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I only started using a pick when a show I was playing demanded it. I'm still not super proficient, but it's enough to get by when I need it. I does have loads of cool variations in tone, and I plan to spend more time getting into using one.

[quote name='Yawn_Blah' timestamp='1462122070' post='3040433'] obviously [/quote] Charming...

Someone spent a lot of time building that. Why?

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1461864157' post='3038351'] Really helps if you have a nice swollen organ [/quote] [Austin Powers voice] Oh behave....!

[quote name='bornagainbass65' timestamp='1461708485' post='3037092'] I like a bit of Lyle Lovett too. I find 'If I had a boat' very moving, though I'm not sure why, and there's that fantastic song with that includes the lyric 'the whole thing was paid for by the funeral director, who poisoned the saxophone section...' [/quote] 'If I had a boat' gets me emotional too. The intro to 'North Dakota' is just sublime. He can span the range between deeply touching and pant-wettingly funny. Come to think of it, maybe that isn't such a wide stretch...

People have been dragged out onto the street and publicly flogged for doing less than that.

Looks a bit like a Jaydee with a Ray neck 😳

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1461682128' post='3036705'] I'm a huge fan of Lyle Lovett, have been since his first album. Seen him live a few times & he's always excellent. [/quote] I saw him live in a church, appropriately enough. It was only a six-piece though. Still great, but I'd love to see him with his Large Band.

How's about a little love for Lyle Lovett and his upright player Viktor Krauss. A great sound, he just does "the job" all night and then, given the chance, rips off some killer short fills/solos. see/hear 4-bar (cut-time) fill at around 3:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLU_IYflUkQ and just oh so funky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHmamjoieg

Sorry to hear that mate. Miserable feckers! Good luck getting your babies back.

This track, Hideaway, from his new album, is just lovely https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4v3zyPEy-Po

^ +1

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1461486914' post='3034931'] Since the news of this week I've given Sign 'O' The Times a couple of spins, what an amazing album. Favourites from that album alone are the title track, Housequake, It, Starfish, Forever In My Life (probably top pick, this one), The Cross, Hot Thing, U Got The Look. (Regarding UGTL I think I surprised Mrs Knob when we were courting by being able to recite the lyrics verbatim when it came on in a bar in Seville) Also this is amazing, from recent shows. So glad I saw him on this tour. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnqJgLYrnPA[/media] Bass solo at about 2m20 btw. I hope my backing band looks this good when I'm in my mid-50s. [/quote] That rocks so hard! Thanks for posting.

Thanks Miles'tone 🙂

I love all his funky stuff, of course, but this one has always, right from the very first hearing, brought tears ro my eyes. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZONgpmw58 Can't seem to make the video appear in the post. Can someone with a brain fix it please? Ta.

Toured with Bowie for years. I think maybe connected to Carlos Alomar who was Bowie's guitarist and MD for a good while.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461343046' post='3033905'] One in the eye for the competition. [/quote] Hence their glazed expression?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461240266' post='3032769'] So that's the money shot..? [/quote] Yep, simply take it on the chin.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1461018965' post='3030791'] So I never got to really experience the "struggle" of previous decades. The experimentation of it all seems really exciting. Even the crap instruments and struggling to get even the latest record has a certain fun element. I can't help thinking in a way lacking all that now has lost us something, some magic in it all. [/quote]e This is so true. The thrill of finding a record you had wanted for ages (and at a moment when you had the dosh) was something special. Getting to see a favourite artist live was a total dream. The thrill of the chase.

Good for metal? ....coat.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1460853665' post='3029380'] Ya big loaf! [/quote] Loaf? What a very excellent expletive. Glad to hear that you got it satisfactorily resolved - result!

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1460792235' post='3028716'] Yes, last night was the first time there had been an audience collection. I obviously can't comment on other band nights but the first time, in our four gigs. Strangely enough, it was the busiest it had ever been there last night with us playing with some people even doing a 150km round trip to see us. He also provides meals and by his admission was fully booked to the point that the band were going to have to eat outside in the rain or in their lounge upstairs. [/quote] In that case, I can understand your being miffed at the pub boss. If a precedent had been set, albeit tacetly, that there was a fee from him and now the hat/jug/receptical was additionally being sent round for the band, he's moving the goalposts. Might it be better to approach the landlord and express your unhappiness with this new arrangement? Making it clear that, in future, you want a different deal and expressing clearly how that deal would look? It may be possible to resolve this problem without having to lose a gig and disappoint faithful fans of the band.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1460765910' post='3028663'] We're aware of how much the owner pays as a maximum [/quote] Is it part of your agreement with the manager that this maximum fee has to come explicitly from his pocket? Maybe it's always a mix like this and, depending upon how much the crowd donates, the manager takes more or less of a loss for which he then has to make up the difference. Or was last night a change as to how you've done it in the past? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I feel that specifics like this do throw a completely different light on the matter.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1460730626' post='3028281'] She could have caught him doing worse things in his bedroom... [/quote] What? Worse than that? That'd take some doing.

Felt like one of those deliberately eggy moments in a Bill & Ted film. Was he drunk?