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Would've been handy if you were auditioning for Gary Glitter's band....

mangotango chucked me down a most splendid alley of new music to get into! Love Shez Raja's stuff! (His playthrough vids are very informative too!)

Fantastic! 😎 I need to investigate further....

She ain't too shabby on the old Joanna either.... 🤯

A bit of Israeli instrumental experimental progggimental shizzle....

Nice!! I can't quite see what kind of bass that is.... looks interesting!!

When things open up, I'm off to Bass Direct to do a couple of trade-ins. God only knows how much gear I'm going to come back with!! 😬

F*ck me!... that's some night out! 😆

I'm liking that track! Sadly, it's all too true about what many female musicians have to put up with. The more neanderthal element of the music fan base seem to view women in rock bands as a bit of a gimmick. Here there are quite a few heavy bands with one or two ladies in, but not that many that are all female. However, the heavy rock/hardcore/power metal scene in Japan seems to produce more all-female bands than I would have expected, and mostly with some serious chops in the back pocket. I'm not sure why this is... a respect thing, maybe? Is it that women don't get the crap they do over here? Is it a product of a country where more kids have access to a musical education early on? A mate of mine's sister-in-law worked in Japan and said that proportionately more kids have music lessons from an early age over there, but I've never been so I can't comment.

30 people in there and the place IS crammed. My flat is bigger than that bar! 😆

I don't play covers in bands, so when I do learn a cover it's for the technique/style/fretboard knowledge or whatever, so I learn in its original form.

This is fairly typical of the stages I get to play on. Not much room for manoeuvre without risk of broken ankles/pedal boards/punters... 😆

That's my new band name sorted! Meanwhile.... I would say that most of us are old enough to have found what style suits us playing-wise.

Mexican ladies rocking out. Me likey...

Damn! I'm not that bothered about meeting famous musos or celebs normally, but Henry Rollins is one guy I'd really like to sit down and have a chat with. I've read a fair bit of his writings - he's one interesting dude, and grabbed life by the cojones.

Just discovered this lot from Mexico. Loving it already! 😎🤘

Whaaaat? No Fernanda Lira any more?

I wouldn't relish the load-in of that Ampeg rig, but I'd sure as hell want to play through it! 😎

Karl Logan was given the heave-ho rather quickly due to his choice of internet entertainment. 🤮 As for Joey.... OK, I take it back, O God of Thunder. 😧

With better playing and no kiddie-fiddlers in the band. 😎

I love some of the TMTLN covers that have been happening. Gina Gleason rocks!

A. Google. Plus AFAIK visual kei bands don't tend tag themselves as 'all-female', they tend to not mention gender, or they give a nod to their kabuki theater influences. B. Versailles are great! Discovered them 2 or 3 years ago. Not a massive fan of Kamijo's vox, but the playing is superb. The fact that Hizaki wears a dress really doesn't affect my appreciation of the music. Not heard of Malice Mizer, I'll check it out later. 🙂

Bloody hell! There's badassery of all kinds happening here. Respect! 🤘

Why is a marriage like a tornado? It starts off with lots of blowing and sucking and ends up with you losing your house. Classic. 😎

Being an early disciple of the Steve Harris/Geddy Lee/Flea school, I've always been a fingers player. I've experimented with a pick, but it wasn't for me - I found it a little cumbersome across strings (I use a lot of octaves) and certain damping techniques were lost to me. Some people play their stuff fantastically with a pick - horses for courses and all that It's all about the music - I couldn't give a monkey's chuff HOW people get there.