Earbrass

Well, if we're talking melodica, then this surely deserves inclusion:

One of them actually was crucified. Harsh but fair - nobody's ever late for rehearsals now.

And if said employer were to be, say, a financial software company, they may then, having paid you for it once, license its use to any number of clients, and rake in fees over and over again. Whether the fintech business may be classified as being part of the "real world", however, I will leave others to decide.

The lesser spotted squarnch (merpuria plobinata) is easily distinguished from its orvidious cousins by the prominent kraspules on its lower phlegnum.

Proof that the rebellious, devil-may-care, sticking-it-to-the-man spirit of rock'n'roll is indeed still alive and well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802

Would an ogran do?

band name!

I listen to, go to see, and also buy a lot of new music - almost all of it Nordic folk and folk-rock, which I only really discovered in the past decade or so. When it comes to rock, I stick almost entirely to the pre-punk stuff I grew up with. I never listen to music radio.

Do you have any datums to back that up?

I also knew Jim slightly in the early 90's, as I composed some music for his (then) wife(?) Alison Edgar's one-woman show about the Shakers. Lovely bloke, and I'm very sorry to hear about his accident. I remember embarrassing myself trying to play rounders on Clapham common with the two of them and a bunch of other people one weekend. Happy days. Hope his new show is a great success.

I believe the Q49 supports MIDI over USB. If that's right, you don't need an interface - just connect the keyboard to the laptop with a USB cable.

My "gateway drug" was Henry Cow. Discovered them when I was about 15, back in the seventies, and was totally blown away, although, to be honest, I enjoyed their written pieces more than the totally free-improv sections. Here is the last 7 or so minutes of the live version of Beautiful As The Moon; Terrible As An Army With Banners - the fabulous reprise of the main theme starts around 4 minutes in, after a version of Robert Wyatt's "Gloria Gloom" Here's their version of Robert Wyatt's "Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road", with Wyatt on vocals. Some sublime bass lines.

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I remember seeing Fred Frith and Phil Minton playing together back in the late seventies, when the Mike Westbrook band and Henry Cow played a joint gig at the Roundhouse, Camden in a benefit for the Communist Party of Great Britain. They played some of the Blake material as in the above clip - it was a great gig. I recall that there was an older member of the party there who had to give a brief speech of thanks to the musicians and audience for the support. My impression at the time was that he was clearly out of his depth and baffled by some of the more avant-garde elements of the performance and made some stumbling remarks about how good it was to see "young people taking an interest in politics" or some such. Happy days. Lol Coxhill is great too - seen him a few times, though many years ago. His album "Fleas in Custard" is a classic of the genre. Evan Parker I find quite hard going, though.

Phil Minton is an interesting bloke. Very good trumpeter, and baritone singer - you can hear him in more conventional mode with the Mike Westbrook band, for example on his settings of Blake:

Mike bought a Flashback delay pedal off me. All went swimmingly. Recommended.

Great basses (in unmodified form).

Sold a reverb pedal to Tim, all good, would definitely recommend.

Cheers for that. I scored an Arturia Minibrute 2S for £470. Bargain!

Not random, amateur or "hit n' miss" at all. A lot of folks on here give the impression of being far more interested in collecting / swapping / playing with / showing off their toys than in music. No shame in not being one of them.