Nail Soup

Done. Comment: a 'Don't know' option would have been useful for me for the 'wood' questions. Best wishes with your project.

I saw them shortly before the current tour (they were doing some re-scheduled covid dates) and they were stunning, although not for everyone.

Jessie Mae Hemphill - "Black Cat Bone" and "Streamline Train"

A couple of years ago, just for the hell of it, I challenged my self to write a list of 100 bass players (and what band or whatever) from my head into an excel file. For the first few minutes I was thinking faster than I could type, then after about 50 or slow began to slow down. But after a couple of hours I had the list.

Thanks for the tips and comments everybody! I think I'm ready to move forward now .........

I think that the T-Rextacy tribute don't normally have bongos - is that right?

The last couple of basses which have caught my eye have been orange. So orange it is then.

So what do you mean by a vamp?

There does seem to be some other issue going on.... the PC shows a high memory percentage even when just doing light tasks like browsing. A clean up might help....

Thanks. I did try that already.... it scanned my system and recommended some cards of varying sizes. What it didn't tell me was: to get to 16MB if a) need to buy a 8GB to add to the current 8MB card, or b) buy a 16GB to replace it. If I understood that I 'd be happy to go with what they suggest. (of course I'm hoping for the cheaper option!)

As per my recent thread, my new PC keeps maxing out on RAM.... even though it has double the RAM of my old PC (which never maxed out on RAM) 😕 I haven't been able to fix it any other way, so I'll follow the advice to get more RAM. Currently I have 8gb and have 3 free slots: Can I simply buy another 8GB card and push that into one of the free slots? I am confused by the online advice............. they seem to say to remove the old RAM. In which case why are their multiple slots?

That is a great picture..... I always admire those who are good with a camera!

Larkin Poe are great, young(ish) blues band........ John the Revelator

Classic call and response 😉 !

How about John Lee Hooker. Always at his best without a band: guitar, voice and footstomp:

This came into my mind too. Great song, and yes, better than the already-good original. Struck me as a strange choice of cover.... original fairly recent and in the same genre as the Pixies. People normally jump back in time or across genres for covers. They didn't attempt to significantly re-imagine it or anything either, but still worked. Hadn't seen the video before..... very good! Quick Wikipedia search shows that Black Francis only agreed to make a video if it was shot in one take of a live performance/mime by the band. The director had the idea to set up 12 cameras focus on top/middle/bottom of the 4 members, cut into the 4*3 grid in the video.

Bit of Piedmont country blues .... Precious Bryant

I like the rough and ready stuff... no bass on this I'm afraid. Bukka white - Po' Boy and District Attorney Blues

I listen to most of the stuff on the 'What are you listening to right now?'... I can't say everything though, there is a little bit of pre-screening. Discovered some very good stuff there which I didn't know before, and yes bought the odd CD or download. I'm always o the lookout for new suggestions. As much as (if not more than) ever.

Peel NME/Sounds Who my friends were mentioning. Got a lot of punk, post-punk and new wave that way. Later moved on to checking out bands who my favorite bands mentioned, or who writers mentioned in context of favorites bands.... digging back I guess you could call it. For example Velvet Underground, Beefheart. It was only after I had finished growing up that I got into some stuff I 'hated' whilst growing up...... Folk, Soul, Blues, experimental and so on.

The Bug Club, Bedford Esquires 13th April 3 piece band , Gtr, bass drums, two vocals. On record their USP is probably the vocal harmonisation, but live really bought their instrumental capabilities to the fore. Guitar has no effects pedals... just uses the knobs on the guitar. Lots of great lead guitar. Great Bass tone and playing. Drummer usually plays quite straight 'support the song' style, but on a few occasions showed he could really go for it when needed. Great show, really enjoyed it. On the other hand the support band were terrible. Singer, bass player and laptop 😞 . The singer had put a lot more effort into his between-song banter than the music. I had suffered them before at the same venue. So obviously chosen by the venue rather than the headline band. Sounded like a poor man's Divine Comedy. I always make the effort to watch the support band - have seen loads of great ones, some OK ones and the occasional stinker.

Based on the "Live at the Roundhouse" recording he did a great job on vocals too (co-lead vocals with Gary Kemp).

Good idea…. Hopefully I’ll have cause to post here. My next gig has been postponed by a year, so I might do the one I went to last week.

OK, here goes! The picture made me think of eavesdropping... did a bit of research and found stuff like a quote from Thornton Wilder (me neither!) : "There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head". Built up the lyrics with such ideas. God knows where the music came from 🙂! Technical stuff: Studio One DAW, Piano-roll drums with Red-Zep hits, Vantage Bass, Squire Tele gtr, Gibson acoustic gtr, Studio one strings, Behringer condenser mic. Lyrics in spoiler:

I only dip my toe into those waters occasionally, but I wouldn't mind going to one of those. Does seem a bit strange to put all those bands up against each other though rather than spread it out over a fortnight... or do they have such different fanbases? Anyhow I'll say one thing for the genre...... with those band names it feels good just reading the line up!