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Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart at Nottingham Rescue Rooms. What a fantastic evening. As Wobble said at the end, this is how he always envisioned the Invaders to sound. The band take their cues from Wobble but are allowed to express themselves and with good reason, superb musicians one and all. A few new album tracks to open with, some covers (Liquidator, theme from Midnight Cowboy), four PiL tunes (Socialist, Poptones, Fodderstompf and Public Image) and live dubbing, the songs simply soar. And the man's as mad as a box of frogs, too. Hugely entertaining. Recommended.
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Off to The Rescue Rooms in Nottingham tonight to see bass behemoth Jah Wobble and his band The Invaders of the Heart, should be a good'un.
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On 12/02/2020 at 07:03, Beedster said:
If there's humans involved, no matter how well trained or skilled they are, and no matter how critical the task, there will at some stage be human error
Those blasted humans are up to their old tricks again 😫
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/double-bass/smashed-turkish-airlines-flight/
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24 minutes ago, lurksalot said:
My life you guys are quick off the mark this month , I know it’s a short month but I haven’t even had time to plug the bass in yet
That makes two of us! 😧
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carl/kɑːl/noun
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ARCHAICa peasant or man of low birth.Great. I've never been prouder to be called Carl. Thanks a lot, Caaaarl 😒
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Congrats yet again. Have yourself a pot of Cherry Garcia ice cream to celebrate 🍨 😋
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First - I think Public Image Ltd at Hammersmith, 89.
Last - Baba Zula, Jazz Cafe Nov 19.
Best - Probably Sex Pistols at The Odeon.
Worst - S*M*A*S*H, somewhere in Wellingborough 94 or 95, or Guns n' Roses, Wembley 91.
Loudest - Iron Maiden, De Montfort 91 or 92.
Seen the most - PiL
Most surprising - Little known Welsh band called Gouge who supported S*M*A*S*H, they were fantastic.
Next - Jah Wobble in Nottingham, Feb 20.
Wish - Too many but The Jimi Hendrix Experience would've been cool.
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The Looters. Winstone, Jones, Simonon and Cook, what a line-up!
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On 04/12/2019 at 20:28, Ted Theodore Logan, III said:
Ah, very nice!! Amazing hand technique great use of flamenco style and finger tapping!!
I wonder if there's room for a Saz in my band?... Don't care!!! I'm doing it!!!
Did you buy the saz in the end? They are great instruments to play. In my old band we used to do 'Kashmir' with yours truly on saz, the tuning I use (GDA) is ideal for it.
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Can't stand Place Your Hands by Reef but my old band played it and the bassline's good fun to play.
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Hello again, composition chums. Just like Lurksalot, I gave the Dead a good few listens to get a feel and a vibe of where to take the track. However, apart from purloining a snippet or two of lyrical content, I've quite clearly veered off down a different path as I've ended up with something that sounds like Tom Waits sings the Fun Lovin' Criminals. Hey, that's schmoovve.
Guitar Epiphone Gibson Special, Westfield Violin Bass, drums thanks to Looperman and a gruff vocal by yours truly that gave me a really sore throat. It's true that I suffer for my art.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
Song 2
Chelsea Dagger
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16 hours ago, lurksalot said:
Try writing and recording , it’s also a bit frustrating sometimes but you’ll be amazed at satisfying it can be when you nail a half decent one.
it keeps those musical fingers active as well
Couldn't agree more, this should get the creative juices flowing and hopefully get you out of your musical torpor. Probably means investing in other instruments so if expenses allow then grab a guitar, buy a bouzouki, purchase a pipa, snag a shamisen. Get writing and good luck 👍
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2 hours ago, adamg67 said:
Woah. Whatever I was expecting, it was not that. So many questions...
Be Grateful......
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In our covers band we only played a few times last year due to a violent and distressing incident at a February gig. It had been slowly going downhill due to a combination of the drummer struggling to balance two bands' and the singer's lackadaisical attitude to rehearsing, learning words (over-reliance on a music stand 🙄) and lugging the gear in and out, his catchphrase of the last two years being, "This is doing my head in". A friend since schooldays, his viewpoint had managed to wear me down so it was a relief when we finished in November, mojo well and truly redundant. I'd resigned myself to that being that, I'm 50 this year with a football team's worth of grandchildren (and a twelfth man/woman due in February!) and didn't want to do all the groundwork that is required to start up again. Might do the odd open mike night. That'll do.
Then the singer rings me just before Christmas, he's desperate to gig again and wants to do some 'classic' tunes. That'll be wall-to-wall AC/DC and Led Zeppelin then. Oh no, not again.. Also, he's the size of Meatloaf and mentioned perhaps doing a Nirvana tribute act? Maybe we could do a twist on the genre. "Tonight at the Lamb and Flag, A Tribute to Nirvana if Kurt had lived, kicked heroin and discovered pasties and pies instead". I did point out all his foibles from our recent gigging experiences and he just asked me to think about it.
I've thought about it. How does 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' go again? 😜
Bloody singers.
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Bravo all 👍
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Voted. What a splendid way to spend an hour listening to these diverse tunes, well done all 👍
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A bumper crop of tunes in December's Composition Challenge.
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Here's my effort. Epiphone Special guitar, Necarman electric saz, Starforce bass, drum sounds put together from keyboard samples and my usual appalling vocal that I've tried once again to salvage/hide by echoing it to death. Love this song. Have I done it justice? I doubt it very much. Hey ho. Merry Christmas!
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8 minutes ago, BlueMoon said:
I love it that a request of this sort comes on this forum! I watched Ivor the Engine as a kid and loved it, especially the accent of the narrator.
The great Oliver Postgate. Also responsible for Noggin the Nog, Bagpuss and The Clangers amongst others.
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11 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:
Possibly subtlety has been my undoing, and therefore the point of the thread has been missed .
In the OP the song examples given feature NO BASS!
Yet this is Basschat. You want to play silly games, you go to Nobasschat 😁
However, on no account go to Nob âss chat 😮
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Any AC/DC set list.
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2 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:
How odd! It was difficult to choose from the album (my favourite of all time) but Poptones... I just love that bassline so much, definitely formative and hugely influential on my playing.
Same here. Love Wobble's simple yet effective style. No overplaying and serving the songs.
February Composition Challenge - GET WRITING!
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Here's my Smiths title-referencing effort for February. Have kept it pretty simple and I've taken time out from vocal duties so my thanks for this month's squawkings go to Gulls Aloud. Hello, my name is Upside Downer and I am a punoholic.