odysseus

The Enemy Within by Rush. Just don't ask me to sing, as I sound like a dying cow.

Mates in this band. We don't often go out as a bunch as we've all got lives separate from the overlap of mutual friends. Other bands, not so much... more colleagues, I guess...

Over the last couple of years I have noticed an increase in instances of 'can me and my mate play a few songs during the break?' Not tanked up necessarily, but a variation on the theme, I guess. The trouble lies in getting the buggers offstage again, especially if the pub is full of their mates. Best avoided, methinks....

The singer in one local band is a powerlifter and ex-doorman. On more than one occasion, a tanked-up stage invader has been launched back over the monitors... great to see, and greeted with a roar of approval by other punters. Life in Penzance!

... at which point he could change it to the possibly more apt Rikki Stynx.....

I'll check them out. Thanks! 🙂

I wasn't anything like good enough for my first band, but I played within my limits and learned as much as I could along the way. It's a steep learning curve, but it does concentrate the mind and the fingers!! But then I was 19 and had less considerations and more attitude!

I've only ever experienced Devin Townsend in the context of metal and/or space opera. Here he's teamed up with someone and they've produced some sort of folky, trippy, but somehow haunting thing that I'm not sure I can adequately define... but I like it!

Can't go wrong with a bit of A Twisted Christmas.... 🤩

I listened to him years ago when he was starting out, lost interest when he joined Poison, and on discovering Winery Dogs realised once again how good he is!

Sometimes it's not a bad thing to draw a line underneath one band and think about the next, assuming you have options, that is. Fresh start, fresh ideas etc...

Draw your own conclusions...

I agree. I used to mod on another non-music-related site, and mod quality makes a huge difference to the operation of a decent forum.

I can't decide whether I ever liked this or not, but the damn thing wouldn't leave my head when I was a wee laddie...

A local multi-instrumentalist guy I'd never met (but should have done, as we were in the same social circles) put up a post on the local FB musician finder page that he was looking to get back into playing drums, and does anyone fancy a jam? I replied yes, we had a great jam, chatted about what we were into, and who we could get into the band guitar-wise. We both came up with the same name, and that guitarist had just finished with another band and had a female singer in tow from said band. We're still together 3 years later writing our own stuff, gigging and loving it. No egos, no wanting to be a star, everybody gets input, and we all get on very well. Never thought I'd see the day....

People can say what they like about Johnny Rod, but the boy gives it f*ck on stage!! Fair play!

I live up 4 flights of stairs so portability became an issue. Then I discovered Barefaced cabs. Most gigs I can get away with a Super Midget, but I have a Big Twin 2 for larger venues and festivals. I'd love an Ampeg valve head but the weight is too prohibitive, and TBH my Genz Benz Streamliner 900 has more than enough welly.

Not carrots. Be warned! 😖 Love from Cornwall (where men are men, and sheep are nervous!)

Then there's Fernanda Lira from Nervosa....

Flea pulls some interesting bass faces....