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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

my, maybe, Matsumoku, Hondo is plywood, sounds fine, bloody heavy though

oh right,

except didn't he sing "Excuse me while I kiss the sky", as far as I know Hendrix was nowhere near bisexual

to be fair almost all radio edit's are better, maybe another thread?, which ones aren't

I know what you mean but when the song kicks back in it doesn't seem to matter

I don't have a problem with that one, it's fairly accurate, to me anyway. now Springsteen's I'm on Fire is another story and a few of Stings Lyrics are dodgy as well, Don't Stand So Close to Me? but then again Rock 'n Roll was founded on well sexist lyrics from blues songs, the original lyrics to Hound Dog are, err, interesting

I doubt that's what that song is about ymmv

Taxman Mr Wilson, Taxman Mr Heath, the perils of using current affairs in your lyrics

93, doesn't surprise me, I constantly get things wrong in band discussions, hell , our guitarist even told me I was playing one of my own songs wrongly, and he was right 😡. I always say I do quite well for someone with no natural musical ability 😄