Marvin

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1382290014' post='2250175'] Yes - I know everyone raves about TOTP and how great it was back in the day. There were certainly some iconic moments for sure, but I watched an episode from 1976 a couple of weeks ago and apart from one or two exceptions, it was the most tedious, awful dross I've ever had the misfortune to sit through. Makes 'Later' look like OGWT by comparison. Mind you, OGWT had it's fair share of crap too. I think in the era of self-selection and instant media, people have lost the gift of patience. No-one will sit through things they don't like, just to see something that they do like anymore. Hurry, hurry now rush to your graves! Time is running out! [/quote] Totally agree with you there. With regard to TOTP 1976, I too made the mistake of watching it several weeks ago. Painful doesn't come close. There was brilliant music in '76 I'm sure of it...it just didn't seem to make its way onto TOTP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnMBix9Zq5o

One should solo at every inappropriate moment throughout a song, the more inappropriate the better. Showboating and overplaying are becoming a lost art form up down the pubs and clubs of this (insert adjectives here) country. It's even better if you've no idea what you're doing. Soloing in a completely different key makes for great mirth.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1382202013' post='2249274'] You had better hide in the wardrobe with a saucepan on your head! [/quote] Less of the kinky stuff please...

The winner has to be a Westone Spectrum 2. At £125 it was the most expensive piece of fire wood I've ever purchased...I could have bought a whole bloody tree for that

The fact the guy is playing with a broken finger is impressive in itself. Beats me, seems an awful lot to remember, lots of fast little licks and fills...would fry my head

I was too young to own an amp in the eighties

I don't like everything Billy Sheehan does but I have been liking the Winery Dogs. His tone, it's not a tone I'd probably want but it definitely works for what he does. Overall though even if you didn't like any of what Sheehan does the fact that he is incredibly talented, very knowledgeable and a really nice guy there's always something you can learn from him. I've watched several 'tutorial' YT clips and other stuff regards his rig etc and he really does think about what he's doing. Top guy in my books.

[url="https://www.facebook.com/pages/IFunk/156521084403109"]iFunk [/url] or you could try Stuart Clayton's band [url="http://www.u4g.co.uk/"]Up4Grabs[/url] Both in and around North Devon

I just hope the OP is wearing earplugs. I'm quite thankful at the moment that the bands I'm with all control their volume. So much so that even when I've forgotten my earplugs it's not been a problem. Turn it down

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1381744329' post='2242967'] The genz focus LT stuff is silly cheap and not too heavy. The Ampeg svt210 are 11kgs and are cheap cheap cheap. [/quote] Don't tell me things like that, I'll get GAS

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1381739198' post='2242887'] Not any more.... [/quote] That's entirely dependant on someone's budget. Lightweight gear is still expensive, I certainly can't afford it.

oh dear

I can't even play a guitar, so it sort of put an end to that

a fistfull of dollars is on the other side...

I remember when this were all fields...or was it 0's and 1's?

Could be...cosy?

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1381500732' post='2239948'] Beautiful tone, composition and execution, the antithesis of the video Lowender posted in the OP. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC2i_04z8XY[/media] [/quote] Not bad is he...can he play Sex On Fire? I actually liked that, just to be serious for a fleeting moment. Basschat's own Stuart Clayton does some nice solo arrangements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTVwm7_4sbU

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1381408397' post='2238608'] "Maverick independent release" is how the band present their recordings to the public , a stance which is undermined if they are relying on EMI. You don't seem to grasp the difference between commercia faliure and relative commercial faliure. The yardstick by which I am measuring the success of Radiohead post-OK Computer is the populist appeal of their music, and it has very little of that . [/quote] What utter nonsense. Kid A went platinum in it's first week of release in the Uk, if that's a failure in any way shape or form I'd surely like to fail. In Rainbows sold 3m copies in it's first year. I for one would be extremely happy to be making music that for filled me and had such commercial success. Thank goodness that Radiohead didn't take the route you suggest, the last thing we need is another Coldplay album

Peter Gabriel's So

I suddenly feel quite old

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1381335006' post='2237820'] Are there actually any figures that support this? The fact is that the majority of artists making a living (or more) out of live performances are the ones who built up a following out of the old model where record sales supported gigs. It's building an audience that will go to gigs in the first place under the current model that is the sticking point for new artists. [/quote] Great point, and one completely missed by most.

I thought this was some sort of fencing debacle

Fender 9050's, cost me about £18, good strings.

Borrowed on of those ridiculous BC Rich funny shaped things a while back at a practice. Unfortunately it didn't have a strap...you can't sit down and play one of those things without it causing pain to some part of your thigh.