Beedster

If we're going down the B-52s route we're going to be here a while

Legally, if he was not prosecuted, Billy is correct, 'we' didn't, 'they' did?

But whilst we're on science, I doubt Thomas Dolby was ever actually blinded by it, in part because a concept cannot materially affect the function of a sense organ, but also when I met him two years after that song charted it was pretty clear that his vision was fine

You need to read my thesis to realise that it probably would

45 seconds with my 6-year old daughter and her yellow tambourine will suffice

You cannot therefore question it, it is true by definition. Please go to the 'Factually Correct Lyrics' thread.

Not in 1968 it wasn't

Bono, you can't live with me, you can't live without me, and yet you're still alive?

You are actually factually incorrect Skank. Vending machine plum merchandising was a short-lived initiative by the BPGA (British Plum Growers Association, who for legal reasons must not be confused with the Plum Growers Association of Britain), who in 1979, and demonstrating a complete failure to understand the then emergent research into the neuroscience of addiction combined with extraordinarily flawed logic - specifically if addictions to chocolate and nicotine are both widely recognised, and if both are widely sold in vending machines at transport hubs, then the mechanisms of addiction was the location of the machine itself - sought to get the entire nation addicted to plums. Even if the idea itself was daft, any chances of success were of course completely washed away by the great plum crop failure of Spring 1980

The ******** in Canterbury certainly has a smell, my amp picked it up last time we played there, could smell the pub for about a week afterwards

Yes, but the level of scrutiny of Down in the Tube Station simply wasn't there then mate. This thread is in a different league, and will likely lead to revised thinking as to the (supposed) authenticity of Weller's lyrics; the in-depth scrutiny of inconsistencies between his lyrics and the realities of the London Underground at the time of writing presented here suggests the possibility that, at the very same time he was adopting a 'man of the people' stance in his lyrics, he might well have been luxuriating in chauffeur driven limos between Boney-M gigs at Hammersmith Palais and Weller Towers?

Clearly not

Best thread ever

Your drummist must love you Steve

Yep

Ouch

Ha ha, which is why I changed it

Anatomists have to date failed to find tear ducts in a guitar

Gravity makes the world go around, not fat bottomed girls

Most medical experts would agree that you are not as serious as cancer when you suggest that rhythm is a dancer

I'm not sure I agree with the idea that 15's are unfashionable per se. OK, 15s are seen less often on stages and are easy to buy cheap etc, but that's true of all big cabs these days, 4x10/6x10/8x10 all fall into 'unfashionable', but this is a cabinet size thing, not a sound thing, we're simply all getting used to smaller boxes, so it's big cabs, not 15s per se, that are unfashionable. Certainly, that modern 10s and 12s are far better able to deal with the sonic territory that used to be the sole reserve of 15s is reasonable grounds for saying that bassists don't need 15s in the way they perhaps used to, but not necessarily for saying that there's something wrong with 15s per se as is suggested in one post above (there are good 15s and less good 15s of course). They still very much have their place if you have the space and like the sound. And the Compact is a very good example - I was tempted by the one above as I fancied a 2xCompact rig but that's more a want thing than a need thing, no-one needs a 2xCompact rig unless they're playing stadiums!

Agreed, possibly the only person in history who has pulled that off

Drummers are of course easily baffled, especially by Rics it would seem (the singer in the band I mentioned above was also the drummer). That story has left a great image though, thanks for that Painy

Sorry, is this a ‘61 Jazz advertised as all original and imported at great expense and unseen from LA, or a recent Mex that was inspected and bought in person? Are we not getting a little carried away here

Psychoacoustics research suggest that's true of most humans, so it's not surprising