Barking Spiders

Can you do Nard's chuckin technique like on Dance dance dance.? I'm finding tougher to do than double thumbing

Nowt till the Bluedot festival next July.....hopefully as it didn't go ahead this year as well as 2020. Dunno who's playing yet but me and the mrs will mostly being going for the science and environment talks and seminars because that's the way we roll

I'm working on 43 by Level 42. I've got several of the hits under my belt but this requires loads of stamina. This 2010 live recording is a beaut, esp at 4.50 where the whole band goes into a percussion frenzy

Nope. I mostly listen to music which resonates with me from particular times in my life. I can appreciate music made before I was born or stuff that's current, but I have no emotional connection to it so it means nothing. Just the way I roll though I know many people think like this.

I'm mainly a fingerer but will use a plec to play on those songs where using fingers sounds a bit meh esp tracks e.g. For The Love of Money, pretty much any early Stranglers tune, New Gold Dream by Simple Minds and Club Country by the Associates.

Agreed. Also for better or for worse the original grungers inspired a whole slew of bands that came after. But as someone else said it all depends on your age. Being a Generation Xer and not a boomer grunge was the first rock scene that was relevant to me. I like the first generation punk and post punk too but they emerged when I was still in single figures. Anything pre-punk doesn't resonate at all so have zero interest in it.

This was shown on a recent re-run of TOTP on BBC4. I forgot how cringe-making it is I never cared much for the original song either but this version even makes Van Halen's woeful cover look inspired. So, let's have more squirm inducing efforts!

Well, let's face it, the bass (guitar and upright) is somewhat limited as a solo instrument, unless you use loads of effects boxes. I would no more choose to listen to a solo bass album than I would a solo drums album. IMO the bass, like the drums, only works as an ensemble instrument.

Charles Berthoud no less. No doubting he's a brilliant musician and arguably the best YT bass virtuoso and comes over as a decent fella as well. This is nicely done but I have zero interest in listening to solo bass albums. I've tried Vic Wooten's stuff too but despite being virtuosic it leaves me unmoved. Then again I don't care for any albums where there's just one guy or gal on a guitar, whatever. Live in the right setting is another matter but the performer has to have personality and amusing banter as well as the chops which is why I'd make time for Adrian Legg and Tommy Emmanuel.

DJ Shadow's Entroducing is still an original, groundbreaking gem made when there was no such thing as Ableton Live and which, as usual with the more interesting and ground breaking US acts, made it the UK before his own country.

They were ahead of the time with their indie rock-dance crossover and it was the copycats that got into the limelight. Manic Pop Thrill, Babble and End of The Millennium..all came out a few years before the debut singles from The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays and then the rest of the Madchester/baggy sound. Yet TPE were way better than all that lot. I remember seeing them at the Town and Country club in Kentish Town and it was well attended so clearly they had a decent size fanbase.

Grunge was probably a bigger deal in the US, as over the previous decade rock fans were fed a diet of p1$$poor MTV fodder of hair metal and FM corporate stadium rock. Sure there were some fine alternative rock bands but they were pretty much in the margins. When Nirvana broke in the UK at the time I was more interested in UK dance acts like The Shamen, KLF, S Express etc. Got into some Grunge bands a few years later.

I was initially disappointed with Bossanova but grabbed by TLM straightaway. So yeah give it a few more spins.

For me the greatest day in music history will be when KISS decide to stop once and for all. As release dates 14/9/91 is up there among the best. I still occasionally listen to Nevermind, Badmotorfinger and TLET but am still not a big RHCP and I've always thought Screamadelica very patchy with 4 or 5 good tracks plus lots of ambient filler. Pixies are probably my fave rock band and Trompe is nearly as good as Doolittle.

Drums and percussion are my main thing, especially samba. I've put up this track on the funk/soul thread but it's so good it needs to be here too. Followed by this classic from Azymuth

turn this up loud and invite your neighbours to partaayy samba stylee!

While I love the EW&F original to my ears this cover trumps it every time

A lot of bands and players can get too hung up on technical proficiency and sophistication and forget that the majority of people in audiences are probably non-players and as such don't give a monkeys about fancy chops. Can you get them dancing, moshing or canoodling? If yes, job done.

Went to a small local music fest last month where arguably the best band in terms of playing was one doing their own material. They had quite a good image, were technically proficient, tight and as boring as feck. Of the 300 or so punters there I guess less than a dozen were actively watching. Their mistakes? Only playing their own material, which engaged next to no one. Two, there was minimal movement on stage other than checking their playlists. Three, zero banter, chat whatever. The band which drew the biggest crowd had only rehearsed some of their set the previous day, had a couple of false starts including a completely wrong song and sometimes were a bit loose. But you know what? No one was bothered because the singer had presence, character and good humour, the band looked like they were having fun and they played songs people knew by bands they'd heard of e.g. Killers, Foos, Oasis, KOL etc.

Louis Johnson is why I got into the StingRay but I've only got a SUB Ray 4 meself The Jaydee says Mark King to me. Definitely would like one of those if I could justify it

Yeah on here as well as in the rea world. Title of Record is one of the ten I'd save if my house as on fire. And while we're about it

Halle-fkin-lujah! Having put up a few Filter vids here , I thought I was on my own in liking them. Short Bus is great but I prefer Title of Record and The Amalgamut. Woefully underrated band though the first 2 albums went platinum in the US.

Yes, for sure. As a kid I had a great love of science and making things out of Meccano, dismantling my parents TV, radios and trying to put them back together etc which led to me studying physics, maths, chemistry and biology at A level then going to to do civil engineering at university which led to a career in civil and structural engineering. I've also got a deep interest in environmental science and 'green' issues, as does my missus, which brought us together.

Needed to rescue this thread from page 6. Here is a cracking tune from That Petrol Emotion, a band that pre-empted the indie-dance sounds of Madchester/Baggy by around 6 years.

But it was just put forward as a point of discussion and I did qualify my statement saying if someone makes their living from music all fair and good and understandable. Some of the anecdotes clearly explain how music changed someone's life. I'm referring more to those who don't make a living from music in any way. BTW I'd never call myself a musician. I'm a hobbyist that plays some instruments. Yeah you're partly right, music isn't an overriding passion of mine but a great interest.