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[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1450305511' post='2931619'] Im a huge fan of Mark King and L42. But I've recently posted on a couple of YT videos. I mentioned that i would like to see Mark do some session stuff, or break out from his usual music. My word did i get some hostile responses. Ive been called a bedroom bassist, to a keyboard warrior twat, "don't know what I'm doing on a bass" ? and I'm slagging off world class musicians from my bedroom.? i personally would love to hear Mark do something different, play on other peoples records. he's got so much talent on the bass, why not do something more contemporary.? only my op. It reminds me of people who will possibly kill you if you slag off Music Man basses. They seem to hold that Mark King sound very close to there heart. i don't blame them to a point because its some fantastic music, but its fanatical. Ive never seen this with another bass player and there sound. maybe its a very special sound from there teen years.? by the way my bestest. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twWu-66suvU[/media] [/quote]Keyboard Warrior Twat - nice ring to it.

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1450306553' post='2931633'] mark king..... is he all that? [/quote]Smiles

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1450287129' post='2931405'] Sometimes I get a little worried when I number the bands I quit who completely folded a few months later - am I leaving a trail of scrambled egg in my wake? [/quote]Or you might have been right and they were wrong?

Ring Out Solstice Bells by Tull. 1. Great tune. 2. No mention of Christmas. 3. A band totally on their game. 4. John Glascock. Honorable mention: Run With The Fox by Chris Squire. No need to list it's greatness. I can't really think of a worst - I quite like all of them.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1450273697' post='2931232'] You can't really escape them at the moment. So what's the best and worst of them ? Bear in mind that most are meant to be 'fun', rather than taken seriously. My personal favourite is Greg Lake's 'I believe in Father Christmas', it just somehow seems quite realistic. I like the bit at the end where he sings "they said there'd be snow at Christmas.....instead it just keeps on raining. I also like the bit he nicked from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé Suite. I can't work out why Bruce Springsteen sings so out of tune on Santa Claus is coming to town ? [/quote]x10, this is a wonderful song.

[quote name='bassjim' timestamp='1450279984' post='2931312'] its hard enough getting a band together/joining one thats productive on any level. although there are more fishes in the sea its not (usually) instant so i do really feel your pain. i put a thread up here a short while ago about a guitarist that has an awful tone/attitude and the gen feeling here from our bass comrades was to get rid. taking into account that some people are totally unapproachable and not easy to talk to and if he is like this then you wont win ever. its gonna be horrible for life. i have reached a compromise with my own situation regarding a guitarist thats not cutting it and it goes like this; i will keep looking around in the background for something else and in the meantime put up with it. if i find another band/guitarist by my self and find my self short of a singer,keys player or drummer i already know a couple of dudes i could ask nudge nudge wink wink and im sure they would be cool with "doing a couple of gigs here and there" and if it escalates into something more so be it. maybe at some point someone gets their feelings hurt but unless you have a lot of choice as to whom you get to play with you are a bit stuck. you can demand he listens and joins in for the greater good but maybe you cant cause the fact is he's a cock. maybe he would like to be better but simply isnt good enough but wont /cant admit it. trouble with bands is, unless very lucky , we all end up with some personality floating around we normally wouldnt put up with in the first place..... i feel your pain [/quote]Bands are like omelettes - sometimes you've got to break some eggs.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1450256406' post='2930904'] Our guitarist always asks me if he is too loud and says turn the bass up a bit as he likes to hear the bass in music [/quote]You're making this up right? Pinch yourself

[quote name='bluesparky' timestamp='1450269772' post='2931180'] I thought I'd post this here too. [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-35101721?SThisFB"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...5101721?SThisFB[/url] I won't go into the boring details of the video equipment that crashed in the afternoon (a hippotiser, which was repaired with plenty of spare time, as opposed to how it was described in the new report), but I may add the fact that with the exception of two shows for this entire tour, she's been late on stage every night by on average 45 mins. Over an hour late on stage is pretty usual / common. She had to cut her set short by 3 songs that night as the venue were going to pull the power at 11.45pm, having already extended the curfew from 11.30pm mid-show (at who knows what cost). Of course, it's nice that the crew get the blame. Not at all frustrating. It seems the backlash on Twitter etc before the show, about her being late on stage prompted the apology / shift of blame. It seems that so far only the UK venues have the balls to follow through with the threat of pulling her power, literally everywhere else the tour has been to so far has ended up sailing through the advertised curfew. Anyway, first world issues 'n all that. Soon be Christmas! [/quote]It may have been mentioned in this thread already, but when us yokels travel to the big cities to see shows we're on a tight schedule with public transport for our return journeys. Lateness is lateness, it doesn't matter if it's an appointment with your dentist or an arena crowd. ps. Stage crews must get really pissed off when they rush their arses around to get a show ready in time so that the act can be late.

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1450174095' post='2930171'] i was having a search to see if I could find the country of origin of the Tennessee basses and I think I might have found the seller, over on sevenstring.org, under the name SKJORH, looks like he's had it for years! [url="http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/bass-guitar-discussion/161414-15-string-tennessee.html"]http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/bass-guitar-discussion/161414-15-string-tennessee.html[/url] and I think that it originally looked like this [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/15bass.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/turquoisemoleeater/guitars/15bass.jpg[/url] Matt [/quote]So he's screwed around with it just to mess it up? Looks like lower guage strings originally.

A Spector

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1450108101' post='2929646'] The more we learn about this, the fewer possibilities there are that the seller has any grip on any aspect of reality. [/quote]This!

[quote name='Old Man Riva' timestamp='1449923985' post='2928011'] Danny Baker would argue that the main reaction was against the likes of ELO, Queen, Sad Cafe, Rod Stewart (in his Britt period) et al who were all in the charts at the time. The Police in with new wave is a valid point, though as someone else said it does feel slightly bandwagon-y. Their label, A&M, marketed them as new wave, also launching Squeeze under the same banner (both acts had singles on coloured vinyl at the time, which denoted a certain 'edginess' and added to any new wave credentials!).. [/quote]I was about to use a Danny Baker quote; he said something like music wasn't broken in '76 - there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1449922304' post='2927984'] I would argue Sting had nothing to do with Punk and New Wave, other than being a blatant band wagon jumper, and add Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees.Who is not very well at the moment. [/quote]For a 'bandwagon jumper' he ain't half survived whilst the other wagons are broken.

Geddy's finest! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm4LoOaAWI

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1449844858' post='2927457'] Oh, I dunno... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVh_C7XTHA[/media] [/quote]

I rate chalk as my favourite chalk and cheese etc. Counting Moon as a vocalist is stretching it a bit.

I messaged him yesterday. Me: Are you mental? He: No, this is for offers.

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1449742958' post='2926365'] I found this after a bit of a google, looks like a 10 string version sold for $560 a good few years ago, not exactly cheap but it does look like it might actually be playable though. [url="http://www.bass-guitar-museum.com/bass-1998-PRO-TENNESSEE-BRAND-10-STRING-ELECTRIC-BASS"]http://www.bass-guit...G-ELECTRIC-BASS[/url] and I've just had a look at the sellers other items and found this! [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DREAMS-AND-DREAMING-/291632893040?hash=item43e6accc70:g:pnYAAOSw8-tWZCb1"]http://www.ebay.co.u...nYAAOSw8-tWZCb1[/url] Matt [/quote]Brilliant!

Weather Report, Birdland.

Hmmmm, the bit about the power being pulled rings a bell...

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1449649827' post='2925459'] IIRC the tape length of the original Mellotron was just under 7 seconds and there was a delay before the note could be played again for its full duration as the tape needed to rewind. Also playing too many notes at once put too much strain on the tape drive motor and would cause the tapes to play too slowly and the notes to be flat. [/quote]Ta.

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1449596243' post='2925029'] Oh no he hasn't: [url="http://prog.teamrock.com/news/2015-12-08/geddy-lee-clarifies-neil-peart-retirement-rumours"]http://prog.teamrock...irement-rumours[/url] [/quote]All those product endorsements evaporating Geddy

[quote name='acidbass' timestamp='1449570210' post='2924658'] Exit Stage Left is Rush at their best for me. Friggin love Xanadu! [/quote]+1. Throw in Signals and you've got the best of Rush.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1449531311' post='2924493'] Loved the bit about how they recorded the "choral" sounds on "Not In Love" (the only song I knew by them before watching the show). Three weeks of recording tape loops for each note, and then playing the mixer like a keyboard. Of course, now it would be trivial to do on a sampler, but incredible imagination to come up with that in the pre-sampler era since even a Mellotron wouldn't be able to do it (no long sustained notes due to the tapes only being a few centimetres long). [/quote]I heard once you could get eight seconds out of a Mellotron note?

.... he could however be a hopeless twiddler when left to his own devices.