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How do they sound without Huey? Is the new fella up to the job?

Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Rutles sounded a lot like the Beatles.

This always went down well when we did it. Not hard, just fun.

Slim Smith & The Uniques - Build My World Around You. Had this playing as we signed the paperwork when we got married.

The Temptations have had a couple of mentions already. Here's another one, with a belting Bob Babbitt bass part. Plus, there's Melvin Franklin's basstastic delivery of the line "and the band played on".

Somewhat inspired by the 'Motown basslines' thread, I stumbled across this.

...great, innit?

Sounds familiar... 😁 ...as does this...

This video has a pretty good explanation of James Jamerson's methods and has a PDF attached with his 'cheat code' exercise. Might be useful?

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Jackie Mittoo.

You are Milli Vanilli and I claim my £5.

"It's a holding track", 'e sez. Yeah, holding on to top spot all the way 😁 Bravo, that man 👏 another top tune!

Don Drummond.

About time I got my skank on again.

The ingestion and subsequent description of the effects of mind-altering pharmaceuticals has had a pretty good run at various points along the lyrical landscape. For more information, listen to jazz, psychedelia, acid house and most of Hawkwind's output.

Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning? International Asbestos Testing Laboratories? Eh?

Magic people, voodoo people.

Getting together in the new year with a couple of former bandmates just to have fun (and maybe a gig or two) by running through some old tunes so I thought I'd treat myself with a new(ish) bass. I only wanted something functional and inexpensive for our meetups so I grabbed this at the auctions for £50, a Westfield B1000. It's clean and in decent nick with only two tiny dings on the body. As you can see from the pic I'm a strings-the-wrong-way-around player (maybe my username gave it away?) so I just had to flip the nut before restringing and had to slightly alter the saddles for the correct intonation. Put some flatwounds on it and now it sounds and plays really nicely. I've used Westfields before, Strat guitar in a duo and violin bass in my last band and I've always found them to be reliable and more than up to the job.

Well, I got to the end but needed a break halfway through, found this a tough one to take any pleasure from. I'm ok with not understanding the words but I do find the Castilian tongue to be a difficult one to listen to when sung, it all sounds so busy, as did much of the instrumentation on this. I think @BillyBass comparing it to Coldplay didn't help, either It was quite the relief when it wrapped up after 48 long, long minutes. Still, this is the whole idea of Album of the Week Club, taking you out of your comfort zone. One week you're pleasantly surprised, the next, you think the album is an... I agree, Dr Eerier. 2/10.

Here's mine. Recorded with Wavepad and utilising the many and varied beeps and squelches available in Ableton. Drums from both MT Drums and Looperman. Get me out of the Paranoid City, where the trees are scorched and the living is gritty, oh, won't you please take me home? A wary and weary band of cyberpunks plot their route through the mean streets where fear, suspicion and mistrust rule.

Boo Dadleys Dad Gadget Badly Drawn Dad Dad Cafe

Didn't really get on with this one. A couple of the tracks were OK-ish and gave off vague Third Ear Band vibes but many of the pieces outstayed their welcome. For the most part there was a lot of what sounded like an inconsequential, repetitive mix of xylophones and bing-bonging backed by vacuum cleaners and detuned radios which, in the right hands, might sound better than this forgettable effort.