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Doesn't Alex have some health issues? Arthritis IIRC.

Snowy White - Chinatown - Thin Lizzy.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1503830892' post='3361073'] Agreed. His bass playing and keyboards are as fine as ever, maybe better, but the voice is not. There was a video of Xanadu I watched yesterday from last year, afterwards I had to watch one from the 70s to scrub it from my mind. Having said that, if the songs are recorded now much lower, maybe that is fine, it is the high stuff he can't sing and early rush is so high. [/quote]The trouble is, like Ian Anderson he has absolutely no range these days regardless of the key.

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1503860259' post='3361214'] I would really welcome Geddy and Alex carrying on making music. If they have the passion for it, great! Lord knows, they've done enough fan service touring all over the world for decades. I'd love to hear them doing something fresh. I love Rush (my favourite band by a long shot) but if they want to try something new, they should. Neil Peart owes nothing, having come back from immense personal tragedy to carry on with Rush. It seems that drumming is the most arduous of instruments to play as the years go by and good health must come first. I recall reading that Phil Collins barely plays the drums at all these days, as just a few minutes at the kit leaves him in agony with back pain from that hunched position he plays in. Similarly, you can't go full throttle in the toms for fifty years without some wear on the arms (even accounting for all the effort Neil put into learning a new grip style in the 90's). [/quote]Fan service? Were they giving away music and touring for free?

Please Geddy, no singing

Me again. Victorious Festival, Southsea last night. The Silver Beatles: iffy choice of songs, spot on playing and scouse accents and they're now the Fab Five (full time keyboard player). The Charlatans: never was a band name so fitting - why are they popular? Madness: very entertaining, Mark Bedford* note perfect and he's switched back to a Precision I think. But let me get back to the point of the thread. Two further stages of disco dross and and local band dross with that good 'ole sub bass pedal to the metal adding up to a relentless five hour ear bashing. *Mark's and the Madness sound was actually very good.

Conductor Jules Buckley and the Motropole Orkest.

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1503608235' post='3359711'] Just remembered... once worked with a dep drummer who played with Smokey. [/quote]John Shearer?

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1503579745' post='3359339'] Well, I looked 'em up. I skipped across the Youtube tracks; there's no way I'm going to waste a whole hour of my life giving [i]that [/i]the works, not at my time of life. And to think they actually blagged record deals with that..! Amazing salesmanship. I did appreciate the irony of the title, it being spectacularly devoid of it, in my view. [/quote]If Joy Division fans never made Private Eye's Pseuds Corner (now defunct I think) they should have. Mostly utter tripe. And just as a challenge to the Pseuds out there; Paul Young made a better job of Love Will Tear Us Apart

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[quote name='edstraker123' timestamp='1503428792' post='3358195'] How about this one for £4,430 more ! [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WAL-Bass-Guitar-Mk1-Custom-Nov-1990-4-string-fretted-rare-collectable-/253088806282?hash=item3aed44b58a:g:igYAAOSwvPRZZPsb"]http://www.ebay.co.u...gYAAOSwvPRZZPsb[/url] [/quote]

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1503474726' post='3358445'] Carrying on the 5 songs theme (as most likely to succeed): Money - Pink Floyd Goin' Underground - The Jam Peaches - The Stranglers Killer Queen - John Deacon and some other people Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown 5 slightly different flavours and none of them so difficult that you can't have a stab after a while. [/quote]Great suggestions.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1503444564' post='3358374'] "Right then boys; do you want me to tell who/what* I think are the best players/bands/songs/albums/styles*, or do you want me to suggest something you might have a chance of actually being able to play sometime soon?" *Delete as appropriate [/quote]This times ten.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=crowded+house+live+1991&&view=detail&mid=AF00BA58BF04CFA3C010AF00BA58BF04CFA3C010&FORM=VRDGAR This is '91 with his red NS-2. http://www.audioculture.co.nz/content/images/7254/wysiwyg_full_ys25.jpg And in the studio with Mark Hart who didn't join the band until '93.

Roxy Music - Jealous Guy.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1503244548' post='3356651'] [media]http://youtu.be/Res3-YX4X8g[/media] [/quote]The definitive version of this song.

There's enough criticism of MK's style already on here... oh hang on a minute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtvGR8UX1L0 Bass solo? Strictly for comedy.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1502899092' post='3354281'] Can we expect there to be a lot of Status 6 string basses for sale in a year or so time then? Where people have bought them because of Mark King, then realised they have no need for one. [/quote]

[quote name='Sonic_Groove' timestamp='1502791909' post='3353535'] Any online pics of His Status Six String?? Brendan [/quote]Same as his others; millions of knobs and switches, thinnest strings known to humanity etc.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1502802346' post='3353619'] [color=#353535][font=ProximaNova-Regular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Model Revo 8[/font][/color] [color=#353535][font=ProximaNova-Regular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]100W 8ohm[/font][/color] [color=#353535][font=ProximaNova-Regular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]430H x 315W x [/font][/color][color=#353535][font=ProximaNova-Regular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]8 inch woofer[/font][/color] [/quote]Ta.

Good point drT. This trend has nothing to do with '70's disco which sounded great.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1502750375' post='3353329'] Just read through the content and looked at the photos, nice bit of PR 'puff' for Gizmodrome and Status Basses. Still it could have been worse, like an old interview with Sir Paul? [/quote]BGM probably wet themselves when they found out Mark had a 'new' project and promptly filled a great chunk of the mag with it.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1502742513' post='3353260'] Me..I'm currently the high bidder...I already have a set of these PA speakers...paid a load more than the currently sale price. [/quote]Curious. What are the specs?

[quote name='prowla' timestamp='1502716692' post='3353046'] Clocks is just the Taurus preset sound. On my PK-5A pedals, I set the "Mono" to the lower octave and the "Poly" to the higher one; then it's just a matter of playing the notes like they do in the video ("Poly", 1st two notes, "Mono", next three notes, "Poly", first two notes of the next phrase, and so-on); I only figured the main riff and not the backing to the guitar bit (I think it's just an "E", but am not sure). [/quote]There is a bit more going on in the guitar bit between the E and B IIRC. Since John Hackett stopped touring with Steve the keyboard player's covered that part.