toneknob

I've got a spare for Thursday 4th if anyone's interested - downstairs standing, £43.40 covers face value and the usual fees. (breakdown available if required)

Much to my delight, Mrs Knob has started entertaining the idea of having Jazz FM on in the kitchen. It gets a bit dinner jazz for me at dinner time (funny that) but I've discovered some corkers recently usually by dashing for my phone and firing up Shazam. A repeat listen recently has been Chip Wickham's two albums, both on spotify, La Sombra and Shamal Wind.

ps I'm seeing this lot later today

Tina Weymouth is fab. Stop Making Sense was the first record I bought**, and I've seen both Tom Tom Club and David Byrne solo a few times each. The very recent show at Hammersmith Odeon was simply amazing. ** I was trying to be cool with an American friend of mine about this, he said "oh yeah I was at one of the gigs they recorded for the film". That'll teach me

If a band says you can't be in another band, leave that band. (the first one that is)

I am a massively old 40-blahblah and go to a lot more jazz these days. New every time!

Agree about Geoff Chalmers - in fact I think he and Scott have done combined tutorials at some point. There's a lot of crossover in Geoff's videos for electric players - walking bass, soloing, intonation, etc

Are the straps any good?

Good point - there's a lot there on SBL, but that means you can pick and choose what you consume and still get your VFM. I find some videos to be a bit fluffy before getting to the actual meat of the subject matter; and I've not really bothered with the forum seeing as I have you lot to play with.

I just renewed for another year with the $98 offer. and the promise to myself that this year I will do the Rufus Philpot course, the Rich Brown course, the Adam Neely course, etc etc

I was once trying to be cool in front of an American friend who is a half-decade ish older than me. Conversation about Talking Heads, me "Stop Making Sense was the first record I bought! I was only 14 or 15". Him "oh, ok. I was at one of the shows they recorded for that album. We snuck in through a fire exit"

Also I was interviewed live on BBC News 24 in the queue to pick up tickets for the Led Zep reunion, the day before the gig. The first thing I did was to correct the BBC reporter live on air, which I suspect is probably treasonable

I'm on an "official bootleg" of a Peter Gabriel gig at Wembley Arena from the Growing Up tour, heckling in the intro to (I think) The Barry WIlliams Show. Also I'm in the Solsbury Hill from the Live Blood, in the footage from Hammersmith Odeon. It's the "old blokes dancing shot" from about 4m40s here (ps I am not dancing)

Ffwd to about 15m20s, and your dancing Spider-Man icon is exactly in time with the vocal bridge section.

Among many other things, I love the trouser choices going on here.

Saw FORQ at Ronnie's a couple of weeks ago, really enjoyed it. I met another bassist in the interval and went to geek over Kev's board. He was good enough to chat us through his choices. Totally forgotten now of course.

Bit of a dump though wasn't it. And those Behringer bass stacks Good falafels from the cookshop next door though! The whole School Road area has been earmarked for redevelopment into residential buildings.

It's one arrow in a quiver of Things To Do With The Form. If you can do it well, it'll be good; less so if you fluff it. A bit like things in many other types of music.

I've used Moog Taurus (1 and 3) for ages but never played chords. I don't have enough legs. Apparently the Taurus 3 is polyphonic but I've never needed/wanted to figure it out.

You might like the first track on their album "The Universe Smiles Upon You", "Mr. White"

I was receommended these guys a couple of weeks ago then promptly forgot their name (understandable tbh) Dig the Grolsch bottle washer straplocks

I've been in four Genesis tribs, but not for the last ten years or so. Still got all the gear though, including Shergold double-neck and Moog Taurus. (For a short time I had Taurus 1 and Taurus 3 in the same house. Sadly playing both at the same time proved tricky due to insufficient limbs so the T1 is now has a new home and I spent the proceeds on living frivolously for a while).

Nice! I was also featured once in a similar but less obvious sidebar, same issue as the controversial cover story with Gene Simmons in approx 1996. Also, I was once in a Russian version of Classic Rock, so I know what my name looks like in Cyrillic script now.