TimR

Tour of That There London? You'll be driving around as you won't get your PA and drum kit on the bus or tube. Assuming you're staying in London you'll be making a massive loss. Hotels will start at £80 a night each for a very low budget one. It's doable though.

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1503569685' post='3359221'] Depends on the direction of the wind I would think. Or am I reading this wrong? [/quote] No. It's always taken from the pole on the left hand side. So if the wind is blowing so the pole is on the right, you're looking at the back of the flag.

Assuming the story is true.

Some people don't want to forget.

But if you were as good as you could be and someone nit picked your playing, how would you respond?

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1503499970' post='3358755'] I'm embarassed to admit that I bought Now #4 on a cloudy day what feels like at least a century ago [/quote] Somewhere I have Now That's What I Call Music on vinyl. Think one of the tracks is The Camera Never Lies by Dollar. I think I've actually also got a couple of Top of the Pops albums as well. Although I think 'Album' is stretching it a bit. They're just compilations.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1503496496' post='3358706'] When I had an 11 year old he was listening to Pink Floyd and learning Comfortably Numb; but at 23 he's saying 'actually, Pink Floyd are often a bit sh*t'. [/quote] They suffer from the same problem as the Beatles. When they were new, no one had ever heard anything like it. Now there's lots of bands who were influenced by them who are doing better stuff.

Kids listen to all sorts. School of Rock has got my son interested in AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. Good music is good music, doesn't matter how old it is. People are still listening to the Beatles!

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1503491516' post='3358657'] Does anyone on this forum ever listen to anything that was released in this century? Most of these suggestions would be what the kid's grandparents grew up listening to. [/quote] That's not what the OP is suggesting though. It's a thought experiment on what you think are the most influential albums from your point of view. I would have given the same answer as Happy Jack. Who listens to albums nowadays? Not even me. Listen to everything and play along to everything.

My five most influential albums I listened to when I was first learning bass. Not necessarily bass technical albums but albums I would have played along to. 1. Live After Death - Iron Maiden 2. Fugazi - Marillion 3. The Wall - Pink Floyd 4. Eliminator - ZZTop 5. Power Windows - Rush I think that's really the game we are playing here isn't it?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1503488424' post='3358612'] IMO if he wasn't prepared to do a proper job for £50 then he shouldn't have taken the gig in the first place. If that had happened to my band I'd be naming ans shaming the drummer in question. [/quote] You might be making yourself look slightly foolish.

No, neither of the logos are offensive. I was asked to put money into the poor box while I was in a bar in Detroit in the 1990s. I left pretty quickly.

"Was I supposed to come in there?"

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1503421354' post='3358109'] The hand wasn't x-rayed, they didn't seem that interested in it, although they x-rayed other bits of me. [/quote] Get it X-Rayed and if you've done something serious go and see a specialist. If you're serious about your bass playing and do long term dammage just for a pub gig, you'll regret it.

Have you had a decent x-ray?

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1503394332' post='3357793'] There exists a middle ground between proudly displaying statues in public parks and squares and having them smashed up by angry mobs. No longer doing the former does not imply that the latter is condoned. [/quote] Yes. Removing I don't have an issue with. Proudly displaying? I'm not sure. Destroying, I don't agree with. They're historical monuments regardless of any feeling.

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1503392502' post='3357768'] Source, please. [/quote] http://www.historytoday.com/john-guy/sir-thomas-more-and-heretics

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1503390092' post='3357719'] Not really. The intent of the person doing the act is important too. [/quote] The OP flying the confederate flag is not as bad as it is being suggested then. As there's no intent at all?

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1503390457' post='3357729'] [/quote] I know art is subjective but that's just gruesome and should never have been erected in the first place irrespective of the good or bad deeds he did.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1503389980' post='3357717'] So you'd be ok if Hitler statues had been left up? Or Pol Pot? Or Idi Amin? Unless you can see into the future you cannot claim that removing a statue of a murderer is an indication of "worse things to come" - that is hindsight based reductive nonsense. [/quote] Yes. I would. Smashing things up are what mobs do. It is an indication of how tribal people become in a group. It's not a civilised way to behave.

Regarding the statue of General Lee, I'm against destroying historical monuments what ever they are. It's what Henry VIII and ISIL are doing. It's what they did to Sadam Hussain's statue and it was an indication of the worse things to come. Maybe an amended plaque be put up on the statue with a fuller explanation. Although I'm aware that the truth doesn't figure highly in the US at the moment.

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1503377605' post='3357636'] how would an African-American feel if he was at your show and was confronted by that symbol of slavery (in his eyes).? It's not about what I think or you think of it, it is what those offended by it think. you may tell me a homophobic joke, I'm not offended by it, you're not offended by it, but someone overhears it in passing and is offended by it.Therefore it IS offensive. [/quote] Apparently nobody needs to actually take offence. It only has to be likely that someone would take offence if they heard it.

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1503385181' post='3357669'] In fairness, the very next post used the US spelling of surprised (can't bring myself to repeat it!). [/quote] That's exactly why I thought it had been missed.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1503344785' post='3357486'] Well... Dunning got it. Kruger got it too. I got it, and I honestly think most people got it. [/quote] I'm surprised more people didn't get it, it was fairly obvious. No one said anything.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1503343281' post='3357464'] Why are you obsessed with The Sun? It sells abou 1.5 million copies per day. The adult population of the UK is about 63 million. It's not a useful comparator. And you may recall that when the Channel Tunnel opened the Times, telegraph, independent, even the daily mail ran stories about the amazing engineering feat and the layout of the tunnel. The Sun (presumably for their readership) limited their coverage to explaining which 2 countries it was between and how easy it would be to get cheap booze. [/quote] Well, here's the Telegraph take on it then. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11692452/Confederate-flag-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-controversial.html