Barking Spiders

Nice anecdote there anyway Frank 👌

And to another band infamous for being a tad unhinged and scaring music journos, as were Jaz Colman's eyebrows.

Saw Rammstein last year at the MK Stadium. Best live gig I've been to by several country miles. Even mrs S who knows little about them had a really good time. Much of it was utterly bonkers and all the better for it, like the giant demon baby in a pram with the flies.

Not what I'd choose to listen to but I find them interesting, as they're going somewhere different to pretty much all other current guitar bands. Is it jazz, is it rock? Dunno but there's no doubting their skills and originality

A lot of diehard Prince fans seem to think everything he did was gold. IMO he peaked with Sign of the Times and thereafter his albums were pretty patchy. Even the earlier ones have their duff tracks.

Actually I'll amend what I wrote in the OP having just watched the Jon Gomm vid. Incredible stuff. Three other phenomenal players I'd really liked to've seen are Leo Kottke, Peter Huttlinger (RIP) and David Grier. Here's why LK's a young whippersnapper here and he's doing fast Travis picking on a 12 string to boot!. The vid's from 1970's but you get the drift Pete Huttlinger was an ultra-phenomenal fingerpicker and in his day equal to Tommy E. Check this out. He banters around till about 2.35 and then some . Like Tommy, Martin T and Leo K and he makes it looks easy and effortless. A tad different here. David Grier is one amazing pick style player, IMO the successor to Tony Rice but even a tad better mebbe. I'm 'kin useless with a pick preferring fingers so I have extra respect to guys like this who can cross- pick at speed and cleanly...

Great call there! Both excellent examples

Hmm a couple of issues here. 1. Pharrell Williams wrote the lyrics not Thicke 2. There's loads of rock music, much of it made by big name acts- particularly from the 70s and 80s - where not only are song lyrics overtly misogynistic/sexist so was their behaviour, to whit many notorious post-gig parties with groupies. IMO it's an excellent performance all-round and the bass playing is top drawer.

I'm a huge afficionado of acoustic guitar virtuosity. I watched a Rick Beato compilations of guitar greats from the 80s - mostly hyper shredders. Dont get me wrong , Rick's YT show is about the best music related one on YT but to my ears the shredding does nowt for me. As the lovely Shania sang 'that don't impress me much' . However, twice I've been to gigs and been left slack jawed 😲, thinking how the f00k did they do that! These clips aren't the actual shows I saw but each player did these tracks. These two are the best guitar players I've seen and heard and I've heard literally thousands. Watch and listen closely and you'll see why. Over to you 👉

Even bigger shame they weren't more successful. Distinctive sound, beautiful frontwoman, cool image. What went wrong?

I've always been a mahoosive fan of Curve going way back. That Toni Halliday is/was as hot as f*** has quite a bit to do with it 😛 but I also like the crossover between the Shoegaze vibe of My Bloody Valentine with electronica. Listening to Garbage you can def hear the Curve influence.

Best Cure tune from their best period IMO, which ended with Faith. Not such a fan of his more successful Fat Bob with the wonky lippy period

Likewise Reggaebass. Dub is by far my fave reggae sub-genre. Big into KT too, along with Scientist. The Trojan dub comps are serious must haves

When driving I love a bit of heavy Dub. Makes the car reverberate like a b@st1d. So today while driving in a covid-compliant manner from Leamington to my ship in Glos it's been the excellent Blackwood Dub..

+ another for The Stranglers Walk on By. The original's very good but for me anything with JJ's growling bass and Hugh Cornwall's vocal is a winner Gun's take on Word Up might just have the edge on the Cameo original

Covid's pretty much done for my GAS as the prospects of finding musically like-minded peeps and gigging ever again fade away. I've been looking what's in stock at Bass Direct, Anderton's etc but now the urges have gone

He did which is why I made the point of saying 'post 1966' as it's widely understood his earlier efforts weren't much cop.

Hmm. For me the Beatles would've been even better if they'd replaced some of Lennon's & Macca's more crappy numbers with post 1966 Harrison songs. Could've done without Ob-la-di.., Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Wild Honey Pie etc and more along the lines of 'Something'.

Yep that White Room clip is the one that shows he had the bass chops too. Nice dirty groove going on there.

He's at a Rotosound stand at some trade fair demonstrating not playing a song in a band

Guess lots of BCers wont enjoy this then😉 Actually, Nige is a highly skilled player and can play to suit the tune. He's just larking around here. IMO he's actually pretty underrated

No doubt about his chops on the electric guitar. Mind you while he sure was a great all-rounder from the outpourings if some fans on YT you'd think he was the only one. There are quite a few others out there.

Been trying to find some decent YT clips showing Prince's basswork but the various clips I've seen aren't much cop so I cant really tell. Anyone have any idea?

This cos of the very underrated guitar solo from 4.11 to the end It's not done by Roland as the vid shows but by sessioner Neil Taylor

Fair point. I just like to pick up nifty tips viz certain techniques you only generally hear in classical, fusion, jazz or prog metal. For pleasure though I don't enjoy listening to any of these.