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I was gonna say Language Barrier. I would probably also have Little Creatures by Talking Heads. Have to say though, I thought it was a lean time after the splendour of the early 80s post punk new wave period.

Nice, reminds me of Bill Bruford, another drummer who spanned the jazz and rock worlds

I saw them last Friday in Manchester, thought it was a great gig although the bass was not as loud as I would have liked, which I accept may have been down to where we were sitting. Nice to hear lots of new material too including a good few unreleased tracks, which I thought was a bold move by Gabriel, given his extensive back catalogue.

I watched a bit of their set last night, Debbie sounded pretty ropey at the start, although it was hard to hear her as she was lost in the mix. She definitely improved as they went on, and I think she just about gets away with it through sheer coolness. Glen sounded OK, but nothing special. The thing that spoilt it for me most though were the guitar heroics, which I thought were totally jarring.

Hello from the green and pleasant lands of the Wirral 😄

I love the sound of the D'addarios but always find them just too damn stiff for me. Currently have my fretless strung with the GHS pressurewounds which are very nice indeed

Not only that, but he rarely played the same arrangement of any of his songs more than once either. He was about as far from most live music today as you can imagine.

I don't play covers myself, but with my punter hat on, I can't think of anything more dull than watching a bunch of drones churning through a cover where everything played exactly the same as the original. Seems like a totally pointless exercise to me.

Andy Summers and Robert Fripp are 2 examples of great rock guitarists who came from a jazz background. The idea that the 2 genres are somehow mutually exclusive is nonsense.

Bought a Seymour Duncan Compressor from Jon, excellent comms and pedal arrived nicely packaged. Unit as described and fully functional, deal with confidence.

Interesting discussion. As an almost exclusively fingerstyle player since forever, I've recently started using a pick regularly for the first time in about 30 years as I'm currently playing in a 3 piece post punk-esque band (with a couple of guys I also haven't played with for 30 years!), and I needed a bass sound that is fairly aggressive and will cut through the mix - think JJ Burnel Raven era, gritty but not quite as full on at his early sound. Tone wise, there is no way I could get that sound with my fingers. So far, I'm finding that a .88 or 1.00 mm tortex pick is giving me the right balance between playability and tone. Any thinner, and the sound is too thin, any thicker and it becomes hard to play fast 16th type runs with precision and it looses that bite that I'm after. I'm running my ACG bass through a Bassrig Super Vintage preamp, pushed just past the edge of breakup with some bass rolled off, into a cheap TC electronic BQ250 head set flat, and I'm very happy with the sound I'm getting - punchy and bright with just enough clank - it sounds spot on in the mix.

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Bought an ACG J-type 5 off Geoff yesterday, a top bloke, excellent communications, bass as described, whole process was smooth and stress free. Cheers Dude!

Sold my Dingwall to Stephen today. A great bloke and an absolute pleasure to do business with.

I saw him twice at the Manchester Apollo, once with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas in 89, then again in the early 00s with Tal Wilkenfield and Vinnie Colaiuta. He was astounding both times, one of those players who genuinely made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. A sad loss.