Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

[slinkp]

You just like anything that's weird.

Is there a problem with that?

There was a time after Last Splash when the Breeders fell apart with drug problems etc and I thought Kim was getting boring and just rehashing her old music. I'm glad she has proved me wrong lately.

Fun fact - I found out the guy on the drums with Kim, Britt Walford, is something of an indie rock legend - he played on that first Breeders album (Pod) under a pseudonym, and around the same time he was playing in Slint, one of those bands that hardly anyone heard but had an influence far beyond their stature, especially the whole "Post-rock" scene. I liked them. GearHed might like them   I think Walford was still under 20 at the time.

[gearHed289]

Funny you should mention Slint. I did some cases for them back in '07. Consequently got tickets to their show at Park West in Chicago. They were an interesting band. I wasn't that captivated, but I might go back and give their stuff another chance. The thing that stood out the most was the silence from the crowd between songs. It seemed to be some kind of inside joke, like "Primus sucks" that only the hip fans knew about. Strange indeed!

[pjm]

One of the greatest songs ever written.

[doombass]

One of the greatest songs ever written.

Is that an 8-string Hamer?

Edit: Did some quick research answering my own question. That is indeed a Hamer and Tom Petersson no less playing it.

[Basvarken]

Most likely a 12-string then

[doombass]

Hmm, look who the seller was: https://reverb.com/ca/item/5521304-hamer-fb-viii-thunderbird-8-string-bass-tom-petersson-cheap-trick

Maybe not the very same bass as the one above but similar.

[Dave W]

Hmm, look who the seller was: https://reverb.com/ca/item/5521304-hamer-fb-viii-thunderbird-8-string-bass-tom-petersson-cheap-trick

Maybe not the very same bass as the one above but similar.

Probably the same.

[TBird1958]

 Yes, that is one and the same bass.

[Ken]

I like it. Einstürzende Neubauten rule!

Yes!  Such a great live band, too.

[Basvarken]

I had the album Laughin' At Judgement Day in the car today. And I remembered their bass player at the time had a Thunderbird.

So I checked out on YouTube if there was any decent live footage.








I saw them live about a dozen times. They never disappointed. Super solid live band.
They did get a bit predictable after a while. But I guess any band will be after you've seen them ten or more times live ;-)

[Granny Gremlin]

Ha ha, true. If owning a yacht was a prerequisite, then the Rolling Stones would be yacht rock.

I got news for you, they have been yacht rock for the last decade at least. ;P

Funny thing, 'yacht rock" got reused as a short lived, neo new wave shoegaze youth thing (I think Vaurnet shirts and deck shoes with no socks came back in the bargain) like 5 years ago.  I believe it  just got re-absorbed into dreampop or something.

[Pilgrim]

When I was spinning records, it was just called easy listening or light rock.

[uwe]

A Bird on flight in Austria ...

[westen44]

Tom Hamilton may or may not have played a Thunderbird on "Sweet Emotion."  This article from Gibson specifically says he did.  However, in a recent interview Tom said he didn't.  He has played so many different basses through the years, you never know what he's going to be playing.   

http://aws2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/The-10-Coolest-Gibson-Thunderbird-Players.aspx

https://fullinbloom.com/aerosmith-tom-hamilton-interview-2019-talks-bass-vegas-residency-old-school/

[doombass]

Interesting take on the Krist Novoselic Signature RD Bass. 

http://aws2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/The-10-Coolest-Gibson-Thunderbird-Players.aspx

• Krist Novoselic: The Gibson Ripper was Novoselic’s main bass through his years with Nirvana until he settled on the Thunderbird IV in the band’s last months. Novoselic was so enamored with the T-bird design that he celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind by creating the Krist Novoselic Signature RD Bass with Gibson. The instrument follows the essential curves of the Thunderbird IV