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yeah, but you don't get audiences in the Albert Hall drunkenly shouting "play Beethoven's ninth..." at the conductor😄

Get the singer to change the lyrics to "Socks on Fire". The punters will never notice the difference if (s)he puts a bit of an American twang on it and you can all have a little private chuckle.

That has a real "singer wanted his girlfriend to be in the band" vibe. 🤣

A couple of the replies have brought up memories: Album tours - I saw Lou Reed a few years ago when he toured the Berlin album. That is an album that works when played live in its entirety. He was incredible. There was a children's choir and the while production was just fantastic. He played Satellite of Love for an encore and came to the front of stage to sign autographs afterwards. It was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Bumpers - I saw Suede when they toured Dog Man Star many moons ago. There was a loud studenty type bloke annoying everyone during the support act; jumping around and generally being a nuisance. When Suede came on I looked over to the side of the hall and saw the annoying git lying on the floor fast asleep, where he remained for the entire set.

So Sad About Us - Breeders, originally by The Who Head On by Pixies, originally by The Jesus and Mary Chain

trying to decide whether or not to wear a coat, especially in winter. You might have to wait outside for some time before the doors open, then you get in and it's hot and sweaty, but there's no cloakroom and you don't want to carry a big coat or have it tied around your waist all evening.

Young women sitting on their boyfriends' shoulders. 🤬 Crowdsurfers. I was at a gig once (may have been the Manics) and some silly billy thought it would be cools to crowdsurf when nobody else thought the same. A few people punched him in the balls as he passed over. He got to the front and kicked a young woman on the back of the head as he went over the barrier and fell on to the ground. When he stood up the girl's boyfriend floored him with one punch.

Would Fade to Grey count?

3 pages in and no one has mentioned Peter Hook yet. Until now.

or going back to '58, being a teenager and listening to Link Wray's "Rumble"

Not in the UK it wasn't.

why? Just why?

I just checked and Chic have never had a UK number one! As for starting the thread with ...Rhythm Stick, that kind of makes the thread redundant straight away. 😄

get in the sea...

In the late 80s I started listening to Iron Maiden, Guns n Roses, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne etc and gradually got heavier and into Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, then into the likes of Boltthrower, Kreator, Candlemass. Then in '91 Smells Like Teen Spirit came out and my taste changed and I started listening to Nirvana but oddly no other grunge stuff. I went for punk, like the Pistols, Blondie, Buzzcocks, Undertones, SLFetc. Then i got into the Breeders, the Smiths, Suede and branched out. All the metal stuff fell by the wayside until a couple of years ago. Maiden rolled into town and having never got to see them when I was big into them, I went to see them, started listening to them again, then a bit of Metallica and Kreator. I don't think I would have found the band in that video heavy enough for my liking.

Acoustic bass?

Olympic white '91 Squier silver series Jazz Bass, so something like a Mazda Mx3 maybe.

Erick Lee Purkhiser and Kirsty Wallace, better known as Lux Interior and Poison Ivy of the Cramps

The first bass I ever played was an Ibanez p-bass copy. I've no recollection of ever playing a Fender Precision, except maybe in a music shop and even then I'm not sure.

Try to convince the band to either go glam rock or else Slipknot style metal. That way you can wear makeup or a mask on stage. 😁

That's exactly it. Those three, whilst not being good singers in the traditional sense all have/had character to their singing voices and stage presence. I've never been able to understand the liking for Neil Young though. I just don't think his voice has any character; it's just a nasal whine to me.

Bassists in the Netherlands are using this one simple trick to restore their pickup covers. 😄 Nice job.😃

I've no idea why Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV should have felt the need to change his name. (Frank Black, Pixies, for those who don't know)

It really is a bit of a grower.

Is that a euphemism? 🤣