Newfoundfreedom

Pick playing definitely has it's place, but I find I can be much more articulate with finger playing. Some of the faster songs I totally like to angle my hand straight down towards the frets and dig in to get that nice clicky clacky sound that I absolutely love. But in some of the slower or more chilled songs, I can almost pluck the strings for that lovely smoothe deep full tone. I just can't get anything like that amount of control with a pick.

I'm not sure what the Ukraine entry is, but it should probably be this. They'd get my vote. https://youtu.be/lu8m5FA2nL8

At least they had a sunroof.

Reasonably safe bet I would imagine, given how political the voting has always been. The reason the Eurovision is such a joke is because it has absolutely nothing to do with talent. Kind of like a continent wide X Factor.

If Klingons played bass.......

(Goes off to Google Laurence Fox) Nope. No idea.

Even I'd have voted for it if I thought it would save the embarrassment of Eurovision. 😆

I'm not sure why the UK even bother to enter any more, considering the voting seems to be tactical and they're pretty much universally loathed by the rest of Europe. (Can't think why).

No need to hammer home the point.

Nice one. I play acoustic guitar (extremely badly) nowhere near the level where I feel like I could carry a gig. I always struggled with the bar chords. They're proper F ing B s. Open chords I'm fine with. I just can't change quickly enough to the claw shape. So my guitar journey kind of stalled there. I do occasionally still like to pick it up and have a strum though, and I write most of my songs on guitar, then give them to our proper guitarist for refinement. My wife is also a singer, so it's something I aspire to do one day.

Be extremely careful what you do next. Agreeing to disagree on a public chat board could conceivably break the internet. 😆

As with most music, Kate Bush totally passed me by at the time. I somehow got my hands on a greatest hits album round about 2000, and it totally blew me away. There's not many artists I would consider to be truly unique. I'd never heard anything like it.

I'm not really one to judge. For me the mid 80's to mid 90's were all about heavy metal and rock. If it wasn't a bunch of long haired blokes dresses in black, I probably wasn't interested. For the most part, with a few notable exceptions, I still feel the same way.

In all honesty, I can remember owning and listening to Simply Red's Stars album back in the day. But I've never owned or listened to an Oasis album. Hearing their nasal whining on the radio was enough.

For me Oasis is where music went to die. 😆

I'd put it in eBay, then buy something that isn't a Fender, in a natural finish. Or at the very most, a light colour wash. If I can't see the grain, I ain't interested.

I like it. 😁

I have no idea what "grok" is, but I'm assuming it means understand. I'd happily spend all my time in a room with my mates creating and playing music just for the hell of it. That's where I'm happiest. I hate people, and I have no desire to be a performing monkey for the great unwashed. To me, it's all about the creativity. I honestly couldn't care less if I never performed in front of a crowd. Most of them couldn't care less anyway.

Nouns. I'm annoyed by pretty much all people, places, and things.

Curious to know if the band is still going with new members?