mikel

Queens of Soul sounds good but I cant bear Ms Houston's yodeling style.

Do what you like to make it suit what YOU want. If it hasn't quite got the sound you want either mod it or move it on. Pointless keeping an instrument that doesn't work for you.

All I ever wanted to be was a footballer. I played constantly and dreamed of nothing else, the only problem being I was rubbish. I dont mean not good enough, I mean absolute rubbish, couldn't even get in the school team. Then I discovered music and my dream became playing on the stage at Newcastle City Hall. Havent done it yet but I live in hope. Not Madison Sq Garden, or the O2, but the City Hall. I have seen all the greats play there from Yes, Tull, Genesis, ELP, Stones, Roxy Music, Queen etc etc and I would love to play on the same stage in front of my home audience.

Dont all bass solos seem to go on forever?

It must be selective. I have a shocking memory for almost anything but music and especially lyrics. I can be introduced to someone, and by the end of the conversation you could torture me for their name and I would be incapable of producing it.

Never a problem. I need to know the lyrics to a song to play it properly. Even when drumming I sing the song to myself. It means I also know exactly where I am in any song regardless of the instrument I am playing.

One of the most interesting and informative music docs I have seen so far. We have it in box set.

I think its Steel Rigg car park.

Quite. He seems to all intents a bit of a Richard. Doubt his dad is very proud. I am with Sting where gifting money to children is concerned. You make your own way in the World and appreciate what you get by working for it.

Well done Bryan, he remembers his roots. Respect.👍

Anyone on here with experience of the Boss BR80 digital recorder? I am a luddite where recording is concerned and I like the idea of a stand alone recorder for jotting ideas down without the need to connect to computers, interfaces etc. It can also be used as an interface according to the blurb, so expanding its capabilities for future use. I also looked at the Tascam DP008EX that also seems simple to use but does not appear to have the audio interface capability. Any thoughts on best buy, performance, interface capabilities? Thanks in advance.

The Moron Police would have been more apt.

There are a few but Chris's Run With the Fox has just been on Ken Bruce. I love that song and the bass tone is so pure, and forward in the mix. Just made my Xmas.

No gigs for me in May, I will be too busy queuing for food whenever it might be available.

The first Yes album, the talk bubble. With Beyond and Before, and Every little thing you can hear the stirrings of Prog. A blast from my youth.

On another tack. I have taught a few people to play drums, and others to play guitar. Rather than telling them this is what you have to do, I ask them to pick a song they love and would like to learn to play. That way they are interested, motivated and not overwhelmed by "learning to play an instrument". I was never interested in going down the learning to read music or practicing rudiments route, they don't hold my interest or excite me. By learning stuff I like I learn almost by osmosis. I found I could teach people to play at a basic level with this method, and if they wanted to take it further they could find a music teacher or invest their own time into learning scales, rudiments, theory etc. Each to their own.

Always been my problem, inability to focus. My brain keeps saying "Oooo look at that, and that, and that" The only way I can fully switch it off is to read a book. Reading seems to engage my wayward mind. I never misbehaved at school, I simply found some of the subjects mind numbingly boring and frustrating. Needless to say I was not academically clever, but have since qualified as a toolmaker and passed many athletics coaching exams.

Get one. At least it wont be yet another P or J. They are more versatile than they are given credit for. Macca use one with the Beatles to great effect, then there is "That" sound.

Consider yourself lucky. If you live in the North you cant even sit in a cafe and have a coffee. You must get a takeaway and stand outside and drink it as even the seats outside have been removed of quarantined. Despite the fact London has an infection rate as bad as where we live. Grrrrrr.

Wrong again. He was a Communist. Communism and Socialism have little in common. Communists believe all property is theft. The Tory rags use the Communist slur to denigrate anyone who believes in a kinder, fairer system of government. A cheap trick that seems to work with the hard of thinking.

Absolute rubbish. Most of the huge companies are allowed to get away without paying tax. They also pay poverty wages and the taxpayer, you and I, take up the slack with benefits paid for from our taxes. So we subsidise the millionaires. So communism is the only alternative? Get real, socialism is the answer. The essentials need to be state owned, gas, water, electric, health, public transport etc, everything else open to private enterprise.

Being a charity and not for profit is a million miles away from a private company that is in business for one reason only, to make as much money as possible.

Private will always cost more, making money is the only concern of private commerce. They have to do everything a service does, but make a profit on top. Look at our shambles of a private rail network. The highest rail prices in Europe by a long long way, and unreliable. A service should be just that, not an excuse for some company to make millions that end up in an offshore account. Dominic Raab said, a well funded NHS is a fantasy. Or some such.

Sadly not a rumour. It was stated plainly that "The NHS is on the table" Past comments by Tory government ministers also made it plain they want to make money out of it. The quotes are all on record and easy to find.

Well said Sir. Still cant believe how blind some people are. Yes, we have the wonderful and grossly underfunded NHS, one of our national treasures, but for how much longer? If the Orange one had got another term we would be waving it goodbye very soon, still might.