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Tony Levin on Secret World Live in 1993 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwX_c0PcjY#t=165"]http://www.youtube.c...wX_c0PcjY#t=165[/url] Keep your eye on TLev at about 3m40s. You can see something fall off his Trace Elliot amp. Happens to the best of us I suppose.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1410774706' post='2552848'] Agreed. It is one of the worse books I ever read. Then I stopped smoking and thought, well, I will give up anyway, nothing to do with that book, just feel like it now. Then went on amazon and looked at the reviews, and they all said 'what a badly written book, didn't work but I decided to give up anyway', then it clicked! [/quote] I found that when it got to the point where "I'm now going to tell you how to actually stop, if you don't feel mentally prepared, don't read on, come to a clinic" I thought "oh, I feel like a smoke actually" and off I went. A couple of months later I was smoking one morning after a night out, hungover, felt terrible and thought "I just can't be arsed any more" and put one out half-smoked. That was it. I'd absorbed enough from the book to know what to do (this will vary from person to person). My life as a smug and annoying ex-smoker had begun!

Had my 5000-day anniversary a few days ago. Not that I'm counting really - I've been looking for an arbitrary anniversary as an excuse to treat myself to a year-of-my-birth bass (not bought yet, but all of a sudden it's ok to start looking). So, 5000 days (or 13 and a half years, ish) of not spending a fiver (on average) on fags = about £25000. Probably more when you take into account extra weekend smokes. Like others, I just stopped. No cold turkey here though, apart from two or three occasions in the first week, there were no withdrawal symptoms. On those two or three occasions, I just did something else for a bit and the symptoms went away. What took a million times more willpower was reading the Allen Carr book to instil the frame of mind to stop smoking easily.

Talking Heads, Naked. And getting back to the rules, here's one with the title track omitted (again taken from yesterday's listening) *Title Track* The Line Devotion to a Dream Halfway to the Moon Winterqueen Sing Monica 555 Waiting All Night Wombat Wingsuit

Has anyone actually downloaded it?

Hi, Very late notice I know, but my jazz-rock outfit Velcro Pelmet is playing at the Swan in Hampton Wick tonight. if you fancy it, details at https://www.facebook...63505957248931/ - it's free! Expect material originally by the likes of Weather Report, Miles Davis, Mike Stern, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Frank Zappa and others all with the Velcro twist. Tony

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1410288416' post='2547914'] Bestial Cluster - Mick Karn Bones of Mud and Velvet Breath, great tracks [/quote] On the nose. Take it away.

The answer was (you'll all be kicking yourself now) "Ótta" by Sólstafir. Here's an easier one, more bass-centric this time. 1. *title track* 2. Back in the Beginning 3. Beard in the Letterbox 4. The Drowning Dream 5. The Sad Velvet Breath of Summer and Winter 6. Saday, Maday 7. Liver and Lungs 8. Bones of Mud

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1410274201' post='2547717'] Oh. Not Dolly Parton after all, then. Hmm... [/quote] Sorry, forgot to mark your entry. Wrong (Great thread Bilbo!)

Not Sigur Ros nor Ikea. The correct artist is in Joey's list but without the album name the entry is disqualified.

I listened to this yesterday, honest... 1. Lágnætti 2. *title track* 3. Rismál 4. Dagmál 5. Miðdegi 6. Nón 7. Miðaftann 8. Náttmál and if you;ve got the Deluxe Version, you can add: 9. Tilberi 10. Til Valhallar 11. *title track* (Elevator Mix)

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1410264134' post='2547584'] Ok.An easy but great one...... Chloe in the Afternoon Cruel Cheereader Surgeon Northern Lights (Title track) Neutered Fruit Champagne Year Dilettante Hysterical Strength Year of the Tiger [/quote] St Vincent, Strange Mercy (brilliant album by the way)

I've no idea how loud a 30W Marshall gets, but I use a Roland Micro Cube, which sounds fine at bedroom volumes, and you get 20 hours of battery life if you need to go in the shed. It's got an aux in and headphones out as well.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1409832655' post='2543732'] I was vaguely thinking of suggesting Christmas Wrapping for our band to cover at the Xmas jam at our local pub. Largley because we have a female vocalist. I hadn't really listened to it properly though. Now I've listened to that tasty bass line, I don't think it's something I could manage! [/quote] It was transcribed in a seasonal edition of Bass Player magazine a couple of years ago. Let me know if you'd like a scan. It's a cool song to learn anyway!

Tracy Wormworth, maybe best known for "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I Also she cropped up in Sting's late 80s touring band - some rare and out-of-sync footage here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38lb5_sting-the-lazarus-heart_music - but now in the B52s... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW5Vj4ngdw

BV played with Tower Of Power when Rocco Prestia fell ill. Straight in to the gig with no rehearsals after the initial audition, according to his recent column in Bass Player magazine.

I put together my own wedding band for er, my own wedding. I paid for rehearsals and equipment hire, and got got my pals in on guitars and drums. Setlist was minimal, six songs + encore, but the novelty of me plus live band doing rockabilly/r&r versions of well-known wedding-appropriate themed songs was enough, and the DJ took over for the rest of the evening. Setlist included Be-Bop A Lula, All Shook Up, And Then I Kissed Her, Three Steps To Heaven, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a cover of an original by one of the guitarists' band, and a couple of others. Even with the bonus beer and curry night I treated the band to post-honeymoon, it worked out at least a grand cheaper than any wedding band.

Nice! My band has currently got this very near the top of the setlist additions queue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcAj3gZVqWo

Don't forget this little-known JF solo album number http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW8ekYsa7-4

UK tour just announced: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/artist/royal-blood-tickets/709593 I'm half way through listening to the album for the first time, and I've checked out a couple of clips on youtube. It's ok, but sorry to not jumping on the bandwagon, so far it's somewhere between White Stripes with a better drummer and an ok bassist, and Them Crooked Vultures with someone who's not John Paul Jones. Sure there's effects wizardry that's of some curiousity value, but if you didn't know that and just heard the songs, well it's just OK.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1409485180' post='2540051'] Love CCR, so many great songs. Worth checking out Jon Foghertys The Long Road Home, live CD, it`s excellent. [/quote] +several millions

I'm a happy 6180 user for all my gear as well, I'm not sure I understand why active instruments need a different impedance but perhaps a clever person can help me out here. Is it just like having a switchable pad on the input of your amp? According to the specs (links below) the passive version includes "a micro taper switch which provides the user two distinct volume swell rates", which isn't mentioned for the active equivalent. So there's a bonus. http://www.ernieball.com/products/pedals/1661/vp-jr-250k-for-passive-electronics http://www.ernieball.com/products/pedals/2044/vp-jr-25k-for-active-electronics

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1408803591' post='2533648'] Wow that will be great!! Wasn't John Giblin the original fretless player on the late 70s stuff? [/quote] He played on Never For Ever, The Sensual World, The Red Shoes, Aerial and 50 Words For Snow - so he should be familiar with some of the songs...

Two on top of whatever fuzz you're considering. I've already got both volume + ls-2 anyway, so perhaps it's an easier solution for me! Incidentally, this lets you build a blendable side-chain of whatever other effects you might want to do that with as well.

Boss LS-2 and a volume pedal? Pop the fuzz or whatever in the feedback loop and the volume pedal after it.