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or, a lot of great music got labelled as punk because it happened to come to the surface about the same time, the blockheads are a lot nearer to Jazz funk than punk

it's the all downstrokes (I think) that kill me, same with Bruce Foxton, you can do it up and down but it's not the same

Sound of the Suburbs is a good one, Warhead, simple but very effective

I regularly have to change the USB port I'm using to get my um2 to work, no idea why

I had a friend who went to Dublin for a stag do, the Hotel was a flea infested hell hole and not being a big drinker he caught an early flight home, the Groom was so p1ssed off he cancelled his invite to the wedding 🙄

I always take 2 Trace Elliot's to gigs, I've needed the backup about twice, once our guitarist had to use one when his amp packed up, he was really p1ssed off when someone told he sounded really good that night 🤣

unless you have OCD (Obsessive Collectors Disorder) I don't see the point of having more than one copy of anything, if any at all in this age of streaming and massive cheap hard drives, personally I'd stick with the vinyl copies, come the day when some sort of virus wipes out all things digital, I'll be laughing 🤣, and also being an old nostalgic fart I still like putting a record on. Our Singer has OCD, for years he bought Vinyl and CD copies of albums as well and still buys reissues with 'bonus' tracks, he refuses to get rid of any of them

couple of programmes for you punks out there, Sex Pistols 2007 gig and a Damned documentary early hours of Sunday morning

I think it depends on the style of music, not many finger players do punk for instance, having said that there are pick players that do styles that are usually done by finger players, Carol Kaye and Macca spring to mind, so if you've got to choose (nearly said pick there 😃) I'd say go for pick, you can do any style with a pick but I don't think stuff like Ace of Spades works with fingers, having said that somebody will be along shortly and tell me I'm wrong

Weller gets most of the credit because he's the singer (sort of) and attributed as the song writer, which is a bummer for bass players, where for instance, would Tube Station be without the bass line, one of my favourite Jam songs (there are a lot) is News of the World, a Foxton song. Having said all that Weller did go on and have a successful career outside of the Jam

I'll try and find that on the iplayer, I'm not really interested in most of the stuff on repair shop

know what you mean, they seem to be on every time I tune into the oldies radio stations as well, I just think they're like magnolia paint, a bit bland and inoffensive

must have been on before but there's a Jam doc on at half past midnight on Sunday morning, a concert before that

wonder if Gary Glitter bought this on the because of the Album Cover? What were they thinking, perhaps better if we don't know

anybody see Repair shop tonight? not a bass but a Hofner guitar, good program, although it did sound a bit ropey at the end

It's Alive is my favourite live album too, It's faster than the studio takes, which made them better, I think they went to far on Loco Live

I sorted it thanks, it was when I was logged on to one of my tube channels, I left a note somewhere to this effect

no much help I'm afraid Len, one thought, if you're allowed to go to work if you can't work from home, is practicing for paying gigs classed as work?

I'm used to Basschat threads going off topic, indeed I am guilty of it myself, but WTF has this to with gigging in the spring? Back on topic, we have a potential outdoor gig on 17th April, anybody any idea on whether we can practice before then?

I had a similar thing with Squeeze, spent 45 minutes playing songs off their new album, half hearted shouts for an encore, came back on a did a greatest hits set, everybody went home happy

Stiff Little Fingers at Rock City springs to mind, for some reason I've got an inbuilt dislike of Jake Burns, the awful dress sense doesn't help, first song in somebody threw some beer at him, not nice I know, but it was the way he handled it, stopped the gig and ranted for a few minutes saying he'd walk off and not come back if it happened again, so the whole crowd would lose out because of one idiot? anyway during a way overlong Johnny Was encore I decided to get to the pub before the rest of the crowd and get in a peaceful pint. A few years latter I was talking to his cousin also called Jake Burns when we were doing the same open mic, he told me SLF's Jake tried to get him to change his name so people wouldn't think it was him, sort of confirmed my impression

yes, I think he's singing it at 140, not sure its possible to sing at 280 , the bass is 280 though, being a pick player I can just about manage it on a good night edit, not saying a finger player couldn't do it btw

I googled ace of spades, it said 140, but I think it's twice as fast as that

bloody hate that song with a passion, thanks for reminding me of it 😡 what a load of pretentious rubbish YMMV

The Beatles seemed fond of ridiculous outro's, Strawberry Fields, what is that all about? Hello Goodbye, as well as stupidly long endings like Hey Jude and All You Need Is Love