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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.

True in Caveatemptoria and in Vulturistan. In the normal world however, people have largely varying backgrounds and levels of resourcefulness and psychological health. Making every customer 100% responsible for experienced manipulation is at best a flawed stance.

Goes to show how different people react differently. Me, I was mainly impressed with her incredible musicality and precise timing. How she dealt with this was very good, and I am gonna ask her to marry me, but that timing...

Most probably, as at that time he'd owned his Dano for at least a few years. BTW, I think maybe the double barrel one that @Bolo posted may have been the one he built together with his father, and which included parts from another brand. An article in Dutch mag Music Maker at the time told the whole story.

Sfunny indeed, but I don't agree. Many posts enlightened me, and I'm grateful for this thread. The yes-no bit was only a part of it, and was much expanded on. IMVHO.

Yup. Not that I'm a pro anymore, but that was indeed what I did: quit my job and started studying music. BUT I had a little trick up my sleeve: Even before getting the decently paid job, I'd already taught music pupils with the sole purpose of finding out whether I could live as a music teacher. I needed that knowledge before starting at music college because I knew that sooo many music students start studying with the aspiration of becoming world famous musicians - only to wind up as local music teachers instead.

You, sir, are very wise. That of course was indeed the purpose of the whole thread: "Hon, I tried to sell it, honest! Noooobody wants to buy it!" I feel so manipulated right now. 😁

I think your own post was a lot better, and so was the one by @Bleat. We agree about the situation, but IMHO my own wording was out of order.

Personally I was very happy with this thread as many interesting insights and opinions were aired. More than in similar threads we were almost able to even discuss formal matters. Then alas something happened. Personally, each and every time I hear an SD song, it attracts me mucho initially, but then after some time - maybe a minute or two, I get this nausea that I've never been able to explain, and have wondered about for decades. Some of the posts above seem to close in on a possible explanation when the music nearly is described as elevator music on a very high level. I think maybe there is something there, in that, for a musically developed person, this may be music to relax with - not music to put your teeth in. In case this is true, it's Music For The Millions For The Few! I'll have to think more about this, and might change this new notion on a whim. Any contribution to support or tear down this notion is welcome, and I'd hope for a constructive discussion just as we started the thread with. BTW, in the mean time though: I think, in order to make Aja a much better album, what they should've done was: - Make the compositions a lot simpler, without the accomplished chord sequences - Arrange the songs more like 60s beat songs - Play a lot sloppier, on cheap instruments including a shrieky Farfisa - Record everything on a Portastudio 4-track without any studio equipment. No overdubs. Presto! Good Aja! 😉