Barking Spiders

IMO a really good example of great use of the pick is Club Country by The Associates. This guy has it well sussed

Think it's a bit harsh to describe ABBA's music as cheesy. 'Cheese' is Agadoo, Itsy bitsy teeny weeny..., Hey macarena etc. IMO Benny and Bjorn are every bit the equal of Lennon & Macartney, Bacharach & David and other highly respected tunesmiths. That many of their tunes are still hugely popular 40 years later attests to this. I'm not particularly a fan though I do like a lot of their hits.

Because I'm really picky I've always only ever bought whatever meets my exact requirements. Besides, as I know I'd probably sell hear at some later stage I wouldn't do anything that'd affect best price

Clearly there are too many people have very slow days, like April Hanna

The main inspirations for my drumming are the likes of Stubblefield, Zigaboo, Garibaldi, Starks, Purdie, Harvey Mason and Mike Clark. I'm much more into the groove too than pummelling people's heads in. That said I'm a sucker for those players who do play that style. I love blast beats, which I know for some drummers equate to slap, for the majority of BCers.

I do like Gojira. They've got something a bit different about them. I guess you've heard of Cryptopsy if metal's your bag. Flo Mounier is another beast behind the kit. Check this out, especially his high speed one-handed rolls on the snare!

For sure, you've also got seasoned pros like Chris Adler who's sort of retired I think and then some fine players from the prog world. I'm no fan of prog but I watch a lot of YT vids featuring Mike Portnoy and Marco Minnemann along with Carey. The power and stamina of modern metal / prog drummers is astonishing.

I'm primarily a drummist and though I mainly play funk style I'm still a huge fan of metal drummers. Duplantier's a beast behind the kit as are other players active in 2021 like Mike Mangini, Brann Dailor, Art Cruz, Matt Garskta, Matt Halpern, Tomas Haake and Jay Weinberg. These guys cr@p all over the others in that other list from a great height.

It's almost as big a ? eh? as their top 10 rock drummers which has the kid from Greta van Fleet at #1 and then there's a whole load of minor players in the rest of the list .Guess MR's been polling 14 year old bedroom dwellers.

And the bass player is the one that doesn't get to party with groupies and the rest of the band but goes back to his home/motel bedroom to eat a tin of cold beans and feed that cat.

If you played slap bass in a funk or 80s style pop band then everyone would be focusing on you with open mouthed admiration😊(with the exception of some BCers!). No one really notices the rest of the band members individually.

Fairy nuff but there are gradations in the use of slap. On the one hand there's that horrible trebly, clanky sound, as heard on Korn 'songs' (for want of a better word) or high-speed, machine gun shredding (most YTers). I don't like these either. Then you've got the more groove based, deeper tones of Marcus Miller and Larry Graham.

I was 9 at the time so probably wouldn't have been allowed in even if I'd wanted to go. Took my new (at the time) girlfriend to Sonisphere 2014 as for some inexplicable reason she likes Metallica who headlined there. At least for me there was Gary Numan and Chas n' Dave. 35 years on they were still bang on the money and by far the best thing there.

I'm taking it you don't listen to 70s funk, jazz-funk or 80s pop? Outside those genres it doesn't really work I admit. I've heard it used quite a lot in rock/metal, particularly nu-metal and it's always been inappropriate. But then again nu-metal was/is utter gash so slap or no slap the music was always gonna be utter bilgewater.

Ay caramba dunno how I've never come across him before but my ex missus today gave me the heads up re Little Beaver, who was doing his thing in the 70s. Any funk/soul fans here know of him? Couple of tunes to wet your whistle

Out of 11 albums I'd say 3 or 4 are good the rest being very patchy. IMO the best is CD1 (the rawk stuff) of In Your Honour. The acoustic side is a bit so-so. On the subject of double albums I've given the Mastodon one a couple of listens..but nah. It's not doing it for me, much like their other highly rated albums. The only two I've got much time for are The Hunter and Once More Round the Sun, which seem to come in for a lot of a slagging off from the fanboys for being too mainstream and not proggy enough.

That Like is for the Cory Wong vid. Like that way more than anything I've seen him in with Vulfpeck and that band with the bassist who looks a bit like Siouxsie.

I like the first four Police albums which definitely show Gordon has an ear for melody and a knack for writing memorable songs. But I don't care for his solo material esp his jazz tinged stuff, though that's to be expected considering his jazz roots. I also support his environmentalism rather than knock him for it which I've never understood why many do. But genius? No and nor were/are any other rock and pop musicians IMO and that includes Bowie and I'm still on the fence about Prince.

If the case is they're really nice blokes I'd suggest we pack our gear away, find a decent pub with a pool table, neck a few jars and have a laff. I'm not being entirely facetious here. I dunno how old you are and what you want out of a band. My view is past the age of 30 praps amateurs shouldn't be too serious about playing in bands but should treat it like a hobby. Finding a bunch of good blokes is a good start. The flipside is that you find a band with some top notch players but they're a bunch of jackasses. Let's face it, the music industry is peppered with many gifted players who at the very least have/had reputations as being difficult to get on with if not being 100% bona fide jerks. Some highly esteemed rock guitarists in hugely successful bands come to mind.

Well, best of luck to whoever gets the gig. He/she'll need it. It's not what is said that is getting a lot of people's backs up but HOW. The ad poster could've easily framed it in a less condescending manner.

After EPMD it's been a couple of Run The Jewels platters. For my money they're the best rap act of the new millennium. Here's the lead track of the excellent RTJ3

Wouldn't touch them with several bargepoles attached end to end. That sort of message says to me "I'm a ginormous @$$hat" as the Yanks say. Taking orders is a total no-no.

Got a bit of a classic /old school hip hop ting going on here, currently it's EPMD's Strictly Business

So I've just put this on...