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1 minute ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I posted an on topic comment, commenting the video, I wasn't the one starting to spur patronizing comments about other posters.

Be a gent, and leave it.

Your beef isn't with the folks on this thread who might still want to talk about the rather marvellous video.

Happy Jack blocked you, so posting this serves no purpose other than trashing his thread.

Please stop spoiling it for everyone else, theres a good chap.

On 14/10/2023 at 17:36, Baloney Balderdash said:

That intonation... 

Intonation wasn't invented until the early 70s, by Xerox, I believe.

Hang on, that's the laser printer isn't ? Damn. Sorry folks, this happens all the time.

5 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

As opposed to unreal musicians playing unreal music in an unreal studio?

Join The Campaign For Unreal Rock!

That awesome. Nice post @Happy Jack !

3 minutes ago, fretmeister said:

Being welcoming to people in a community is part of being in that community. Discussion is part of being in a community.

If someone has a problem with such questions perhaps that community is not for them.

 

There is little more off putting to new people than the 'elders' mocking a person for not knowing something. That sort of thing actively discourages the next generation and ends up killing the thing we love.

 

Either answer the question properly or scroll past and ignore it.

Now, that's a generous dose of uncut truth.

Well said.

44 minutes ago, zbd1960 said:

The irritating ones for me are the local ones with the "when does Sainsbury's open" which can be more quickly answered by an online search for Sainsbury's...

 

I can see what you mean, but asking on a group has a feeling of connection, that looking on a website doesn't - I think some folks really value that.

It's a bit like popping to the shops and whilst having a chat about the price of ackee, you ask the shopkeeper if they know what the weather's going to be like later.

A bit

31 minutes ago, 0175westwood29 said:

I can see that, I can but, then there are ways to start conversations like that? 
 

If someone was to ask what’s you favourite fuzz for doom? That’s a much better question and will get you interaction than asking what’s the best fuzz for doom 

YMMV but to me they're essentially the same question.

Perhaps the folks there like the chat and interaction with others as much as finding answers to their questions.

The difference,  perhaps,  between looking something up in a book as opposed to asking your friends if they know the answer ? Same info, different vibe.

10 hours ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

However, you're more likely to get away with that if you're male, not if you're female and over 50 and certainly not if you're Madonna.

Well said.

Thought I'd share my most recent pedal, largely as I'm chuffed with the enclosure.

Found the picture of The Mothership, sorry.. Marquess of Anglesey in a magazine and knew it had to go on a fuzz. Lo-tech approach - cut the image out and stick it on the primed enclosure.👍

The fuzz is a Fuzzdog Conkador fed by a Fuzzdog MXR MicroAmp clone, which sounds very nice indeed, or very bad

30 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

I looked up "bass player" definition and I didn't see "makes logical sense" anywhere, you're all good.

I think he's got you there

31 minutes ago, Ed_S said:

 

Do you go through a 'Living In Quasi-Unused-Instrument Despair' (or LIQUID) phase before you get to that state?

 

Must be sublime if you manage not to.

On fire today, sir. On fire.

An attack of 'Sick Of Loadsa Instruments Dilemma' if I ever saw one.

SOLID - the opposite of GAS

Double flat ? That's a maisonette isn't it ?

1 minute ago, greavesbass said:

Haha. Well Sinatra as I mentioned (forget pop and rock, open the windows and crank Fly Me To The Moon, its bloody liberating)... Anyway, the usual, Autumn leaves, some Glenn Miller....any showtime stuff I can find, then finish off with Steely Dan and ABBA. That kinda satisfies the itch....it'll do.

Sounds like a blast ! I think I'd quite like to be your neighbour

14 minutes ago, greavesbass said:

Just to add to my above post of semi doom and gloom. My P bass resides in the corner of the living room, plugged into my BA110 and ready for what I euphomistically call 'The Lunchtime Recital' where I open up any old random playlist and have a blast...No complaints from the neighbours so maybe they enjoy it too...haha, tho with them being old I make sure I do some Sinatra, or old time jazz etc.....I bet none of us can actually quit for good.

That would be a great way of broadening your playlist - take oldies requests from the neighbours

I like the way you frame it btw - 'The Lunchtime Recital'...brilliant !

What's on the playlist at the mo ?

1 hour ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

Now all my time and mental energy is taken up caring for mum who has terminal cancer. Even the thought of gigging or rehearsing leaves me feeling exhausted. 

 

I also wouldn't trust myself to be out in public in my current mental state. As a card carrying misanthrope at the best of times, I think one wrong word right now would lead to me getting locked up. Something I can't afford given my current situation. 

Sounds like tough times for you Andy. Stay strong buddy.

On 11/10/2023 at 16:42, toneknob said:

What do you remember of the day?

I watched the start and the first few hours with my sister and then we got a bit bored and drifted away. I think we tuned in now and again during the day and evening as well.

We enjoyed we saw iirc, but it was very clear early on that Queen were never going to be bettered.

1 hour ago, meterman said:

It’s quite possible that my personal health situation is also a contributing factor to this, but there’s an almost visceral urge within me to let it all just go. I’d bet I’m not the only one on here in a similar situation.

I hope whatever it is isn't too serious. I can see how things can be put into perspective very quickly by health worries.

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3 hours ago, Linus27 said:

Just as a side note, I wonder if its normal for musicians or even people to just totally lose interest in listening to music? I generally for most of the time have music on in the house and in the car all the time and I do flick from listening to lots of Jazz, to then something heavier like Rage, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains to then 80's music and then some of my favourite artists. I then get periods when I want to listen to absolutely nothing, either because I just want the silence or I am just not in the mood for listening to any music at all.

I'm nowhere near as interested than I was. At home I usually have the radio on (usually something non-English language as I can't bear the chatter) but it's largely a bit of company. I used to get up in the morning and put music on all day to listen to, not now.

Mind you, I was a librarian for quite a while - I may have just got used to, and enjoy, silence (or as much as Tottenham will allow) more than I did.

I can quite happily do a 3 or 4 hour soldering session, in front of a PC, with access to any music I like...and do it it total silence, and it not even occur to me to put music on.

😦

Double post, again.

No real news from the 'band' I'm 'in'.

There's still some talk about finding a drummer, but having joinedthis a year ago and got nowhere outside a practice room, I can't see it going anywhere.

I've had the odd noodle on a bass over the last week, just learning some Roxy Music songs for my own amusement...but I still feel less and less like I'm a, I dunno, 'proper'* bass player as time goes by.

It really is quite dispiriting

*Whilst admitting that I'm not sure what that means.

...and looks nothing like a spider.

'Galaxian' bass maybe....

Cool. Glad you managed to way to got it to work for you 👍