upside downer

A mighty fine publication in the 80s and 90s, the Danny Kelly editorial years being particularly good. Tom Hibbert's "Who the Hell Does..... ?" articles were brilliant at pricking the pomposity and arrogance of many a celeb. Sad to read about its demise, but it had a good run. Been a while since I purchased a copy, think I bailed out when they put Take That on the cover.

Dubby Thursday with King Tubby.

On a King Tubby roll today.

A love problem, it seems.

Aaron Cheney has the right to post unfunny, tired and cliche-ridden articles. And, having read said article, I now have the right to ignore all future offerings from Aaron. Which I certainly will. World keeps turning, we move onward and upward.

These two ain't bad. Choons, one might say.

Great cover of the Joe South 1960s hit and very on-topic. RIP Bob.

I've got a title - Lady in Red. Clever, eh?

Congrats ND, great stuff!

I been a drag racer on LSD And I rode bare-assed on top of the Sphinx I even had a gorilla on the slopes of kismet And man, that was fun for a while you bet Thing is, I believe you, Lux, I really, really do.

Love this, raving mad!

My missus and I skanked away after the vows at our wedding to this wonderful tune.

Maybe he should have. An achievable goal rather than this fanciful notion of puckering up to the stratosphere.

'Scuse me while I kiss the sky. I'd like to see you try, Jimi!

I am the Walrus? Leave it out, John.

There is no hard evidence that Bob Marley ever shot any sheriffs.

This month's offering. Seeing as I know zilch about Bromley and the picture looks about 30 years old I went down the route of Python, being silly and how that gets harder to do as we all get older. Well, it's not harder to do at all but youngsters don't like older people being silly cus it's SOOOOO embarrassing, grampa. Go to hell, young shaver m'laddo. Anyhow, Python. They did a cheese shop sketch. Had a bouzouki playing in the background. I've got one so there's my 'in', tried to make it sound 'background-y', too. More or less used the chords from the cheese sketch and that also influences the lead bass line played on my trusty old Starforce 7008 through a Roland Micro Cube. Percussive sounds are samples of me hitting various parts of a bookbinding machine (a Kolbus DA36 casemaker, thanks for asking) with a spanner. That's very silly. Organ sound from my Yamaha keyboard, minimal vox, an ocean wave sample and a metronomic ticking to indicate that there's...no time....to lose....Toulouse. All recorded using WavePad and Audacity. Stay safe, stay silly.

What a dotty thread.

I've always enjoyed the Count Basie Orchestra on triangle.

Bubblegum-blowing, bass bombshell Candy Del Mar from the late 80s/early 90s line-up of The Cramps. Blimey, Charlie......

Well done, jazzy gent! 👏👏

Voted. A particularly strong collection this month and so difficult to narrow it down to a top three. Well done, you creative types 👍

Finally finished it, all recorded with Wavepad and Audacity. Used a drum sample from Looperman which I treated and twisted into shape, violin bass, Epiphone Gibson Special through a Roland Micro Cube and a Zoom 504 effects pedal. Used DADGAD tuning and got a nice wonky sound in places. A bit of menace, a sliver of light then back to peril. Dedicated to Pauline from Birmingham.

Was mucking about with DADGAD last night so I think I'm going with that. Your tuning sounds far more sinister!