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^^^^ Yeah that's a good one. Mungo's Hi Fi and their Scotch Bonnet label put out a load of great stuff. 'Serious Time' is a great album and includes this

Perhaps my favourite Reggae album of 2020:

Kyuss and Electric Wizard passed me by in the 90s, I'm making up for that now.

FKA Twigs is about as good as it gets 2m18s in is the biggest emotional gut punch I think I've ever heard

^^^ Nice one, that's reminded me to give their newest album (think it was released in 2019) 'More work to be done' a listen, haven't heard it yet.

This Guardian article reckons Eddie Hazel's playing on Funkadelic's Maggot Brain is the best guitar solo of all time (well, basically the whole tune is a guitar solo) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/26/best-guitar-solo-of-all-time , I'd agree with that. "Play it like your momma just died"

Nice one, cheers.

Part of the reason I love Reggae and Dub is that it can seem sleepy and relaxing in some situations but the exact same tune played loud on a soundsystem can also sound really energetic and dancable. And the same tunes can also sound funky and fun while while also having serious political messages. Someone like Burning Spear does the contradictory relaxed/energetic happy/bittersweet thing amazingly well.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or not but I got the Reverb email (and have since changed my password) but in the meantime a fake DHL account sent me a text and email saying along the lines of 'We tried to deliver your package, but didn't complete delivery. ....additional shipping fees may apply please click this link' It's quite convincing as they have my name, email address and phone number. Their email address is clearly fake though : 'UPS-United Kingdom® <[email protected]>' Pretty annoying as it's probably due to Reverb, now scammers will be passing around my name/phone number/email address details to all their scammy mates forever and I need to check all my passwords in-case I'd used the Reverb one anywhere else.

Familyman = Reggae Bass Ninja! Yeah, he's definitely unpredictable, can casually listen to his baselines and think I've got them simple enough - but then try to play exactly like Familyman and realise there are loads of unpredictable slight variations that make it really tricky.

One day Reggae festival in Beckenham on 12th September, I'm optimistic this can go ahead. https://www.city-splash.com/

Any Reggae/Dub/Ska or Funk drummers or bands looking for a Bass player then give me a shout. I've been a Reggae/Dub DJ for over 10 years, (mix I did a few years back copied below to show the sort of stuff I'm into), I gradually got more into production and started playing Bass 5 years ago and got hooked, I'm fairly solid at it now have all my own gear and transport. I'm happy just doing jam sessions with a drummer or to join a band for gigs and recordings. I live in West London (Whitton).

Related to this thread but a side note: The drummer half of my rhythm section moved abroad, now practice rooms are re-opening I'm keen to get playing at volume and with humans again. So if anyone knows of a Reggae/Dub/Ska drummer that wants to do some jam sessions, or if there's a band in need of a Bass player then give me a shout. I'm west London based. I'll put this in Musicians Wanted/Bassists available section too but that only seems to have about 3 posts a year!

Weather/seasons really affect my mood and listening habits, I'm glad summer is on the way - once the sun starts shining I pretty much 100% listen to Reggae/Dub and Funk. In winter I still listen to it but tends to be the moodier stuff, and stuff like like Dub Techno, DnB, Dubstep, and Stoner rock get more of a look-in. There's a running theme of it all being being Bass driven and and I guess psychedelic (not in the sitar and chanting way, more in the hypnotic/atmospheric mood building type of way). Right now, this is the soundtrack to me zoning out and failing to get on with my work:

Nice one, I didn't know that. @donstrumental that's a great video - thanks! Subscribed within a minute.

On the Liquidator thing - there's also this.

Yeah, I'd always forgotten who it was by so hadn't heard it ages either. Excellent bittersweet sound and message.

Guns N Roses at Download in 2006 were pretty bad too, it was quite memorable and entertaining though. There were a lot of delays and Axl walked off a few times, I seem to remember him slipping over and everyone laughing, there were big noodling instrumental interludes before Axl came back on and he said something along the lines of 'don't you know who I am' to which the crowd chucked more drinks (and probably some pi$$) at him and started chanting 'who are ya! who are ya!'

^^^ I've just bought iReal due to these recommendations and it it looks really good. I downloaded the playlists of 400 pop songs and 54 Blues straight away so that's more than enough to get on with for a long time, and it looks like the forum has loads more to download. It seems a step up from Songster in that it encourages a more chord reading and thinking rather than following tabs note for note. I like the mixer options, and the transposing looks a good feature too. Slight downside is that it only has guitar/piano/uke fretboard diagrams...but I guess guitar fretboard diagrams can be applied to Bass easy enough and it's probably better practice to only use the chord names rather than fretboard diagrams anyway.

I'm having trouble getting my head around sight reading in anything other than C. I understand the theory and can figure it out over time and have a circle of 5ths drawn out but quickly sight reading something is in say E major and remembering needing to sharp every straight C D F G does not compute (unless I'm just paying an E major scale) ... Especially when those notes then also have a sharp or flat next to them, then one further in the bar doesn't.