LE Cherry Thunderbird IV

[finlover]

I like!    You do a mean Faron Young too.

Thanks, buddy--I was afraid someone would find that, which is from a couple years and about 60 lbs. ago.  We sound better than that now--especially since I'm wielding the Bird!  We hadn't been together too long at that point.  Here's another one with Gary singing:

[finlover]

Welcome, Finlover! As I read your about the style of your band, the cd-player is rolling the country album by David Ferguson. You heard it yet? It'll be released in Sweden next week. Great record! Sounds a lot like the early 60's country style, with overtones of Cash and Nelson. And the tunes... Ballad of a teenage queen amongst them. Love the record. Highly recommended to any country lover!

Thanks, Stjofön! I haven't heard it yet but from the YouTube clips I've seen of him I know I'll like it!

[fur85]

+1 on the David Ferguson album. Thanks for the tip Stjofön.

[Wilbur88]

Beautiful looking Cherry-Bird.  Mine is a white one; I must be really lucky because there is no rippling in the finish at all.  It's a great job.

[finlover]

That is such a beauty!!   It was a friend of mine's white Firebird that inspired me to take a second look at the T-bird because it looked so damn cool!  If the new 'Birds were available in white it would have been a tough choice between that and the cherry.

You ARE lucky that your finish is perfect!  Apparently a few finish flaws are par for the course on these (and other Gibsons).  I realize nitro is more labor intensive than polyester (which is self-leveling), but you would think they'd pay extra attention to leveling the finish since it's one of the first things people notice.

[TBird1958]

Beautiful looking Cherry-Bird.  Mine is a white one; I must be really lucky because there is no rippling in the finish at all.  It's a great job.

Beauty here!

My white '89 sure doesn't look like this, very yellowed, like butter color.

[mc2NY]

I think you might have a subliminal attraction to the TBird because the wings are a bit like the ones on your Olds.

Also....your car is my favorite Fender color. Matter of fact, I have a Fender PBass in that color on EBAY!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/150817950149?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

[finlover]

You could be right!  Being a child of the late-'70s/early-'80s, which was the absolute Dark Ages of industrial design, I'm drawn to all things Space Age.

That P Bass is a stunner!!  Is it sacrilege to want a Thunderbird in Burgundy Mist?  I'd settle for one in the Gibson custom color "Heather", which was from the '60 Cadillac color chart.  

[Dave W]

Thanks, buddy--I was afraid someone would find that, which is from a couple years and about 60 lbs. ago.  We sound better than that now--especially since I'm wielding the Bird!  We hadn't been together too long at that point.  Here's another one with Gary singing:

60 lbs., good for you.

Gary has a very good voice. I gotta say, though, even early Steve Earle is beyond the era I listen to.

[nofi]

i thought that car was a chrysler imperial?

[finlover]

I gotta say, though, even early Steve Earle is beyond the era I listen to.

I'm with you, Dave!  If I had my druthers our material wouldn't extend much past the early '70s.  Even most "outlaw country" doesn't do a whole lot for me.

[finlover]

i thought that car was a chrysler imperial?

Sharp eye!  Yep, my little profile picture is of a '59 Imperial, which is way "finnier" than my '59 Olds.  Hey, they don't call me finlover for nothing (okay, nobody in the real world calls me that).

Greg

[Stjofön Big]

Have to agree concerning a bit about the country of the early 70's. Commander Cody, and the stuff made by Flying Burrito Bros, Grateful Dead, and a whole bunch of other bands, are really what I need for breakfast. Though I really fell deeply in love with the tunes by Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, and that girl who's name skips my mind right now, the chick that got killed in an airplane crash in -63 or -64, who sang Crazy - right into your heart - from the late 50's, early 60's. And then came The Beatles, and I forgot about everything else...

[Highlander]

Is it just me or does Greg/Fin have more than a passing resemblance to Uwe...?

(welcome aboard... )

[finlover]

Well, doppelgänger IS a German word.  Hmmmmm...

What I wanna know is who is the guy in Uwe's profile picture?  Is it Uwe in a previous rock star life?  Kinda looks like Mick Mars to me.