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Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better
KingBollock replied to Leonard Smalls's topic in General Discussion
Damian’s version of The Time Warp makes my eye twitch. The song is bad enough, but he is the cause of everyone, everywhere, that has gone to a wedding reception in the last 33 years, getting the dance wrong! -
Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better
KingBollock replied to Leonard Smalls's topic in General Discussion
I love all the Cradle of Faith covers, including Devil Woman. Their version of Stay is particularly good, as is their version of Iron Maiden’s Hallowed Be Thy Name. I genuinely can’t wait to see what Cradle and Ed Sheeran have cooked up. -
Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better
KingBollock replied to Leonard Smalls's topic in General Discussion
I was in a band in about 1988/9 that did a cover of a Zodiac Mindwarp song. I have never heard the original and I never really knew what the song was called. It’s been bugging me for years! This is the first time I have ever come across anyone that even knows of the band. -
Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better
KingBollock replied to Leonard Smalls's topic in General Discussion
As much as I adore Motörhead, their covers of Metallica songs are terrible! Much worse than the Metallica covers of Motörhead, which ain’t so good themselves. -
Bands whose live albums trounce their studio efforts
KingBollock replied to Barking Spiders's topic in General Discussion
That’s the only Slayer album I have ever bought. I find the vocals very difficult to hear. It’s the only album where the “Karaoke” function on my stereo actually completely got rid of the vocals. -
Cr#p covers by artists who should have known better
KingBollock replied to Leonard Smalls's topic in General Discussion
Oh my giddy aunt! I had forgotten about that cover of Weak. I love me some Skunk Anansie and I’m rather partial to a bit of Rod (oo er..), but… I went and listened to it after reading your post, thinking that I hadn’t heard it. That is until the chorus came in and I realised that I had indeed heard it before. Hopefully I can forget about it again! -
Bands whose live albums trounce their studio efforts
KingBollock replied to Barking Spiders's topic in General Discussion
Not sure if these count… I love Skunk Anansie, but my favourite album of their’s is An Acoustic Skunk Ananasie - Live In London. Absolutely no filler and it sounds amazing. For a long time, instead of listening to the Guns & Roses’ Appetite For Destruction album, I would listen to a cassette that I recorded from a gig I saw on the telly, Live At The Ritz ‘88. Even though I had to record it using a very crap microphone pointing at the TV speaker, and going into one of those cheap, mono cassette recorders. AND my parents came home half way through My Michelle and you can hear our dogs barking at the door! I still listen to that gig now if I fancy some Guns & Roses. -
Arriving, reflecting and departing - music for your funeral
KingBollock replied to snorkie635's topic in General Discussion
I’d definitely want: Motörhead - Killed By Death John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders I can’t decide on a third. Possibly Simon & Garfunkel - Hazy Shade Of Winter, or Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids. -
Stupid question - why do some basses have two batteries?
KingBollock replied to GoodShowSir's topic in Bass Guitars
A more believable photo than the time the local paper came to the college where I was learning electronics. They chose me as the poster boy, for some reason (probably my long, flowing, blond locks). When I was approached by the photographers, I was soldering something to a pcb. But when they asked me to pose for the camera, they didn’t like the soldering iron… So they got me to do the exact same pose, but holding a pair of pliers instead… I ended up on the front page looking like that! Oh the shame!! -
Ok, this doesn’t really fit the inappropriate category, but it was a bit odd… My first ever gig was with a school band. It was for pensioners from some old-folks homes, held in a church hall. I think they called it a chicken and chips dance, or chicken dinner dance. Something like that. Our school orchestra was playing, but my music class only had five people in it, and so we made up our own little band (piano, drums, bass and two singers). We were to perform three songs during an orchestra interval. I can’t for the life of me remember what they were, except that one was The Locomotion. The other two would have been something from the charts around the same time. We played them and it went ok. But the old folks loved it and wanted more! But we only knew those three songs. They didn’t care, they said we should play them again! And so we did! Some members of the orchestra were quite miffed…
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I know this isn’t exactly what was asked for, but… This was while working with a mobile disco. We did a huge Christmas gig at a very posh/expensive hotel, for 300+ Travellers (gypsies). The boss had decided to do the lights (it was normally my job. He was useless at it), which left me taking the requests. There weren’t any that were inappropriate, but when taking requests from the kids, if the song was not played immediately, they’d start shouting that their dad will “Kick my fookin’ ‘ead in!”. Which I felt was inappropriate… We did a corporate Christmas gig that had this one bloke who appeared to have turned up drunk and got pister n pister*… No one would go near him. He was demanding UB40, and his request got more and more menacing as the evening wore on. He was getting really angry and I was having to deal with him (I was only 16). Eventually the DJ took pity on me and played a UB40 song, which cleared the dance floor. This bloke stood in the middle of the dance floor and went nut! He had a very long scarf that, when hung around his neck, both ends brushed the floor. He started flinging this scarf around, and used it to rip ALL of the Christmas decorations off the ceiling! As soon as the song finished he asked for another UB40 song! *Sorry, that’s an in-joke, just ignore it.
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I wish I’d known that when I was a kid! I was in a band with musicians much older than me, so they often hung out together outside of the band (they ranged in age from 18 to 29. I was only 14 and couldn’t get in the pub). The rhythm guitarist and the drummer decided to leave and do their own thing, rather than try to sack the lead guitarist and singer, so the band split up. I knew nothing of any of this. Then I got asked to join with the rhythm section and I said yes. Later the lead guitarist asked if I’d join him in a band, and I really wanted to, but I told him that I had already said I’d join the others. Guess which one went on to have successful music career…? Ironically, it was the lead guitarist that gave me the message that I had a phone call (I was at work, in a guitar shop), which turned out to be the rhythm guitarist asking me to join him.
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You can get metal ones that you can shape to your thumb, and that have folded over edges on the pick part for going up as well as down. But they don’t sound right in a bass, I don’t think. There are some that are popular with banjo players that have a metal thumb band but a plastic pick. And then there is/was (not sure) the one designed by a Megadeth guitarist that was basically a metal thumb band that you could slot a standard pick into, which was meant to be played in a normal style, but with the security of not being able to drop it and still be able to let go and widdle up the fretboard, should one feel inclined.
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What are you listening to right now?
KingBollock replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
I’ve only got the Icon album by Paradise Lost. And the As I Die EP. I’ve got a playlist that I am learning to drum with, and As I Die is in there. There are a few Type O Negative tracks, too. Angry Inch being a favourite. -
I don’t know if this is any help to anyone… I recently bought some cable/zip ties from Aldi or Lidl (sorry, can’t remember which). They’re large, black and can be undone and reused, which is very handy. It’s nice not having to cut them off and waste them everytime you need to change something.
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What are you listening to right now?
KingBollock replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
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My computers and hard drives have names. At the moment they’re based on fantasy swords, and ships and stations from the Alien franchise.
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BC Rich Warlock - Ravensfriend Cort T35 - Gloomborn Epiphone Thunderbird Goth - Angelbane I’ve also got an Ibanez 7 string, skinny string thing called Mourneblade. They’re the only ones that have names. The name has to come naturally, else it doesn’t get one. Two of those are fantasy swords, the other two just came to me.
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What are you listening to right now?
KingBollock replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
Motörhead - Make My Day -
Like Franticsmurf, I have mine so that my belt buckle would be about central to the bass body (I know this because, when I was thin enough, I caused buckle rash in exactly that position…). I have my bass the same length sitting and standing. When sitting, the bass hangs down between my legs with the neck angled quite high. I never rest my bass on my leg when playing sitting down.
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What are you listening to right now?
KingBollock replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
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I now live about the same distance from Swansea (Llanarthne) as I did from Leicester when I lived in the Midlands (Nuneaton). i don’t know why I find that interesting. My mum’s family are from Hinckley. The best job I ever had was in Hinckley. So was the worst.
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I once went to a gig in Swansea because a friend’s band were headlining. There were five other bands. Unfortunately, Wales were playing England in the rugby six nations, and there was a TV behind the bar… At one point, the singer for one of the bands had jumped off the stage and was going bonkers, he was putting on a hell of a show, really going for it. And just about no one, other than me, saw it because everyone was standing at the bar with their eyes glued to the damned telly. I’ll be honest, it made me really angry.
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Vintage bass combo with 'vintage price'
KingBollock replied to 3below's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
Mine blew its bridge rectifier. Which I fixed, but it was still annoying. You are right, though, it did amplify. It made dullness slightly louder. -
What are you listening to right now?
KingBollock replied to Sarah5string's topic in General Discussion
I’ve had this stuck in my head all night!