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SteveXFR

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  1. Easy Skanking - Bob Marley and the Wailers
  2. You can see why Rickenbacker are so protective, Fender struggle to sell anything with all those P and J bass clones everyone and their mum is selling. Who would spend a grand on a genuine P bass when you can get a clone on Amazon for £60?
  3. I think it must have only been a year or two before he died, their last performance at Glastonbury. He'd definitely had a LOT of alcohol, he clearly had a major problem.
  4. Mark E Smith is easily by far the worst singer I've seen live. He was a mess, whizzed himself during the first song, just mumbled a few times, couldnt really describe it as singing. Wandered off stage occasionally, messed around with the bands instruments as they played. The guitarist looked like he wanted to punch him
  5. I've always liked the Smiths music but always really disliked Morrissey's vocals. I also thought the same about The Fall and Mark E Smiths vocals and the Sex Pistols and Jonny Rottens vocals (pre Sid obviously). I find that the worse a vocalist is, the more people go on about them being a lyrical genius (Pete Doherty for example)
  6. I have looked at local jam sessions. There's two, one jazz and one blues. I don't know anything about either genre. I've also only ever bothered learning natural and pentatonic minor scales because that was all I needed for metal. I'm fairly sureI wouldn't do well in either of those jam sessions
  7. Shooting star - Gojira Looks like I missed several posts. Ignore this one
  8. I've also fitted a new pick guard. The old black one was past its best so I bought a nice white pearl three ply. I think it's an improvement.
  9. Pet Cemetery by Ramones Watch the corners by Dinosaur Jr Going Underground by The Jam Sound of the suburbs - The Members Heroes by Bowie (Motorhead version might work better)
  10. Thanks and I'll be sure to send you back stage passes for our Glastonbury headline show.
  11. I think it's a bit more difficult because the last band I was in was really good. Everyone showed up on time, knew the songs, brought spares strings etc, had ideas to share and they could really play. I think the material and talent in the band was good enough for us to get some good gigs and make a decent record. Unfortunately, two members had to move away and that killed it. Trying to find another band of that standard is going to be tough.
  12. One thing I've learnt is not to bother with any new projects that don't already have a drummer. It seems like there's no good drummers available. That and avoid heavy pot smokers, even if they're nice people it's really frustrating when they're an hour late every rehearsal because they lost their keys, guitar, trousers, car (all genuinely used excuses from one pot head) plus you have to listen to their crazy ideas about the government controlling us.
  13. Not much of our structural steel comes from the US because they don't make British sections. Most of our structural sections come from China via Europe.
  14. Definitely not due to brexit. Definitely not that. Absolutely definitely not brexit. According to the Farage fan at work anyway.
  15. I just looked on joinmyband and the first three bands to come up in my area looking for a bassist are Busted tribute, Nickelback tribute and Coldplay tribute. Unacceptable
  16. Reggae/ska or stoner/doom are king of opposite ends of the musical spectrum.
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