Barking Spiders

Hmm I wouldn't know as there aren't any left where i am

I'll keep it between us as I have to confess bass is not my main instrument either. Drums and percussion are and then fingerstyle acoustic guitar and 5-string banjo. Mind you, bass comes ahead of electric guitar so there might be some salvation here. BC is a far better forum than those I've found covering drums or guitar 😀. There's some ace creeping if ever there was.

Now that you remind me I think subconsciously I might've been thinking back to my childhood when I put up the OP. Up to the age of 13 I was prolific at drawing and painting and won competitions at school, but never had any lessons up to that point. Then I had art lessons and after a dozen or so I stopped and since then have never done another drawing or lifted a paint brush, other than to apply coats of emulsion.

enjoying meself some country type virtuosity

Came across a YT thread on how much music theory did The Beatles have. I don't know the answer to this but I've known several fine classically trained players who struggled at improvising or making up their own tunes although they could reel off a violin/piano concerto etc at the drop of a hat. I will say the most inventive stuff I've heard is by people who break the rules and possibly don't know a lot of theory. Any strongly worded opinions on the matter?😉

I'm a sucker for the electric piano sound that was used on a lot of early 90s dance tunage.

It's a good'un for sure as is this version

yeah, that's a cracker, one of the Apollo 440 remixes

Doesn't matter if they didn't quite make top 30. The point in my OP was that there are are thousands of great tunes that were 'hits' as such but since dropping out of the charts radio stations have rarely given them any more airtime. Love the Passions and Swans Way songs.

Thread on the Four Seasons prompted me to check out this gem from way back, when I barely out of nappies - diapers for our US cousins - (meaning I was a nipper, rather than a High Court judge enjoying some relaxation). It's just great all round so much so I've played it 12 times today already. According to Wiki it reached #3 in 1976 but doesn't get much airing nowadays on the wireless. Any other tunage from yesteryear that reached the UK top 30 but doesn't get much of a look-in on the radio nowadays but should do.

It's mostly been theme tunes to fave shows on Netflix and Walter Presents.. https://soundcloud.com/search?q=greyzone theme

I think it must've been him I was vying with for the last copy. Total mag sales were over 820 million copies in 2011, down to 374 million in 2018. The 2020 number will be well down on that too. Can't think of the last time I bought a music related mag and quite few glossies have gone bust during the last few months.

Yep, their best run of albums was E & D through to NGD though I give the nod to Sister Feelings Call. After NGD it was all U2-type stadium pish unfortunately.

Ditto that. In fact it would've been worth any Fluke fan's time and dosh buying all their CD singles as these all had several mixes of the main tune. Electric Guitar mixes are def among the best as are the Atom Bomb ones.

Yep, true. Like Later, Q largely avoided genres like metal, funk, electronica preferring bearded hipster indie bands from the US, washed up Britrock/pop hasbeens and glorified buskers. Covid may have finished it off but its sales had long been on the slide.

Good calls there viz 808 State and Groove Armada. Saw 808 at Blue Dot fest last year 👌 and Groove were due to headline this year but 😞. For my money this bunch were better than similar-ish combos like The Prodigy and The Chems. Could've plumped for any of Risotto but eeny meeny'd this.

I get where you're coming from . One of my preferred genres is funk and funk-tinged pop and it was always been the syncopation and upfront bass playing that's been the core of its appeal. So my fave players have tended to be band leaders or other upfront players with chops aplenty e.g. Louis Johnson, Larry Graham, Marcus Miller, Mark King, Bootsy, Bernard Edwards and many less well known but great players like Julian Crampton, Armand Sabal-Lecco and Scott Ambush.

More like guess the bassist by the widely used stock photo or their clothes. I got 14. If just the pics of the bass were included and the bodies had been brushed out I'd have got Bootsy and that's about it.

As would I but mrs S and her two kids wouldn't be able to handle the higher summer temperatures and mozzies. When I was at university used to spend a lot of time in the islands working in tavernas during the summer hols. Great times.

ah the hang drum. yep, I want one of those two but they don't come cheap!

This, from praps my fave country in the world

Other than bass guitar and any other commonplace instruments you might play are there any more unusual ones any BCers would like to take up or regret not having learnt or given up. I'm a big Grecophile and want to learn the bouzouki. Just love the sound and am a tad partial to Greek folk music. Other than that there's the hammered dulcimer but they're pretty expensive and hard to play quietly. Ditto the uillean pipes plus they're hard to play so 'praps I should've started donkeys ears ago.

Nifty piece of programming there but when I pressed pause it didn't stop on an image it just came up with ads or summat. As I stopped listening to music radio years ago I didn't recognise many of the names from the noughties and even if I'd vaguely heard of them I wouldn't know a single tune of theirs. I've heard of Taylor Swift but can't name a single hit by her. I'm not gonna bother Googling either.

with respect to the OPer, praps this is the best dance tune

Which school of bass playing do you subscribe to? There are those who think the bass should neither be seen nor heard, just felt I guess. Then there are those like me who think it should be a bit flash and in-yer-face and an equal of the guitar. My fave players tend to be the/a main figure in their bands and /or whose lines listeners tend to notice and remember.