cd_david

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1004966' date='Oct 29 2010, 11:49 AM']Perfectly fair comments, except that the comment to which I was replying was: [i][b][color="#0000FF"]ps. Id crawl over broken glass to get away from Paul McCartney and his stupid shakey face going wooooooo all the time AGhhh!! Man I loathe the Beatles[/color].[/b][/i] Macca's playing [u][b]today [/b][/u]was therefore not the issue. In similar vein, your own comment [i][b][color="#0000FF"]Its amazing what nostalgia can do for a reputation[/color][/b][/i] makes it pretty clear that you're not talking about Macca in 2010. Just saying ...[/quote] Pedantic, but I'll give you that LOL, He has to be one of the most over rated players of all time, its like saying Chas Chandler was a bass god! No he was a mediocre musician, same as Macca was back then and same as he is now. Im not saying he's sh*te, far from it just not the inspirational force people often make him out to be. Each to their own.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1004868' date='Oct 29 2010, 10:24 AM']Oh dear. Put McCartney alongside Clarke, Wooten, Miller, etc. and you'd be right - he's nothing exceptional. The whole point is that you CAN'T. Clarke, Wooten, Miller, etc. all grew up [i][b]listening to [/b][/i]McCartney (and Entwistle, and ...), copying him, and trying to improve on what he did. [/quote] But Macca has not been restricted to his Beatles works, he doesnt just exist in 1964 BUT his playing does., Geddy Lee was little more than poor on the first Rush album but he improved and expanded his ability and technique, I'm sure Wooten started as a novice too and not the pyrotechnical expert he is today. Everyone gets better with practice, Just because your back catalogue is average doesnt mean you have to stay average. Macca is still playing today, he has been playing bass for the last 40 odd years and therefore he CAN be compared to everyone else.

[quote name='daz' post='1004804' date='Oct 29 2010, 09:33 AM']Man I l[b]oathe [/b]the Beatles. There ive said it. whos with me?[/quote] Dont hate them but i HATE the quest from people to sound musically knowledgeable by claiming t love them ie Alan Partridge types. They wrote some brilliant songs, but they also wrote some UTTER sh*te and also some mediocre songs and Macca is a good player, nothing exceptional, Its amazing what nostalgia can do for a reputation.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='991986' date='Oct 18 2010, 09:56 AM'][attachment=61689:DSCF0144.JPG][/quote] Is the horizontal Status Ray the one I got? Cheers Lovely collection BTW

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='989820' date='Oct 15 2010, 11:39 PM']Oh lord... something ridiculous happened. I ended up with [i]another[/i] ACG! [/quote] Its a slippery slope mate.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='985287' date='Oct 12 2010, 08:20 AM']What? Working at the docks?[/quote] PMSL I just did a real LOL

[quote name='KiOgon' post='981603' date='Oct 8 2010, 02:17 PM']She's here & her name is Carole - that's sorted - Bloody Marvellous [/quote] That is stunning, I love the veined white back, beautiful.