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Yeah and our other rhythm guitarist didn't bother at all at practice but expected to sing live. I have had people say you shouldn't let him sing he's rotten. We eventually had to turn his mic down when we played live. He never seemed to notice. I think it made him feel better. He was playing acoustic which was ok at rehearsal but got lost under the lead guitarist's loud playing. He also had the most miserable look on his face. Again people used to say what is the point of him being in the band? I always thought the same but my massively passive aggressive guitarist mate always got his way and he stayed.

You had never heard the AC/DC version? What age are you?......... 12? 😂

We used to rehearse in my spare room. We rehearsed pretty loudly. Almost at the volume that we would be playing on stage without the PA. I would sing at my normal volume but my mate, the guitarist, wouldn't practise his backing vocals, or if he did it was in a stupid voice to try and get a laugh out of the rest of the band. It used to drive me up the wall as he wasn't practised for the gig and some of the live backing vocals were rotten. I blew up at him one night and everyone thought I was being the knob, but I think all instruments including vocals should be rehearsed properly.

Yup, I was there too. Right up the front. Axl was pleading with the crowd to move back.

My point is it works both ways. If a bass player picks up a guitar for the first time it’s a disaster.

I was at the Rush gig. Superb indeed. I feel for you going to see Chris De Burgh

Everyone definitely cannot sing. I can vouch for that with the amount of can my mate get up to sing mob!

I always said to the band as I was the bass player and singer, if I made a mistake and sang or played a chorus instead of a verse just follow me because its too hard to change once I'm away. I got sick of dirty looks and the band carrying on playing a verse when I was onto a chorus. Not that it happened all that often but when we were playing lots and as I say concentrating on two things, it's easy to lose concentration

We had a drummer who would count at a different speed than the song went at. I tried to tell him to count at the tempo you are going to play the song at. It was most annoying as there would be a slow count and then we had to guess what speed the song was going to be at.

Sugizo. Guitarist from Luna Sea. Multi instrumentalist, multi styled and incredibly talented.

I love this. Luna Sea are one of the biggest bands in the East. I got into J rock years ago and still like a few of the bands.

I remember being on holiday in Turkey when this came out before Holly Valances version came out. I much prefer the original. It just suits.

Considering the Kid Rock song IS this song then that's a given.

Do Rickenbacker have any cheaper copiers like Epiphone and Squire?

I love this so much I added it to my playlist on Apple Music. Theres a guy playing a chain pull!!

Those comments should go on the bad jokes thread.

I may be biased but the sound of the pipes close up stirs my heart. A full pipe band walking past is amazing. Pipers used to lead men into battle. The accordion is ok in the right situation. I'm not a huge fan of Scottish country dancing but I have enjoyed many ceilidh's. Once the drink starts flowing and the dancing starts it's great. Our band was based on a mixture of Scottish country dance music and rock and country type music. Not my choice but it was what the punters wanted. If I had had my way we would be playing grunge and metal and would never have gotten any gigs.

We went to see Mamas Boyz in the Garage in the 80's I think. They were the loudest band I have ever experienced. It was a wall of noise. My ears were ringing afterwards. You couldn't distinguish what song they were playing it was so loud. Even to a young Metal head they were too loud.

And hearing your voice coming from speakers can throw some folk. You are used to hearing your voice as you talk but in a band situation your voice is projected. Not everyone can handle this. Edit. Forgot to say, the nuances of singing into a mic like pulling back at louder, higher pitched notes and not distorting the sound like a pub drunk does.

Our rhythm player decided he wanted to add backing vocals and bought himself a mic and stand. He was dreadful. We used to turn him down in the mix and he never knew it.

We had an accordion player. My massively passive aggressive guitar playing mate insisted we needed one. It was fine in the traditional stuff we played. Even in the country rock type stuff it worked. Trouble is he got sick of sitting out so started playing along with everything. Rock songs don't work with a bleeding accordion. He bought some gadget that was supposed to make the accordion sound like keyboards or any other sound he wanted. All I ever heard was bloody accordion!

That reminds me of us way back when we first started the band. My mate had got a guitar for his Christmas and I had said I'll get a bass. I thought that would be easier. My other mate said he would learn drums and got a drum kit. We got to practice in the Scout hall. It was so bad acoustically but we didn't care. We were hammering away when the local hippy heard us and came in. He was called The Gunk on account of his long frizzy hair. Later we would learn that he was bloody amazing on guitar. He asked us to play something and when we did he was like stop, stop, you have to play together. We didn't realise that we were so loose that it was sounding rotten. That was an epiphany for us as we realised that you had to play in time. Sorry for digressing but that brought me back.

Even back then I would have considered that bullying to the extreme.

I love The Leningrad Cowboys! The worst I have seen was not complete concerts but part of a concert. Tank in Glasgow Apollo in '82 They went down so badly that when the drummer threw his sticks into the crowd they sailed straight back to him. Support to Death Cab For cutie was a band called Chastity Belt. All girl band and it was toe curlingly bad. absolutely no effects on the guitar and you could hear every plink and mistake. They gazed at their shoes and amazingly got a decent reception. They were rank! Sigue Sigue Sputnik at the height of their popularity. They were dreadful. I think Tony James had assembled a group of people who looked good rather than decent musicians. You could tell he was the only one who could play. The best was Diamond head at the same gig that Tank supported. They did about 5 encores and one was after the lights had come on. The atmosphere was incredible!