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Living Colour were amazing, Doug Wimbish is a powerhouse, and I loved the hip-hop medley. Extreme I was a bit disappointed by - GC's vocals seem to be more shouted than sung these days. Great to see Nuno and Pat though, and the drummer (sorry don't know his name) was good too. I was on the floor for the first few songs then headed to the bar for a drink. There was no way I was going to back to where I was, but nowhere back of the floor had any sightlines and the sound was suffering as well. I left after Am I Ever Going To Change (one of my favourites) which was a struggle to get through.

The above was as amazing as expected, and also featured the David Cross Band doing all of Larks Tongues in Aspic, which was quite special. The encore was everyone on stage for Starless and 21st Century Schizoid Man 🤩 Tomorrow: further excitement with Extreme and Living Colour

Welcome! I too am a moderately-bad guitarist.

Quite like! Best AotW so far. Compared my usual Scandawegian jazz preferences they need to let the pig out a bit, but otherwise well played and sounds lovely.

Oooh yes, looking forward to this one.

Listened to all of it, don't mind the non-English vocals (I'm a Magma fan ffs) but equally not really my bag. Ok though, and better than previous arbitrary "derrière" (anag) I wonder if band members on any AotWs are casually googling their bandname and ending up here? Probably not Bjork tbh.

aye, not as cheap as they used to be. Mine can do this though

Lovely bit of kit (but how did it come to £4.5k? our new boiler was about half that)

I shan't let it colour my opinion and I hope no one else's either. But, anagram of 'derrière'

Quite liked it! Doubt it's one I'll come back often to but nice to have on in the background with Monday morning work. Probably my favourite AotW so far.

Not often I post here, but going through an embarrassment of riches this month bass-wise: last week at the Pizza Express Jazz: Janek Gwizdala tonight at the Barbican: Hiromi with Hadrien Feraud in the band the weekend: Michael League and Bill Laurance at the QEH (also got Goose the same night, suspect quite handy but unknown-to-me bassist) later in the month: Stick Men/Tu-Ner in Prague with Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Trey Gunn

Bjork's got an amazing voice but as with most of her material I find it a bit tuneless and meandering at times. Speaking of which, some of this reminded me of the vocal jam at the end of You Enjoy Myself by Phish, which is different any time but here's the first one from youtube

Also I can lose afternoons building my own bass at https://fbass.com/model/

I love F Bass, ever since I saw Alain Caron playing them mumble-mumble years ago. This one was on reverb.com until recently and I nearly hoiked out a kidney for it: https://reverb.com/uk/item/72465995-f-bass-vf5-j-2017-transparent-seafoam-green (£5k + £200 shipping. flowers not included)

Listened! For me mostly harmless, not massively memorable, probably won't come back. Some nice bass playing.

I use the Gary Willis three-finger method, see various videos at https://www.youtube.com/@gwillis44/videos Of course I sound nothing like Gary Willis but it's great for muting and cross-string picking efficiency.

I don't sound anything like Victor Wooten when I play. Thankfully the opposite is true as well

Somehow I get Paramount+ through my Sky box, it's pretty much impossible to find anything though as it's not an actual "channel" and Sky's search thing isn't great. I'll try looking again on December 5th!

Do artists get paid for streams from the bandcamp site if you don't buy the album? (I'd be up for a Spotify version but I'm paying for it anyway)

I'm in. Do I have to listen to it more than once if I don't like it? Along a similar vein a few years ago I made a bet with myself to listen to an album that I'd never listened to before every day for a year (familiar artists were allowed but the more off my usual piste the better). I'd already won the bet by early December and carried on until close to Christmas (I think I gave myself a week or two off)

The cheap seats for Madge are 2x the cost of a floor ticket for Abba though. Also, Abba have an actual band who are quite good. Anyway - night two for Madonna, late start due to some tech failure, early finish because of O2 curfew. Ooops/Schadenfreude And also also, there's no Hanky Panky in the set (the song that is), so *duncan bannentyne accent* ahm oot

He played one song that no one knew, no wonder he's angry

In the intro for Vincen Garcia, 48 hours is what CW said as the heads up time. It'll be interesting to see how the same story is presented in Manchester and Glasgow over the next few days. Report in Team Basschat! As for Sonny T, apparently "something came up", nothing more specific than that. Meanwhile, given that as recently as three weeks before the tour, CW himself "took a tumble" (his words) and injured both legs and an arm, it's a miracle the shows are happening at all.