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Warman have become my default place for pickups lately. Well made, sound great, good range of styles and mostly an absolute bargain. Warman

Lady M and I had this discussion with the other day after watching a program on the 80s. In terms of general popular music, each decade from 50s to 90s had massive changes from one end to the other, then from 2000 onwards things have just run out of steam. There's stuff going on if you hunt for it but I'm talking about the run of the mill stuff, and I do hate saying it because it just makes me an old fart longing for the past but I don't feel that's how I am.

Exactly. I'm no fan of this song, but if I was in a band that played all the usual suspects, which is what most pub goers want, then I'd be adding it to the set. It really does sound like Rag'n'Bone Man singing along to Kings Of Leon though I think. As to whether this latest direction is an improvement, I don't know. But if it's going to be a big seller/streamer/sing a long at festivals, which it probably will be then I can't say I wouldn't do the same, given the chance.

I've just heard the new song by 'Rag'n'bone Man' and it might just be the new 'Sex On Fire', well it might have been if anyone was gigging. We do/did 'Human' by him in our acoustic band which always goes down well and this sounds like it would be a crowd pleaser in a rock covers band.

Jesus Built my Hotrod - Ministry

Isn't there a full version and a radio edit?

That is true.

The middle bit in My Sharona always feels a bit shoved in there, especially when it changes back to the main riff.

Isn't Bohemian Rhapsody a collection of mediocre ditties clumsily gaffer taped together?

Sister Ray - Velvet Underground

The Banana Splits - The Dickies

Miserable sod alert! Most specialist guitar polishes are a way of squeezing a teeny bit of standard polish used in the automotive or furniture trades into little containers and charging double the price. Still it gives advertising people an outlet to save them getting constipated with their shite. 🙂

Ha ha, that's the closest I've got to steels as well. I also have a pack of Hi Beams in the cupboard waiting.

While the lack of gigs is obviously not good, the rest of your post I look at in a positive light. To have instruments as assets is far preferable to having that money in the bank. Both can be exchanged for necessary goods if the situation arises, but instruments are far more fulfilling until that day comes, and fingers crossed it won't. 🙂

Greetings From Shitsville - The Wildhearts

Hanging Around - The Stranglers

Self Control - Laura All-branigan

I'm wrong, it must be a righty due to the length of the top horn, but the controls and jack must have been relocated. Or it was built from scratch for him. Intriguing.

I've just noticed the black bass is a lefty, converted to a righty to get the controls and jack out of the way but keep the E string at the top. He hasn't just stumbled on this way of playing.

She's Lost Control - Joy Division

That is quite the most bizarre way I've seen a bass played, and just looks plain wrong. But it sounds great and doesn't appear to be holding him back so crack on I say. I wonder what led to him adopting that style though.

Did you buy the Talman new? The Talman sounds just like a Precision using the P pickup so shouldn't sound tinny compared to a Jazz. I bought a new one and put GHS Boomer piccolo strings on and put the strings that came on the Talman onto my crappy old Kay that I restored. The Kay has about the most clear, bell like sustain of any bass I've owned and doesn't lack bottom end with those strings so it shouldn't be them, if they're the originals. That aside I've got D'addario short scale half rounds on my Danelectro Longhorn and it sounds and feels great. Plenty of bottom end but enough bite in the top end. I have the long scale version on my Rick and they sound amazingly similar.

Devil Woman - Sir Clifford of Richardsville

Does Alex Horne count? More of a frontman to The Horne Section than an actual musician but the unit as a whole is very good. I'm not sure about 'decent musical output' though. I used to quite like Richard Digance back in the day, he has comedic and serious acoustic folky output.

Burning Love - Elvis