Slap in a punk song?

[Judo Chop]

 

"The Rats are huge"

[2020Jazz]

2 hours ago, PaulWarning said:

and me, never occurred to me it was slap until this thread popped up

I was just going by what I saw in the video, starting at 0:25.

[PaulWarning]

5 minutes ago, 2020Jazz said:

I was just going by what I saw in the video, starting at 0:25.

probably just showing off, seeing as he wasn't actually playing, I mean, St Bob was playing Sax on a candelabra 😃

[Nail Soup]

19 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

probably just showing off, seeing as he wasn't actually playing, I mean, St Bob was playing Sax on a candelabra 😃

They ripped up some 'Grease' pics at the beginning. I think the slap mime may have been a similarly two-fingered (one-thumbed?) salute to the then-unknown Level 42.

[Newfoundfreedom]

I'd quite like to slap Bob Geldoff.

 

Does that count?

 

 

[Leonard Smalls]

We're a sort of punk band, and there's definitely some slap in this! 

 

 

[SteveXFR]

Surely that's pop, not punk.

Is it actually recorded as slap? It's top of the pops so it's being mimed.

There's no reason slap couldn't be used in punk. Isn't punk all about not conforming?

[Doctor J]

2 hours ago, 2020Jazz said:

I was just going by what I saw in the video, starting at 0:25.

He's also utilising the rarely seen (these days, at least) tie-mute technique. I wonder where he got the tonesilk?

 

 

 

Edited August 9, 2021 by Doctor J

[Guest]

The bassist has one of the finest stage names of all time

[Nail Soup]

27 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

The bassist has one of the finest stage names of all time

True….. and it only took me about 40 years to realise the joke😊

[2020Jazz]

6 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

True….. and it only took me about 40 years to realise the joke😊

 

This?

 

"His stage name refers to his upbringing in Ireland where peat briquettes were burned for heat instead of coal.^[1]"

[Nail Soup]

6 minutes ago, 2020Jazz said:

 

This?

 

"His stage name refers to his upbringing in Ireland where peat briquettes were burned for heat instead of coal.^[1]"

Yes…. I knew from about 1979 that he was called Pete Briquette. I also knew that the Rats were Irish and I knew that peat was used as a fuel in Ireland.

I didn’t know that peat was sold in brickets.

The penny dropped a couple of years ago!

[chris_b]

I thought Punk was about not conforming!!!!!

[SteveXFR]

19 minutes ago, chris_b said:

I thought Punk was about not conforming

 

Its like every other non conformist sub culture. You can rebel and be an individual as long as you dress  act and sound  like everyone else in your chosen sub culture.

I was an individual who looked like every other goth.

[Stub Mandrel]

On 09/08/2021 at 10:33, lowdown said:

 

Sounds like a pick on the original to me. And, I've just tortured myself by watching a couple of live versions on YouTube.

The Bassist was playing with a pick on those versions.

 

But I'm 100% sure Bob Geldoff really did play the sax solo on a candelabra.

[Stub Mandrel]

23 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

We're a sort of punk band, and there's definitely some slap in this! 

 

The Americans used to count the Red Hot Chilli Peppers as punk...

[Stub Mandrel]

22 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

Yes…. I knew from about 1979 that he was called Pete Briquette. I also knew that the Rats were Irish and I knew that peat was used as a fuel in Ireland.

I didn’t know that peat was sold in brickets.

The penny dropped a couple of years ago!

 

Johnny Fingers went to Japan where he is a successful writer and producer.

[Nail Soup]

23 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

Yes…. I knew from about 1979 that he was called Pete Briquette. I also knew that the Rats were Irish and I knew that peat was used as a fuel in Ireland.

I didn’t know that peat was sold in brickets.

The penny dropped a couple of years ago!

On the plus side I was quick as a flash to figure out that Johnny Fingers name was because he was a piano player 😉

[chris_b]

23 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Its like every other non conformist sub culture. You can rebel and be an individual as long as you dress  act and sound  like everyone else in your chosen sub culture.

I was an individual who looked like every other goth.

Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea or Judean Popular People's Front or, err. . . . . !

[lowdown]

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

But I'm 100% sure Bob Geldoff really did play the sax solo on a candelabra.

 

 Well, if he did, it wasn't the Candelabra in the OP video. Judging by the size, that's an Alto Candelabra.

[Guest]

He wanted to pretend to play the sax but the MU rules wouldn't let him, hence the candelabra 

[Waddo Soqable]

2 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

He wanted to pretend to play the sax but the MU rules wouldn't let him, hence the candelabra 

I'm fairly sure I saw him on the telly at the time doing a cod version of playing a sax, with an actual sax.. It kind of stuck in my mind as I also played the sax a bit at that time..

[BillyBass]

On 09/08/2021 at 15:04, Leonard Smalls said:

We're a sort of punk band, and there's definitely some slap in this! 

 

 

And while we're on the subject of punk and non conforming, the guitarist has a beard!  And a flat cap!  bloody anarchist.

[SteveXFR]

On 09/08/2021 at 15:04, Leonard Smalls said:

We're a sort of punk band, and there's definitely some slap in this! 

 

 

That's not real punk. The bassists tartan is blue FFS.

Everyone knows the punk clan tartan is red.

Bloody poser.

[2020Jazz]

14 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

That's not real punk. The bassists tartan is blue FFS.

Everyone knows the punk clan tartan is red.

Bloody poser.

In the early 80s the New Jersey kids wore cherry Doc Martens w/ red suspenders and they were the posers in the Lower East Side CBGB's scene. Us NYHC brats wore black Docs only.