Nail Soup

The Mysterines album

I used to think "A Song For Guy" was about Guy the Gorilla (due to TOTP) but turns out it was for a young man at Eltons' record label who died - a courier I think. And there were words to the Birdie song. OK, they weren't on the record!

I was really not referring to people such as how you describe yourself. Open-mindedness is great. It's just the answer "Anything" is uninformative (doesn't give you any idea of what their listening is), and usually inaccurate (as you say, you don't listen to some stuff twice). BTW I'm not a ghetto a dweller.... I listen to a wide range of music. For example the albums I bunged on my MP3 today are : DakhaBakha (Ukrainian folk) Naomi Bedford (English Folk), F**8 Buttons (Electronica), and The Fall (Post-punk) Gang of Four (post punk) and ALbertine Sarges (Indie) , Lorelle Meets the Obsolete (Pyche).

Jagger maybe.... but don't lump Richards in with him.

It's better than people who say "Anything".

I'm outraged that we are bombarding kids of that age with pro five-string propaganda. Let them enjoy the simple pleasure of a 4 string while they are still young!

Same here. Luckily I don't like big bands, so I can see all my favourites at small venues.

In my now defunct punk / new wave covers band we said we wouldn't do Teenage Kicks, Pretty Vacant etc as they are too obvious. But we did end up doing them and of course they went down well with the crowd.

Not sure that's the only reason. Or even a significant one. After all, there are non-musicians who don't like Pop. We musicians may dislike it for the same reasons as them. My liking of music as as unrelated to my ability to make it as my liking of food is to my ability to cook it.

Of course reggae has its own instrumental form - Dub. Normally a re-mix of a vocal track. The best dub (IMO) removes most of the melodic instrumentation too.

That is what came to my mind - EDM . I'm not an expert but seems to be instrumental. And more rhythmically than melodically driven.

This one made a big impression on me when it was in a film (can't remember which one - Steven King maybe?) - Santo and Johnny - Sleepwalk.

This lot are relatively recent (although they draw on old music) and are pretty cool instrumental band - Los Bitchos

You might be OK in the first leg......

Or burned.

Red Rat - Wrigley's

Any chance of a picture? Spare me the ordeal of googling that search term!

Not me. I've done paid gigs, but only makes a small dent in the cost of instruments, consumables, rehearsals, petrol etc. (And my instrument spend is very low compared to to typical BCer).

Which is in itself ironic. Therefore it does contain one ?? In which case it's a paradox.

No problem in principal with lending gear. I like to help a fellow musician and may need help at some point myself. In practice maybe not something with high financial or sentimental value, and maybe not if the reason for needing the loan is a bit flimsy. Understand that some folk here have been burned in the past though.

Yeah, I remember Elvis. We were on a family holiday - one of those 'cruiser' boats on the Thames where you sleep on the boat. We were moored up overnight my dad went to the shops in the morning to get a paper etc. The first thing he said, as soon as he was within earshot, was "Elvis is Dead".

Yes, my (recently disfunct) punk and new wave covers band did all stuff I loved from my youth. But we did cover the stuff I loved from after that era like My Bloody Valentine or Pixies or whatever. All the bands before that was music I was totally into (mainly originals).

I think we knew the Beatles and some of their songs. But not so much the individual names and definitely not how important they were to people.

No pun intended?

My class was 14/15 when John Lennon was killed. Our English teacher gave over the next lesson to John. We weren’t really sure who John Lennon was. It must have been a big deal for the teacher though.