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... and ... breath... Slowly, let the oxygen fill your lungs... then... out, slowly. There, that's better already, isn't it..?

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Cork-sniffing..?

Fixed..?

Isn't that just where one would expect to find an Oasis..?

Some medieval architects foresaw the problems that ecclesiastic music could cause, and built in consequence... ...others, less so...

I'd have paid double that, back then, to NOT see The Edgar Broughton Band again (again..!)..!

And the winner is ... @Jean-Luc Pickguard..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2024_08.pdf ... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...

And still some folk would try to crash the fences to get in for free..!

I don't remember seeing drummers, at 'live' gigs, re-tuning their drums for different songs, still less swapping out snares or toms, to recreate the authentic sounds of the original work being covered, or even their own work as an 'originals' band, in concert. Occasionally (very rarely, but still...), a change from sticks to brushes, hot-rods, timpani mallets, or even simply heavier/lighter sticks. I don't recollect the sound person tweaking the PA, either, altering compression or reverb/delay for a number, or even the balance between the parts of the kit. Maybe we drummers are not quite as precious about these nuances, or maybe, for us, it really is all in the wrists..!

Stuff played on these..?

But they leave the best tips pips.

Yeah, but you're old, man, innit... ...

Back 'then', I played with several bands of buddies, almost all of whom wrote their own material; most of what they wrote and played would have deserved just as much exposure as many 'name' bands (many of which had very good songs, too...). No, for a heck of a lot of musicians, it comes very easily to 'em to turn out a 'hit' song, or even an album, but just didn't get the breaks that others did. The Thomson Twins (Graeme and Chris...), Porpoise, Ford (a giant of a bloke with afro hair, drove a Heinkel bubble car with his head out of the sunroof, so tall was he...), The Alligators (not the current band; another earlier one in the Ashford, Middlx area...), Alan Stirling, based at Crystal Palace for a while (I'd really like to know what happened to him and his cohort...)... There were others, and I still have tapes from many of our rehearsals, and a few concerts, plus fond, happy memories of those Good Times. Oasis..? Good luck to 'em; I don't know them, nor their whole repertoire, but I do know that they are no more (nor, maybe, less...) worthy than so many other formations, past, present and, probably, future. I'd pay Good Money to see a reformed Thomson Twins gig, with one of my younger brothers on guitar. It's doubtful it'll ever happen, though.

Two have voted; four votes have been cast. Two each, or three and one ? Are the other tracks not so good, then? I know it's not mandatory to vote for three, though, so no criticism implied; just curious.

Does this explain 'K-Pop'..? I've always wondered.

There are about half a dozen that fit the bill currently on the first page of the BC Marketplace, 'Basses For Sale' ... If none there appeal, there's an MTD Kingston Artist 4-string on the Bass Direct site worth a glance. You're spoiled for choice, really; Good Hunting.

There are people..? ...

There are views..?

You might get lucky; no-one has yet voted, it depends if Lurks can get a signal of more than one bar in the outlying sticks.