. Love the bass work you did.
My UFO tribute band Force It's 1st Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jez1Z6o_8
This is from a few years ago, before my "Tone Rebirth" (building patches for my Bass Podxt Live) at the Grass Valley Center for the Performing Arts in Grass Valley, CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Kg4YgyS7c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Kg4YgyS7c)
I really dig that bass sound you've got. Deep, strong, with barb wire on top of it. And that singer of yours sound a lot like Daltrey.
That first tune, Can't explain, always moves because of the bridge part, that D-Bm-G-A7. I think it's interesting that Townshend used those chords, because they really belonged to an era that was about to end. And The Who wasn't part of that era in any way, as I see it. And I can see for miles, so don't ya argue with me. Because we're talking about My-my-my Generation!
Quote from: Stjofön Big on March 22, 2011, 10:12:23 AM
I really dig that bass sound you've got. Deep, strong, with barb wire on top of it. And that singer of yours sound a lot like Daltrey.
That first tune, Can't explain, always moves because of the bridge part, that D-Bm-G-A7. I think it's interesting that Townshend used those chords, because they really belonged to an era that was about to end. And The Who wasn't part of that era in any way, as I see it. And I can see for miles, so don't ya argue with me. Because we're talking about My-my-my Generation!
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Why thank you. I have really done a lot of work since this was taken to get a more entwistleish tone although this wasn't bad, but I had a tough time getting it consistent. Our singer and guitarist are both from the UK and Mo (singer) has an amazingly strong voice. Again, thanks!
Quote from: bassplayer8953 on March 22, 2011, 05:22:57 AM
My UFO tribute band Force It's 1st Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jez1Z6o_8
Love it!
So do I. That singer nails Mogg's tone - compliments, that is not an easy thing to do.
Force It was a pun on faucet - hence the cover showing both the appliance and the, errm, act (which spawned heated discussion in the US of A whether it was of hetero- or homosexual nature, in any case no musician of UFO, not even Mad Mickey was involved in the shooting):
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5UQvfhjTbxI/SxTEekdXBxI/AAAAAAAAANM/jHKpBWOR4RA/s1600/ufo_force_it75.jpg)
And if they had added a pic of her on the cover, it would have been a triple pun!
(http://beyondbreastcancer.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/farrah.jpg)
That's why the USA version looked like this:
(http://991.com/NewGallery/UFO-Force-It---Sealed-477134.jpg)
We're such Puritains on this side of the Atlantic ;D
Got to admit, I always prefered the US cover of Electric Ladyland...
I presume Virgin Killer didn't make it intact to your shores either...
Quote from: TBird1958 on March 23, 2011, 02:18:22 PM
Love it!
Thanks! I'll pass your comments on to the guys...
We have more examples which I could upload (to Youtube) but right now I'm running into technical difficulties: won't allow uploads, either due to a software glitch, or some other computer issue. Making me crazy... >:(
btw, enjoy the Nasty Habits videos myself...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-5ccL6AWaI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-5ccL6AWaI)
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on March 24, 2011, 06:30:07 PM
Got to admit, I always prefered the US cover of Electric Ladyland...
I presume Virgin Killer didn't make it intact to your shores either...
How about this one?
Original version:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3392/3255591185_33db1b8269.jpg)
USA version:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/3256422874_0e329fb2bb.jpg)
:mrgreen:
Well, Rob, large parts of North America are rather rural and a nice shot of vegetation gives the local population there a real turn-on! To each their own.
Other parts of the world had to settle with the distracting sight of those two kraut broads on the cover. :-\
I remember the original cover of the Roxy Music album being in stores. Pictures like that grab a young boys attention :o
I surely prefer the European sort of "bushes", although i prefer them trimmed... ;D
Quote from: Nokturnal on March 25, 2011, 07:49:23 AM
I remember the original cover of the Roxy Music album being in stores. Pictures like that grab a young boys attention :o
I definatley remember that cover!
What a record, Country life! And such an appealing cover! I saw Roxy on the tour that followed. Lots of guys in the audience came dressed up in tuxedos, some even in white tuxedo jacket. Then Ferry did his entré. Dressed like Zorro, except that he wore no mask. Them tuxedos looked washed-up after that show.
But concerning the two German chicks: No, sorry folks. He did not bring them!
Oh, yes: The white tuxedos came from Ferry wearing one on his second solo album, released only a few month before Country life. The one where he stands with a very short cigarett butt in his hand, looking straight into the viewer's eyes, with lots of beautiful people taking it easy in the background, complete with a swimming pool. Ferry looks a bit uncomfortable. I wonder if that is a way of showing his working class roots, in a moneypacked surrounding. Great cover that one, also. No nude chicks, though. But one can't have it all, can one?
Quote from: rockinrayduke on March 24, 2011, 09:03:59 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-5ccL6AWaI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-5ccL6AWaI)
Smooth Mr Ray, very smooth. Wish I could play it like you are here.
@ At every body else, as THE RESIDENT EXPERT OF WOMEN'S UNDERWARE on this forum, I can tell you we most definately had the cover with girls on it - Now where's my kleenex? ;)
Shucks! "blushing"
Quote from: Iome on March 25, 2011, 08:21:43 AM
I surely prefer the European sort of "bushes", although i prefer them trimmed... ;D
I have a strong hunch that I was European in a past life. :mrgreen:
Quote from: uwe on March 25, 2011, 06:18:33 AM
Well, Rob, large parts of North America are rather rural and a nice shot of vegetation gives the local population there a real turn-on! To each their own.
Other parts of the world had to settle with the distracting sight of those two kraut broads on the cover. :-\
So are the two Kraut Broads Ursula and Greta? I like their "appointments"...
Quote from: godofthunder on March 25, 2011, 08:50:40 AM
I definatley remember that cover!
It was available in the USA with the original cover, until it started taking off. Another cover that was changed in the USA after the album started selling was Scorpions' Love Drive.
The head shop where I bought most of my records had both Scorpions albums and the the Roxy one with the original covers. That Blind Faith album was another one that could run afoul of censors as well...
Quote from: Dr Eagle on March 25, 2011, 05:21:29 PM
So are the two Kraut Broads Ursula and Greta? I like their "appointments"...
"Why zhank you Doctor" ;)