Frank Blank

Excellent! Let us know if you have to stump up a deposit, I'm sure we'll chip in.

👍 I never knew that, how interesting. I always thought it odd that he stated he had no musical theory given his abilities on other instruments. Maybe he had such a good ear that he relied on that making him such an intuitive player. Thanks for the extra info, always happy discussing MK. Seconded.

Oh come on, those were tricky circumstances, it clashing with the Conway Twitty documentary and all.

Christ, yes of course... blimey.

Paging @jebroad

Definitely up for it, last year was a gas.

I have been for about 35 years 😀

YAFG* *You actual f****** genius 😄

Pino is amazing! I’ve just been reading up on the albums, MK did backing vocals on one of the I, Assassin tracks. This is Numan’s quote about Pino on the album... He was brilliant. I had never heard playing like it...He came up with stunning bass lines, song after song. I leaned on him heavily during the making of the album. I pushed his playing to the forefront of the tracks and, inadvertently, created a new style. It was one of the first times that the fretless bass had been used as the lead melody instrument, allowing the album to be atmospheric, dreamy and funky. I’ll probably get stick but Pino always struck me as a brilliant technical player, but MK is deeply intuitive. I remember reading an interview with him where he said he had no musical theory at all and couldn’t tell you what notes he was playing if a string was “An E or a C”, also that the rest of the band would rehearse a song into existence and then MK would arrive having made up a bass line just based on the title of the song, they’d rewrite entire songs around his lines because they were so good! Anyway, any excuse for Bestial Cluster...

The album before this, Dance, had Mick Karn playing bass. I have heard people moan about Pino ‘copying’ MK on I, Assassin but he was asked to play like him so he was doing what was required. I think I’m right in saying that Pino used effects whereas MK always double tracked which gives MK a subtler sound imho.

Fair enough.

↑ ↑ ↑ this is the answer. Where are you @Lfalex v1.1?

Absolutely, terribly sad though.

Numerous times but that’s because I’m an absolute c***.

This evening (Sat 6th March) is good one for old punks! I am going to watch The Public Image Is Rotten (2018), a £0.99p rental from Amazon Prime and try and finish that just in time for... 21:00 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (2021) 23:00 White Riot (2019) 00:40 There’ll Always Be An England (2008) 02:05 The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead? (2015)

But utter genius.

A luthier, next question.

Welcome @BassLard.

As is a good FRFR speaker.

The performance is outstanding but I would agree generally with the above. Having sold my AER and moved to an FRFR solution such as described below, well I suppose that speaks for itself. 👍

Agreed, can't wait.

I had an AER Basic Performer, superb.