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As an aside, I've got an old takamine semi acoustic at work. Really useful if I get chance to play it!

These aren't my favourites but the most significant. O Fortuna, Carmina Burana. Much over played now but when I was a 5/6 year old in the early 80s my mum put it on and I simply found it terrifying- an early realisation of the power of music. Hey Jude/ The Beatles. I was about 10 and had left a Beatles tape running whilst I had a bath. I walked back into my bedroom as this song started, and it just went straight to my heart. Plant/ Page- Misty Mountain Hop at Knebworth 90. Never heard Led Zep, 13 years old in a crowd of 125000 people, that happened. Still coming down! Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana. Again much over played but at the time it was first rock song that felt like it totally belonged to me and my friends. Resulted in an ill advised undercut hair do. Massive Attack- Safe From Harm. After years of an almost allergic reaction to synths and drum machines a record that swept all that to one side by being human, funky and electronic.

A +1 for billie Jean, it totally depends with us on the singers getting it right. Personally, a band I dep for does Pretty Woman and the bridge always does my nut. It's not hard but I just always have a total mental block.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4ICwJF5EM Try this guy, lovely player.

You can get great opportunities by making no fuss (if your clients understand you won't be part of any drama), being 100% reliable and by always saying yes.

The wife and I went to see seasick Steve at the Apollo in Hammersmith. He does his fair share of story telling between songs and got annoyed with a small group of people talking whilst he was. He went "you must have f***ing interesting jobs to pay for an evening out and still talk about them." They jeered back at him, so he reached down behind his monitor and produced a baseball bat, then tried to climb into the audience. Much to the respect of the rest of the venue!

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1432377739' post='2780957'] Our guitarist uses a very old Traynor 2x12 80w valve combo. I'm led to believe that they are a copy essentially of the Fender. Is that correct? [/quote] Old traynors are great! Our guitarist has a 410 that's essentially a bassman, very close sounding to the original. He's bit of a fender nut and has a 58 bassman that is crap with bass. The poodles plums if you plug a strat in though. Then there's the early 70s bassman 410 combo that's great for rehearsals guitar or bass, bet it would record brilliantly too.

Bet it was great, would have loved to be there.

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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1431367860' post='2770597'] I know a great drum tutor in New Malden. Do they really have to be a she? [/quote] Ditto- a friend of mine and world class drummer is in Kingston, just a bloke.... (Throughly top bloke too)

Ellie Goulding/ Florence and the Machine The guy shouting in the video above isn't being anything less than sincere although judging by the party being replicated in the film I wouldn't want to be his neighbour. Ol' Flo and Ellie though are insincere and are trying to pass off lack of talent as a singing style- and that rubs me up the wrong way.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1430928876' post='2766079'] Thread titles like this one are another good excuse to play this track - with the ricketiest, rickiety, Rick sound you ever heard [media]http://youtu.be/RzZNaSik4Ic[/media] [/quote] Sounds like his amp decided to turn it down for him! Bands do play too loud though in my view. If you are watching punters at the back of the room having to shout in each other's ears then you're just entertaining your own ego not your audience.

[quote name='seymourfluid' timestamp='1430927246' post='2766053'] Try this. https://youtu.be/XqS2N5jeWzM [/quote] Proved contentious earlier!

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1430861445' post='2765441'] I think it's a few months away yet. Final design stuff to be finalised yet but a lot of the core work is all done now [/quote] Thank you. Time for a bigger piggy bank then!

Thank you for this review. No need for 800W for me but they are bringing out a 400W version. Seriously need for one of those!

Those blue notes- just out of tune....

Band on the beat https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dbBvxKDa2M Band behind https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-6_0YqgeI They just hit that one slightly different that just adds that moment of tension that makes it that little bit more sweet/sour flavour. Pretentious- moi?

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1430747283' post='2764200'] Is this pretentious? [media]http://youtu.be/XqS2N5jeWzM[/media] [/quote] Game set match redstriper! On to more musical myths that need debunking! Ringo was a shi# drummer, anyone?

[quote name='JoeEvans' timestamp='1430684311' post='2763734'] This is interesting - when you look at the audio, to what extent are the notes played by the different instruments actually in different places? Does the drummer tend to define the beat, with the other musicians in front of or behind that? For what it's worth, I've often thought that although we talk about playing in front of or behind the beat, for bass players at least, it might also be to do with how sharp an attack we put on the notes. A slap or a plectrum pick has a much more precise attack than a softer finger action, let alone a double bass note. In jazz, the DB player might well be going at the note on the beat, but because of the soft attack and the tone of the instrument, we hear it as being somewhat behind the beat. [/quote] We don't look at the waveforms, we listen to the song! Interesting what you saying about the double bass speaking slowly, somewhere in the Carol Kaye technique column on her website she says jazzers should push, especially when walking. I checked this with the drummer I was working with, a hard core jazzer, and he agreed, on or behind sounds lethargic in his experience. With regards to where the beat actually is, it is implied of course but different genres have different approaches. Funk famously has a heavy beat one but if you listen to parliament or JB they have a way of hanging on 4 that really makes 1 seem that tiny bit late that just makes the tempo roll. Jerry Wexler, someone who really understood musical time, got booker T and the MGs to really hang back on 2 and 4 for Wilson Pickett's in the midnight hour, which invariably you don't hear when it's covered. Latin music is mostly written in 4 but if you don't feel it in half time it's going to sound stilted. I'd love to learn more about African rhythms, they mess my head up etc etc. In my view rhythm is the principle ingredient of music, just watch how people respond to different rhythms, yet the one thing we practice the least. We'll spend ages learning about off axis response and mechanical coupling from the barefaced website but its pretentious to discuss the way we play the notes we expect people to listen to.

This is the joy of making music though isn't it? If you have an instrument that feels like it's letting you play and you enjoy the experience it's a wonderful thing. Bonded with my ASAT instantly and use it for everything. Likewise my cabs, stupidly attached to those, just need the right type of amp to crop up.

I know what you mean, assuming it's legit. That record is 91/92 or thereabouts though, so if it's real the chances of it being pulled forward is unlikely. The little fluffs here and there are interesting and just reinforces my belief that audiences are interested in character and drama in their music more than the invention or technical facility of the participants.

Drummers rushing fills is getting ahead of the beat true, but that's playing out of time. Most bands speed up or down (if they're off click) and that's fine too but playing ahead of the beat etc is how the note placement of the individuals binds to create the overall effect. The silly thing is, if we were cooks/chefs the interaction of the ingredients wouldn't be a pretentious subject at all! I heard this clip on NoTreble and was surprised at just how far ahead the bass gets, especially for someone who is considered funky, normally associated with being behind. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NaLBZD5Gbqk