Stub Mandrel

The number of distinct sounds available to you exceed both the number of stars in the known universe and trying them all out would take longer than the age of the Earth...

I love music and listen to it every day. I try and play every day, these days. I'll listen to almost anything. I sometimes listen to Radio 1, and I'm sometimes surprised by something really good, usually disappointed how nearly good most of it is. I struggle with Radio 2. When I was a kid they played the 'pop' music your parents used to listen to and gave a home to obscure folk/jazz. Today, they seem to focus on playing the music that no-one wants to hear. I say put Lisa Tarbuck, Steve Wright and Elaine Page on top of a Falcon Heavy and accidentally send them to Venus instead of Mars... ... and they can take their prosecco with them...

A few weeks ago, after several decades of havering, I finally bought a copy of rumours (I realise it's effectively a completely different band). I was surprised to discover 2 or 3 songs I didn't recognise.

Watch it drummers, you are like boyfriends. Easily replaced by a plastic object a few inches long with batteries.

This is one thing I read a couple of months ago, there was something on Classic FM website as well, I think. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/06/why-classical-musicians-need-to-learn-how-to-improvise

A more interesting debate is the one currently bubbling away on the classical music scene. Up to about 120 years ago, improvisation was the norm, so your 'classical' musicians at the level of soloists would be expected to be able to extemporise and innovate on the hoof. It was only during the 20th century that playing by the score became de rigeur; rather like the standardisation of all the variations of Shakespeare's plays (many of which had been cut and pasted with each other or had large chunks by other writers inserted by 1900). Just as theatres like the Globe try and recapture an 'authentic' Tudor performance, the debate is now should improvisational skills be taught as part of a classical music education and brought back into performance. The mere existence of this debate suggest that, at present, formal musical training does, at least discourage experimentation - at least among performers, if not composers.

THCPKTLC But I think thisis going spare now, so you could use it?

Cheers Blue, but I don't want you out of pocket on my account.

Can you export Maple Road T's at a sensible price?

TOTP always felt slightly embarrassed to have any band that performed with that sort of gusto.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, how I wonder what you... Oh, actually as a little star you're almost certainly a white dwarf comprised almost entirely of carbon and oygen... but why am I singing to you? You haven't got ears.

She can turn her hand to anything:

I would have like to have discovered that first song around 1985...

Unfortunately, they killed it. And not in a good way.

The African answer to Slipknot! Or maybe GWAR. I bet they are awesome live. Did anyone else spot 'I Feel Love' as the basic riff?

Well Joni, Joan and Tracy got sorted in the first few posts... also Janice! Laura Nyro someone mentioned, perhaps obscure but yes, wonderful singer. Lots of great folk singers Sandy Denny, unassailable. Also Maddy Prior, Jaqui Mcshee. Donna Summer. Shirley Bassey. Floor Janssen (is that right?) is impressive too. Sonja Kristina. Lana Del Ray can be good even if she overdoes the breathy bit.

Or rechargeable 9V PP3s with lithium batteries and a voltage regulator built in. They are the dogs and have more capacity than an alkaline PP3!

Nothing! I once bought an IC, it was about 1/2" square. It was packed between two foot-square plastic frames. In a box, with vacuum packing. In a larger box, with paper packing. In a box about 2 1/2 feet square. I think someone had a sense of humour... From the same company (CPC) I still have a box I use for odd musical instrument parts like tuners etc. It has the word 'OVERPACK' on the side in large letters, which seems more than a little shameless. Oh dear the SoCo is starting to affect my typing...

Country music, such a tragic waste of talent 😁

Google proffered me a link the other day. I can't remember the band/guitarist (fairly well known) but he claimed to have come up with his 'own' scale. it actually sounds good, I figured it out as a harmonic minor with a sharp 4th giving a sort of cross between harmonic minor and blues scale. <edit> Sorry the point is a trained musician is unlikely to come up with such a thing, although doubt more radical composers try such things all the time.

Sorry; it's not often I exercise such self-restraint. I won't do it again.

As for the price. It's only sick squid.