Mykesbass

Nooooo!! Now if you had said Superman, Black Lace I would have wholeheartedly agreed.

Some great names here, but all highly acknowledged albeit in their specialist fields. Unlike another example here of Andy Partridge who had some huge hits in the mainstream, but whose name, and musical contributions are somewhat overlooked. But then that's the joy of discussions such as this one.

Martyn Ware - Impressive discography as a musician - Heaven 17, Human League, BEF, and producer - Terence Trent Darby, Tina Turner, Scritti Politi etc.

Oddly for me (an atheist) it is choral music rather than Opera that can really have an impact. Mozart's Grand Mass in Cm, and Thomas Tallis Spem in Allium are two very different but great examples.

Going for the Duke Ellington approach of only two types of music...

So much great stuff to choose from in this genre. Thanks 👍

Good job the rugby is in France this weekend!

Occasional Spotify user here. I only use it for reference and anything I want I will buy a physical copy. Have a real problem with their business model and sound quality. An example was listening to Searching For the Young Soul Rebels - I couldn't believe how bad it sounded. Bought the CD and it was every bit as good as I remembered.

Just seen the rest of the pictures. That's a great bass with no caveats. When you do add the caveats of your then lack of knowledge, experience, and the lack of available knowledge and resources 50+ years ago, this is absolutely exceptional.

Cracking story and a cool looking bass.

That's one hell of a line up.

Pffft, go for the 6'41 12" version 😎

Time to post a suggestion of my own - Vocalese: Lambert Hendricks and Ross King Pleasure Bob Dorough

One at a time? You'll never walk alone.

Update 2 - the importance of promotion: seeing on Bandcamp the Andy Rourke credit I realised I had liked your stuff before, but with so much else going on I had forgotten. You need to keep reminding people (especially those of us of a certain vintage) 😆 Keep up the great work!

Update having listened - you really do not need to be ashamed of 'self-promotion. This is great!

Don't be daft, you're on national radio in a nation with a very fine heritage of music. You should be dead chuffed and promote it and much as you can! Off to listen to it now, and congratulations!

If anything, slackening off the other strings will be the bigger problem as the tension across the neck will be way off kilter. Semitone up no problem.

His brother Frank used to run the licensing business for Trojan Records. Licensed many a track for compilations off him.

I used to play in a band at school with drummer Gary Wallis who went on to play percussion live with Pink Floyd and has been the drummer for Mike & the Mechanics for about 30 years and Tom Jones' drummer/musical director for about the same time. Was really nice of him to introduce me to Mike Rutherford as his first ever band mate. A couple fun ones when I was working in the record business - surprising John Mayall by acting as his guitar tech and changing an e string for him at a gig in Malmo. Possibly one of the most surreal moments, taking Peter Green to see Fleetwood Mac at Earls Court. And last but not least, along with Harvey Goldsmith, being asked by the Gipsy Kings' roadie if we could iron the band's shirts. Guess which one of us ended up doing it...

HMV have been opening quite a few new stores under new ownership just recently.

And congratulations to @Frank Blankfor spotting a 13 year old dad joke 😆

Well this is going well - thanks for all the contributions so far. Great to see the Turkish material @chriswareham @Baloney Balderdash @Leonard Smalls I've been enjoying some of the more club orientated fusion that is getting used on a lot of Turkish holiday ads at the moment (and giving me serious holiday envy)! Looking forward to delving in to these contributions.

And Therapy? from Belfast - part of the UK but not part of Great Britain, so probably not Brit Rock. Sorry @christhammer666 looks like you need to choose another two! And speaking of Therapy?, I was expecting Venom in the Death Metal selection - great later Therapy? lyric, Venom on the juke box, hey Satan, you rock!

Jump on a train to Guildford (just over half hour from Waterloo). Anderson's have lots of small combos being shown as in stock.