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Whip It - Devo

There's a Guy works down the Chip Shop - Kirsty McColl

And the fact that they're happy to meet up once in a while and muck about a bit explains why there is such a lax attitude to getting stuff tight and accurate. In my experience, learning to play stuff is pretty straightforward but learning to play it accurately and tight can be bloody hard work. Seems they can't be bothered.

Sailing - Christopher Cross

I assume he was using the word 'girly' to denote the higher pitch of the guitar as opposed to the lower pitch of the bass. I didn't get any inference of it being inferior in any way. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough to be offended.

So you're saying that size matters. I'm so offended by this that I'll now have to lie in a darkened room for several months (on full pay naturally), until I hopefully get over it. Otherwise I'll have to try to live with it for the rest of my life. Am I being over sensitive?

The Ugly Bug Ball - Burl Ives

Years (many) ago, I played in a band with a keyboard player who outstayed his welcome. He got sacked. On the bands social media page there was a 'history of the band' section that detailed all of the comings and goings. When it came to that episode it read 'X (no names mentioned) left the band for musical differences. We were musical and he was different'. Still makes me smile 20 years later.

Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown

Walk this Way - Aerosmith

25 or 6 to 4 - Chigago

Pink Cadillac - Natelie Cole

Anybody from our fraternity who hasn't acquired this particular badge or T shirt is extremely lucky. I think that amongst lesser musicians, bass players are generally regarded as the last in the queue when it comes to input or opinions. As such, anything you say tends to be taken lightly, or not taken at all. I've found that throughout my gigging experience (which is quite extensive), that any periods of time that you're not battling some sort of issue or agenda will be fleeting but blissful. I've had occasion at rehearsals to turn my gear off completely because the volume is extreme, and whilst I could easily drown everybody else out it is completely pointless. The one occasion when I did do that though was quite memorable. I've concluded that guitarists and singers are mostly fragile divas with grossly inflated opinions of their own abilities and taste. It's a cross we have to bear, sadly.

Venus and Mars - Wings

Heave Know's I'm Miserable Now - TheSmiths

Politician - Cream

New Pork, New Pork - Frank Sinatra

Crash and Burn - Pat Travers

Looks interesting. I've got a couple of Kokko pedals (looper, exactly the same a s a Ditto, and reverb) and am very impressed with both. They're both well made and for the money I'm very pleased with them.

I personally wouldn't put a compressor in front of anything that was sensitive to the dynamics of the playing. Digging in with drive or envelope filter is very expressive, but compress it and it all gets flattened out and you lose a load of character, in my opinion.

Teenage Kicks - The Undertones

Millenium - Robbie Williams

Hammer to Fall - Queen

Couple of others by Kokko. The Space is a single knob reverb and the SOS is a looper (pretty much identical to the Ditto by TC but a fraction of the price). If you really want cheap pedals though, I'd go for a second hand Zoom B3 where the pedals available on that work out at something like 30p each.

Rabbit - Chas n Dave