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The Kemp boys of course... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrYMO0TN05k[/media] Emily Blunt is apparently a Grade 8 cellist and an accomplished singer (don't think she's ever played in a band though).

Word I've heard about Mark Butcher is that he's pretty good at it. Personally I think he made the right career choice... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2CRxmoOkcc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2CRxmoOkcc[/url] While I'm on the 'cricketers as musicians' theme, here's Curtly Ambrose (Advisory: contains appallingly bad sound quality): [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEMeRrvhro"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEMeRrvhro[/url]

Just to confirm what's already been said, using a capo puts a guitar out of tune. There are things you can do to minimise the problem but you can't magic it away. How you resolve it in a performance situation is between you and the rest of the band (not just the guitarist - you can't really blame him for wanting his instrument in tune ). One way is to organise your set so that, for example, he doesn't need a capo for the first 4 or 5 songs, and then put the 'capo' songs together if you can: or choose some different songs . In my gigging days we used to try to run the first few songs straight off the bat. That way you give yourself a bit more leeway with the audience if you need a retune (some guitars go out of tune just with use!)

Just read this after a bit off time off to move house. That is disappointing to hear. It was a nice band, and I do hope all involved will find their place moving forward.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1405607713' post='2503601'] Just for that, you can fit Link Wray's 'Jack the Ripper' right up your bracket. Solo starts about 00:30 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExsrSCeplXk[/media] [/quote] No doubt recorded on Wray's Shack Three-track.

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1405586083' post='2503210'] So, this tune popped onto the radio this morning. Now I've never been a fan of the Byrds by any stretch, and so I'm fairly unfamiliar with much of their catalogue... but when it reached 1:43 and the 'guitar solo' started, I was transfixed and not in a good way. I mean, whose idea was it to keep it? Did nobody think to say "actually Rog, could you do another take mate, I'm errm not sure about that one"? Or were they all too stoned to care? Have a listen if you can stand it. 1:43 to 2:20, and then remarkably he has another go at around 2:58 with similarly stunning results. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74ttSR8lEg[/media] Does anybody know of a worse guitar solo? And I don't mean just one you don't like in an "anything by Yngwie, I can't stand him" way, I mean something that is truly awful, dreadful by anyone's yardstick. Real car crash stuff. ps. for some reason I can't get this video to embed. [/quote] Sorry, late to the gig - moving house tomorrow and the sh*t's hit the fan with the realisation of how much we still have to do before the movers get here bright & early (read as: 7.30 in the a m )... Back on topic; just listened to it for the first time in about 30 years... Something wrong with it you say? Sounds fine to me.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1405445362' post='2501976'] We all make mistakes from time to time, however long we've been playing and however much we practice. I find it helps to recognise that, not to dwell on mistakes, just let them go, smile and move on to the next phrase, keep the disruption to a minimum. [/quote] More commonly known as 'live performance'.

Simple answer: chill out and join the club; we've got jackets. ... and hats. Oh, and look on the bright side - this feeling indicates that you have a desire to improve.

I went to see these guys at the Lichfield festival yesterday. The music will definitely be an acquired taste for most people, but their virtuosity was breathtaking. If like me you love the guitar in all it's forms then you'll appreciate this (not to say that you won't if you don't ): [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DN1blj0wjc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DN1blj0wjc[/url]

Moving house in around 10 days, and I want to unload some books and teaching materials. Brief summary: Assorted recording books by Paul White (editor of SoS) x4; Live sound book by Peter Buick; AB Music Theory part 1; Pelican History of Music (3 volumes) - old! Assorted tuition materials: Rockschool Grade books for Guitar & Bass (pretty sure all have their CDs) - superceded but still in very good nick; Misc RGT materials for elec. gtr, ac, gtr, Pop mus theory (status unknown). A few Trinity books for classical (current). Conditions (I won't deviate from these so please don't ask): Available completely f.o.c. for anybody who wants them provided:- 1. Whoever takes them, takes them all - I don't have the time or inclination to cherry pick; 2. Whoever takes them must collect in person - I can travel up to around 20 miles radius from Sutton Coldfield by mutual agreement for a bit of petrol money but I CANNOT post them. 3. They are only available to established BC members - 3 months minimum membership. I have no use for them since I'm retired from teaching and no longer have my studio. Perhaps they can be of benefit to someone, but if they're not claimed by the 18th of this month (July) they'll be going in the skip. PM me if you're interested - first come first served. Now gone. Mods please lock.

Time for an update of sorts. Now looking at dates probably sometime in September. I can't do much right now as we're moving house in around 10 days and most things not actually tied down are now in boxes. I've had some good suggestions for the London area but nothing yet for Manchester (and since I haven't heard anything negative about it I'll assume Manchester is o.k. for folks not able to make the journey to London). I know the area about as well as I know Birkenhead (which is to say I could probably find it on a map...), so if anybody knows anywhere that might fit the bill then please let me know. Unless anybody objects violently I'll start on the arrangements for London once we're moved and in

Pics? Sound clips? Any chance?

I found this a little while ago while looking for something else. I know the song well, and played it in my last band. This version is new to me though. Just thought I'd share... Enjoy! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlORDHAwXc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlORDHAwXc[/url]

I first encountered one of these around 15 years ago at one of our regular pub gigs who'd had complaints from their neighbours. Killed the venue stone dead, and we wound up not playing there at all. I believe limits now are even lower than they were then, so how modern bands manage with such things I can only guess! Not good.

[quote name='MetricMike' timestamp='1403620926' post='2484605'] if you were not around at the time Powell managed to incite an awful lot of racial hatred, intimidation and violence. [/quote] Well it's flattering that you think of me as that young, but I'm 61 so I was! I recall the furore at the time (although I was 'otherwise occupied' during the early and mid '70's so had not actually heard about the Clapton incident - along with a bunch of other stuff I don't doubt - until I read it on this thread). This really will be my last contribution on this thing, but you're now I think the third or fourth poster that has said words to the effect of "well if it was me I'd apologise profusely, fall on my bended knees and beg forgiveness of anybody anywhere that I might have offended.... etc.". Fact is, it isn't you and it isn't any of the other posters expressing similar sentiments. Fact is, the man is flawed: he has an offhand manner with his audiences and a dark side to his personality. He's not the first or the only ( names like Dylan and Gallagher spring to mind...); and he certainly won't be the last. If you don't like him, why not just say so and be done?

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1403610388' post='2484384'] True. But I'd like to think that, given the opportunity to set the record straight, I'd put my hands up and admit that I'd been an absolute bellend and that I bitterly regretted what I'd said/done, that I wasn't in control at the time but that's really no excuse, and that I was truly sorry to anyone I had disappointed, disillusioned or personally offended. If I didn't do any of that, it would tend to suggest that I thought I was right to say/do it in the first place, or that I was too arrogant to admit that I have feet of clay like every other bugger. [/quote] Can I quote you on that? Oh no wait... Seriously, if you're waiting for him to get anywhere close to saying something like that I fear you may have a long wait. I don't doubt he does regret it (and given the opportunity again I don't doubt a sober Eric Clapton would choose to express himself somewhat differently), but after this long I can't see it happening - it's even possible that this far down the road he feels that he's being hounded by people who can't or won't let it go. I mean it's not as if he committed a serious crime (and in matters of moral judgement - which is what this is - I'm always wary of using today's standards to judge events that took place nearly 40 years ago; the world was a different place). I'm not defending him - not at all - but I wonder if we shouldn't move on. Anyhoo, I've said what I came to say so if you'll excuse me I'll be on my way...

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1403593676' post='2484123'] Thing is - Clapton is not god , he's just a man. Men are well capable of abusive rants when pissed and stoned and often too proud or embarrassed to retract them. Men are capable of changing artistic direction , capable of becoming more commercial , capable of appearing - or actually being - disinterested in their audience - many things. Capable of being rich and successful and continuing to entertain millions for several decades for instance. Bottom line in this case is that some men can command a £60 plus ticket price and fill an arena - while others are free to choose whether or not they want to pay that to enrich the life of someone with views or an attitude they find offensive. So far as I know Eric shot off a load of well publicised racist vitriol while out of his tree at one gig many years ago which many still demonise him for , though I don't recall his life in the public eye being noted for controversy apart from that incident. Meanwhile - how many stars with repeated extreme left wing or anarchistic views are still urging us to smash the state while living in country houses and counting the millions that very society made possible for them - not to mention the millions more stashed in the Cayman Islands. [/quote] This. ^ My point entirely! If you don't like him or don't rate him then that's fine. To continue to berate him for things that happened half a (long) lifetime ago starts to look, well, a bit petty TBH. Hands up everyone who's never in their life done anything they're ashamed of or would have done differently given another go....

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1403544101' post='2483766'] Perhaps they are aware of it but are prepared to accept it, giving that Clapton along with other English artists helped to bring blues to a larger (white audience). It still does not reduce the cringe factor though. [/quote] Yes it was pretty distasteful, but perhaps they're prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt on the grounds that people with an alcohol problem often say things in ways that they wouldn't if they were sober. And let's not forget that in the light of the recent European elections it would appear that stronger immigration control seems to be trending atm (which I hasten to add that I have no truck with). You seem keen (along with the blog poster you linked to) to hold him to account for all eternity for something he said in a drunken stupor nearly 40 years ago, when most of the people he knows on a professional level appear happy to work with him. You also appear keen to demonise him for something he has done once in who knows how many concerts over the years (whose precise circumstances we actually still don't know in any sort of detail), and for which he has issued a public apology. My guess is that you at least are not prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. If so then so be it. If not then perhaps we should all move on...

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1403526439' post='2483530'] Now that you mention it.... It would appear that Clapton does not "do" professionalism and respect for an audience. Why ? Google "clapton's infamous 1976 concert" if you are interested. [/quote] Granted. One (albeit extremely unpleasant and nasty) example - though I wouldn't be surprised if one or two more from either his cocaine or alcohol periods surfaces... Not sure though whether one 40-year old example of a very drunk Clapton reacting to his wife (apparently) being ogled by a member of the Saudi Royal family qualifies as typical of his onstage behaviour over a 50+ year performing life. Also (and just so we're clear), his political views are not the issue here.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1403514649' post='2483318'] I've heard mixed reports about the Glasgow thing. Some people and press saying he stormed off and curtailed his set. [b][i]Others say that the set was the standard length, apart from 'Call Me the Breeze' being chopped 'cos of sound issues, otherwise the set was the usual length.[/i][/b] [/quote] That's how I interpreted the report. Since people insist on being serious about it... 1. Clapton is known for being a perfectionist with sound. If the sound crew couldn't get it right either before or during the gig, then I can understand him getting upset about it. I'd agree that it was a bit of an overreaction, but I'd certainly understand the frustration. I've done gigs where the sound out front wasn't right, and I've done others where the monitor system was a complete PITA! It's not a pleasant experience, as I'm sure many around these parts will attest. 2. It's quite amusing to me to read this sort of coverage over what most would agree is an isolated incident in a VERY long and distinguished career (although I don't doubt somebody will dredge up something from his past to prove me wrong ), when I compare it with the routine behaviour of some Primadonnas of a more recent vintage. Curious thing, expectation...

Quite amused to read one of the comments in that report: [quote] I believe some explanation is necessary if you want people to treat you seriously[/quote] After 50-odd years at or near the sharp end of the business I'm sure he would have been very worried to read this.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1403219396' post='2480980'] Atari for me, although I did like the RISC Archimedes and such. [/quote] Just before I retired I got talking to the father of one of my bass students, who turned out to be working for ARM. I was amazed to see how the technology has not just survived but flourished, and is now used in a huge variety of everyday applications. If you're interested, here's a link to the website: [url="http://www.arm.com/"]http://www.arm.com/[/url] We do seem to have hijacked the thread. Apologies to anyone offended by this selfish internet behaviour!