RhysP

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.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1452951663' post='2954994'] In the early eighties, just after "Let Us Dance" (sic!) was released, I received the following simple recipe from a Bowie aficionado: If the title of a David Bowie album is not "Low", "Heroes" or "Lodger", then it is rubbish unless the title consists of two (2) words, in which case it is great, except when those two words are "David" and "Bowie", as evidenced on a whopping two (2) early albums. Worked for me back then, but in all seriousness I'd have to revisit to check if it still holds for me. BTW, for young readers: "Space Oddity" = "David Bowie". [/quote] I'd have to say that an exception to this rule would be "Stage", which is a superb album, but maybe live albums don't count.

[quote name='ballstomonty' timestamp='1452876151' post='2954380'] I felt for the guy he was just taking his grief out after too much beer. [/quote] He would have probably been just as much of a **** if his dad hadn't died.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1452859248' post='2954127'] Sorry, I'll get my coat. [/quote] Beat me to it.

[quote name='interpol52' timestamp='1452946604' post='2954924'] In an attempt to do something about my lack of David Bowie knowledge I have just purchased the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust album. Lets see how it goes! [/quote] It's rubbish, you should have gone for Station to Station, Low, Heroes or Lodger......

As I said in a similar post recently - there is a chance that your guitar could get damaged while in the shop, so you need to make sure what the shop would do about this if it happened. A friend of mine had an expensive guitar he had for sale in a music shop in Cardiff seriously damaged by a staff member.

You probably would have just decided you didn't like the bass in a weeks time anyway.....