Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[Stjofön Big]

Been in our summer house since May, only home to do the washing. And then, tonight, I finally got time to sit down at the computer. To find this nice music, with a bass that sounds the way I like it to sound! Thank you very much, Thunder!

[Ken]

I didn't remember seeing the NR in the Back in Black video.

[uwe]

The closest AC/DC ever came to sounding like Led Zep. It really is a Jimmy Page style riff.

[amptech]

The closest AC/DC ever came to sounding like Led Zep. It really is a Jimmy Page style riff.

Careful what you say now, mister. Remember what we did to Blücher!

[uwe]

Huh? You did nothing, he died as an old man peacefully at home having won all his major battles (against mostly the French)!

A similarity to AC/DC seems to be though that he wasn't regarded as much of a strategist or tactician, but as mainly daring and dashing, always advancing. Hence his nickname "Marschall Vorwärts". "Vorwärts" (forward) kind of sums up AC/DC too. 

[amptech]

Huh? You did nothing, he died as an old man peacefully at home having won all his major battles (against mostly the French)!

I meant the battleship

[uwe]

 

Ok, German battleships (the Blücher was a heavy cruiser, but no matter, those sucked too) were never much to sink write home about. We should have built them dual purpose battleship/submarine right from the start.

You Norsemen/your Birger Eriksen





"Either I will be decorated, or I will be court-martialed. Fire!"

— Birger Kristian Eriksen, as he gave orders to fire at the German heavy cruiser Blücher.

"It's not really hard to fire guns, but it's immensely hard to make the decision to fire."

— Post-war statement with regards to his decision to open fire.

"Der skal for fanden skytes med skarpt!" (Damn right we're firing live ammunition.)

— Supposedly said as he gave orders to fire.


sure took her to the cleaners in 1940 ... And to add insult to injury (she had cost us more than 80 million Reichsmark, that was a lot of money back then!), you even sunk her (within two hours after the first hit, ouch!) on her maiden combat voyage ... 





But then you had good German equipment to do it, Krupp guns, albeit half a century old ones, but German furnace quality just lasts and lasts ... 



Alas!, don't mess with Vikings ...



PS: Birger not only left a lasting (and deserved) impression in his home country, but also with the enemy, some grudging respect there:

"In Oscarborg, Birger and his men kept fighting well until the tenth of April, a day after the sinking of the Blücher and the loss of Oslo. Taken prisoner by the German troops, Birger was quickly released and kept a low profile during the rest of the war and was mostly involved in municipal work in various places. After the war he was awarded the French War Cross and Legion of Honour as well as the highest decoration of his homeland, the Norwegian War Cross."

[Pilgrim]

No other forum digresses from its topics more interestingly. I hereby award 1,000 points!

[uwe]

 

We're living proof for how the chaos theory works and always leads to best results!

[Ken]

I like this place's version of chaos.

[uwe]

That even sounds like a TBird.

[ilan]

That's Andy McMaster, who wrote and sang lead and played keyboards on Airport.

[uwe]

Michael posted this in the "So what have you been listening to lately?"-thread, but it belongs here too. That's a 60ies TB with its slightly overdriven sound, absolutely gorgeous.

[uwe]

It's their keyboard player/lead singer playing the TBird here.

He was hard to pin down, Andy McMaster was co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist, bassist, sometime guitarist and towards the end keyboarder (his fave instrument) of The Motors (they got in Martin Ace from MAN as a new bassist). Here (on their greatest hit where they began to sound a bit like Pilot/Mr Big/City Boy/10cc Brit sophisticated pop), he's on keyboards and lead vocals - co-lead vocalist and guitarist Nick Garyey plays the Höffie for once (in most other taped TV performances, he played his guitar and they did without bass).



For some reason, I always thought that that keyboard line in the chorus sounded like something off the soundtrack of a Emanuelle soft porn movie (I only went for the music!)!   I guess they wanted (what they thought was) a European vibe to the song. Alas!, Silvia Kristel, another noteworthy Dutch(wo)man. No one has ever sat on a rattan chair with more - what's the word ... ah yes ... - nubile grace.

[westen44]

Michael posted this in the "So what have you been listening to lately?"-thread, but it belongs here too. That's a 60ies TB with its slightly overdriven sound, absolutely gorgeous.

It would be hard to find a better example of what I personally think a bass should sound like.  It's like art.