tegs07

Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr

white lines (don’t do it) / grandmaster flash

What is your budget? A mex fender neck is around £270. Last one I bought was from Andertons I think. Someone also has a Mighty Mite neck on ebay at the moment but it has several days to run. If budget is less than £150 then the suggestion above is a fair one. I put one on a Bitsa around a year ago. It was OK for the money but I would probably look out for a used Fender Mex, Mighty Mite or Allparts in preference.

away from the numbers - the jam

so lonely - the police

the man with the child in his eyes - kate bush

new york city cops - the strokes

Doh! That was on my to do list to get tickets for. Totally slipped my mind. Glad you enjoyed it.

paradise city - GnR

the wind cries mary - hendrix

Its all in the song writing and live performance. If I had to pick my favourite musician of all time it would most likely be Tom Waits. The best description I have heard of him was he has a voice like a worn out shoe. As for behaviour most of the bands that I really relate to tend to be comprised of flawed and dis-functional individuals that find some from of release or expression through music. I certainly don’t look to them for moral guidance or social etiquette!

I doubt if there are many bands I really like that I would want to share a house with or date my daughter. Coldplay seem like a nice bunch of lads though but I wouldn’t want to listen to their music.

Maybe I am missing something but I would have thought the flaws, complexities and life experience of the individuals in a band (particularly the songwriters) shape the art they produce so I really can’t agree that any of the above bands would have been better with a different singer. I also don’t get when society started to take the opinions of people that kick bladders up and down a football pitch or sing for a living seriously let alone comment about it on the news. Really strange world where rock stars are meant to be PR experts and brand ambassadors.

loose change - royal blood

Anarchy in the UK - Pistols

nothing compares 2U - (Sinead O’Connor) Prince

Waterloo sunset / the kinks

terror in the canyons - phosphorescence

I thought saying and doing stupid and crash things was part of the appeal of becoming a rock star. I guess I grew up in a different era!

Fair enough. I always thought of Turner and Constable as Romanticists who largely painted landscapes based upon what they could see albeit in an idealised manner. Dali painted surreal images, often ugly but containing beauty and challenged the viewer. But then I don’t know much about art,

You sound like someone who really likes Turner and Constable describing a Dali painting.

running up that hill - kate bush

we are all made of stars - moby

walk the dinosaur- was(not was)

Some could argue that old dudes in Mali many generations ago sowed the seeds of rock music. It gestated in the USA under the guise of the blues, was combined with some European folk and C&W and was later re-invented in the UK in the mid to late 1960s before morphing further into different branches. It’s all just progression.