Frank Blank

I would have found the MF afterwards and spoilt his day royally in whatever manner came to mind.

The do look great and are very light but also cost £1083 at most places... Damn.

Someone just put me out of my misery, I've spent 1k+ on a spanking new Aerodyne and the only real comment I've seen on here compared it to a Mondeo. Shall I just take it down the end of the garden, Townsend it and make a fire?

They didn’t have the ‘cute’ singer initially, but they did have sheep skulls on sticks, some of which still had their eyes in. I saw Fad Gadget a few times, a much underestimated musician imho.

It was terrifying and great too!

The Birthday Party at the Electric Ballroom 26/04/83

Heaven Hell... Tool Heaven... Hell Jaco P

This true, particularly on the E, if you tune using the harmonic it seems to remedy this most of the time but not always.

+1 Polytune. The best clip-on solution imho.

That’s excellent!

Excellent! I’d love to try one.

One of those perfect moments in music, that is, as you say, one of the best singles (that word ages us doesn’t it) of all time.

This is so subjective, has so many variables, that we all have our own individual ideas of what is ‘good’, what constitutes a ‘10’ on our own individual scale. There is no yardstick outside of of our likes and dislikes that has an inherent objective scale from ‘bad’ to ‘good’. Take Jah Wobble for instance, he is one of my favourite bass players. If I had to to explain why I would have to link it back to one album, Metal Box, then to refine my explanation in order to define what it is about his bass lines on that album I realise that almost every single definition I come up with is connected with a host of feelings, subjective notions, memories and just a huge stack of junk. I can describe some of his bass lines as ‘sublime’ in my opinion but I do not attempt to emulate the myriad qualities within those basslines in order to become a ‘better’ bass player because I realise that those basslines are a subjective meeting midway between me as the listener, hearing the line with all my likes, dislikes, peccadilloes and the line he is producing, with all his likes, dislikes and peccadilloes. My idea of a ‘good’ bass player can only ever be a Venn crossover between my subjective junk yard and Jah Wobble’s. Music is art, art is subjective. If music moves me emotionally then I consider it good, not good generally but good in my mind to me and that sense of good is impossible to define.

Genius...

Yes, I am equally unsure on this very point.

I very much doubt you’d do anything to illicit me gobbling at you. I Spit at bands/people far less now than when I was a punk, but, given exceptional circumstances, it’s still in the repertoire so to speak.

It was a truncated list at that.

One aims to please.

One of my few highly developed skills is spitting. I have become adept at landing hefty oysters of gob on screens rudely jutted into the offing between me and an artist I am trying to watch. It is hilarious because their initial reaction is to drop the now contaminated device but then this odd dance ensues passing the device from hand to hand trying to wave my noxious ejecta away.

Oh no, absolutely, Jah Wobble and JJ Burnel are, between them, the reason I picked a bass up, Metal Box and early Stranglers albums were likewise massively bass formative for me, but Jah Wobble is the pinnacle for me. I am beginning to realise that the reason I left the gig vaguely dissatisfied is because regardless of how much I try to appreciate the man and his current music I can’t help but want something of the past that’s now unobtainable. I suppose instead of trying to recapture something historical by attending such gigs I should maybe make something current that gives me the same or similar vibe.

I’m a big train spotting Wendy, just sayin’

No, not unfair, I think that’s an accurate summation. I’m kind of assimilating the experience and it’s making me think about how my attitudes have changed towards music.

It was very good indeed although I couldn’t put my finger on why.

He played a range of material from his back catalogue including a couple from Metal Box. I think the gig (and your initial reply to my post) has me wondering what I want from a gig and what I wanted from this gig in particular.