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[quote name='Antiloco' timestamp='1360217997' post='1966768'] That's a pretty shallow statement but hey, whatever makes you happy. [/quote] Oh good, more of this. Art and entertainment are ENTIRELY subjective terms. Absolutely no one is ever going to be right or wrong here. You have views you want to share, which is great, being exposed to different viewpoints is one of the great joys of life, it's how we change and grow as people. Trading snippy remarks back and forth isn't changing or growing anyone. Discuss things like mature intelligent people or not at all. I for one, am sick of this playground bulls**t.

Aye, I got one, instantly filled away in my mental spam folder.

I had vowed to actually play the guitar and bass on mine for once, but the first minute is now a noodly guitar thing that I can't really play well enough to record, so VST's it is again. I might still do the bass if I can get it to sound good with the VST guitars.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1359791033' post='1960301'] The song is meant to be written to the picture and should be written in yhe same month really. [/quote] That's the thing, this riff is the first thing I thought of when I saw that picture, and it's still the thing that most fits it in my head. I know that anything new I try to write for it will basically just be this riff, but not quite as good. Oh well, probably best not to enter then, hopefully March's conjures up a new good idea.

Hmm, that's a pretty good one. I've actually already got a bit of a song that I think would fit perfectly with that, is that within the spirit of the competition? It would be reworked and re-recorded and wouldn't be the whole song, but that's pretty much the image I had in my head when I wrote that bit.

Being able to sing would be pretty cool, although mostly because it means I would never have to go through the pain of finding a singer.

As I recall, Hitler did call it "Mutterland" instead of "Vaterland" which was the norm. As I recall, a German psychologist (presumably in exile) published a paper about Hitler during WWII and said that he was fixated on a pre-WWI symolism, where Austria was his old tired father, and Germany was his young vibrant mother, about to be violated. Sounds a little thin, but he did predict that Hitler would commit suicide in a symbolic womb, which he kind of did, depending on how large and fortified you consider wombs to be.

[quote name='BILL POSTERS' timestamp='1359297001' post='1952606'] [url="http://en.necropedia.org/obituary/Carol_Kaye"]http://en.necropedia...uary/Carol_Kaye[/url] For just a minute there... what kind of sicko publishes websites like this ? [/quote] What's so sick? It's a wiki about death, not everybody is squeamish about death. The obituaries thing is a little odd, but as they point out, news organizations routinely prepare up to date obituaries about prominent people so they can put them out instantly when that person dies, surely it's no more ghoulish than that?

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359229227' post='1952003'] Ok I'll let you in on my weird crazy meter... Your reply is pretty weird! So maybe you are crazy. And what is a passing transient? [/quote] I'm not crazy, I have a certificate and everything. A transient is a polite southern euphemism for a homeless individual. And passing is, well, passing.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1359228290' post='1951984'] I'm firmly of the opinion that anyone who names an inanimate object is mentally ill and my friend Brian the Telecaster agrees with me. [/quote] Well Billingsley, the 19th century gamekeeper who lives in my sock drawer, disagrees. He says it's perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. He also says we need to help out our boys in the Crimea.

Wow, craziness is logarithmic. Who knew?

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359223496' post='1951896'] Someone on the Sales Forum just bought an envelope pedal, and posted "I'll take good care of her!"... Her? A stomp box? This is not sentimentality... This [i]is[/i] weird craziness...! [/quote] I'd appreciate access to this absolutely correct weird craziness meter you have, it would help settle a few arguments. Different people do different things, if you start writing off entire groups of people for minor idiosyncrasies, then I think you'll find yourself quite lonely. My advice is to gradate "weird craziness" and act accordingly, here's a couple of examples to get you going: Example: A man refers to his bass guitar by a female name. Action: No action required. Example: A man murders a passing transient, peels his skin, wears it like a suit, and runs around screaming about garlic. Action: Inform the police, hide any garlic you have on your person.

I do it, luckily I've only got 2 basses and a guitar, mine are named after my lady friend at the time. This just seems to me as another facet of the sentimentality debate. At uni me and my housemates ended up in a discussion of first thing you'd grab in case of fire. Mine was my bass, without even thinking, it holds so much sentimental value. It's not my first bass, but it's the one I learned properly on, I worked a proper job just to pay for it and I just can't imagine being without it. One of my housemates however, just couldn't understand this. It was covered under house insurance, so he just didn't get why I'd bother taking it, I'd get a brand new better bass from the insurance claim. He wouldn't take anything in case of a fire, he said there was nothing he had that was irreplaceable. Personally I find that a little sad. So really it's just a form of sentimentality, obviously I know my basses don't ACTUALLY have independent personalities, but projecting emotions and personalities onto things that don't necessarily have them is hardly the exclusive realm of the psychopath. Ever have a teddy bear? A pet? Ever get slightly misty eyed when moving out of a house you've lived in for a while? If not then fine, you're just not a sentimental person, but hat doesn't make those of us who are weird or crazy.

A friend of a friend was planning a Green Card marriage with an American friend of his, I can't remember what she was getting out of it but her parents found out and threatened to report him. It is apparently quite illegal, so don't do it, and if you do, cover it up well.

I've just abandoned the idea of ever finding a good vocalist, they're definitely the hardest musician to find. There's just so many hurdles to get over. Actually being able to sing, style, lyrics, people not liking your singers voice. The normal job of a singer is to provide melody, why not just move the melodies to the other instruments? It's astonishing how easily a singer can be replaced by some nice melodies and expressive playing. Instrumental music has really surged in popularity lately, if you can go instrumental, my advice would be do.

I've found that drummers aren't that rare, good drummers however seem to be like bloody unicorns. I had a jam with a band last month, they were pretty good, simple but effective. We got on to some of my ideas, and I taught them a riff I had, which is in 5/4. The 2 guitarists got it straight away, it's a pretty simple riff, but the drummer just couldn't handle the 5/4, he couldn't do his own drum part for it, so I tried teaching him the one I had in my head, and he still couldn't get it. I think the problem is drums are quite an instant gratification sort of instrument, you can spend a few months nailing down the stock beats and then go and play in a band, so a lot of drummers never develop beyond that and really learn the music side of it and find their own style.

I was going to enter this month, honest, but I kind of wrote myself into a corner, I couldn't think of anywhere to take it. I've put up what I had when I called it quits: [url="https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/jan-comp"]https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/jan-comp[/url] Hopefully the creative juice will be more forthcoming next month.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1358896260' post='1946922'] It probably already exists, unfortunately. Post-rock!? Please save me from the ever expanding music genre explosion. Probably made up by some music journo. Heaven help us. [/quote] Simon Reynolds reviewing hex by bark psychosis in 94 I think.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1358857319' post='1946021'] I read the wikipedia entry, and now I'm wondering what post-hardcore and math-rock sound like I must get out more... [/quote] Post-hardcore is also a bit too wide to really mean anything, it generally means stuff that's quite fast and punky, but has a more melodic edge to it. There's the classic 90's stuff like Fugazi, Shellac, etc.: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVCMLWtVN5E[/media] Then there was a new wave of young bands in the early 2000's, Hundred Reasons, Hell is for Heroes, Reuben, Biffy Clyro, mclusky, loads of them. That stuff tended to be more metally, focussed around riffs and big choruses: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX0BoaKnDRI[/media]

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1358808744' post='1945586'] Seriously. Are there such genres as post-blues, post-ska, post-bluegrass or post-reggae? If not, why not and could there be. Is there a future for me as the godfather of post-grunge, for example? I've just been told there's post-hardcore (whatever that is) so I guess anything's possible. Help! [/quote] Post-grunge and post-jazz are already a thing. Post-grunge is stuff like Nickelback, Staind, Puddle of Mudd. I think the "post-" just means "post 1993". It's got kind of trendy to just stick "post-" in front of genres, personally I don't find it all that useful. I'm not one of the "anti-genre, music can't be pigeon holed types", I recognize that genres can be quite useful, but for me, their use is in helping people identify similar bands. If a complete music novice listened to Anthrax and liked it, I'd tell them Anthrax are a thrash metal band. The thrash metal label would lead them to bands like Testament, Metallica, Slayer, which they would probably like. The problem with the post-rock is it's become a label that gets stuck anything that is mainly guitars but doesn't fit in some arbitrary box, it's such a broad term that it doesn't really mean anything anymore. For example, both these bands get called post-rock: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufOE-i1BN7k[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5wy5TuTj4[/media] I for one wouldn't place those bands very close together on the musical spectrum at all really.

My dad swears by Aldi tools, at least for the little stuff (screwdrivers, scokets etc.). Apparently they're cheap tools from Germany, but the German minimum standards are higher than ours, so they're actually really good. Not sure if Lidl are the same though.

Unfortunately it just isn't happening for me this month, started something but I shot myself in the foot with the drum loop, I liked how awkward and off beat it sounded, but it ended up being too awkward and off-beat to really do anything with so I might as well put up what I ended up with, so just to be clear this is [b]NOT [/b]an entry: [url="https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/jan-comp"]https://soundcloud.com/bobbass4k/jan-comp[/url] If you don't think it sounds awkward, try putting a click to it, it's 9/4 at 124bpm

Machine Head's stuff is at an annoying pitch, they tune to C# standard and drop B but about 40 cents sharp. Really fiddly to play as on must tuners I've found you can't set the reference pitch that high.

[quote name='Pete Academy' timestamp='1358464523' post='1939930'] I appreciate he's a big part of British musicl culture, and he probably has a lot to say, but he isn't worthy of a masterclass. [/quote] I for one would appreciate access to this objective absolute "skill-o-meter" you apparently have, it could really help settle a few arguments.