BassTractor

Happily, it isn't invented yet, coz: 1) I'm only mildly enthusiastic about those bands with five bass guitars and nothing else. 2) The BC mods would have to weed out 80% of your identical posts. They didn't sign up for that, ya know! 😉

Sorry, no. It only does Pepsi Max and some energy drinks.

Yeah, like Bozzio needs to brag. Me, I once played a whole song without using all the 88 keys on my piano. Bragging, me.

Confirmed. I've used two of those per 30 kg kayak on the car roof, and have driven 100 mph through Germany with them.

Easy! A recording machine with one of those pads you stick to your skull, and it records the phantastiblime songs that your brain comes up with and plays inside your head. As this is a good machine, it'll also write down the dots in Sibelius or similar so you can edit them and build upon them. I've wanted this machine since being a child, and I'm 62 now. If someone invents it, I'll pay 350 quid if need be... 😁

Haven't heard it, but the innerwebz' consistent referencing to the Polymoog make me sceptical. I disliked that with a vengeance. Though: I do seriously hope my scepticism is wrongly placed. OTOH, the very day I have 4,000 money units, I'm getting a Waldorf Quantum.

Mine too! Crawly or just coincidence? 😀

Dunno. In my case it was about having a lot to do and to relate to, and not playing the thing. i'd guess this goes for many others. Soo many songs, soo little time.

I'm in, but that doesn't help as I'm always here. So the most effective way to getting this done is that Hiram sends a PM to everyone who isn't here on a daily basis, and in polite words explains it. 😐

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By the sound of it, that was Evan Parker.

Great post, Nuno. I hope you're doing fine, and good luck with the quest! 🤘 (...but which tone carbon is best for metal?)

Nice little Herb Alpert ditty with one Hussain Jiffry in bass. I like it.

Seven pages for a plank with some metal stretched across? 😠 Congrats, Dood, with a great outcome of one terrible experience!

BTW, my comments were about one version of the song (Van Morrison, 1970 as per YT). As that version started out pleasantly enough, I suppose the song is OK in other versions, and I might enjoy playing it myself. Now you guys did it. I'm gonna find out what this song is, and who did versions of it. The irony might turn out to be that I played it live myself in the 70s or 80s, and enjoyed it thoroughly.

I think there is some degree of snobbery and elitism attached to any art form. That however does not mean it's all snobbery and elitism. IMHO much of it is honest and true, and shows a love for the art. For example, I love lots of blues, country, punk, pop, rock, jazz, classical, new "avant garde" music etc etc, but not all of it. So at the same time as me liking the Sex Pistols, Iannis Xenakis, Yes and Carrie Underwood, the song Moondance (if I assume correctly that people talk about a 1970 Van Morrison song) makes my stomach turn, and that's not even figuratively speaking. It makes me physically unwell. That's not snobbery or elitism. It's just how my brain/body reacted spontaneously when I heard the song for the first time when I checked it just now. My guess is that the same goes for most people who don't like the song. It's not about their snobbery or their elitism. It's about the song being shït to them.

Disappointed. Thought this was about "miking up" a Cajun, and was expecting some good Deliverance moments. 😥

What? No Mick Karn yet? Those parts are luvverly! Then let this little example stand for the rest. Better examples most probably exist:

OK, but before we go just one word: I agree with the "lucky" concept, as in lucky to have the abilities that one has, and I had a think before still opting for the word "hero". It's just that I think it's a good idea to support people who fight, and also, despite all one's abilities, surviving is still very hard work for a very long time - it's the work of a hero. I may be able to find a better word at one point.

Many people on BC understand not only some of the traits, but really everything you've written, my friend. You're a hero, and I don't write that flippantly. Yes, humour is a life saver indeed. We see that again and again. Depression and bad luck survivors tend to have humour in spades. I wish you all the best! Bert

So you rehearsed it in a couple of keys and performed it in a couple of keys. Perfect. Another job well done!

Fixed. Sorry to be a Spelling Nzi.

The "Total Mass Retain" segment from the song "Close to the Edge". I've mentioned it before. but at the time it was a moment of: "Can that even be done?" Apparently, it could:

Maybe worse, and relayed before: "Final night" drum concert, and Bill Bruford, who'd instructed the drummers at our music college for a week, sits in a front row seat in the audience. I'd been asked to do a simple piano part: "Easy stuff! Just sight-reading!", so I'd naively agreed. Get handed the dots, and note that the part is very demanding and very short, and requires counting bars of different lengths for what seems like half an hour before the piano comes in with some explosives. I give up, look sheepishly at Bruford, and either stay silent for the whole piece or (this is what I seem to remember but I'm not sure anymore) play just a few notes at instances where I feel confident enough that those notes contribute something. Mind you: not notes from the sheet. Just stuff I think fits. The next day, I'm told by different persons that I'd better hide, as Bruford is searching the whole building for me, as he wants to kick my behind slightly. Me, I fear his mouth more than his boot. 🤘

Sound guy gets drunk during the break and is incapacitated. I find the most resourceful guy I know and tell him to forget all the knobs, and to just mind the volume faders and make sure that he hears every part. First song after the break, all the microphone faders are at zero, and they stay there. No singers are heard at all. When questioned afterwards, the guy states he couldn't hear the singers, so he thought it was meant to be that way... 😡 😂