Barking Spiders

If I was in a gleefully malicious mood I'd enjoy doing some Sunn O))) type of drone metal for a wind up or 2 Unlimited's No Limits. I actually like it but know many who hate it.

Viz Remain Light I think it's good but way behind the far superior Fear of Music

Agree with everything mentioned so far plus OK Computer, Kid A... - one paced, depressing, badly sung barrel scraping bilge the entire output of the RHCP- one of those bands truly loathe Appetite for Destruction - 5th rate Aerosmith (who are utter sh1te BTW) chock full of every hair metal cliche already done better by Motley Crue etc Sergeant Pepper - tedious, sprawling and often twee Hotel Californiaaaaaarrgh every acclaimed Stones album - badly sung, messily played, repetitive... Every rated U2 album - spectacularly mediocre writing and musicianship all Led Zep - lumpen, stodgy, repetitive, plagiarised owt by Dylan - wrote some fine tunes........performed by others

Don't care for Rush meself and dont really know the song but it' clear this fella has pulled it off nicely.

Generally don't like them at all I'm afraid although Hush is great

News to me! Yep, hope their injuries aren't serious as I'm deffo a fan, well of the first half dozen albums anyway. Dave Garibaldi is a major influence on my drumming and with Rocco Prestia formed one of the best rhythm sections..in any genre.

I'm a massive fan of most things Ninja Tune and am rather partial to JJ meself. You might also like to check out Polish alt jazzers Skalpel, also of Ninja Tune

'Leftism' by Leftfield. 20 years on and still the one album I can play without skipping tracks

On an obvious note Barber's Adagio For Strings gets me all choked up as does the first few minutes of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSRYvYN1ayw

Viz this fame chat me and the family happened to be among the crowd in Leicester Square last summer where the premiere of some Star Trek film was. My missus and girls like this stuff, recognising all the thesps strolling by. The only face and name I knew was Simon Pegg and that's only because I love Spaced. I relish being an out of touch old f*rt. As for musicians are there any who are truly famous, beyond their constituencies?

IMO Talking Bass should be much higher than #35. Best tuition site I've come across, the way it's laid out, the structure of the tutorials. Mark's easy to follow explanations and his delivery plus he's a top player.

Bloke at the back punters ignore

I'm majorly into the golden age of hip hop from the late 80s to mid 90s and the instrumental hip hop /turntablism of acts like DJ Shadow and lots of stuff that came out on Ninja Tune e.g. Herbaliser, Blockhead. No too fussed on chart stuff of the last decade or so. The lyrics are'nt generally much cop and there isn't the imagination that you'd find on a Bomb Squad track

I play drums myself and TBH the live stuff wasn't too bad, certainly no worse than many in indie bands who pass themselves off as drummers. That type of drumming isn't particularly hard to play but I've heard a lot worse

Sorry but I think that's absolute gash. I don't much care for even proper jazz of the Blue Note variety and have even less time for Cullum's ersatz efforts.

errm..ahem..Razzle is very much alive and kicking

On the plus side, for those who used to buy Classic Rock and Metal Hammer you now have some spare money for your monthly issues of Razzle

'Classic rock' does look like it's now going the way of jazz here in Blighty. I'm not a fan myself but I've noticed that six shops that used to stock Classic Rock and Metal Hammer pulled them off their shelves early this year even though two them still have Bass magazine. Seems the under 40s are generally not interested.

Not a bass I'm afraid but I'm getting meself an Epiphone Sheraton II

I don't own any Ibanez basses but have a couple their guitars despite their association with dull plankspankers like Satriani. If there are good used basses out there under £300 I'm gonna get a couple.

When I hear a bass virtuoso playing Moonlight Sonata or some such on the bass, I think why FFS. It sounds a bit precious and pointless.

The thing with many of the top technical players (same goes for guitarist and drummers too) is they seem strangely drawn to the jazz rock /fusion genre, one which has all the appeal of genital warts. I've watched vids by bands like Tribal Tech on YT and despite the undoubted high quality of musicianship I'm uninspired.

Flea - partly for the unedifying images of him playing on stage in his shreddies, partly because many RHCP fans seem to think he invented slap bass, and partly because I can't stand his band. Geddy Lee - no doubting his chops but I cant get my head around his band's music to ever be able to appreciate them fully Vic Wootten - aye, a Steve Vai of the bass if you will with some incredibly impressive double thumbing going on and all that jazz but it's like with some beautiful looking women. It all looks great on the surface but you know there's something that doesn't hit the mark but you're not quite sure what.

Come on peeps, more love for Stuart Morrow !!!

I'm not a gospel fan but I really like the bass playing in that clip. I like that Jamerson style where there is minimal repetition. Although my music taste leans mainly towards funk, instrumental hip hop and trip hop my #1 album for consistently great basslines is No Rest For The Wicked by New Model Army with Stuart Morrow. It's all there, the intricate lines, the superb tone etc . Here' s a clip of the original line-up at the Marquee in 1985. One of the most underrated/overlooked bands of all time. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTsqAaUngQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTsqAaUngQ[/url]