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I used to have a Zoom RT-123. They're cheap on ebay! It was good and easy to program, and had bass and synth sounds too...

I tend to like 'TTTHRRRRRAAAAAMMMBBBBBVVVV' more.. . :D

I tried but even with cab sims it goes PTTTHHHFFFFBBBBBBB on the low notes...

Weakness: I am easily distracted. Stre-- Look! A squirrel!!

Maybe i'm 'lucky' my teenage years were in the 80s, so SAW, Rick Astley et al... Blegh... Also i have no desire to be nostalgic about my teens as they sucked! Having said that, 1991-1994 Kylie is the definitive period! I think autotune hit me like synths hit my parents ('But they're not even playing it! That's not an instrument! Look, they've got the tape recorder on stage, and where's the drummer?!') and the Bee-attles et al hit my grandparents ('its just clang clang yeah yeah yeah!'), its an unfamiliar sound used as an effect and sounds unexpected so your brain goes 'whauh?' I got use to it..

That up there ^ i have definitely been doing that thing of going back over the interweb and finding bands that i had heard about growing up but never got on the radio. Just a few years back i was taken on a very happy journey by suddenly remembering Henry Rollins going on about P-funk...

Interesting responses... :) Didn't like, Mozart of someone say 'There's no new music' at some point? :D I think its true that current pop music is a lot more similar to the music of say 30 years ago than the music of 1988 was similar to the music of 1958. Not counting Shakin' Stevens! But also certainly i think the Young People use things like Youtube as their primary music player, and there's a lot of diverse stuff up there. I think also its much easier now to get 'that sound' through digital modelling and just better quality of instruments being available at lower prices. A lot if innovation has come from so-and-so band trying to sound like their heroes and getting it wrong.

I was using it as a description rather than specifically 'race'. Also while you could argue that most rock is 'four(ish) generic white blokes', lots of hip-hop isn't 'X number of generic black blokes'... But i also meant it in a 'oh look, that again' sort of way. Rock isn't a disruptor any more, its what people in MAGA hats listen to... ;D

Interesting answers, thanks! And this appears to have turned into a 'find interesting music' thread! Even better... I recently listened to the radio one rock show by accident and was quite surprised to find it was still mostly music by four generic white blokes, one who is shouting about how upset he is about something. One thing with the more mainstream stuff, there are a lot of women and a lot of people of colour, often in the same band. And my personal Metal Of Choice is the Nightwish/Within Temptation/Epica stuff; aka Four generic white blokes, a female opera singer and an orchestra/load of synths pretending to be an orchestra. One of my favourite recent finds has been PostModern Jukebox who do jazzy versions of current songs, so go figure..!

To some people i have run into, grunge was a fad that happened about 10 years ago..

Cos yeah - its come up, someone younger than me going 'I don't like modern music' when i suggest grunge or 'stuff from the 90s', and then later stating 'rock is dying on its {bottom}'. Um... I'm fortycoughhackmumble and went back to radio1 from BBC6 after then seemed to have forgotten that its the 21st century and we've all heard the Clash, a lot of times. And i like it! New stuff, new ideas, new sounds. Yes, even autotune, its the same disruptor as synths or fuzz, its just a new way of making sound. And there's loads of 'Rock' out there that's new and evolving but this ain't your mum's rock'n'roll, daddio...

Cos i know everyone is fascinated to hear - it didn't work out. Ah well, so it goes! I'm inspired to try something a bit more this century covers-wise though, so hey.. ;D

Been fighting with crappy low powered Windows PCs for yonks and had tech rage. Just got a reconditioned Macbook for 200 quid, downloaded garageband, plugged in my audio interface and control surface and it just works... Why oh why o why etc? Well, for a start they're overpriced new, but...

...Or stick a guitar neck and bridge on it and go all Hetfield...

I think the earlier posters may have felt it was someone who'd decided to form a band... :D Welp. I am meeting the guy next week for some racket-making! Should be fun... :D

I've messaged, its legit - Drummer doesn't want to stay if the bassist isn't. Bless...

Knife, what knife? Er, that was there for um.. Something! Definitely not stabby reasons!

Ooh! I've been saying i need to get out more...

Anybody remember the flying V saga? Short version, i still aren't happy with it. So i found a cheap les paul guitar body on ebay and am transplanting the neck and most of the electrics to it: Here we go!

That one was my favourite.. :D

... then you might get something a bit like...

fab, thanks!

Depends on what you want to spend but the Zoom B3n has a '+rhythm guitar' preset..

I'm currently faffing with Full_Zoom vs Zoom and pedals... What do you use the B3 for if you don't mind me asking? And any particular reasons why you choose to use the other pedals instead?

Disco is the greatest musical form ever created. My cohort and I just completed a parody based around a Boney M song and it was too much fun... He is a grumpy goth but we were both giggling at what we had wrought... :D