Barking Spiders

While I'm gonna stick to my opinion on Baba and Layla I think all the elements in The Chain hold together well, the way the guitar quietens as 3.00 and that bass line starts at 3.04 and the builds up. A very well constructed song I'd say.

I don't know why pop comes in for a drubbing from older peeps for being formulaic when most modern rock bands all stick rigidly to a blueprint. I'm no great fan of classic rock but at least Queen, Led Zep, the Stones and Sabbath had a recognisable sound. IMO pop's in quite a healthy state with acts like Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Drake and Rag n Bone Man. I don't think this track is as good Human but IMO it's alright.

I'm sure many will disagree but there seem to be a fair few rock songs where the writers tag on chunks of music which bears no relation to what's gone before it. Fr'instance Baba O'Riley and the gypsy fiddle tune, which is not bad in itself but it just comes out of nowhere Layla and the plinky plonky slow piano bit with meandering slide guitar all over it. I know there are more.

I know there are many detractors here but NC only plays like this at NAMM shows etc and music store displays. He's got an incredible left hand technique, one of the best in the biz.

After watching the Fame vid I wondered whether this technique would work higher up the fretboard. And yes, it sure does as this vid shows. Never seen anyone else play this way before but it works a treat ..for him anyway!

I Saw her Standing There - I think ladies of the night are working more online these days

'Holiday' by Madonna. What's one of those? 'Permanent Vacation' by Aerosmith is now Permanent Staycation.

Ah but define play and define instrument. If you play triangle, kazoo, tamborine, guiro, claves and agogo bells you could say you're a multi-instrumentalist.

On a bit of an Alice in Chains tip of late. Always my fave of the grunge-ish bands and I really like the stuff put out by the current line-up particularly and my fave from the original line up

yep

Can't be doing with all these sub-sub-sub-sub genres meself but I like Kyuss's 2nd and 3rd albums and AIC if they count

Ah , these take me back to a very happy place when a late teen-20 summat. First heard this at one of those downstairs bars in Covent Garden Another all time top tune for me And the unforgettable classic Shalamar line-up

Tony Remy lends his chops to several Down to The Bone albums and very nice they are too. Restrained by skilled

ha ha the second circle of hell isn't too bad thanks and neighbours are more than welcome

Absolutely. I have a strong dislike for the music made by Disturbed and similar sounding bands. However, they're not intrinsically bad as clearly the vocalists can sing and the musicians can actually play. However, with Brokencyde here is a group where none of the members have any discernible musical ability. Maybe they were doing it for a laff, who knows. When I was a teen me and my mates enjoyed goofing around and deliberately making horrible sounds with guitars, drums, anything that came to hand but we never inflicted them on the world.

How about people with autism or misophonia? They generally don't connect with music because their brains are wired differently. My dad had aspergers, my good lady's youngest child has it and a friend of our's daughter has misophonia. None of them have/had interest in music of any sort.

Exactly this, except I've not been honing my skills on AWS, Azure etc. I've also stopped being inspired by musicians, including bass players, and instead I've become a Will Hardie wannabe. Check out Amazing Spaces on C4 if you don't know who he is. I wonder how many pubs putting on bands will have survived lockdown mk III. I imagine many of those owned by pubcos will be closed down and sold for residential conversion. Perhaps the only ones with a real chance of surviving are those with big gardens that managed to make the most of the summer when the restrictions were relaxed and who've been providing a take-away service.

Hate's a strong word. I just don't like it. This is because I don't like this genre of rock and also because the proper original can't be improved on. I mean the original acoustic version and not the better known one where some knucklehead of a producer overdubbed it with drums and electric guitar.

If anything, playing musical instruments has dropped right down my list of priorities over the last year, simply because it'll no longer bring in the dough. I've spent most of my free time adding to my list of foreign languages spoken and working on my woodworking and metal working skills. As I'm now 51 I don't want to be competing for jobs for which I'll get overlooked due to my age and so am planning to go self-employed this year. Once I do, I doubt the bass'll get much of a look in.

Hurrah, another opportunity for me to indulge in my current music fixation, Dua Lipa, and put up my umpteenth vid of her. Great for dancing as you can see

Nope , there's now so much dust on my bass it's got a 'fro and beard

They were just way too advanced compared with the rest of us mortals who are held back by outdated notions such time signatures, tuning, melody, harmony and rhythm. I mean why stick with one time signature when you can play in at least a dozen.... all at the same time. Follow the link for the hilarious back story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shaggs You'll also be happy to know they've reconvened with a different line-up which nevertheless is still infused with the spirit of the original

I've always thought the world of blokes can be split between those who are gear fiends (whether cars, guitars, sports equipment, hi-fi, tools, electronic gadgets etc) and those who are not. I'm pretty much in the latter camp. I've got 4 x Indonesian made 4-string basses all bought new for less than £500 each. For me, customisation is changing the strings. My only buying criterion is such an such a bass good for slapping/thumping or not.

I know they're not current but we've been lucky enough in the UK to've been spared a lot of barrel bottom scraping dreck produced in the US. In 2007 we were having to put up with the likes of The Kooks and Pigeon Defectives but they're like the Beatles compared to Brokencyde and others of that ilk.

IMO an absolute fkin hideous abomination though the mrs and older teens disagree with me. Disturbed are just one of many formulaic identikit bands in the vein of Creed, Staind, Nickelback and millions of others using 7 string guitars in dropped D tuning.