BassTractor

Nah. It just needs a tiny bit of redesign for it to be perfect: 😉

They said it, and I want to join in with the choir: you bloody nailed it, Knicknack. Wonderful timing and wonderful patches (and I just love bringing in an appeal-to-authority argument in that I'm a keyboard guy who taught synths 'n' stuff at music college once, just so you get the idea it ain't meant as idle words).

- "I am more musical than you are." 😐

Dunno about the app, which may need some delving into, but the handheld is still a phrase synth that will repeat the phrases you've previously added. Whilst I think it's great fun, and I used one as a train companion for years, it's probably too limited to give enduring fun. Still, here's what I think is a great example of what the original handheld can do:

Ah, but then yours were made out of the shells. Some however are made out of the beaks. They tend to snap.

Oh! Found the very gig that drew me to them. Love the style, love the compositions, love the sound, and especially love the musicianship of all three. As a keyboard guy myself, I love this key guy's output. Very fitting live.

I notice with pleasure that editing this version - - move up one (1) "NOT" and lengthen one (1) arrow with standard red in regular width - - is even less work than editing your first version . I take for granted that you were thinking of the work involved for me when designing your last, stellar, version. I appreciate this and I thank you.

Sigh... ...and, finally-but-better-late-than-never, the correct version: 😉

Incidentally mentioned specifically by Ellen Andrea Wang as an important inspiration to her. 🙂

Ellen Andrea Wang of the Ellen Andrea Wang Trio - some kind of crossover jazz with tendencies towards rough synth sounds, minimalism, Pat Metheny, pretty vocal melodies and probably a lot more. Have yet to delve into their output, but am pretty impressed so far, and here are some examples: From their album Blank Out: Here a Still-Life (Talking) vibe from their album Diving :

We called her "BJ Barbie"... ...after she swapped hair with Boris. Sorry. Carry on.

It's now well over a day later, and I'm still laughing. So true.

Indeed. Very much so. I've liked it worded as "Anything to the left of Der Stürmer is communist propaganda".

OK enough in my former prog band, but probably not adequate for most punk bands.

0 at the moment. Pesky buyers! 😡 😁

Well, that U and that M seem to have a good time... and they're getting a lot of exposure too!

Thanks for your kindness, Dave! Just for clarity: twas not the job itself that broke me, but specific stuff outside this thread. Aye, but I'd say "in addition" rather than "more". I forgot to mention this specifically in my second paragraph, which I intended to be about that side of things. I've edited and put in a few words. Uisge beatha: YES! Islay: YES!, but like you I do appreciate the non-peaty stuff.

You won. </THREAD>

As an ex-copper coming from a family of coppers, I'd say it does put barriers up as to the general public even though it shouldn't. Not that people are very anti-police per se, but often police are regarded as "the others". IME, coppers also tend to bond with others coppers, for different reasons. One aspect is that people in the police force share with some other lines of work that they experience a lot and look into many dark corners of people's lives and of society in general - stuff that many in the general public wouldn't understand even it one wasn't bound by anonymity orders.

I guess I'll have to thank Dave for starting this thread. Felt like a smuck, as I'm clinically depressed and on benefits after a stroke and a burn-out. This after a long life where I've been really all over the place: Many different jobs, ranging from being a nightwatch at a brewery and at a boarding school all the way to being a police senior officer advising our PM and other ministers, being a classical musician and music college teacher, an IT teacher and having several different functions in child protection services before starting a sea kayaking firm catering for both firms and end users. The kayaking firm was my last project before everything went to smithereens roughly six years ago. In some of these jobs, I had too much power for one fallible human. In others, the demands on my knowledge and insights were tremendous, as people's lives depended on them. As I said, I felt like a smuck before the thread, but now realise I've just been omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, and hence my next project probably will be to create a new universe or two. I think... 😁

I'm available too. My right hand will do melodies, improvised solos and chords, making one guitar player superfluous. My left hand will do chords, melodies and solos. That does away with the other guitar player. My feet will do the bass part. No chords and certainly no bass solos, so we don't need a bass player either. Things are cheap with me in your band! PM me for details. PS My portable electronic organ does have an advanced rhythm box with programmable Feel, Groove and Swing...

Yup, he was in Khan, and plays on "Space Shanty". What a rare joy to see Egg mentioned. I lurv them. In fact I think I love everything that has had Dave Stewart in the vicinity. I'd love the Corona virus if he'd been close to it! 😃 As to One of a Kind, I love both that album and its brethren "Feels Good to me" and "Gradually Going Tornado". They all have that emotional impact that make me move around as if I could dance in 13/8 - 4/4 - 17/8. But who cares; they make me move! Better for my health than sitting still!

Ah! You won me over. Had I known the amounts involved are that large, I'd never have let the virtue-signalling treehuggers' type parameter of ethical thinking allow to obfuscate the vast body of the subject matter at hand (and I don't mean Mr Lofgren's produce here). 😃

I must've been ruined by my experience with working for child protection services. We had examples of parents needing a several weeks long practical course in taking the bus (raise your arm, wait until door is open, present your ticket...), or parents who didn't dare come out of the house during a solar eclipse, as obvs the Sun crept in between the Moon and the Earth, and would burn them to their untimely death... The spectre is wide, and between my examples and resourceful adults, there's a vast landscape in which people like Simmons and Sixx seem to thrive.