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Pocupine Tree and/or Steven Wilsons solo band. Nice and thoughtful and mellow, but when they riff out, it's quite something too.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1437134671' post='2823875'] Thanks for posting that. I enjoyed it a lot. Also nice that you wrote something about the song and your experiences with it. I think I need to edit my post. [/quote] So glad someone else liked this, and what a great thread title we are replying to, as soon as I read it I thought "Yes, that's the moment I love!" As mentioned above, the film for "Drive Home" by thesame artist is quite moving too,the animation is probably better than the Raven one, it kind of moves from 2D cut out type animation to a 3D rendering of the same characters as sort of puppets. If that makes sense!

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1437133289' post='2823857'] That's a brilliant piece of film. There's one for the song drive home by the same animator Jessica Cope, that's really nice too. I think Raven is probably my favourite track from the album. [/quote] Indeed, I think I actually like the film for Drive even more, but the music for Raven just hit that special place that some tunes do. Mr Wilson and Porcupine Tree were, for me, one of those chance discoveries recently that I instantly fell in love with!

This video is long, but well worth 7 minutes out of your day, the first time I saw it I had to gasp for air at the end, as I'd been so transfixed. To my very uncultured brain it fused the beauty of classical music with the song craft of a prog-legend, Steven Wilson performing The Raven That Refused To Sing. The visuals are quite beautiful too. http://youtu.be/u4XevlloPY4

Like most generations, it probably depends how old you were at the time, I was 11-21 in the eighties, so very influenced by this era, I was a rock fan into Maiden, AC/DC, Scorpions, and all the hair metal stuff, HATED all the "pop" music of the time, but now I'm mid 40's I like all that stuff I hated then. I despised Level 42 at the time, but compared to the mostly bland "pop" of today, I think they were probably very good musicians and songwriters. Now I'm at an age where I can Bah humbug all day....!!

My good lady and I chose ( on purpose!) REM's ' It's the end of the world as we know it ' as our first wedding dance. Still married, so the apocalypse wasn't as bad as threatened.

That's awesome, she sounds almost the same as I remember Seb sounding back in his heyday at Hammersmith in '90's..!!!

But Kurt wore bobbly jumpers ( cardigans ).........!!!!!!! Wouldn't be my choice,however!!

To me, in my forties, the only ' unacceptable' stage wear is stage wear that makes me physically uncomfortable, so when it's hot, it's shorts time! Thought we all agreed after Cobain that there are no unacceptable things to wear?😀

Blue, they're getting more popular over here, getting some airplay on the rock radio stations, and early next year I got tickets to see them play Wembley arena supporting Shinedown and Black Stone Cherry, which should be enormous fun!! Didn't know the back story though, very interesting, and nice to hear that the hard work sometimes pays off. She has a great rock voice too, there's some footage of her doing Slave to the grind duet with Seb Bach, she can rip it!!

Thanks guys, good stuff. I live in Essex and a few of us used to do a trip up Soho and the West End a couple of times a year taking in all the second hand and cheap record stores, sadly they've pretty much all gone now. Nice To see some online independents around.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1436185142' post='2815669'] Hot pants are fine. Morecombe & Wise cast off boy scout shorts are not. [/quote] I'll see if Kylie has any going spare for our next gig!!! 😉

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1436179555' post='2815564'] No shorts. Unnaceptable stage wear. Band t shirts too. [/quote] Yeah, this is just wrong....

This day was HOT......the bands legs were NOT.....

Cheers for all the above, will def check them all out. Always found ebay prices a bit steep with people out to make a quick profit, quite often you could find a CD on ebay that was at Amazon price plus about £2, obviously bought just to sell on,but times change quick in internet land, will give it another try.

Basically, I'm very old, and old fashioned.....(46).... And I like CDs....there, I said it. Like everyone else in the world, switched to Amazon years ago for buying mine, but now noticed that their prices have crept up, and then they wanted postage if your order was below a tenner ( when most Cds are 9.99!!) and now, just seen they want to charge postage if order under £20!!! It's actually now cheaper to drive to town and get from my local HMV, which I am happy to do as I like browsing too, but are there any other decent sites that offer good value, or is ia a classic case of Amazon out pricing everyone til they go bust,then bumping prices back up, the capitalist dream in action? Second hand stuff via Amazon marketplace is still good value, maybe that's the best option? Cheers!!!

[quote name='lemmywinks' timestamp='1435233167' post='2806753'] TC's cabs were over the stated impedance weren't they? I thought the 8ohm cabs actually came in at around 10-11 ohms so you could use 3 of their cabs with other amps. [/quote] But the new BH550 and 800 amps, according to the TC website,will only power 2 of their cabs..whereas my BH 500 will power 3......confused!!!!!

Weirdly the new TC heads ( 550 and 800 ) only allow you to run two of their smaller cabs, whereas my old Bh500 allowed you to run three. Surely this would suggest that the trickery is in the head rather than the cabs....??? The Bh500 is very loud with one or two cabs, never tried three.

Forgot Geezer. And Entwhistle. Blast.

Unfortunately, with so many sub genres there are going to be hundreds of suggestions, I would guess, but from me...... Rock..John Paul Jones.......Metal.....Steve Harris ......Heavy Metal...... Cliff Burton. For "pop" music I remember the mid eighties when Mark King was basically the only bassist that any non bassist could name, so I guess that would qualify as a pioneer...?

I never liked the look of the BB basses until I stopped thinking of it as a Precision clone, and saw it more as a blend of a P bass and a Gibson SG style body, then it made sense. Shallow, but true. And once you hear one....wow!!!

I read that the guy from Soundgarden uses his MIM P bass as his main guitar, I assume he has a reasonable choice!!!!

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1432840684' post='2785557'] Poorly treated punters finally rapping their hands in and voting with their feet? [/quote] Hopefully that means all the a$$holes that purchased tickets with no intention of going to the gig and just reselling for massive profit were left out of pocket. Hopefully.

Our common hiccups occur when the vocalist either comes in early...or not at all...but we can usually cover it up o.k. Until last week, when during American Idiot by Green Day, he was fine til the bit after the solo, then decided to sing with the music and leave the silent bits...er....silent...instead of vice versa. Classic.

I'd love to be stranded with... 1 Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast.....the song I love most because it opened my ears to the power of rock, remember listening to this as a young teen on a casette walkman in bed late at night just marvelling at the sheer power of the instruments, and the awesomness of Bruce wailing over the top! 2 Holst, planet suite, Jupiter....I know it's a bit mainstream but always loved it and it gives a tiny bit of culture to my otherwise basic tastes. Very melancholy. 3 Rush...Red Barchetta...the way it twists and turns, the superb drumming, love it. 4 Marillion...Misplaced childhood, side 1.... A cheat here, but it's sort of one continuous bit of music, just like Lord of the rings is actually 3 books...please...??? 5 Michael Jackson....Beat It...perfect power pop to have a groove to in happier moments. 6 Metallica...Creeping Death...just for the sheer largeness of it, especially the chanting "die,die" section. Happy days! 7 Porcupine Tree... Arriving Somewhere...because it's long and tells a musical story 8 Goo Goo Dolls....Slide.. Has the following lyric.." What you feel is what you are, and what you are is beautiful, do you wanna get married, or run away?" which I remember hearing with my new wife,on my honeymoon in Monterrey, California, next to the beach, it was then, and is now, just a perfect rock ballad. My book would be Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, so funny and thoughtful too, if way too short, but could read over and over. My luxury would be an acoustic guitar, which I can't play, but would be a great time to learn. The one song I would save would be Maiden, because of it's historical greatness for me.