Barking Spiders

Viz affordability of housing in England the real problem is the private rental sector is unregulated so landlords charge what they can get away with. Tory backbenchers who are landlords have pretty much blocked any attempts to bring in regs

Went on YT and gave each act about 2 mins which is enuff to tell me the whole shebang amounts to one big meh! I've no particular beef with Laters..especially as it introduced me to Sigrid. But the Sugababes, Rod the Plodder, Raye, Muirrean Bradly, Olivia Dean, Joss Stone, the Mary Wallopers (Northern Premier League Division One East version of The Pogues) were all stunningly run of the mill compared to others doing their types of thing.

This release by Sheffield's The Black Dog in 2023 is a cracking example of ambient electronica with a strongly dystopian vibe

Isn't Hootenanny recorded in the summertime? If so there's not gonna be as my kind of real festive vibe. I was out on the lash so didn't watch any NY slebrations on TV

I feel your pain. When my second marriage was falling apart and we had £45k of debt I had to sell my motorbike, 4 basses, 4 guitars, 2 drum kits, 3 keyboards and my collection of hand and stick drums. Got back in the game a couple of years later once I hammered the debt. Best of luck to you Bubinga 🤞

All those US bands that came after grunge died which MTV used to show on rotation. All identikit clones Quite a few of them had 'three' or 'third' in their names All total ballcocks of course.

In one of my minimalism frenzies I got shot of half a dozen basses over 2 years leaving me with just a Cort GB74 OPN, a Cort Action Deluxe AS and a Sterling by Musicman Ray 4 HH. I'm now suffering from an acute attack of GAS and pour over the web pages of Bass Direct, Gak, Andertons etc the way I used to intensely peruse the ahem....'articles'.... in a certain publications as a teen. I'm quite tempted by the pre-owned Fender 75th Anniversary Jazz Bass 2021 in Bass Direct. How fortunate it's only a 10 minute drive away 😊.

Not a lot of love for esteemed funk/slap merchants - not even MM - among the BC massive. Well, there's a surprise....naht!

a year's subscription to Only Fans

As Louis Johnson is my #1..... but isn't there.... the 3 I've clicked on are my 2nd, 3rd and 4th....at this particular minute! ..Mark King, Bernard and Marcus M.

Definitely Justin Guitar. IMO he's the best guitar tutor on YT and I've checked out a lot. I suppose you also have to think how your nephew likes to learn stuff e.g. reading/writing, auditory, visual, kinesthetic. Speaking for myself, as a kid I struggled learning from Bert Weedon's and others books and only got to grips when others showed me how to do it.

I count myself lucky to've been born in 1970 and so was a yoot during the heyday of music (IMO)...the 1980s!!. Two tracks where the basslines blasted my soft and unformed auditory cortex were and this featuring one Mark King!

Currently listening to a best of compilation by Phoebe Buffay

I still listen to CDs 🙃. Dunno what a Spotify does but from time to time I go on Last FM. Problem that often crops up there is you might click on say track 3 of album WXY but it plays track 7 instead. Oftentimes, I find only a couple or so tracks are playable on some newer releases. Had thought about Spotty but I think I've now got all the albums I'll ever want in the old CD format.

I was hoping to pick up an electro-acoustic guitar from PMT Bristol next weekend as the online prices are competitively priced. If the store price is 30% higher I might as well by one locally and save myself the cost of a 60 mile round trip.

mammals found in north America Ay ay ay ay moosey -Modern Romance Beaver patrol - Pop Will East Itself (though somehow I don't think they had these furry critters in mind!) Hungry like the wolf -Duran Duran Buffalo stance - Neneh Cherry Cougar -2 Live Crew (not sure these were actually rapping about mountain lions either) err..that's about it

Was it intentional to have them walking past a men's hair salon (or barber as we called them back in the day) at 1.41? Maybe he's going back there to ask them to return his money

When I occasionally do tune into Planet Rock and hear 70s-early 90s hard rock and metal I wonder to myself what I ever saw in it. On the other hand I still enjoy a big chunk of synth/electronic and post punk from the 80s.

As a teen and 20 something I was a sucker for music with loud distorted power chords and warp speed fretwinking. Nowadays I way, far, much prefer stuff not 'made using real instruments '. Perversely I still love guitars but hate most guitar centric music other than flamenco and country chicken pickin.

Don't really have a sound as I use pick, fingers, thumb only and slap 'n pop/pull. Fave way of playing is 16ths at the bridge in a 'Chinese Way'

As a drummist myself I found his playing pretty heavy handed. I think he was trying to release his inner Bonham

And that's the problem with pretty much all 'greatest guitarist/bassist/whatever' lists , that rock and blues are the default genres and others count for pretty much nowt. Even old Rick Beato's channel is largely geared towards rock and blues although there's the occasional article on / interview with a jazzer e.g. John Scofield and Keith Jarrett. I wonder how highly rated rockers like Hendrix, Beck EVH, Vai, Malmsteen and young guns like Abasi and Henson would able to match top jazz, flamenco or country players.

Yeah but mainly because he was active in a music genre made popular by radio and other music media in English speaking countries. If classical, jazz, folk or country had the same degree of mass appeal then we might be talking about Segovia, Joe Pass, John Fahey or Chet Atkins instead as the GOAT Sort of related in a blues rock vein. I've never much cared for blues rock guitar but I've come across two young guys who've converted me a bit Kingfish Ingram and Gary Clark Jnr. Excellent stuff they're doing.

I've checked out a lot of unfamiliar names outside the top 50 whom I'd never heard of, mostly happened to be indie bands,women and bluesy/folk players from way back in history. I gave a fair listen to recommended tracks but all those in the indie/punk/alt bands and soul/funk are IMO 100% mediocre. Nothing in their playing made my jaw drop or sit up and think 'wow'. On the plus side I give 👍to Etta James and Molly Tuttle, both of whom are excellent but then there are many other ground breaking fingerstyle and flatpicking players respectively that are even better. Dare I say it but the list smacks of wokery. E.g there's some non-binary person called El Kempner from some pretty dire indie/punk outfit called Palehound. Not impressive. There are some blind players but then Jeff Healey smokes all of them and he's not included. Unsurprisingly, the list of contributors includes no players of any note. They're just music hacks for an increasingly irrelevant rag that's decades past its sell-by date and clearly are trying to get attention with their clickbait lists. And it's working to some extent though I won't be subscribing.

I guess you might've just woken from cryogenic freezing if you weren't aware of Rolling Stone's latest opus of $hyt3, its 250 Greatest Guitarists list 😁. When it comes to these there's only one criterion that should be a qualifying factor, and it's not 'influence', the most overused word when it comes to make any judgement about anything. Adolf was 'influential'. Kim Kardashian's 'influential'. That criterion is how well someone can play which encompasses technique, feel, tone, clarity, fluency, choice of notes in improvisation, the whole kit and caboodle. My own 'mental' greatest players list include the likes of Danny Gatton, Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke, Albert Lee, George Benson, Paco de Lucia and Tommy Emmanuel. BTW Hendrix isn't even in my top 50, which is topped by this guy. In a just world he'd top all greatest guitarist lists but as it is he's not really known outside of country music.