Nail Soup

"Always tone seeking or happy"... they are not mutually exclusive, some people are happy when tone chasing. Not me though.... find something workable and stick with it.

I think we tend to underestimate what a good career move dying young is.

I remember in years gone by that when countering resistance to a new music technology (e.g drum machines, samplers) people would say 'if Hendrix were alive today, he'd be using this stuff'. I don't think so..... like most innovative artists he'd had his period of creativity already and would be doing pretty safe stuff by then. Probably, there may be exceptions. They maybe meant 'if Hendrix was starting out today he'd be using that stuff' then they might be right.

The Saints....... RIP Chris Bailey.

Out of your cold dead hands, eh?

For some of us of a certain age, the word dissertation will remind us of this guy: (Disclaimer: he doesn’t say it in this clip)

Yeah, it’s a learning experience! Feel free to share your paper here afterwards.

Me too. Questionnaires are not so straightforward to devise. But I read your advise too late 😞 and picked option "no - I rely on other online forums too"

I'm not so sure about that....it may seem that way from my (and your?) age perspective, but it's probably not true, and there was lots of formulaic stuff in previous eras.

Finally got the nail done.......... acrylic (I think) £3 from local nail bar working ok so far, but not done many minutes of playing yet.

BBC Four tonight 10.40pm.... highlights from 6music festival

Presented by Paul Holly(tone)wood?

Samsung? Probably on that there bloody foreign time 😉

Last minute ticket purchase.... Folly Group tonight:

Not getting a good tone at the moment. Ken Barlow wearing a beige cardigan drinking a cup of Horlicks.

Sky Arts tonight at 7pm UK time: The Art of the Album Cover.

Very true. Also "Tiny Desk" concerts and a few other similar ones.

Foo Fighters - case in point.

I could go either way on the Who, and you could have said the same after Moon died.... but Yes should have stopped as Squire was the only member giving continuity to the various line ups. BTW I'm saying that as a neutral as I'm not a Yes fan.

I come from a punk background, and still have not got round to giving Yes a chance. I only like a part of what the Who have done (the less rock stuff), and it's not the particularly bass driven stuff. But I guess Entwistle was one of the first to push the bass forward and he did the bass solo in my generation (rare example of a listenable bass solo) so vote goes to JE.

while we are on the topic of Prog and Punk........... Coincidentally enough, I was listening to a podcast by brothers Steve and Paul Hanley of the Fall this weekend. Younger brother Paul said that the slightly older people (like brother Steve) who were already into music pre-punk slagged off prog once punk came along, but secretly still listened to their prog collection. The younger people, like Paul, who's first music was punk heard this call to to reject prog, and did.... and therefore never got the chance to really evaluate it.

Yes.... great voice, but could sit in the mix a little more.

FWIW, in my 'broad church' definition of punk, the Stranglers were punk. I certainly considered them so when they were my favorite band. I discovered them in 1979, got their first three albums (punk) and the first new material I got was The Raven.... it was relatively proggy, but I liked it anyway.

With four people in a typical band, the odds that someone have it will be pretty high then (36%ish chance of someone having it??) Any mathematical like t ogive the actual number based on 1 in 11 and four people?

Free jazz. Free isn't enough, you'd have to pay me to listen to it. Sorry, I'll get me coat......