Newfoundfreedom

I saw the documentary last night. It was interesting enough. But at the time of Nirvana's "meteoric rise" around 90 - 91. I was much more into bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns n Roses, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Thunder, Alice Cooper etc, I find the claim that grunge killed so called "hair metal" absolutely laughable. I was barely even aware of their existence, other than the continually played Smells Like Teen Spirit that was absolutely hammered to death on MTV, they weren't even a ripple in a lake of great rock and metal music. I was actually surprised to find out that they released several albums. Never Mind was the only album I was even aware of.

Yup. Another one here with the HB Airborne Pro. I have gigged it and use it for practice every week. No issues whatsoever. It has 4 selectable channels, so even in the unlikely event of interference, you can just change to another channel. Well worth the money.

Vinyl was before my time. I had a few records, and an old record player, but by the time I started developing my own tastes it was all about cassette tapes. Now if you want to talk about a real shoddy musical medium.......

All true. But I actually meant literally, not figuratively. Compelling viewing if you haven't already seen it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3253624/

Well, that and Courtney Love.

I wouldn't know. I could never understand a single word he was singing.

I can't understand how their appearance on The Word would have in any way elevated then to fame. I remember seeing it at the time. Kurt Cobain was absolutely smashed of his tits and they played and sounded absolutely awful. That very appearance was one of the reasons I never really rated the band at all. Yeah granted, they probably had a unique sound at the time. But the slurry illegible, unintelligible singing totally ruined it for me. I never understood why they were considered to be such a great band.

I had the Donner ones for about the same price and they were excellent. I'm current using the Harley Benton which, if I remember correctly is about £90 and it's superb!

I hated reaction videos, until I found The Charismatic Voice on YouTube. Then I think I fell a bit in love.

I'm looking forward to the Trace Elliott one. Eau de Heft!

Wow! They even managed to make a turntable look dull.

I can't even tell when I'm in the wrong key.

Here's one of our very amateur efforts. But we've all got to start somewhere I guess. https://youtu.be/Db3USbk1lbY I don't know why it's only posting a link instead of embedding the video.

God forbid. With my art skills, if I designed a bass it would come out looking like Mr Sneeze from the Mr Men books.

I actually really like the quirkyness of these. I much prefer them to the standard Music Man.

Class. 👌

We all know what an earworm is. A song you hear and can't get out of your head all day. But does anyone else get dreamworms, where you actually wake up with a song in your head that you haven't heard in years? I suspect it's some sort of nighttime re-filing that the brain does while we're sleeping. I do it quite often. This is today's little gem. A song I haven't heard or thought about in a very long time, and I'd totally forgotten even existed. What an absolute banger!

My Dad died three weeks ago, and my mum has a lot of health problems that we haven't even started dealing with yet. I love being in a band. Sometimes it's my whole reason for getting out of bed on a morning. But sometimes there are bigger priorities. You shouldn't even feel guilty about getting out and getting on with more important things. Good luck. I wish your wife and your Dad the best of health.

Thanks. I really enjoyed that Nice to hear someone actually play a bass rather than doing honky noodling Jaco impressions or slapping the snot out if it.