Earbrass

I was all set for a short trip to Finland at the start of April to see 3 gigs on 3 consecutive nights as part of the JuuriJuhla festival in Espoo. Now the whole festival has been cancelled. Slightly bizarrely, our language classes at the Finnish Institute in Kings Cross have also been cancelled because of the Finnish government's decision to halt public gatherings.

Me too. I think it was May 1975??? I seem to remember attending 3 big gigs in the one month - Led Zep at Earls Court, Yes at QPR and Wakeman at Wembley. Two of them were excellent.....

Saw Pink Floyd in 1974 at Wembley Empire Pool, as it then was; they played a couple of tracks nobody had heard from their forthcoming album, including "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". I was also at the Stone Roses gig at Alexander Palace in 1989 - taken by a younger colleague eager to introduce me (already an old fart at 29) to the "new" music. EDIT - just remembered, I saw Bob Marley and the Wailers in Brighton on his last ever tour in July 1980, just a few months before he passed away.

I suppose that makes mine a Damien, then 😎. The most interesting / worthwhile job I ever had was teaching philosophy to undergrads at Cambridge University - not full time, just did a few hours a week whilst a graduate student. After that there was about 35 years spent as a computer programmer, mostly in the city, which depending how you look at it was either a tedious waste of a lifetime or a dead cushy way of earning decent money which left enough time and energy to pursue other interests (mostly musical) in my spare time. These have included working as a composer in a very modest way for theatre, film, contemporary dance and TV - never getting anywhere near being able to make a living out of it - I'm really not very good - but making a nice bit of cash here and there from the best jobs (though many were unpaid). Retired last summer at 59. Hoorah! Now combining looking after our three geriatric cats (this takes more time and energy than I could ever have imagined) with playing nyckelharpa for a bizarre and theatrical 2-man morris side and also in Scandinavian music sessions, a bit of home recording for my own amusement and trying to learn Finnish.

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If we're talking early influences: King Crimson Gong Henry Cow In my 50's I had something of a musical renaissance, thanks in no small part to Mari Boine Värttinä Esko Järvellä

Nobody mentioned the Elf Band from Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom yet? https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPfj9UmHwl0?start=145&end=241 (featuring Ben on thrump-warbler, Mr. Elf on spaalthrottle and Nigel on blotto horn)

Anybody else remember this? We also had the sequel - "Birdy and the Group". Had forgotten all about them until this thread.

I've sold 9 items on B/C in the past 7 months, none of them basses, and not all specifically bass-related (including a microphone). No complaints here. Edit to add: I sold one item on ebay: from the sale price of £165 I got to keep just £128.28 after ebay and paypal had both taken their cut.

I remember playing a natural finish one (can't remember whether it was a Gibson or an Epi) in a shop a few years back. I'd always had a soft spot for them, but when playing it I couldn't shake off the impression that I was playing a huge wooden spoon.

I think it was 14, although that's 14 events, and at some of them we performed multiple times (in the case of one festival in Germany, that was over several days). About the right amount for me.

alternatively, you could name the other pedals in the range Florence, Dougal, Zebedee, Dylan, Ermintrude, Mr. McHenry.....

That body looks a bit like it's made of foam rubber to me. In fact, are you sure the whole thing isn't actually just a giant novelty bath sponge?

This is the first track I've finished in eight years! Been tinkering with it for a few months, and this isn't necessarily the final version, but it's as ready as it's going to get by xmas. The tune is a Swedish folk melody that I learned at the London Scandi session, and which has become the tune which I play for one of Huginn and Muninn's dances, Whirlwind. The arrangement for nyckelharpa, hammered dulcimer (a vsti), synths and percussion is mine. I appreciate that the ethos of these comps is for everyone to be very supportive of one another, which is great, but I'd genuinely appreciate any constructive criticism (feel free to PM if you'd rather not post critical stuff in this thread), even if it's only to tactfully suggest that all things considered one track every eight years is probably more than enough, and I should consider slowing down to avoid creative burn-out. Enjoy, and a happy xmas to one and all.

Harsh but fair. 😁

Cool. "Oi! ET! I said pan the guitar a bit to the left, ya cloth-eared eejit!"

Joni Mitchell's 'Big Yellow Taxi' has only grown in relevance as the decades roll on.

Sold Lawrence a Fishman preamp. All good - highly recommended. 😊

So in other words, the long straight pole thing, which should ideally remain rigid, flexes when it shouldn't, hindering your "performance". As you say, "frustrating". I simply couldn't begin to guess....😉

Aww , you've been and gawn and done it now!!! Look out, she's gonna blow!!!!