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[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1441894331' post='2862729'] Anything by Flanders and Swann. [/quote] Oh yes. For example: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYr0eNtpDHs[/media] From the sublime to the ridiculous - I know I shouldn't like it, but I can't help myself: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL15Ya5fsgo[/media]

I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other about the Beatles issue (despite having been around at the time), but I have to say I think the OP has been pompous, arrogant, condescending and more than a little ridiculous in many posts (in this and other threads), and I'm not at all surprised that people have reacted to this.

As an erstwhile blues/jazz pianist, let me put the other side of the case. Yes, it would be great if every venue could provide a well-tuned, well-maintained baby grand for the visiting pianist to use, but the reality in my experience is very far from this. Where a "house" piano is present, at least in the smaller venues, pubs etc in which most of us play, it is all too often neglected, out of tune and with the odd dodgy key. No fun at all. Imagine if, as a double-bass player, instead of bringing your own instrument you had to use whatever the venue could provide - probably something that has sat in the corner for months without use and had the odd beer spilled over it from time to time. From my point of view, the advent of portable, good-sounding electric stage pianos was a god-send.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1416571011' post='2611530'] I have a couple of friends who are professional composers and they talk about writing ‘7 minutes a day’. They call it factory work. [/quote] That's be a British Leyland factory, then . (oh, wait, you mean writing 7 minutes of music per day....not writing for 7 minutes per day..... )

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv0AX59VD6M[/media]

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1416313094' post='2608888'] Stick man Bob Culbertson.... [/quote] ...was used as the model for The Saint's logo in the popular 1960's series starring Roger Moore.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuDHMHPE1d8[/media]

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1416235996' post='2608144'] The thread has teased out the fact that different people play for all sorts of different reasons. No real surprise there. I don't see any problem with playing to three people in a bar for £30, or nothing, or £300, if that's what someone wants to do. What surprises me is that people play a gig for their chosen terms and then moan about it. Or, in the case of the OP, assumed terms. And moaning about pubs not paying 'enough' seems about as useful as moaning about the price of petrol. It is what it is - take it or leave it. [/quote] +1. Wonder why you bother? OK, don't bother. You won't be missed and your place will be instantly filled by another band keen to play the gig. (Not aimed at the OP in particular).

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1415960772' post='2605541'] I am hearing Gong music for the first time right now. I am really impressed with Mike Howlett. [/quote] Never Glid Before on Angels Egg features one of the sweetest and most tasteful 4 bar bass solos ever.

Hawkwind's [i]In Search of Space[/i] and Yes's [i]Close to the Edge[/i] were both inspired by the period when Nik Turner and Jon Anderson shared an inadequately sized bed in a cramped Ladbroke Grove squat.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1415643051' post='2602321'] Lemmy needs the four of hearts. Don't fall for his bullsh*t! [/quote] I heard it was Master Bun the Baker's Son.

On a related note, Rainbow split up because of intractable artistic differences between Ritchie Blackmore and Bungle.

King Crimson and Deep Purple merged to form Maroon 5.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1415358381' post='2599530'] This music lark is a very asymmetric business and musicians will inevitably have an inflated sense of the importance and worth of their creative output. [/quote] This.

I've seen some of these modern so-called "pop stars" on the telly - they're an utter disgrace. Not only could I hear every word they were singing, but I could quite easily tell the boys from the girls. It would never have happened in my day, I can tell you. A spell in a hippy commune is what they need. Yours disgusted etc etc.

Not a look that will work for all bands, but.... [attachment=174384:Whitstable.JPG]

but do they sell the matching whippets?

Brilliant idea. Let's all take sides without knowing all the facts and have a heated debate!

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If it's anything like my [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr02/articles/novationkstation.asp"]Novation K-Station[/url] (and it may not be!), you'll need a line-level signal to get much use out of the audio input, so you may have to go via a pre-amp first.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412184693' post='2566596'] My memory is failing me right now, so I've asked a bunch of friends somewhere else. They are bound to come back with some good ones. In the mean time: how traditional would you like it to be? Are you aware of Hinn Íslenzski Thursaflokkur aka. Thursaflokkurin? Their album "Thursabit" seems great. [/quote] Thanks BT, I'll give them a go.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412166437' post='2566332'] As to the lyrics, this is what LyricWikia says: [/quote] Thanks for that, BassTractor. Maybe you'd be a good person to ask about other Nordic folk/trad/fusion bands or musicians - it's something I'm quite into at the moment. I've already got stuff by: Alban Faust Väsen Värttina Virelai (Danish medieval / traditional band) Hoven Droven Hedningarna Emilia Amper (superb nykelharpa player) and of course the fabulous Mari Boine any others you'd recommend?

Hedningarna (translates as "Heathens"): I just discovered this Swedish/Finnish band. This track from the early 1990's blends Saami "joiks" (a kind of sung chant) with Finnish singing which (I think, judging from the rhythms and limited scale used) is roughly in the traditional style which has been used for centuries to pass on their folk tales. Finland is much more in touch with its oral tradition than we are, as their great national myths were only collected and written down for the first time in the nineteenth century, principally in the "Kalevala", an epic tale of shamans and spirits. Anyone from Finland care to add to or correct any of this, or tell us what the girls are singing here? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARpIQvGVbA[/media]

[quote name='BigGuyAtTheBack' timestamp='1411455353' post='2559577'] Just about to gig a £40 Peavey Milestone 3 from evilbay. [/quote] Great bass - you can't go wrong there.

An example of what can be done with a single traditional double-skinned drum: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_RKrumTMM[/media]