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I had a Zoom 4040 back in the 90s that did defretting too. It had loads of cool noises. Arpeggiator, crazy wah, and I even nailed the Motorbikes in Space sound.

Silly. That’ll be in the Ultra version… yours for £599!

Oh he’s a beast. He’s done loads of videos for Source Audio too; showing off their kit. He can make plenty of cool noises.

I mean, of course they don't - that would be far too simple, and they couldn't be the best then! Gah - hope this gets resolved promptly. Very frustrating.

Welcome! And the best cheese is Stilton, or possibly Cabrales.

Melty Stompboxen. But louder and pointier.

You can really go off people you know: showoff!! They do look very nice, the colour combo on the 50s one is amazeballs.

One finger attack with his ‘main noisy b*stard’ as he describes it. He broke the nail right off as a teen and it grew back extra thick and tough. That bass is the one he played as a Yes stand in: was it the Rock & Roll HOF induction?

Woo, more Yorkshire players! Welcome!

A looper pedal?

I think he paints planes, or ships. or submarines, which he gets a bonus for if they paint them while they’re still underwater!

Some bass manufacturers do it as part of new instrument production: MTD is the one I can think of. It sounds very useful - I guess the only way you'd know is if you had an instrument you've played for some time plek'd and then could describe the difference.

I dunno why he doesn’t just drop his voice an octave for the old ones, instead of tuning down a step and really struggling.

“Plays like ‘I can’t believe it’s not butter’ that’s been mixed with glue.”

Crikey.

If you have a contract that gets you more, you wouldn't change it. No - an artist, in practice, can not always just say no. That's a very strange perception of reality you have.

Well - I imagine it would be net of the streaming services charge. Same way publishing royalty works in the small press world. Because no band ever has been pressured into an unequal contract... Leaving them to negotiate sounds like free market capitalism at its worst.

Remember ofc this is the US, where the cost of laying off non-union employees for slack periods is very little, its not even a big PR issue.

At least its not a phase he later regretted. He is totally committed to all that sort of thing, and Yes were far too pop clinical for my liking when he wasn't the singist. Sure they can be a bit serious - but it must be hard work remembering what bit comes next halfway through Close to the Edge - all of their long songs refuse to fit any sort of decent structure. It's just crackers. You can't listen to Tales from Topographic Oceans the same way you listen to an album of a dozen 3 minute songs. It requires dedication and a suspension of musical disbelief

Tales from Topographic Oceans, as well as plenty of Steve Howe's solo output from that time is chock full of eastern scales and esoteric widdling - his contribution to Yes is that they would have sounded far less exciting and inventive if he were a more regular guitar noodler. His playing on their version of America is brilliant. If you can find it (coz it's not on Spotify) - get Keys to Ascension I and II (both are double discs) - it's mostly a live concert (2 or 3 nights) from a hall in San Luis Obispo, plus about an album's worth of new material. The live material is fabulous: Siberian Khatru, Close to the Edge and Awaken are pretty transcendent - their best versions in my opinion.

Duran Duran playing right now at the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.

Wow: it’s like something Iain M Banks dreamed up for The Culture.

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