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[quote name='roceci' timestamp='1453318526' post='2958441'] Never knew you were a bar band guy Blue [/quote]

[quote name='Subbeh' timestamp='1453308698' post='2958328'] I used UPS to pickup a bass from Spain and have it delivered over Christmas. They were %u£king hopeless! They were genuinely clueless and the worst courier I've paid to use. [/quote] UPS have badly damaged several parcels that I have sent & received over the years.

Use the Interparcel website & see which courier works out best/cheapest for you. It's a lottery really, no matter which courier you use somebody will come along with a horror story & tell you not to use them. For instance, the only courier I've never had any problems with is Parcelforce, but lots of people on here wouldn't even consider using them.

If the guy who's party it is is an aquaintance of two members of the band then let them do the gig as a duo for £200.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1453293589' post='2958119'] I don't know how old you are, and this is only my opinion, but originals bands are probably a waste of time if you're over 30, unless you want to do music that hardly anybody else is interested in and you only want to do a handful of unpaid gigs a year [/quote] I'm 51 & I'd much rather play original music I enjoy that nobody else likes than play songs I can't stand to an appreciative audience. I never wanted to be an entertainer.

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1453292608' post='2958105'] Nah, it was a good laugh. Went for beer during TC, PG did Games Without Frontiers and Family Snapshot. Sting was still on his Nothing Like The Sun tour so that was pretty jazzy (ie still quite good, no sigh of lutes). Springsteen's set was only 90 minutes or so, so just about bearable. And it was nearly 30 years ago so my memory is hazy. [/quote] I saw Gabriel on the 'So' tour & Sting on the 'Nothing Like The Sun' tour so I had it all covered anyway.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1453288677' post='2958059'] I think her first album is very good. But I find her later albums a bit featureless. I can't understand what would make her bloody awful in someone's eyes/ears. Can you explain? [/quote] You like her I don't, why do I have to explain? I not expecting you to explain why you like her.

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1453286078' post='2958028'] How do you cope? Without custard and ice cream, there can be no point to life. Have you tried counselling? [/quote] How do I cope? Alcohol & biscuits.

No, anything with cooked fruit in it is ghastly. Yuk.

Maybe the problem the OP has is that the sort of music he will be playing in cover/function bands is just not his cup of tea. He says he played in originals bands & a Stooges tribute act so maybe that's the case. I know that's the problem I would have - most of the stuff I'd have to learn I would just not be interested in playing, which means I just wouldn't have any enthusiasm for it. A lot of the standard covers band stuff these days I've never even heard - I heard 'Mr. Brightside' by the Killers for the first time ever the other day & I thought it was sh*t. I recently had to retire on health grounds so I've been thinking of maybe joining a covers or function band just for something to do, but I know I'd just not have the discipline to spend time listening to & learning songs I really don't like. I'd just find it stressful & miserable, which would translate into me being nervous when it came to auditioning for any bands.

I don't like custard or ice cream.....

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1453278992' post='2957967'] They did, kind of. At the Amnesty International Human Rights Now tour with a show at Wembley, 1998. Some bloke Bruce Something headlined. Pretty good! [/quote] That was all a bit hand wringing & worthy though, wasn't it? The fact that Tracy Chapman was on the bill was a deal breaker for me too, I think she's bloody awful.

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1453199058' post='2957239'] At a time when the general population seem to live into their late 80/90s, we seem to be losing a lot of celebrities very young. All very sad. [/quote] I wouldn't call late 60s 'very young'. Quite a large proportion of the general population who are in their 80s/90s are in a pretty bad way. I'll happily die in my late 60s if it means I don't end up like my parents were in their 80s.

If they'd done this in the 80s or 90s I would have gone. Neither of them has done anything remotely interesting (IMO) for donkeys years so I won't be bothering.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1453215696' post='2957481'] Very Brian Pern... [/quote] What, you mean not even remotely funny?

[quote name='KK Jale' timestamp='1453171106' post='2957129'] I think it's the highest possible calling for a carefully-crafted inanimate object to be gradually worn out in the heat of battle. If my Precision finally falls apart at exactly the same time I do, that'll be a result for both of us. [/quote] Make your mind up - is it a carefully crafted object or is it a Precision?

Nope, I don't get any of that.

[quote name='Sausages' timestamp='1453146269' post='2956864'] That version of Here Comes the Flood is amazing, sounds more like something from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway done like that. [/quote] It's more like the version he recorded with Robert Fripp on his album "Exposure" I've always much preferred this version to the one on Gabriels first album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wS8V8vCUqw

If you buy a KARP before the end of January there's an offer on where Korg will send you a free SQ1 sequencer if you send them proof of purchase.

The Anchoress - Confessions of a Romance Novelist.

[quote name='sprocketflup' timestamp='1452953444' post='2955013'] Could it be that (dons flat cap) music were better int' old days? and modern music is just sh*te? Compare Nicki Minaj to Hazel O'Connor. One Direction to Led Zeppelin. Any one of a thousand and one identical 'trance djs' to Pink Floyd. Could this be why a modern music festival wont get punters, yet a tribute festival might? Discuss. [/quote] f***ing Hell, is Hazel O'Connor the best you could come up with? Where do you get the idea that modern festivals don't get punters? There are more festivals with more people going to them than ever.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1453043940' post='2955869'] I'm coming to the conclusion that my musical blind spots aren't blind spots merely my subconscious is perfectly tuned to knowing what I won't like. [/quote] This is how I feel. I've heard enough music in enough genres to know what is & what isn't going to appeal to me. I spent years trying to see the attraction in lots of music that people told me was "essential" listening.

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1453025713' post='2955541'] I listen to both but it takes really bad lyrics to ruin a good tune for me whilst really good lyrics won't make me enjoy a tune I don't like. [/quote] Lyrics can ruin a song for me more than anything else. It's the reason I hate Motown stuff so much - the playing might be first rate but the godawful lyrics make it unlistenable for me. I hate "baby baby I love you baby" love song type stuff with a passion. It's probably one of he reasons I loved Prog for so long - the lyrics might be crappy six form poetry but at least it's not love song crap.

It used to be the music rather than the lyrics for me, to the extent that I much preferred instrumental music. These days I have little interest in the music & am far more interested in the lyrics.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1452966702' post='2955212'] Re Bowie recipe: This works for me as Tin Machine has two words and I consider it a fabulous album. I am in a rather small minority, though. [/quote] I thought the first Tin Machine album was brilliant.