BassTractor

Hm. I think some of you guys haven't appreciated that she clearly stated the song has the exact same vibe as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Siberian Khatru". 😁

Awwww! 🥰 Here's mine. Owned it since I was a wee lad, and it seems surprisingly fresh, seeing as it was played with back then. No haggling, you lot!

On BC, I've only sold a bass, but would never haggle if buying. If the item's worth it to me, I'll pay the price. Simples, and no time malspent. Outside BC, "haggling" decribes a vast array of cultural stuff, social-group rules, psychology ... the works. Some is OK, like haggling in a country where it's deemed disrespectful to not haggle. Some is not OK, like the dozens of lying, manipulating losers who use your time on trying to get you to lose, telling you that you are the vulture with your fair asking price. IMHO, ultimately it's not about lack of respect, but about lack of self-respect. (Recently, I sold a nearly new £3,000 snowblower for my fair asking price of £2,000 after having endured (=getting worn out by) dozens of these people with their stories and their £1,000 and £1,200 offers ... ... and to whom did I so sell this snowblower? To a snowblower shop owner fer cryin' out loud! If you ever need evidence the price is fair ... )

Guten Denken! Also to be used as frets on the Homatone da gamba.

... or, if for weird reasons you dislike banjos, then your skin could be used for a Renaissance serpent, that snaky, leather clad wood instrument with a mouthpiece like a trombone. I'd buy you!

My vote is for turning you into an osteophone. 😉

Dagny Norvoll Sandvik, Norway's so-called pop queen, did that to me with some of her orchestral versions, though in that case I wouldn't call them "contrasting" but just "a bit more satisfying to me". Can't post all the individual songs' YT links, but here's the full orchestral show. One should be able to click on individual songs just below the vid window: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/kork-hele-landets-orkester/sesong/2021/episode/MKKA11003420 Well worth it, IMHO. One original though: "Love You Like That"

Björk: "Violently Happy" "Debut" album version (or is it? I don't actually recognise it) MTV Unplugged version with glass harp, pipe organ, harpsichord and all 'n' sundry.

Yeah, Richie had it on "Richard P. Havens, 1983", in 1968 I think, whilst Bob did it in '71 IMS. Also in '71, Dutch vocal group The Revells did a haunting non-album version as "Indian ropeman", which is on one of the compilations called "Psych Bites". That's the version that has followed me for 53 years. Lurve it. Not reggae, mind.

Bob Marley's version of Richie Havens's fantastic "Indian Rope Man".

Edit: Weird stuff is happening. My link is exchanged with the one from the above post.

Aye, a 1963 Rowlettbacker.

Dunno about this stuff, and I'll just revert you to my daughter's in-depth analysis: Martine (4) : "Dad, these rockers ... their heads are so filled with rock that there's no space left for intelligence. Now, I like rock too, but at least I have space left for intelligence."

the boys in my band had all three degrees. demnit, my shift key won't work.

Glenn Cornick, Jethro Tull

Cor Dekker of Ekseption started it all. To date one of few bass players who played solos I love to hear. Sad life though: after his Ekseption stint, he fell victim to heroin, becoming a dealer and getting a prison sentence - - only to be released due to his health, so he could die at home. Good, dependable bass player, and reportedly a luvverly bloke. Here seen while receiving an award - probably for their "Ekseption 3" album.

Yup. 😀

10/8 : "Down and Out" ? Twould make sense for a drummer to have that little meter reminder. No idea about Trundle.

Great tonewear too. 👍

Still owning: a Chinese dizi - a bamboo flute that has a hole (second from left in the pic) that you cover with a membrane, which creates a nasal sound. Instrument owned the longest but now sold: probably my Yamaha TX802 - an FM synth. Behind those few buttons are like a 1,000 parameters to adjust, if one wants to. Building just one sound could take me eight whole working days. Stellar synth, though, and one learned how to be quick at editing. Bass owned the longest: probably my beloved 2007 Bongo 4HH Dargie Delight - the original olive green version with martini glass fretboard inlays. Have to admit those inlays charmed me. BTW, this is my actual bass despite the shop pic. The inlays pic is borrowed from someone.

Lieve hemel, echt Nederlands! 😀 Goet gedoan, jochie! (hiervoor moet je de tv-reclame voor Paturain kennen, met Rijk de Gooyer). Welkom, @BEADist. Je zult het hier best wel leuk vinden, want het is normaal inderdaad een vriendelijke plek.

Well, IMO, "real music" is not when someone churns out the most drab "stereotypical pop punk song with the worst lyrics", as you so rightfully wrote. Everything about that song stinks in my ears. Must admit it didn't help that the MGK person to me also looked like the typical loser who just wants to be known as a so-called "rock star", but I still think I'd reacted almost just as negatively if I hadn't seen the footage. To me "real music" is essentially about love for music. In the Willow gig, the interplay between especially guitar, bass and keyboards to me seems like a stellar example of what I'm on about. I only hear love for the composition there, not love for money or love for being famous.

Nah. Not an explanation I'm willing to accept. 😁

Bah! You just knew I was gonna write that, and copied me avant-mes-lettres. 😁

Willow Smith - the last song on her new album "empathogen". More intricate than most, with some stuff straight from a prog album. 😀