BassTractor

I'm glad I said my list is valuable only today, as tomorrow I might very well write this exact list! Coincidence? Hardly! 😐

This list is only valuable today. Tomorrow, I'll probably remember some other stuff. Gentle Giant: The Power & The Glory Gentle Giant: Free Hand The Group: Omniphonic Music XTC: probably Nonsuch Yes: Close to the Edge Yes: Relayer Zappa: Läther Zappa: Guitar Zappa: Civilization Phaze III An album with the most soaringly beautiful classical piano music, with some Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin...

I forgot to tell that my ship is loaded with 8,000,000 similar albums, so when it sinks, you just have to stir well, and they will be distributed over the whole planet - - just like people distribute their micro plastic these days. One each! Hardly greedy. 😉 But OK, I'll play according to the rules later. 🙂

One album only for me! It's designed for this very purpose, and IP-guaranteed waterproof. When you open it, in cavities in the cell foam, you'll find ten SSD-upgraded iPods, a charger, a wall outlet, a wall and an electricity factory. I digress. You wanted to know what I'll bring. OK, I'll bring - Medieval and Renaissance, - Baroque, - Classical including "Rococo", - Romantic, - Post-Romantic - WW2, - Contemporary classical - the so-called "avant-garde" stuff - on 2 iPods, - Pop, rock, alternative, world, unclassifiable and Dance music, - Prog, - Country & Western, including Country Rock and historical styles. Gimme a few minutes for a complete song list.

Oh! Haven't heard that for forty to fifty years. I do like a bit of Telemann, so it's playing on YT now. Thanks for mentioning it.

CD: Joni Mitchell: a live thing where she reportedly sings Both Sides Now well before she wrote it. Download: Lutz: "Nowherebound" Tool: "Fear Inoculum" Georgian State String Quartet: "Miniatures for string quartet".

NSFLAWMILF (not safe for lazy afternoons with mother-in-law's family), but the idealistic organisation Fück For Forest have done "what it says on the tin" on stage as part of a Norwegian rock show I attended. One could google this organisation and visit their website, but one would have been warned appropriately. 😐 Now, I don't mind nudity at all, and am more "shocked" by some of the responses in this thread, but I do admit that a lot of on-stage nudity simply has no relevance whatsoever above trying (I'd say failing, but this thread proved me wrong) for a shock effect. Norwegian band Turbonegro's singer had this tendency to pull his trousers down and stick a cake fountain firework thingie up his behind before litting it. Some people loved it. Some people were shocked. I was bored, as it left the show without musical drive and didn't offer anything in compensation.

I notice you notice stuff I don't notice. It's the war wound from my classical days: tending to think of one composer rather than of a cooperation between band members, and of the dynamics of band life. IOW this is not stuff I can hope to have a contribution to. But you're right, of course! 😁😁

Here I was thinking I'm really a proper XTC fan, but then this ^^^^. Ah, well. I'll just enjoy those albums and Apple Venus, and keep my head down.

Lord Bertie to you! 😛 I hope you understand it's not about kindness. It's just reasonable payment for the wonderful times you gave me with your lips! 😱 Seriously though, we have many great bands on BC, and you happen to be in one. Some other great BC related bands and artists IMHO are Abandoned Stars, alpha male tea party, In Tyler We Trust, Jair-Rôhm Parker Wells, Joan the Wad, Our Helical Mind, and I'm sure a bunch of others my mind refuses to remember at the moment.

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Tool - Fear Inoculum It's on repeat, together with... ...this one, Lutz's "Nowherebound" , with NancyJohnson on bass. Great alternative and somewhat experimental stuff - with a vengeance. In fact, I think we should start a new BC Bands thread as in: what great bands do we have and where to get hold of their stuff. We did one before, but I don't remember its thread title. At any rate, Lutz are at https://lutz6190.bandcamp.com/releases

Nope. He's too busy bringing free bottles of wine to Norwegian customers who pay £130 for the thing. 😀

It came with the software update, I think, and in case probably is a consequence of that package. Me, I just edit the post, exchanging the whole text with a full stop. Edit: ped got there first. New trick at our disposal! Thanks, Chris!

Me too, but you all forget to ask the important question: whatever is the white vehicle in the upper left corner of the first pic, @mefgames?

I disagree entirely, and propose that music that goes on for a long time just isn't for you. Maybe Anton Webern is something you might like instead. IMS, he wrote a symphony that was no more than 10 minutes or so.

Just downloaded the 87 minute version. It sounds luvverly on first impression, but I'll postpone an opinion on the compositions. I'd buy the 80 quid one if I trusted its long life, but I don't. Just 80 quid for a memory chip, plus an amp, plus a screen, plus one or two speakers plus a rechargeable battery? Reeks novelty and bad quality to me. I always try to buy a physical copy but couldn't find a regular CD, and your post explains that bit. Thanks! Now back to my music library! 🙂

Wha'? Didn't even notice that. Saw the difference between "alternative" and "electronica" and between "Joan The Wad" and "Joan the Wad", but assumed this was just about style diversity and the person typing. Will listen more carefully. Hm. Maybe I only like the competition! 😂 Do you guys have a site? Yeah. You be the judge of that. To me this is about raising the band's level, including singers - something you presumably work at all the time. Once singers know about this phenomenon they can easily adapt, and It really is a matter of awareness more than anything else. But of course, you be the judge. best, bert

Disappointed. Was expecting fire, water and a naked lady. 😁 Great performance though, and you made me check you guys out immediately and consequently buy Waddup and Tiny Mind. Luvverly stuff! One comment though, if that's not too presumptuous of me: I think the singer should train on intonating slightly higher. Singers tend to do this wrong unless trained by a professional, and they can get away with it to some degree, but the right tone is stronger than a low tone.

Dunno if this is helpful to you, but IME: I'm way too sensitive to any awareness of a camera, recorder, or someone who has to judge what I do, and consequently I do have a natural tendency to perform way worse under that kind of circumstance than I'd normally do. My solution was twofold: 1) Realise that I have a duty to the audience first and foremost, and force myself to concentrate on MY JOB. In this I very much like the proposed "persona" thinking. You perform like an actor would - you're not being yourself. The audience is not likely to be served by yourself, but is likely to be served by your role. To some degree it's theatre. 2) Realise that I'm likely to be the best musician in the room. I'm aware this can't go for everyone, but bassists do tend to score above averagely (me, I'm an organist and too part of a group that tends to score above averagely). For me this is about that I have insights I know are of interest to an audience, and this (in my thinking) gives me a responsibility: that of conveying my musical insights so the audience gets a good time. Again, I don't know whether this is of any help to you, but in my case my gained attitudes meant that cameras and the like became of little importance. I confidently concentrated on my job.

Yes indeed. Not only does it look complicated, but it also is complicated. BTW, I'm just writing in support of your notion. In principle MIDI's simple enough: send some commands to another unit, and that unit will obey. But then stuff happens. MIDI as it originally was conceived was way too simplistic, resulting in patchwork, brand specific functionality (very much against the very thought of MIDI, and meaning you have to patch control codes), updates and new generations. Then, manufacturers don't always give you a full MIDI implementation either, or it's simply not working well (A90 velocity for example). And this is all long before we start talking about the official brand specific functionality called SysEx. Yes, it's complicated, and a few looks at the forums at Gearslutz shows how even MIDI users with decades of experience sometimes tear out their hairs. When it simply works, it's luvverly. When it doesn't, it becomes a nightmare. But your approach of just sending note messages to the computer through the USB interface seems like a good way forward to start with. You'll pick up knowledge and insight as you go and read and experiment. Having both MIDI cables connected to the A90 can be done without the risk of a loop. It's just there so your computer can send control codes, or sequences of them, to the A90. For example: you could record what you're playing on the A90 (not the sound, but the MIDI codes), show this in computer software, edit that result, and send the edited recording back to the A90 so it will generate sound again as if you originally played perfectly. BTW, I'd love to help you, but I can't. After actually having taught the stuff in music college 😮, I've given up on MIDI after a stroke. My brain refuses to contain the knowledge. So in a weird way, I understand your situation very well. Good luck! Bert

Given your previous experience with Roundabout, I'd say start with The Yes Album. It showcases Yes' turning away from the simple songs based in classical Romantic era music, and it feels as a more coherent album than Fragile. After that, do try on Fragile for size. If Fragile does nothing or little for you, maybe try Going for the One. It's a bit prog and a bit lighter, in one way preparing the ground for their pop period (Owner of a Lonely Heart and the like - a song I lurv, BTW). But Fragile must be good, you know! When I'd bought it the day it came out, using my first regular wages, and proudly played Roundabout for my parents and sister, my dad exclaimed: "I hope I'll never have to hear that again". If that doesn't strike you as mathematical proof of its quality, you're a lost case. 😉

Lynched? Nah. You just explained us what Chris Squire quoted from in Yes' America. That Bernstein feller had nowt to do with it!

Note for note, BUT I've found there's time to be saved by playing the song or piece many times first so you get to know it so well that the note-for-note thing becomes somewhat of a theme-for-theme thing - depending on circumstances. BTW, I've done classical and jazz mostly, little pop or rock.