RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

I stumbled across this today . An old episode that's probably been discussed here already after it was originally shown a few years back . anyone else see this ? wow !🙀

Wow! So many similarities with my own experiences ( the Hondo/ bass mags / trying the various techniques etc). tho I'm not as good. For me , after finding out that I could actually play a few songs , and was ready to join a band , I wasted a very long time being stupid by trying the slap pop and tap , hammer ons etc . A total waste of time for me . I was working long hours , drinking loads, socialising etc . After leaving my first band , I placed an ad in loot magazine . One guitarist I saw knew that I was neglecting the basics while concentrating on the flashy stuff . " f **k stu Hamm !" Was the turning point for me to see a teacher . I learned a lot in a few months . Time, money and a long trek on the underground meant I couldn't keep it up . Mr. Teacher let me use his fretless wal , and I didn't seem to be too bad on it . I always took my usual bass along , but he just asked me to use the wal now and again . I was a very naive person who played too many notes , because o thought that you had to follow the guitarist as well as drums . ( well I was trying to do everything metal 😹) much older and relaxed I just play what I want , either finger ,thumb or pick but don't try all that flashy stuff anymore . I think playing in a relaxed way helps me a lot .

After 2 mins and 12 seconds I couldn't watch any more . Two annoying Vacuous "men". The guy with the hat loves himself in the style of Jamie Oliver and the guy with the ' man bun'? looks like that food expert from Essex It has the effect of reality tv, where I switch tv off or over straight away. That was painful and annoying .

Thank you 😼

What's a TLRT? 😼

With the power of computers , I still have the history . will eventually get round to printing and framing these..

Speaking of autographs and meeting people ( again ), I met Alice Cooper when he was signing copies of his constrictor album .He was a miserable bar steward . His band were great . Alice didn't look at anyone and just looked at the desk the whole time . It wasn't until years later the penny dropped ( this was all pre internet) At the Wembley arena gig the previous Friday , the noose was too tight on him and he nearly died apparently. i was wandering around hmv in oxford street on a Friday evening I'm the 90s and I was standing behind him . Just then barriers went up and he was doing a signing session. I didn't bother as I expected him to be rude . Shame really . I just caught him on an off day .. Bob Calvert on the other hand was a top bloke 😼👍👍

Great story about Ozzy . Keep the Motorhead stuff though ..especially the excellent space ritual 😼

Can't go wrong with maiden . I had the original soundhouse tapes ep I sent off for back in the day . Back in 2015/ 16 I was on hard times and sold for about £385.00 I didn't realise that there are forgeries of I met the buyer in a cafe Nero in Baker Street . We had the iPhone torches out 😹I met Jim Marshall at the Wembley music fayre back in the 90's . He signed a poster for us . It was damaged over time. Oh well..

I was talking to a friend a couple of times about his concert tickets . I never kept many myself really , but did say he's got a good collection and it may be worth a lot . Seems like I was wrong . I would say though that anything signed by Kurt cobhain or cliff Burton would still be worth a lot tho.

I have a Charlotte and the harlots t shirt which is now my painting top when st hunger came out , I thought that it's time to get rid of some of their rare stuff. So I sold a white label 12" of jump in the fire which I purchased for £1.20 on a stall in Camden market . I queued up in shades in 85 and got the band to sign it, plus the hell on earth tour poster . Lars was puzzled . I sold both of those for about a grand . I scanned before selling so I still have memories . The poster was quite worn . The master of puppets and helloween tour posters are staying tho 😹

I had regrets about dumping my old metal tour t shirts from over the years . I did that years before eBay , so not so sad I guess. Probably the daftest thing I did was washing my Metallica ride the lightning sweat shirt which was signed by Lars in the duke of Cornwall pub next to the hammy o where him and James were . 🙀😹

Radio station coming through my faulty active pickups from my Washburn status bass in band rehearsal . Odd, but also amusing .

While having a thorough clear out , I looked at a few concert tickets I stumbled across . Out of curiosity , I looked in flea bay , and realised that in a lot of cases original stubs from big names are just sitting there , with no bidders . not outrageously priced either . Same with your programmes , although iron maiden fans are always interested . When times were hard a few years back, the most money I made from tour programmes was the AC/DC highway to hell tour, and motley Crue theatre of pain tour . of course autographed stuff by legendary figures would be worth more . A lot in some cases. Not sure about autographed basses .. Anyway , your thoughts ..

Going through my collection , I'm getting too many duplicates by the same artist . what do you prefer ?

Totally gutted . Favourite ever drummer . Percussionist and all round genius RIP 😿

Howdy! I need to concentrate and get myself back into the right frame of mind and actually make proper use of the stuff that I have. After moving into a smaller flat and coming to terms with health issues that make me not want to do anything , I'm beginning to declutter my mind and stuff in flat. I have recorded bits on sound cloud ( Mellowcat ) , but struggle to find out how to actually record anything properly and they become demos. Gear: I have all the gear and no idea ..imac / Mac mini / bass/ moog Grandmother not used much and various bass effects . I use reason 10 and before Xmas treated myself to launchpad mini 2 which includes Ableton live lite . I was thinking of paying for online lessons for reason and Ableton live . I was looking last night at the reed website and they have a sale on until March . I have an old Roland sp202 sampler and dr 202 drum machine . I love the launchpad and blocswave apps at the moment what are your thoughts ? Thanks

Funny thing about Andertons: I saw a you tube clip of the captain and chappers totally slagging off headless guitars and basses . They went through various players and just said that the majority went back to headed as nobody really plays headless as they just don't look right . Interesting to see how many they get in stock or shift Those Ibanez basses do look good..second thoughts after looking on the Andertons website I'm not too keen on them . I have a Washburn status ( wine red) . If I were to get another headless it would be a proper status . After

Thanks booom:) I managed to do the pram thing, when I put the installation disk in to repair . What I'll try and do is erase the external hard drive and dump the Mac mini .

Howdy ! The probable answer is to bin it . I purchased a new iMac in nov 2017 (was gonna get another Mac mini but at the time there was talk of Apple scrapping them) . I transferred my stuff from old Mac mini to iMac . I also have an Apple TV box in the living room. Now here's where everything went crazy and annoying : The Mac mini seemed to have inherited a bug from somewhere and has slowed down and not responding to any commands. So I used time machine on my external hard drive. The hard drive is now full. The Mac has gone back many years and even has the old icons from the days of my Bt broadband . Tbh , the only thing I use the Mac mini for ( or did), was for the iTunes visualiser . I know I can mirror that from my iMac in the spare room but I don't want to keep going back to change the artists I'm listening to. The Mac mini is about 13 years old ( snow leopard is as far as it can go). So.. have I screwed it up? As for the external hard drive , I'd like to empty it if it is full. My iTunes library has disappeared on the Mac mini, but is still on the iMac . The clock on the Mac mini is years out of date . That doesn't help. Thanks for reading this weird post 😼

Thanks al krow for mentioning this I can confirm that it's on its way to Binky Bass. Both of the FS-6 foitswitches does momentary or latch positions . It says on the manual anyway . nice setup there Binky. Do you play for the Rolling Stones ?😺

Strange band . Awesome talent . Did they have a rivalry with faith no more , or was that just paper talk? I saw them on the positive mental octopus tour at the marquee . Great gig and totally raw and fun . Saw them at Brixton with Henry Rollins supporting . I cannot remember the albums that they were touring with, but after seeing the marquee gig , I purchased mother's milk. I played it a few times and hated it , so off it went . I like blood sugar sex magic ( apart from under the fridge). Although I think one hot minute is definitely on a par . I bought the californication album and found it patchy . Saw them at Wembley arena when they played the entire gig wearing a sock each . I didn't enjoy that gig ,and not sure what album was being promoted . Haven't bothered with them since , and cannot remember the last time I played their stuff. when I was in my last band about 10 years ago, we started playing by the way which I detest, but a lot of people like it. I saw them on jools Holland a few years back , and they seemed to be enjoying theirselves . Sounded good , but I have no idea what album they were promoting .

Only my opinion , but that guy seems spineless and also part of it . if he was a decent , straightforward kinda guy he wouldn't have agreed to the sacking . 2 against one is a horrible situation to be in . Sounds 2 faced . I do wonder if the band was called Bruno and the backstabbers 😼