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I think we've had a similar thread before, usually, only bass players listen or understand for the bass line, I don't think he's under appreciated amongst Bass players

don't think that's available any more and it's a guitar pedal I think

Seems to be a Women in Rock night on Sky Arts, Go Go's, Pretenders, Joan Jet and Blondie, not my bag but whatever floats your boat

wish you lot would stop suggesting Distortion pedals I've managed quite well with a Zoom B1on up to now, so which on would give me an early Stranglers sound?

We've found that, bought a PA with compression as an effect and can't use it because it causes feedback

EQ and a bit of Echo or Reverb, with my voice I don't like bottom end, think Jeff Lynne

couple of Irish related documentary's on BBC 4 this Friday, Story of the Boomtown Rats and rock music in Ireland, I've a feeling they've both been on before

not Sky Arts (maybe I should change the thread title) but BBC 4 Documentry about Shane McGowen 10pm tomorrow.

Always The Sun was another one one from their 'pop' period, and a totally pointless cover of All Day and All of the Night

wish I'd have thought of that one, all the great Rock and Roll songs he wrote and recorded and his only number one was that. Chuck being Chuck asked in an interview what was he favourite song, he said that one because he made most money from it. Of course it could be that he was a bit of a pervert 😃

this ought to go on the fingers or pick thread, really must try a thinner pick 😊

I watched the Mick Fleetwood and Mark Knoffler ones and enjoyed them, didn't bother with Joe Walsh, sounds like a good move, will be watching the Paul Rodgers

I've only watched the Poly and Damned ones so far, both didn't leave me particularly uplifted to be honest, Poly obviously had severe Mental Health issues, and the Damned just seemed to bitter that they didn't receive the same accolades as the Pistols and the Clash and to spent their time slagging each other off. Despite all bad feelings in the band they have a reunion tour, all original members, planned this year, don't know whether its' still happening with the Covid thing going down

this is my sort of punk as well, always makes me smile when punks are caricatured as having mohawk haircuts and leather biker jackets, that didn't come in until a couple of years later (especially the haircuts) with shouty bands like GBH, and Exploited, early punk bands dressed in all sorts of ways and tended to have relatively long hair, by todays standards anyway Having a punk uniform goes against the punk ethos really

I enjoy Steve Lamaq as well edit, and I did hear him play a Beatles track 😃

I agree but not all people do, and if that's all you want there's the commercial stations as well as the streaming services like Spotify, Radio 2 is offering something a bit different, not my cup of tea but I understand why they do it. Not sure about the PRS fee's, lot's of stations play nothing else but music and judging by the reported salaries of the DJ's it probably costs more than wall to wall music

R2 is way to insipid for my tastes, basically it try's to cater for a wide range of tastes, other stations are a lot more audience targeted, but R2 is more than just a music station, a lot of people tune in to listen to the DJ's more than the music

this is probably it, most stations are playing 80's onwards stuff in their pursuit of yoof, I'm of an age that grew up with the Beatles and listen to very little radio these days, with the exception of Gold I don't know of any stations that cater, musically, for the over 60's

not that I listen to it but doesn't Radio 2 play Beatles stuff? as @bigthumbsays, Gold play Beatle tracks. Maybe Planet Rock don't consider them Rock enough

IMO early punk was just fast rock 'n roll, it influenced by Glam as well, which came a few years earlier, the second wave with the likes of Exploited was a lot more shouty shouty and the American hard core, Black Flag Bad Brains, even more so which I don't like much. So you've got the melodic punk, which the early stuff was, Ramones, Clash, Sex Pistols, Undertones Buzzcocks etc and then later on Green Day, and even Blink 182, then the shouty shouty hard core, really they're two completely different things, well I think so anyway

that really is a can of worms, most genre's bleed into others, punk more than most

ah! ok, I guess it is hard to hear the bass in some recordings like this, although not these examples, but to me that's not punk, that's more like my idea of metal, but I may be wrong, it's not my cup of tea at all, it's a million miles away from my idea of punk

I was hoping someone else would answer this, but they haven't and I've had a few pints now,. Can't make up my mind whether it's trolling or ignorance

some versions of Love Song as well

Stranglers had a punk attitude, at least for the first 3 albums, but had keyboards which was different, lots of punk bands could play at first because they'd been around for a few years, saw which way the wind was blowing and changed to punk, the Clash and Stiff Little Fingers for instance, it was a couple of years later that the people who couldn't really play jumped on the bandwagon (I know I was one of them 😂) but I agree a lot of 'punk' bands got labelled as punk because they happened to be around at the same time