Raymondo

Yes ,yes, all well and good but the important thing is... Are they still together?

A friend of mine is the main songwriter/vocalist/lead guitarist in a band that use the phrase " Putting ABBA back into Sabbath" in their marketing for gigs. They do indeed have heavy riffs and harmony vocals in their repertoire...

I'd been struggling to work out how to play songs on bass for ages when one day, for the umpteenth time, I put that track on and somehow just... played along with it. It was my eureka moment. Budgie were my favourite band in the Seventies and Burke inspired me to play bass. He never knew of course but I have had some of the best times of my life playing bass thanks to him.

Hi Blue.... I missed this thread when you posted it. I've not seen any posts of yours for ages (last I heard you were struggling without gigs etc), Mind you I generally hideaway in the DOI thread so it's not surprising. It's good to see that you are doing well. I went down to Stroud to see my favourite band play ( I've not gigged for a few years now ,though that will change this year as I have started an acoustic duo and we have gigs lined up already), The Achievers, our very own @Jack_Stroud_Bass does a brilliant job of holding down the low end. I had a fabulous night. The boys invited me back to "band headquarters" when the gig finished at1.30am for more beer and I staggered back to my hotel at 4.30 am. The gig wasn't too busy, everything felt as safe as it could be, people were respectful of each other ( I nipped off to the loo just before midnight as I hate all that malarkey at the best of times!) and the venue was well organised. Happy new year to you.

Don't tell him P...... oh!

Don't tell him Pike!

Hola Amigo. Say hi to skinny next time you meet.

Haven't found it me self old chap... think I'll mosey off to the Mess. Are the Spuds fully prepared?

Oh it's nothing to do with like or dislike. I find your weird trolling incomprehensible. I have read the whole of this thread and, as a founding member of the DOI, I can report that I find @Osiris ancient Egyptian God's expositions on Wellingborough an easier read. I couldn't care less about the history of funk bass players either... I only came here for the free buffet. Carry on!

Is that the Menu at Meat Dinners "R" Us Restaurant, dining for the road kill connoisseur?

Oh ... Merry Christmas everyone too😁

My Bon homie is stretched to breaking point today.... the bloody once a year drinkers are out in force....f*ck off back home to your cheap Tesco lager and let me get to the bar ya bastids!

One of the most impressive things I saw whilst playing the bases was one at Padeborn in Germany, an "other Ranks" Hawaiian beach party held in December. We got there to find that it was to be held outside in the bloody freezing snow. The stage was a Tank transporter trailer and the ground all around had been covered in tons of sand. The party was brilliant and didn't stop until the early hours of the morning. We emerged from the floor of a Squadie's bedroom ( five of us in the band ... we had arrived too late to get into our hotel!) at 6.30 am to find that there wasn't a grain of sand left to be seen . Amazing organization!

In the late Nineties I played lot's of military bases here in the UK and also in Germany . I can honestly say that I never saw any actual "fights"....lot's of mucking around, acting out bravado but no real fights. In fact I always hated playing Sergeants Mess gigs. they were by far the most ..stuck up their own derrières! Other Ranks .... bloody brilliant laugh... join in with everything and they would always help with the load in/ load out. Officers Mess... jeez ...Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on these guys! But they always treated us well....let us join in the fun after playing and fed us brilliantly. Sergeants mess...what a bunch of stuck up pr*cks they always were... never allowed to mix...stuck away in a changing cupboard with a few stale sandwiches and cans of warm beer...hated them ..in fact we refused to play them after a while because they were always such miserable affairs..

How the heck do you first find out that you can do that?!!!

That's right .

yeah that's the one. I like this 12" single extended version:-

I could never get the hang of keeping the open A going whilst cavorting up and down to/from the dusty end ...best I managed was a kind of one beat thing. The easiest way to play the song though is ... Travel back in time to the early Nineties. Move to Nottingham and get the members of the band "The Diamonds" ( not the famous 'merican one) to pick you instead of me at the audition. Then, when the departed lead guitar player isn't replaced you too can enjoy playing All Right Now to the wonderful audiences at the East Midlands WMC's, with no solo to faff around under! No one cared. Not once did the audience complain ...they just danced to it as they always had!

Movin' on didn't take me long to learn actually...but probably more than one listen.

Yeah and he can do it in one pass. 😉

You don't have to lick the lollipop at the same time Skinny you know?

My Pizz is equally boiled in such circumstances. I don't mind busking them at a jam session in the Dog and Poacher though 😉

We have been having fun tonight commenting on the fact that "we should all be able to play most songs on one hearing" and although on first glance this appears to give credence to that opinion in fact twice during the video he cites occasions where that may not be so true. " the Beatles had 27 number 1's but only used the "common chord progression on one of them ... The guy that's wrote all the hit songs lately( never heard of him and can't be bothered to watch it again) wrote 22 number 1's and only one of them used the famous chords.... That's 47 very popular songs that don't follow a standard pattern! He also tells us to look out for the chord progression in the choruses of many songs ...what about the verses? I believe it's possible to play a semblance of a lot of pop songs on one hearing, but that's a long way from having "learned to play them," and I think it's disingenuous to dismiss people on here as not right for a covers band if they can't play it after one hearing. (Although I quoted your post Skank, my latter statement here is in fact aimed at Tim who espoused the opinion referred to).

Are we not in the DOI? Crumbs, no wonder i don't feel safe.

Yeah but you'll have to read it more than once to nail the timing of the turn!