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Lovely prominent bass in this live mix of Grinding Halt from an early show. Also some good shots of Robert Smiths Woolworths Top Twenty pickup fitted to his Fender Jazzmaster.

Are these the same pickups as in the Embassy bass? I assumed the Vintage Pro Thunderbird and the Embassy had the same pickups, bridge and tailpiece. If so then I'm more than happy with the Embassy pickups. Great sounding bass.

I love Grinding Halt from the first album. The first track that really caught me was Charlotte Sometimes. Being born in '73 I was too young to know them from the start, and had only heard pop tracks like The Love cats that would've been played on the radio, I swapped Little Creatures by Talking Heads for Standing On A Beach (cassettes) with a mate and as it was halfway through, the first track that played was Charlotte Sometimes. I was amazed at what I was hearing. There started a life long love of The Cure. There are so many phases to explore, the punky beginnings, the gothic trilogy, the electro poppy rebellion against their record company (not sure I totally believe those stories), the jangly mid eighties pop, the list goes on. Their singles and albums cover such a range of styles but still completely 'The cure'.

Fire Fire - The Meteors

I'm going to go curve ball and say try their B sides. The B side of the earlier cassette singles collection, 'Standing On A Beach' (Staring At The Sea was the CD version without the B sides, or was it the other way round?) is fantastic, but hard to find now. Luckily you can buy a four disc CD compilation of B sides and rarities called Join The Dots, disc one is essentially the B side of Staring At The Sea with some extras thrown in. Confused? I am, 😄. In short Join The Dots, disc one, is most of their B sides up to around 85ish, and it's great. Throwing away songs on a B side that most bands could only dream of writing and releasing as a single. They quite often marry up sonically with the corresponding single. As Inbetween Days caught your ear here's the B side, The Exploding Boy, with some fantastic drumming from Boris Williams.

Standing In The Way Of Control - Gossip

Arise - Sepultura

Murder the Government - NOFX

Wayward Son - Kansas

Best use of a wah pedal in the history wah pedal usage... evaaar! Think About It - Fleetwood Mac

Sheep! 🤦‍♂️

One of the purple ones sold on eBay a couple of days ago. They look fantastic but I've got a sunburst one that I'll probably sell soon, so no point drooling over the purple ones.

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep - The Cure

Negative Creep - Nirvana

Wednesday Evening Blues - John Lee Hooker

Is Wilcock anything to do with Shergold/Hayman? There's a definite resemblance.

15 Years - The Levellers

You don't want to know the extortionate fee they were charging on the Wish tour then!? 😂

Yes, Smith uses a bass vi a lot for melodies while Simon Gallup plays the 'regular' bass lines.

Jesus Loves You... But I Don't - The Almighty

That doesn't look like the shops storage area. 😁

All You Ever Wanted - Rag 'n' Bone Man

Infected - The The

I remember their version of "I'd Rather Go Blind" on an old Peel sessions tape I had years ago. I had no idea it was Christine.

Babylon's Burning - The Ruts