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[quote name='pjb13.bass' timestamp='1437728738' post='2828508'] ... Totally agree about Lady Marmalade. Never played it live at all but would love to do it as a rock number. Wicked bass line! [/quote] It's quite straightforward. I really tried to give it some feeling but it was like fighting with a Scaffold board. Watching people try to dance to it was quite humorous. We played one gig with a proper drummer and had about 3 people ask for our card at the end. Which never happened when the rock drummer played. Hey-ho.

We do Superstition, as do loads of bands no doubt. I don't think we do anyone's version of it. You can probably do any song you like in any style you like as long as you've got the lyrics and melody there. A previous function band I was in did Lady Marmalade. However being in a function band where the drummer could only play disco or rock was fairly limiting and any funk numbers we played had all the funk bashed out and just turned to rock anyway. You'll probably find loads of bands play Stevie Wonder's - Higher Ground.

Yes. I've played at least 5 of the songs off that list. Particularly 'I'll be there for you' bombed. Mainly due to the drummers lack of ability but it was a really difficult tune to get the band to agree too as well, so maybe the drummer wasn't interested enough in the first place.

For me it's all about the arrangement and the attitude of the players. Any tune can sound tired and hackneyed. Particularly if you've got a five piece playing Rolling Stones covers slavishly to the original. We have a singer who seems to be too keen of saying "Well, we can do it like that, but it's not how they do it in the original." Fill a band full of musicians with that attitde and you'll get the audience you deserve.

I started a thread around Christmas time to try and find the most popular tunes in our combined setlists. There was some overlap with some bands playing 4 or 5 of the same tunes. There were over 100tunes in the combined list. I think we all get a bit confused as to which tunes exactly they are that everyone is playing. Aside from maybe 5 tunes. Mustang Sally is NOT on out setlist. We work on a two for the punters, one for us, basis. We also make sure that when we play the 'one for us' it's a very well known number but obscure. We get comments from people who like it that we play different numbers. We even have two originals written by the guitarist that people actually get up and dance to. Give the audience what they want and ask for but don't be afraid to throw in the occasional number and watch the reaction. Play it with a positive attitude and it's surprising how well you'll pull off a gig.

Regards Yes live performance being scripted, they covered that as well. The recorded music was heavily argued over and was a very controlled writing process. In contrast to King Crimson where there was much more freedom.

It tests your ability to hear pure tones in a controlled environment. It's not testing your discrimination.

Thanks. That looks pretty good.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1436998772' post='2822792'] I was 15 in 1980. It was the decade in which I really got properly seriously into music (having been hooked by 2-Tone in '79), discovered girls in a meaningful fashion , picked up a bass for the first time, did my A levels, got a job and a car and a band, and then a really good band, built a following and spent every weekend playing in London at the Brentford Red Lion (RIP), 100 Club, T&C, Rock Garden... loving life and loving music and the whole thrill of being young with the world as my oyster. GOD, I F**KING LOVED THE EIGHTIES. [/quote] The best bit was ramming a club/pub full of your school mates. They'd come to see you just because you were in a band. Who cares how good the music was. Now thanks to strict ID you can't do that.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1436975785' post='2822509'] I've heard it said that the '80's was the re-packaged 50's and the 90's was the 60's. [/quote] It's worse than that. The 50s was the repackaged 20s according to my dad, his dad was always pointing out that the latest tune was a cover. Although I guess the word hadn't been coined by then.

Anyone know of anything similar for android?

72deluxe: get some Elacin ER20 earplugs. £8 from Amazon. They just reduce the volume and the relative frequencies stay the same. When I tried them in my garden Incould still hear the birds and thought they weren't working. Until I took them out.

Over time the rubbish songs tend to et forgotten and get no air play. 80s was also the birth of Hip Hop. Bands like Beastie Boys were emerging. Although Two Tone was born in the late seventies it was still going strong throughout the first few years of the 80s. Jazz-Funk. Music was definitely more polarised and there were definite genres that people only listened to and dress accordingly. It was all a lot more tribal.

Yes. And. No. There were 191 number 1s in the decade alone. There were many brand new genres of music being created. Some of it was in its infancy and can't be blamed for being spectacularly awful. I guess it depends how old you were whether you look back with nostalgia or not. I went to a 21st birthday party in January. They were actually dancing to Steps and Spice Girls. And not ironically. Frightening.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1436800066' post='2820870'] The sentence you quoted and the suggestion that you were "told in no uncertain terms that guitarists like this don't exist anymore" are in absolutely no way equivalent. Still, if it makes you happy... [/quote] I wasn't going to quote the entire thread. It's there to read. I had assumed you were using sarcasm in that quote. This thread serves as another real world example of exactly the points you were refuting. There are drummers and guitarists and bands who play too loudly and are seeming unaware of their volume.

Yes. I think that's what I would have done had it been me and I'd been asked. Unfortunately it's not, I've just been drafted in to do the recording

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1436788594' post='2820700'] Should've thought of/asked him sooner, he made a fantastic cable for me last year. [/quote] Genuinely LOL.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1436792283' post='2820760'] No, you weren't. Nice attempt at revisionism though. [/quote] Hmmm. [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1435959482' post='2814081'] Me neither, but they must be in somebodies band, or else who are all these guitarist gripes based on? Surely not just hearsay and rumour? [/quote]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1436779804' post='2820569'] OBBM made me one to my measurements. [/quote] I can't believe it took 3hours for this suggestion to be made. We're slacking. OBMM is a forum member who makes bespoke cables. Very well as I understand.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1436787846' post='2820688'] Ahhh... then presumably they want it to be as much like the original as possible..? Cannot the original be used for the purpose? [/quote] No. They don't want it to be like the original, hence the recording.

Funnily enough on a thread last month I was told in no uncertain terms that this kind of drummer (and guitarist) no longer exist. .

In this instance it's just a cover of an exsisting song.

What pitfalls have you come across when writing/recording for someone else? I recently recorded some music of a friend playing. He had been asked to record a song for someone to be used at an event. The third party gave a very loose description of what they wanted. My friend played well and the recording is fine but it's "Not quite what they wanted." There's no money involved but we're looking at possibly re-recording it - maybe 2-3 hours of messing about. But still don't have a firm idea of what exactly they want. The event is this coming weekend! .

Given the original post is two years old now, it's amazing that in that time no one has surpassed his abilities...

Brilliant. Thanks.