It's 1979 on BBC4

[UglyDog]

There's a TOTP retrospective at the moment, with a 'hits' compilation to follow at 1.30
Lovin' it

[Billy Apple]

Bed time here

[thebigyin]

Some good stuff on bring back the 70's

[Mr Arkadin]

1979 was my musical coming of age year. Some great stuff, although I may have preferred less Sir Cliff and Nolans.

Nice to see Bruce Foxton had exactly the same bass as me (maple 4003).

[Lozz196]

Lots of great stuff on that prog.

[kevin_lindsay]

I'm currently watching it with my 11 year old son. Michael Jackson just performed with The Jacksons

my son Jonathan just said, "woah, is that Michael Jackson?". Yes son, thats him. "Dad, how come he's got fake tan on"???

[discreet]

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1388847575' post='2326792']
...my son Jonathan just said, "woah, is that Michael Jackson?". Yes son, thats him. "Dad, how come he's got fake tan on"???
[/quote]

Can I laugh at this or is it racist, or speaking ill of the dead, or something?

[RandomBass]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1388847889' post='2326798']
Can I laugh at this or is it racist, or speaking ill of the dead, or something?
[/quote]

It's all of the above. Bloody hilarious though, either way

[chriswareham]

Couple of great punk or post punk bass guitar lines on there - Babylon's Burning by The Ruts and Into The Valley by The Skids. Tabbed out Babylon's Burning yesterday morning as all the ones on the web are hilariously wrong, but can't get the first two bars of the chorus to sound right. Anyone got a tab for that bit? It's rooted on // D / F-E //

[Lozz196]

DDDDFDFDF-G-F

Or at least that`s what I play and it fits.

Edited January 5, 2014 by Lozz196

[chriswareham]

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1388945686' post='2327954']
DDDDFDFDF-G-F

Or at least that`s what I play and it fits.
[/quote]

Listening with headphones I get this:

[size=3][font=courier new,courier,monospace]VERSE

G|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|-2--2--3--3--2--2-------|------------------------|-2--2--------2--2-------|
A|-0--0--2--2--3--3--5--5-|-------------------3--3-|-0--0--2--2--3--3--5--5-|-------3--3--------3--3-|
E|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|

CHORUS

G|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
D|-------2-----2--3--2----|----------------2-------|------------------------|------------------------|
A|-5--------5-----------3-|-0-----3--0--5-----5--3-|-0--0--2--2--3--3--5--0-|-0--0--2--2--3--3--5----|
E|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|

CHANGE

G|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
A|------------------------|-------------------2--2-|-3--3--3--3--5--5--5--5-|-------0--0--0--0--0--0-|
E|-1--1--1--1--3--3--3--3-|-4--4--4--4--5--5-------|------------------------|------------------------|

ENDING

G|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
D|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|-------------2--2--2--2-|
A|------------------------|------------------------|-2--2--2--2--3--3--3--3-|-5--5--5--5-------------|
E|-1--1--1--1--3--3--3--3-|-4--4--4--4--5--5--5--5-|------------------------|------------------------|[/font][/size]

Edited January 5, 2014 by chriswareham

[KevB]

Looks like the BBC are gamely trying to carry on doing the week by week programmes, this Thurs (BBC4 19:30) will be the show originally shown 04/01/79 and features Generation X, Elton John, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Olivia Newton-John and Racey. By 79 more DJ's were being used so they won't have to keep editing episodes featuring JS and DLT so often with any luck.

[spongebob]

I'll be there - love these repeats.