SteveXFR

I was mistaken. I seem to remember quite a few one hit wonders around that time. Stiltskin and Babylon Zoo were around the same time with huge hits then nothing.

I don't think he was a one hit winder was he? Didn't he have another big hit that no one remembers? I saw him play at the Radio 1 roadshow at Longleat but remember nothing about his performance.

Shedding Skin - Pantera

Frost hammer - High On Fire

Danger high voltage - Electric Six

White Cell - Cult Of Luna

Black Hole sun - Soundgarden

Supermassive black hole - Muse

2 sun's and one star - Down There's a star called Vega

This love - Pantera

Millionaire - QOTSA

Orgasmatron - Sepultura

In to the valley - The Skids

I don't care what my bass sounds like when I practice at home. I don't see the point of practicing with anything other than my live bass. I have a second bass which I use for playing non band stuff at home but only because the bands music requires tuning to drop A# which makes it useless for anything else.

I was once hit by someone who was in a band, does that count? We auditioned a drummer for our last band who played on a prog hit in the 70's. He may have mentioned it quite a few times just incase we forgot. He was decent but we all decided we didn't want to hear about his one hit every 5 minutes.

Airborne at the Cheese & Grain in Frome tonight, our local. Airborne were just brilliant as always. Simple hard rock played well and a very entertaining performance. They really know how to get a crowd going. Really great sound, I guess they have their own sound engineer. The venues PA is the old Glastonbury Westholts stage PA so it's got mega power and quality. Support band Florence Black were brilliant as well, I've not heard them before but really enjoyed them. Heavy rock occasionally breaking in to full on metal.

That's pretty much standard for them. Sometimes he has a can and breaks it open on his head while playing a solo one handed. They also do a tribute to Lemmy which involves wheeling a bar on stage and pouring them each a very large Jack Daniels and coke. The audience gets a good soaking with beer at various points in the performance. Last years show was their first in two years. They made a few mistakes and got a bit emotional about being back on stage.

They're always amazingly entertaining. I'd recommend making the trip down here next year to see them in a small venue with excellent sound. A mate of mine is stage manager at the venue and loves working with Airborne. They're the most professional band he works with, no egos, they love what they do and they come off stage absolutely exhausted. Disappointingly, most of their cabs are empty and just for show.

Tomorrow night we're going to see Airborne play our local, the Cheese And Grain in Frome. It seems to be a regular thing for Airborne to play Frome as the warmup show for the European tour. This is at least their fourth show here. Always a very entertaining show.

Well you definitely got started!. I just find all their music post BSSM rather bland and their use of the word California just a lazy way to fill syllables with as few words as possible. I actually like Les Claypools song writing, I just wish he'd drop about three quarters of the notes. Having said that, if we all liked the same thing then everyone would only listen to Robbie Williams and that's not a world I want to live in.

Only jazz weirdos and bassists like Jaco. I have opinions about Les Claypool that would get me murdered around here. When did Flea last write a decent song? I know I still had long hair. Cliff Burton was legendary but allowed Lars to play drums on his songs and that's unforgivable. You forgot Geezer Butler, everything he's done is exceptional. We'll not mention Jerry Only, we'll apart from this to say we won't mention him.

No one wants to hear songs written by the bassist (unless it's Lemmy)

90's for me Starting with my discovery of Faith No More soon followed by grunge, alt metal industrial metal, punk and some of the rave and electronic stuff such as Prodigy, The Orb and Chemical Brothers. I have a theory that your favorite music is subconsciously linked to memories of your youth which make you feel good. When I listen to The Orb, I'm taken straight back to warehouse raves with a bunch of great mates. Deftones takes me back to my first metal gig experiences. Bands like Wildhearts and Placebo take me back to sneaking in to Glastonbury and eating special mushrooms.

Our guitarist recently used a Line 6 Spider modelling amp while his Marshall was being repaired. Some amps sound amazing, most sound pretty decent but this thing fits in to the rare category of absolutely bloody awful. After half an hour of fiddling he couldn't even make it sound half way acceptable. All I could hear while we were playing was an unpleasant white noise, I couldn't make out any actual notes at all. He ended up switching to the old Marshall 4x10 bass combo in the corner of the studio which is terrible but did a better job than the Line 6. He wasn't even pushing the amp, all his distortion comes from pedals so most amps do a reasonable job for him but not this sorry excuse of an amplifier.

This cocaine makes me feel like I'm on this song - System of a Down Drugs are bad