upside downer

The wife and I are off out tonight by our back gate to watch someone up the street playing 'Happy Birthday' on a trumpet for an old fella. And, what with it being local, we'll get home in good time.

On 24/04/2020 at 15:23, thebigyin said:

A plank of wood with 4 nails and strings attached would be to good an instrument....what an awful racket, I can't see why guitar companies endorse such clowns, he's never progressed as a musician, as you can tell i'm not a fan.

Certainly is a racket. That's why I love the Ramones, anyway. 

Voted. Tough choice, that was a very enjoyable 30-odd minutes of tunesmithery 👍

Thought that Mick and Ronnie were doing all of the heavy lifting for the Stones. All the talk has been about Charlie's air drumming but sadly Keith's looking more and more like someone who has a very tenuous link with his instrument.

Well done sir, welcome aboard!

I really like this, always interested to hear different instruments and styles from around the world. You got my vote back in December. Don't leave it twelve months before you enter the challenge again!

Here's my attempt at something uplifting. Lots of mucking about with my Yamaha keyboard here with a bit of bass and guitar in there too.

5 hours ago, BreadBin said:

6music.

Used to listen to 6music quite a lot but have to turn off Mary Anne Hobbs, everything is "beautiful", "exquisite" or "amazing". I beg to differ, Mary Anne.

Well done Fingers, left us trailing in your dirt as you sprinted away!

22 minutes ago, MoonBassAlpha said:

I think that's a no, then! I didn't get ibtl !

Better luck for the next one, the more, the merrier!

Is this challenge any good for metal? 

Try this Moroccan music led by a bass instrument called a Sintir. It's also known as a Guembri or Gimbri.

I'm currently wigging out to this lot. Ommmmmmm, ommmmmmmm, ommmmmmmm.........

Another fine mix this month, bravo peeps. And with many on lockdown and trying to fill their days with whatever they can I'd imagine this is a rather pleasant way to pass 20-odd minutes. That should ensure lots more folks voting this time around, yes? Ever the optimist.......☺️

A jarring, echo-laden noisefest featuring semi-acoustic saz, oud, bass, sampled drums, sampled sound effects and a real-life ice cream van. Enjoy/tolerate.

55 minutes ago, CamdenRob said:

Don’t bother with bass if you’re good enough to play the guitar 👍 

Begone, dissenter! 🤨

Bass. And guitar. And mandolin. And bouzouki. And saz. And oud. And so on and so on.

Bloody hell, that was quick! I haven't even had time to plug my chainsaw in yet...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Worlds-Ugliest-BASS-Guitar-Fretless-2x4-Primative-UGLY-1-OF-1-3-Strings-Weird/333529125210?hash=item4da7e2915a:g:RD4AAOSwDMtdp5-3

Bravo squire 👏

Not that he likes being defined as a certain genre but this chap's pretty good.

1 minute ago, taunton-hobbit said:

Guilty as charged - now listen to some U Roy ..............

😎

U Roy if you want to. Personally, I Roy 😁

4 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

Possible, but at 56 I'm probably not DJ Shadow's core market! I also love Tony Bennet, Led Zeppelin and Mozart's Grand Mass is one of my favourite pieces of music. Perhaps I'm just odd.

Or not set in your ways. Good for you. Take what you like, discard stuff that doesn't float your boat. Don't stick rigidly to 'genres'. It's all music.