Nail Soup

In my experience the evolution went: a) We won't do the obvious cover songs of our genre (punk/new wave) b) OK, we'll do Teenage Kicks c) repeat step b for various punk and new wave classics. d) similar set to the other cover bands

I don't have a dedicated chair for practice, but I did adapt my home-office chair for music by removing the arm-rest things.

£300? Great, an upgrade! I don't dabble much in the market, so I'd have to go for a safe bet - Squier P. Or J if it's a nicer colour.

Give me hard-to-understand lyrics over overly-literal stuff any day. For reference I think Dylan, Mark E Smith and Captain Beefheart are great lyricists.

Just checked them out on youtube. They cover stuff from a whole bunch of genres into a single style - so they don't get included. And they sounded OK too.

I think any one is free to cover anything, but I don't hold with doing a cover 'ironically' or to poke fun at the original. And don't get me started on the acts whose whole thing is "A-in-the-style-of-B" (Metal in bajo style, Elvis in Nirvana Style, Led Zep in Reggae).

It's bad I agree. But it's just bad through incompetence, which I can easily forgive. For me, to a truly bad cover has to contain the element of intent.

Going to see The Undertones in Gothenburg on Saturday, supported by Hugh Cornwell and Band. I've seen the Stranglers a couple of times since Hugh left, but his is the first time to see Hugh solo. More importantly than the music I'll be visiting my brother (also going to the gig) and his family for the weekend 🙂 . (OK, I might have lied about something being more important than music 😉)

I'm familiar with the band and would definitely take the chance to see them live.

Agree with you about the talented lads, but I think the songs were pretty good. And Annabel had good vocals and loads of image quality.

I saw the Blockheads at a Butlin's 'punk and new wave' weekender... No NWR though 😞 - I think he was playing with Wilko instead. They had a dep bassist of course who did a great job... and during his turn to do a bit of a bass solo he walked up to the mic whilst playing and apologised for not being Norman!

Great name! I even suspect they maybe thought of the name first and had to invent a product to go with it 🙂 .

I read the blurb too, and yes it does aim to be more than a spanner. It grips the inside so it doesn't twist while it turns the nut. If it works I think it's a pretty useful tool. I'll consider getting one. Although as others have said, there may be steps you can take to prevent loose nut in the first place.

I wouldn't call the bass chat ones pop ups. They just sit at the top of the page and disappear as you scroll down. And they are bass-related. So noy much to be annoyed by IMO.

The young bands I see usually have a bass player, so not dying out dinosaur style. There may be more competing genres that don’t use a bass than there was before.

Crystals probably.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that trick. Although I suppose it would be called a 'hack' nowadays.

Even Crass went a bit disco on this one

Is he Ned's 'lead' bassist or the the 'bassy' bassist?

I saw a band called Buffalo Daughter and they had one song were the bass line involved a lot of bouncing off an open string. Used a capo. It worked. I imagine that is one of the main reasons to use one.

Not my normal sort of music, but I enjoyed that!

Steve Ignorant and band on Saturday in London. Performing the songs of Crass. Birthday treat!

You mean it's exciting?

Observation: two different interpretations of "few notes" going on here. Some mean not having many different notes - e.g Public Image has only four different notes, but played 8 to the bar in every single bar of the song. Some mean having lots of space between the notes - e.g Walking on the Moon which plays 3 notes followed by a huge gap.

OK, it's pushing the definition of rock I suppose, but the Bees-Gees went from whatever they were to Disco without missing a beat. I'd always assumed that they got a bunch of session musicians in to make the switch, but no - according to the documentary I saw it was the same band that they'd used through their career.