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1 hour ago, Graham said:

Mastodon - Leviathan

Off the back of the albums you tried to love thread; it really is superb.

Very true - Blood & Thunder is exactly how an album should start! 

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10 minutes ago, kendall said:

Very true - Blood & Thunder is exactly how an album should start! 

Hearts Alive isn't a bad way for it it end either! I know, Joesph Merrick actually finishes it, but that is very much an outro

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I'm listening to this in order to learn it, suffice to say I'm a bout two bars in. I thought buying a Rob Allen would mean I was able to play it straight away..! 🤣

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Club Tropicana
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On 07/07/2018 at 20:14, Frank Blank said:

 

Awesome! I'd almost forgotten about Troublefunk. Big Tony Fisher has a massive voice and a huge tone... might have to listen to some of their stuff tonight :)  Saw them at Brixton Academy, but never in a library! 

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5 minutes ago, Conan said:

Awesome! I'd almost forgotten about Troublefunk. Big Tony Fisher has a massive voice and a huge tone... might have to listen to some of their stuff tonight :)

I had forgotten about them, they are grand.

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Hector's House
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1 hour ago, Frank Blank said:

I'm listening to this in order to learn it, suffice to say I'm about two bars in. I thought buying a Rob Allen would mean I was able to play it straight away..! 🤣

This is what persuaded me to buy mine. Of course I had to learn it too. I'm kinda OK up to the solo (for a value of OK), but my harmonic knowledge isn't up to improving over it authentically. Fun to do though, a genuine solo piece. Good luck.

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23 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

I had forgotten about them, they are grand.

Ha ha  and I've NEVER forgotten about them. I give them more plays than any other funk band in my CD collection. Big Tony has about the heaviest and  dirtiest sound in bassdom!

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The Damned's Friday 13th EP from 1981. Paul Gray's playing is wonderful and his Ric sounds immense!

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3 minutes ago, pst62 said:

The Damned's Friday 13th EP from 1981. Paul Gray's playing is wonderful and his Ric sounds immense!

 https://youtu.be/9WpF6djzFek

 

I, erm, acquired my copy of that EP from my sister in about 1983. It's been well played since then.

 

I love Paul Gray's playing.

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Yep, big influence on me when I started playing. (Still is!) He lives in your neck of the woods these days. He's on their latest album, Evil Spirits.

 

 

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Yeah, I saw them on the last tour in Cardiff. Stood right in front of Paul, so I could hear the bass from his rig. Glorious!!

I got chance to talk to him and Bryn a couple of years ago when they were part of a Q&A session with the documentary. Two, properly, nice guys. 

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All this talk of The Damned reminds me of my favourite track, Love Song. I saw The Damned a lot back in the day but never got into them heavily, I was always going to gigs simply to get some dBs down me lug 'oles. I love the first side (showing my age there) of Machine Gun Etiquette but essentially I'm not particularly familiar with anything else. I think the first five tracks from this album might be (imho of course) the finest first side of rock music ever (apart from the production) it's an absolutely thrilling set of songs.

 

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Melody Lee
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3 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

All this talk of The Damned reminds me of my favourite track, Love Song. I saw The Damned a lot back in the day but never got into them heavily, I was always going to gigs simply to get some dBs down me lug 'oles. I love the first side (showing my age there) of Machine Gun Etiquette but essentially I'm not particularly familiar with anything else. I think the first five tracks from this album might be (imho of course) the finest first side of rock music ever (apart from the production) it's an absolutely thrilling set of songs.

 

Totally Agree Frank! But for me, this is a great album all the way through, sadly though, as you mention the production let's it down especially on the Bass side of things, Algy Ward is playing some great stuff down in that muddle of a mix.

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42 minutes ago, bartelby said:

Yeah, I saw them on the last tour in Cardiff. Stood right in front of Paul, so I could hear the bass from his rig. Glorious!!

I got chance to talk to him and Bryn a couple of years ago when they were part of a Q&A session with the documentary. Two, properly, nice guys. 

I met them after the Mayfair and Dingwalls gigs in Newcastle in 82 & 83 respectfully. They were all down to earth apart from Scabies, who was up his own derrière on both occasions.

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23 minutes ago, pst62 said:

Totally Agree Frank! But for me, this is a great album all the way through, sadly though, as you mention the production let's it down especially on the Bass side of things, Algy Ward is playing some great stuff down in that muddle of a mix.

That's just my teenage boredom threshold, I haven't attempted to listen to that album in it's entirety since 1979, must give it a go now, I've only got those first five songs on my iPod, shocking.

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33 minutes ago, pst62 said:

I met them after the Mayfair and Dingwalls gigs in Newcastle in 82 & 83 respectfully. They were all down to earth apart from Scabies, who was up his own derrière on both occasions.

I was only 10 in 1982... 😆

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1 hour ago, kendall said:

Between the Buried and Me - Automata ii.  The first track is a blast!

 

Have you heard The Anatomy Of? That's a good one of theirs :)

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19 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

Have you heard The Anatomy Of? That's a good one of theirs :)

I haven't.  I only recently got into this BTBAM.  Been working my way through the back catalogue, I have only got as far back as Colors (which is immense).  

Surprised to notice its a covers album - can't imagine what a Motley Crue song would sound like in their hands!  ;0)

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