Grimalkin

Be careful, Chris Martin is not short of a nice few quid. He may decide to "Fix You". If you know what I mean.

Different mix, synth bass removed, just bass guitar:

I've always wondered why they didn't develop that track further, even with both parts spliced together it's only 1.45. I can see why they left it as just a groove, it stands up on its own. Rocco had some of the hardest working right-hand fingers in the business. The difficult thing about Rocco's busier lines is strict alternation. Raking throws things out of sync. That, and playing at the right location along the string for tension. Rocco played roundabout where a P pickup is on a P bass, lower tension there. If you play it further back along the string with the higher tension, it's a lot more difficult. You tend to run out of juice.

But that now usually comprises of a team of songwriters and their dog. It's an industry and it functions as such. From 2019: "Music Industry Contributes £5.2 Billion To UK Economy – New Figures Reveal." https://www.ukmusic.org/news/music-industry-contributes-5-2-billion-to-uk-economy/ Also, there is an element of nepotism in the industry, it's not what you know, it's who you know. It's a business.

Careful with that axe Eugene, quantity does not equal quality.

I thought it was interesting to see how a guitar vibrates. Make your own mind up. Dante missed out a particular circle of hell when he wrote The Inferno; Tonewood debates.

https://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/137th/fleischer.html Looking at the physics of mass and vibration, I'd say the neck has quite a part to play in character. Not that much vibration happening with the body.

Someone needs to do this with a bass. A lot of slappers like maple boards for the brightness.

It sounds like a super locrian time.

"Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life." Aldous Huxley - Island.

Coldplay/Travis/Keane, I like a few songs from each of them. Keane would be the favourite, for Tom Chaplin's voice. There's only one way to find out who's the bestest really, a bare knuckle boxing match. I reckon Tom could have them.

A bit Goopy.

Ostrich feather duster. If a bass needs a good clean, like the last bass I bought, I use a flat sponge pad and water of about 65 degrees with some washing up liquid. Cut the strings off, squeeze the sponge pad out so it's barely damp, at that temp it's evaporating off as you are using it. Then lift the front end of the sponge as you move forward rolling it back to lift the stuff off. If there is any grit left on the bass, and you hit it with the usual polishing motion, it will leave a skating rink effect, which looks particularly bad on black painted basses. Some bees wax polish for the fretboard (sprayed onto the rag), then micro-fibre cloth the whole bass over. I've found that spraying stuff on a gloss finished bass, usually ends up collecting in the pickup routes or around the edges of the bridge plate and other fittings. For hands that do dishes to be as soft as your bass, use Mild Green Fairy Liquid.

That's an interesting little piece of history, the solidarity. Thanks.

Kinga is a great player, I haven't heard that much stuff but when her first track came out, it was obvious that she has it in the genetic code. And long slender fingers too, which is handy. I like the extra little bit of concentration on the 16ths pattern at 1.15, I picked up the bass and tried it, it's quite quick. If you are going to do it, you can't lag, then you're playing catch-up. Not a good place to be.

Just over two minutes into it. I started it months back then left it, I learn note for note, I always have. Gets a little tricky to dissect aurally when the synths thicken up toward the end of it.

There was a rumour that the band had left their underwear at a Travelodge once, and yep, they were all yellow.

I think Chris Martin felt a bit jaded after the Gwyneth Paltrow experience. A bit too much of a stretch for him. But fear not, as long as there is a frozen food isle anywhere, you will still be able to hear Coldplay.

Give peas a chance.

Is there mushroom for negotiation?

I'm sure, that if we made a concerted effort, we could all live in peas. Lettuce consider that perspective for a quiet moment.