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[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1475307752' post='3144863'] Get the Mono, it's brilliant. If you're a completist get both. Has anyone bought the new album as mentioned in the thread title? I hear that it's also excellent - remastered live at Hollywood bowl. [/quote]it's on Spotify, worth a listen but only a few times before the screaming gets very annoying, it's hard to believe they couldn't hear what they were playing, some bands don't sound that good with IEM

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1475250503' post='3144465'] You're probably right- another one here who didn't read the manual... [/quote]there's no mention of it in the 'manual' not in my single scrap of paper anyway. Chromatic, of course

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1475246999' post='3144424'] Cello, Guitar, Bass, Violin and Ukulele? I think the number relates to which string is being tuned. [/quote]right, seems to make sense, the numbers don't appear on the C (cello) setting though, I was tuning my guitar last night before an open mic didn't notice I was on V setting it tuned all the strings apart from the B string very confusing at the time, the C G work ok, something to be aware of though

am I being really thick here but what do the small letters mean under the string note, C, G, B, V, and U that appear when you press the on off button and numbers appear next to the string note when G B V U are selected?

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1475230757' post='3144176'] Have a listen to these excerpts of the stereo/mono versions [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtVF4zl_N0U[/media] [/quote]just listened through headphones, the mono versions sound better to me, more heft , not a big fan of Pepper myself, the reprise is my favourite track

my parents refused to buy me a guitar, just a passing fad they said, you'll never learn to play it, I eventually bought my own in my twenties and did learn to play it before moving on to bass, who knows what would have happened if I'd had their support in my teens?

I'm generally happy with my standard, I can play the stuff I want too, sometimes I have to cheat (try playing Babylons Burning using all downstrokes with a pick!) but hey, I can probably play stuff that other people can't, but there's the rub you only doubt yourself when you can't play something when you can you tend to assume everybody can

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1475084139' post='3142953'] Nah, IMO it was a leap from the start for all the reasons discussed previously. From up North, writing their own tunes, harmonies, look, groove (listen to Cathy's Clown, then Love Me Do. The latter has [i]swagger.[/i]) It's all well before my time, but I know so many musicians 'of an age' who are doing it 'cos of them. This chart sums up the sea change pretty well, IMO. [/quote]I'm not sure whether you're taking the piss or not, that's an American chart, and the description you give could equally describe Buddy Holly, except he came form Texas rather than up north, if you are being sarcastic I do apologise

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1475079758' post='3142901'] More of a leap than a progression, IMO. [/quote]I know what you mean in the later years, say from Rubber Soul onwards, but in the early years it wasn't that revolutionary, very good well written pop records, but not a seismic leap that the period around Sgt Peppers was

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1475076951' post='3142870'] SkankDelver I'm catching a lot of heat here. It's just my opinion. Where am I going wrong? Are folks taking me to seriously? Blue [/quote]the Beatles were also influenced by other artist and those artists were influenced by someone else, it seems like you are giving the impression, that the Beatles started it all, IMO that is, the Beatles were a bigger bang in the USA and they certainly opened the door for the 'British Invasion' and changed everything, especially in the States, but musically they were just a progression of what had been before

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1475070148' post='3142779'] Pages 32-37 ... [/quote]I stand corrected, must admit I never got close to page 32 before I gave up

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1475064163' post='3142719'] 'Play in a day with Bert Weedon'. Is this not espousing the quintessential punk music ethic? [/quote]not unless you're planning on doing a Punk version of Bobby Shaftoe, that book was next too useless, pretending you could learn to play in a day when there was no mention of barre chords (as I recall), I could really teach people to play in a day, it involved a distortion pedal and tuning the guitar to open E

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1475054797' post='3142590'] Your parents let you drive their car when you were eleven ? Top parents !! [/quote] I wish, but they weren't bad, at least they let me have Pick of the Pops on the radio

I like the way it grips the headstock a lot better than my other one

the thing I remember about being 11 years old was driving through Matlock Bath in my parents car listening to Pick of the Pops when Please Please Me came on the radio, it's fair to say I was quite impressed, and, still am

just got mine, works well with my bass, once I'd figured out how to get the battery cover off

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1474930965' post='3141672'] Are we taking fame or pioneers? The shadows (and cliff Richard) defined rock and roll in the same way Elvis did. And without those the beatles wouldn't have existed. I won't ever deny the impact the beatles had on the music we play, but I wasn't there so I don't really know what I'm talking about I suppose [/quote]the Beatles were far more influenced by American music as were the Stones than anything the Brits were doing, one of the great musical ironies is that the Brits took black American music, repackaged it and were able to sell it back to them, because they were white

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1474905933' post='3141423'] There are some cool covers of Beatle songs.i like Stevie Wonders We Can Work It Out and Otis Redding's Day Tripper. I never prefer or think they're any better than the original versiont.They're just good covers. Blue [/quote]the one exception for me is Joe Cockers version of a Little Help From My Friends

[quote name='Freddy Le Cragg' timestamp='1474748950' post='3140277'] Hamburg Beatles were just all trying to be Gene Vincent from what I gather. [/quote]and Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly etc, etc, early punk was influenced by Glam which was very influenced by 50's rock and roll, the Pistols (or Sid) recorded and had hits with a couple of Eddie Cochran songs, the Beatles Hamburg tapes were fast and raw, just like punk

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1474746025' post='3140246'] I was going to suggest that, but then thought it may be fair to say that The Beatles influenced the punks to not be like The Beatles? [/quote]if you get chance to hear the Backbeat soundtrack or the Beatles live in Hamburg album (wonder when that'll get the digitally remastered and re-released treatment?), I think you might agree that they weren't a million miles away from punk

sorry guys I started this tread just before going on holiday, I was being mischievous, mention the Beatles is like lighting the blue touch paper, I retired to a safe distance, just got back and have sped read the 6 pages of the same old arguments. I love the Beatles ( I was born in 1952, doesn't everybody think the music of their youth is the best ever?) and will undoubtedly thoroughly enjoy the film, I've got the Hollywood Bowl live album on vinyl, probably played it half a dozen times, definitely of historical value only

now I'm a big Beatles fan, but how many times can they keep repackaging the same stuff? Reminds of an Ossie Osbourne quote after another Black Sabbath compilation, "it's like digging up a dead prostitute for one last f***" presumably Paul and Ringo have given their approval seeing as they're helping to promote it, do they really need the money, or is it just the adulation. Apparently George said in 1989 with a sigh "I guess it's never going to end"

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1474044696' post='3135287'] I'd concur with Dropzone on the talent front, BUT, given what was supposed to be going down in the guy's personal life (and hey, let's just skim over the general weirdness here), it still amazes me that he continues to get airplay and no one says anything. [/quote]^ this, it continues to amaze me as well that he gets away with it just because he paid everybody off,

don't use nail varnish remover, as our guitarist found out on his Gibson SG

hope you don't play with a pick, it's all in the fingers you know