Barking Spiders

Blue Dot festival at Jodrell Bank last weekend. Both me and my lady were mainly there for the science stuff (talks by Alice Roberts, Richard Dawkins and Jim al-Kalili) but music wise we differed. She mostly enjoyed The Flaming Lips, a band whose cult status passes me by, Gary Numan and the Halle Orchestra. I was there for the Chemical Brothers, The Orb and Public Service Broadcasting. It's the best festival going IMO and the second time we've been

Not sure showing summat along the lines of OGWT, TOTP, Tube, Word etc would cut it these days. They were of their time. I'm sure some TV production companies have already looked into whether there's a market for music TV and have concluded the music listening market is too fragmented and niche to be commercially viable

I have a weird prejudice against Rickies, basses and guitars . Viz the basses it's partly their appearance but more to do with the fact they're rubbish for playing funk on. Then many of my least fave bass players are often Ricky players. As for the guitars it's largely to due with their association with godawful jingly jangly Byrds influenced bands wot I detest.

possibly and several up from The Stone Roses, while we're dissin 80s-90s Manchester guitar bands

Ah, Steve Vai, another guy with abundant technical skills but to my ears seems to come up short when it comes to decent tunage

well fortunately we live in a country where we all have a right to free speech.. The thread title didn't hint it was about jazz. Speaking for myself I said the lad was extremely talented but that I didn't like the jazzy stuff the clips showed. Maybe he plays other styles, I don't know. Anyway there's loads of people whose talents I can appreciate objectively but it's harder to be objective about output as that's all down to taste.

Not heard the clip yet but Youth also founded the first psy trance label, Dragonfly, As a fan of the genre I thought I'd point this out even if no one else is interested 😊

Went to the Blue Dot festival at the weekend where we had a blast . Reliving some of the best bits by playing back to back Chemical Brothers albums, a good chunk of Lamb, Public Service Broadcasting and a band new to me, Little Dragon who were terriff.

and not forgetting his tiny guitar!

The lad's an exceptionally talented multi-instrumentalist for sure but it's the end result wot counts and I'm afraid based on these vids it goes up to 1 and a half. A personal thing but I heartily dislike jazz in all it's forms, bar a bit of Django. I thought the take on I Wish was blimmin awful.

This guy was doin' summat similar back in the mid 80s wouldn't you agree?

.Need to bump this thread back up . This toon is from the well underrated Sound Experience, way back from 19724

indeed, time to bump it right back up again

if anyone's interested you can buy their album, Ductis Pneumatic, on Discogs for just over 13 of your English pounds. Think of it as an investment 😀

I dislike 99.999r % solos on any instrument but occasionally one gets through the net. Basswise this is one of the very few that I like but then LJ is my fave player of all time Check out 2.40 to 3.13

We need more categories added; caterwauler, screecher, whiner, yodeller, shouter for starters

I can't abide Thrash Metal but am very partial to the John Bush era of Anthrax when they changed their style. The basswork is uniformly excellent throughout albums like Sound of White Noise and We've Come for You All. For me the Bush era has much better singing, more melodic songs and avoids too much irritating pointless widdling

Don't wanna sound repetitive but No Parlez and Tin Drum for me. But a much less known little gem is Singing Sands, a collaboration between celtic acoustic guitar virtuoso Tony McManus and French fretless maestro Alain Gentry. I bought this album cos of TM, who is an outstanding acoustic guitarist but was more than pleasantly surprised by Alain Genty's tasteful basswork

Yes that's another Vai album I had. First time I played it I was bored. Played it a second time just to make sure but next thing i knew was waking up during the final track.

The Libertines were, are and forever will be utter gash. The fuss over Winehouse has been one of the most bemusing things in music. Back to Black is wafer thin ersatz 60s Dusty Springfield type pop updated for the millennium, produced by the most overrated producer ever. Stand up Mark Ronson. Just an opinion of course.

Oh yes, many of us guitar hero wannabes have been there! 😱 During a period of temporary insanity I had this album along with Surfing With The Alien (Satriani), Passion & Warfare (Steve Vai) and some lesser known showcases of fretwinking in extremis. It took a couple of years for normality to be resumed though i did give them another hearing on Spotty. Certainly no regrets about getting rid of them for 50p each at a car boot sale.

Ha ha and I've NEVER forgotten about them. I give them more plays than any other funk band in my CD collection. Big Tony has about the heaviest and dirtiest sound in bassdom!

The only chance he might 'make it big' in his 40s is if he manages to pull a SuBo. Once I turned 29 I know the game was up and I ceased deluding myself that one day I'd be the next Eddie van Halen. Since then I've aimed low and 7 times out of ten have hit the target.

I much prefer the SS cover. I find the original ponderous and pompous and the guitar solo ok but not the greatest ever as some polls would have you believe. While on the subject of PF, I've heard DSOTM, The Wall, Animals and Wish You Were Here. You could get about one quite decent EP out of the good tracks from these.

Yep they're great. Seen em three times including once at the Albert Hall many moons ago . Unforgettable. Even more excellent aare Yamato, a smaller group but they have more audience interaction and humour.