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Just to answer, he said he's not between tours, he still plays drums in a couple of local projects. He's 67 (doesn't look it).

I remember them as a nice bunch of lads. They used to frequent a local jamnight I went to years back every Friday when they were learning their trade.

Scarlet - Rolling Stones

Totally agree, don't practice mistakes, and sleep is the magic sauce. I realised I missed out step 0: make a playlist and listen to the songs as much as possible. Timings are interesting: I've found it quite easy to intellectualise harmony as it is lots of number relationships and I've learned about the theory, but I've not gone through that process with rhythm, probably because I've never been through formal training. So I don't have a clear mental model to slot timings into, I tend to learn through repetition. My plan is to learn how to use music notation for timings so that I can map what I'm learning onto that, like I do with harmony. I think I'll be able to remember timings much more easily when I've mastered that.

Fever - the Cramps

Another reason to not have any social media... Genuinely, the world would be a FAR better place if it didn't exist at all.

Hugh McDowell, who was the other ELO cellist of that era, taught on my Electronic Music Technology course in the early 80's

I must try this. I bought an absolutely non-budget Nordymute a couple years ago and unless I barely put it on, just gently touching the strings with the end, it's too muted and useless for me. Putting it on just barely adds the risk that I knock it off with my hand. I enjoyed sponges and packing materials more than the fancy purpose-made stuff.

An industry that exploits it's workers and then discards them without a second thought? Nah. It'll never happen.

Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd And The Pirates

Earthquake Weather ~ Beck

That's the life of the bass player! I'm invisible when I take mine off 😕

Pigsaw

Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

Every time I've messed with the mod shop configurator, I just find out how ridiculously limited it is. I get that it's just them bolting together whatever spare parts they've got kicking around the warehouse and probably charging you extra for the privilege, but the least they could do would be to add a few special options, no?

Just another couple of names for the list - I seem to recall he was playing Canadian Lado basses for a while. I can't find a picture of him with it, but I'm pretty sure it was one of these: He also played an Ibanez Sabre-style bass that was a kinda flip blue/purple colour. EDIT: Joe Lado is now 80 years old and is still building guitars. They also have a FB page: https://www.facebook.com/ladoguitars

I made myself accessible but nobody wanted to talk to me. 😮‍💨 Daryl

Corner shop?