The Thunderheads CDs

[dubtrub]

If you guy's enjoy the Ventures music from the sixties then you will enjoy the sounds form our forums very own 'The Thunderheads'. I just received two CDs, Live at Bikini Beach and Shark Attack, by these guys and man they do an excellent cover job of the Ventures 60's music with a little bit of their own flavor. If you haven't heard them, you can check out their music on MySpace. Support our local forum family musicians and get a copy of their CDs, they are well worth it.

[Veenture]

I know…still waiting for the arrival of mine. Yeah we’ve got some excellent musicians here on our very own forum and one of the very cool surf bands here too is our own Craig Skelly’s "The Breakaways": http://www.thebreakaways.com (I’ve already ordered 3 cd’s )

Oh,…the idea has just hit me to compile a list of “all our bands” represented here (+ weblinks)…all those in favour?...

[sleeperNY]

I feel like a fish out of water here as it seams I may be the only classic country player here. Huh..... but it is music being played on a Mosrite, can't be all bad.

Jim

[JimPage]

Hey, Jim--

>>I may be the only classic country player here . . .

Nope; I would consider myself a classic country player, though my most recent band was a Bakersfield country ensemble, and the fellows I play with now are more Crosby, Still, and Nash than anything else.

Now, when I say classic country, I am thinking Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Sr, George Jones, Ernest Tubb, Roger Miller. Those are my heroes for that kind of music.

It's all good!

--Jim

[sleeperNY]

The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers might be a bit far back for us but The Bakersfield sound is right there. I love Buck Owens as well as Merle Haggard. We cover from the early 60's to the mid 80's I would say. We could do at least 3 four hour shows without repeating a song. I love the early 60's rock music and started playing that but couldn't make any money so I started to play country and have had fun from then on.

Jim

[Dennisthe Menace]

I know…still waiting for the arrival of mine. Yeah we’ve got some excellent musicians here on our very own forum and one of the very cool surf bands here too is our own Craig Skelly’s "The Breakaways": http://www.thebreakaways.com (I’ve already ordered 3 cd’s )

Oh,…the idea has just hit me to compile a list of “all our bands” represented here (+ weblinks)…all those in favour?...

....just a sidenote....love Craig's SG Jazzmaster! .....

[thunderhead]

The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers might be a bit far back for us but The Bakersfield sound is right there. I love Buck Owens as well as Merle Haggard. We cover from the early 60's to the mid 80's I would say. We could do at least 3 four hour shows without repeating a song. I love the early 60's rock music and started playing that but couldn't make any money so I started to play country and have had fun from then on.

Jim

WOW, I'm from Bristol TN. The Birth Place of Country Music. The Carter Family and Jimmy Rogers recorded for Ralph Peer in 1927 just 3 Blocks from my House. I also Love Country Music, especially Buck Owens. A connection to Surf music is here also, believe it or not. The Ventures Drummer Mel Taylor was From here {Johnson City, 20 Miles south} and his son and current Ventures Drummer Leon also. The Ventures book has a great picture of a Hillbilly Band Mel was in {playing Guitar!!!!} around here and there is a short mention of Bristol in the Book. Funny how Music quit being "regional" after the Rock-n-Roll explosion in the 1950's. Thanks from The Thunderheads for all the support on this wonderful forum.

[JimPage]

Hey--

So Bristol is that close to Johnson City? Did not know that. Best pizza I've ever had was, believe it or not, in the Pizza Hut in Johnson City. I don't even like Pizza Hut as a rule, but there was something special going on at that place.

The 1927 Bristol sessions are the Big Bang of country music, without a doubt. I have always been fascinated by the event. Been meaning to order the Bristol Sessions book and CD but keep getting sidetracked.

It must be great to live in such a meaningful-to-music area. I understand that the hat factory where the sessions occured has been torn down. Too bad; what an historic place!!!

Do they have any sites of musical interest there nowadays?

--Jim

[thunderhead]

The old homeplace of AP Carter called "The Carter Fold is still having Music every weekend. The Down Home Pickin' Parlor in Johnson City is a very special place. Tons of pickers here and lots of bands. The building the sessions were at was torn down years ago. Speaking of Country Pickers and Mosrite, how about Buck Trent with Porter Wagoner. Man what a great picker. He played a Pearl White Ventures and later Celebrity's and Maphis's.

[JimPage]

I'll have to check out Buck Trent. I love those old Porter Wagoner records, but didn't know who the picker was. So many of those players are SO gifted.

The lead guitar player in that Bakersfield band I was in had a wide vocabulary of those great Bakersfield licks. I played rhythm on an old (1936) Slingerland Nite Hawk archtop and it really fit well in that type of music.

--Jim