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Now you mention it, I recall that the term did indeed at one time imply a certain deficiency of some of those qualities which make us human. No such disparagement is intended on this occasion, the word simply being a contraction. I would moreover draw attention to the plump little dog which enters the scene at one point and pootles off again, visibly unimpressed by his master's exquisite performance of perhaps the greatest 60's British Soul hit ever. 'In the presence of genius, eh? Where's my dinner?'

In shocking news, the 72 year-old muso fails to trash his own legacy but instead emerges triumphant. F**k me, he can still sing.

Late entry for August 2000 BC composition challenge from a total newbie to this enterprise. Done in Reaper with stock plug-ins (apart from a freebie transient editor for extra added murk), an SM55 mic, an Epiphone Sorrento. Drums by Jamstix, and a Bronco into MIDI into the 'Gutbucket' washtub bass VST by Samsara. ↓↓ Dunno if I've got in over the line but here it is anyway ↓↓

Ah, well, tried posting link here but it all went wrong. So, try again...

It's like the woman who opined that Shakespeare is over-rated, his plays being no more than a string of popular quotations.

Clapton Thread: Training Wheels for New Forum Members? I'm beginning to think that this thread should be co-opted into some sort of induction programme for new BC-ers. It's a perfect example of how the forum works and how to comport oneself. Imbued throughout with the spirit of give and take and IMO, it starts with a bold contention, garners some useful critical analysis, wanders briefly into controversy (and a promptly extinguished flame war), derails across ever more unrelated issues and finally collapses, chortling like a madman, into a stream of appalling puns. The thread shows BC at its most typical and is therefore useful instructional material.

I'm now finding it difficult to N-gauge with this thread.

Mr Bill Wyman (birth name William George Perks)

I suppose he'd say: 'Well, it's thirty years from now so I haven't got a f**king clue, maybe Robert Kennedy Jr. "Or Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'll go with Arnold".

Well, Eric's playing an A minor chord on an acoustic guitar so it's either a sad or a meaningful song and he's playing it in front of an old caravan so it's probably a sad song in A minor about how he can't afford a new caravan.

For the purposes of clarification I can confirm that Mr Bob Mould is not related to the late Mr Ted Moult. Thank you. Now go about your business, people of Britain.

Well, thankfully, it hasn't deteriorated into a proxy competition between two fine musicians and performers. It's just me derailing a thread again to propose that a world with Bob Mould and Eric Clapton in it is a better world than one without them. As for the influence thing, in his time Clapton spawned a million guitar faces and several hundred thousand blues bands. To this day, if a guitarist suggests playing a blues I assume he probably means the Clapton version rather than the original by Blind Lemon Chitling. So, yes influential. As for Bob, we know that a generation of 90's bands ripped off Husker Du and Sugar. It may have been Grohl or Cobain or Black Francis (?) who said something like 'We owe it all to Bob Mould'. Each, in their time, influential but to different degrees and in different ways. The marvellous thing is I can flip a switch and listen to either of them at their best and at no cost. What a time to be alive

Bob Mould hacking the bejasus out of his - er - Strat * I've heard of Bob Mould * I don't much get off on Husker Du but ... * Bob's next proper band Sugar was fabtastic and Copper Blue (← YT link) one of the great rock albums of all time * Bob's solo work has been fairly tasty especially the recent stuff which has some hilarious vids, hilarious not being something you expect from a man who once released an album entitled Black Sheets of Rain * His experimental dance music album was a bit godawful but all dance albums by rock guitarists are godawful (oh, Gary...) * Any rock guitarist who comes out as gay then puts his musical career on hold to become a pro wrestler gets my vote Conclusion IMO, Bob Mould more interesting now than Clapton but possibly not as interesting as Clapton once was. Not as widely influential (though not un-influential, Pixies, Nirvana, Foos, etc). Clapton more recognisable name than Bob Mould, considerably richer and more widely influential. The good news is that Clapton and Mould both play Strats and both currently exist in the same world, and lots of people are very happy that this is the case. With that, here's Bob's take on recent events. It's killer stuff (language NSFW) : Meanwhile, Pete Townshend sits in his room and mithers about being 'relevant'.

Frankly, I'd be simply terrified of standing in a garden near a drummer huffing and puffing his way through a set. If a virus molecule thing were - as is highly likely - to alight upon on his crash cymbal the consequences could be deadly. Out of the chorus, tom fill, crash, and whappo! the virus goes shooting off across the grass at 250 mph, over the dahlias and up the nose of some poor, vulnerable individual blithely unaware that airborne death is incoming. The obvious solution is to place some perspex screens around and over each of the musicians then put the whole band in a fruit cage and drape the structure with multiple layers of horticultural fleece so that it's effectively one big mask. It's still taking a chance but it's a balanced option until we can find a way to safely encase band and audience alike in individual resin blocks.

Indeed so. Back in the day we used various DJ's who worked on other stations. The rule was, if they were in a neighbouring transmission area they used a different name.

I am unfamiliar with Planet Rock's output but outwith any obviously 'live' shows I'd imagine that most of the DJ links are pre-recorded in advance and in one session and in the comfort of their own homes, then sent digitally to the station to be inserted into the play-out computer along with the songs, the station idents and the ads. Most radio you hear isn't 'live' and many DJ's no longer even go into the station except for meetings. So, in answer to the question, they're not doing anything between the links because they're not there.

Shrug it off, would be my advice. The minute you hit the post button the topic's out there and belongs to everybody. Permit me to expand. When one starts a topic on an internet forum it's like making love to a beautiful woman who gets pregnant, gives birth, the child grows up and leaves home. You can't wrap it in cotton wool and you shouldn't have any preconceived expectations; all you can do is hope that the topic will be happy and will build a life for itself on its own terms. Tip: If you want to share a vid on BC just stick up a link, say you found it interesting then walk away. Sometimes people engage, sometimes they don't. That's just how it is

Depends how old your daughters are. By the time they're dating we may be up to Rock Generation 6 (Alt-Baroque in kilts with lots of Hare Krishna-type smiling) or rock may be dead altogether and the sole focus of interest will be the new Samsung neural implant phone with Bluetooth access straight into someone else's mind. If you abhor this prospect you need to get yourself and your family off the grid, focus on acoustic guitar and buy a riot shotgun. Don't say you weren't warned.

It's not so much smugness as an air of 'Look at me. I'm in control not only of my instrument but also of my life and everything going on in it. That's because - at my core - I'm a stable, well-adjusted person to whom integrity and authenticity are more important than financial gain or transient popularity'. So, basically, the mating signal of the (current) younger generation and one which musos integrate into their recordings and performances the better to engage with their audience. It's the old 'dress and act like your punters only 10% more'. Permit me to expand. Crudely speaking, I am of the second 'rock muso' generation where both musos and male consumers (sometimes) attracted sexual partners through displays of an unbridled, nay, rampant masculinity reminiscent of Vikings on a North Sea cruise. Fast cars, random destruction of property, indiscriminate porking, heavy consumption of recreational narcotics including but not limited to Heineken lager, cheap bourbon, red leb and pills. Girlies liked that sort of (falsified) image or so we thought. Bands sold their records off the back of it. The third generation was all about 'Oh, I'm so sad, I'm crying, everything's all too much, it's all black sheets of rain. I might sometimes play loud, discordant guitar but underneath I'm just a little boy who's grazed his knee and wants mummy to kiss it better then, if possible, work upwards'. That's everyone from Cobain through to the afore-mentioned Sheeran*. The current Gen 4 is all about character and identity and moderation and dressing down and having the latest app, and looking all buttoned-up and extremely unlikely to make a sudden lunge for the jubblies, this on the basis that to do so would be a shameful loss of control and antithetical to the ethical framework of their lives. Basically, it's a way of looking un-threatening and a bit superior to the norm, and those who practice this modus operandi undoubtedly do so in the hope of enhancing their chance of playing 'sink the brisket' with whomsoever may be the object of their interest. Punters do it to get shagged; musos do it to build an audience. It's not a bad tactic though no more likely to succeed than those which preceded it.. One awaits Gen 5 with interest. Will those musos go further down the route of restraint? Will they dress like 1950's Dads, embrace temperance and write letters to The Church Times expressing their disquiet at mounting evidence of moral degradation? Or will they throw caution to the wind, don buttock-less leather trousers, neck meths and sing songs about dining at the Y? I do not know but I think we should be told. * I instance Cobain and Sheeran because they both sit (sat) on the cusp between eras. Cobain started as the wigged-out junkie and ended as the poor little dead boy. Sheeran started as a whiner but has transitioned to self-obsessed, socially-conscious 'entrepreneur'.

It's better than Ed Sheeran so I'm not complaining even though I'm not particularly excited either but then it's just one of those things that happens from time to time, y'know, someone puts out a YT vid of themself playing some 1970's lift music in a dimly lit studio while looking all thoughtful and musicianly, and people say 'Oh, wow, you've got to hear this' and some other musos think 'Well, me and Ben and Torq could do that' so they go off and do it and put out a YT vid and soon pretty much everyone's doing it then someone else gets dressed up as a Bay of Biscay trawlerman and plays sea shanties to an EDM beat while looking all thoughtful and musicianly and the cycle kicks off again.

There you go. No need to thank me.

TLRT's spaffed so you'll have to make do with an in-line reaction.

Because the whole point of being a musician is mastering the creative ability to comply when punters come up to you at a gig and say 'Can you play the theme from Les Parapluies De Cherbourg? Not the original, I mean, the Metallica version. It's the wife's favourite and it's her birthday'. As for reading music, that's just cheating. When I was tympanist with the CBSO we all got creative enough that Simon Rattle could suddenly jump up on his podium and shout 'Mozart 38, D Major, GO!' and we'd nail it every time.