BassTractor

35 minutes ago, funkgod said:

Rant now over,,,,

Twas essential info for those not yet aware of these things.
Good you posted it.

Recently mentioned in another thread, but stuff like "Livin' it Up" by Bert Kaempfert.
Easy Listening in style, incredibly cheesy, and still just wow.
 

Also this Mantovani thing called "Charmaine".
...and since I now speak of what is essentially ballroom or lounge music:
almost the complete output by Max Raabe, with songs like "In meiner Badewanne bin ich Kapitän" (in my bathtub, I am the captain 😀 )

3 hours ago, TheGreek said:

No, no, NOOOOO!!

No no no no, no no no no,
no no no no, no no no no,
no no no no, no no no no,
no no no no, no no no no Superma'an ...

Laurie Anderson: "O Superman (for Massenet)"

Focus: "Hocus Pocus"
 

I offer you: Ekseption.
Half their output were pop songs based on classical themes, with jazz impros in the middle. Based on tackiness, they still knew what music was, and were great players to boot.
Have no sound on my laptop, and can only hope the vid shows the correct song, IMHO a well-crafted reworking of a Beethoven melody.

BTW, the other half of their output, their own songs, to me are sometimes very forgettable, and sometimes as intensely beautiful today as they were fifty years ago.

2 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

It's not the hair that counts ...

Gail Ann Dorsey - simply the greatest haircut in bass.
IMHO
 

IMHO the phenomenon "spice girls" is one thing, but the actual compositions is something else.
I still think their first album had a few cracking pop songs. Don't remember which ones, and I haven't played it for years, but still.
Their second album OTOH bored me to tears.

Not necessary though.
In my municipality, they solved this without even trying:
😀
 

This is a pic from 1968 from a local "beat festival". Along one side of a 100 yards long cattle market hall, a stage was raised, and each band got their allotted yards of it. The audience just moved from band to band.

Incidentally, the band playing in the pic, Spacial Concept (not Special Concept), has bass player Cyriel Havermans, who later joined Focus and at some point started to use the Cyril moniker.

Edit: first now I see the stage was on more sides. Never saw the drum set.

 

3 hours ago, MartinB said:

Again, please don't click on that second link!

Demn you! 
I clicked the first link.
It ruined my life!

Following the pattern set out in the OP,

I didn't buy:
Steve Morse: "Stand Up" (didn't know about it until a few years ago)
Art Zoyd: "Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer" (should've been autobuy after "Les espaces inquiets")
Sonic Youth: "Bad Moon Rising" (still haven't heard it, which is weird)
Megadeth: "Killing Is My Business ..." (dunno why not)
Metallica: "Ride the Lightning" (bought later than "...and Justice for All")

... but did buy:
Dire Straits: "Brothers in Arms"
Phil Collins: "No Jacket Required"

The latter two became insufferable to me after just a few listens, but happily, good relationships with the record shop meant I was allowed to swap them. Nice.
 

In 1985 I had trouble finding good-to-me new music, and I felt the 80s were becoming a lost decade.
Then this arrived:

Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti.

Decade saved
(and I found a lot more after this, like Propaganda's A Secret Wish ).

Not helpful either, but if one likes "A Swingin' Safari" then one might also like "Zambezi" and "Africaan Beat" off the same album, and at any rate I'd direct one's attention to "Living it up" from "Living it up!".

On the positive side, this stuff isn't hard to listen to, and you'll be well-protected from anything artsy. 😀
I lurve it.

2 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Nice tort here 🙂

 

With those plectra, it probably plays itself.

5 hours ago, nikon F said:

i want

Renault Projet 900. Haven't read up on them, but it seems there was to be a V8 in that rear (won't work on Projet 900, won't work on Projet 901, won't work on ...
.. but might work on Projet 911 😉).
Different prototypes exist(ed), so you get to choose looks and colour. Give them a call. 😀
 

Back to the OP though, maybe it was thought of as an instrument for the rarity seekers or for the musician on a leash.
The flipping doesn't seem problematic to me. Just sit down. Also, with two band members owning instruments like this, you at the very least can shift roles during songs and make a big point out of it, giving the audience a tiny chuckle. I can see how that could work in the right atmosphere.

Fantastic! I'm ordering.
Only question is whether it will fit in my car.

6 hours ago, King Tut said:

Sometimes we'll be our own support act!

Good thinking.
Don't remember whether we too did this or just contemplated doing it, but I do remember we used a set of names depending on the music.

Possibly not really an alter ego, but IIRC  Ian Anderson told that in the old days they normally were allowed to play at each venue only once, so kept returning to venues by using many different band names - and I think that actually none of those was "Jethro Toe" (possibly Derek Lawrence's attempt to avoid paying for rights).

 

OK, some googling and we now have following rock bands:
Æ is for Ændal
Å is for Årabrot
 

Waidaminnet. If individual artists are allowed, we do have:
Æ is for Æ.
Yup.

Ø is for Østenfor Sol
Sorry, can't remember ones for Æ or Å.
...but I did prolong the thread to at least some degree, didden I?

10 hours ago, such said:

I find this version rather good and avoiding the parody element:

Oh! That's great! 
It actually made me appreciate the song more. Suddenly, that annoying (to me) insistant simplicity in the second down, second up in "Exit light" etc. seems to make sense when placed in this close harmony, whereas in the original, other voices comes in later, at "Take my hand".

Love it. 
Thanks for posting!

@MacDaddy's pic: roughly 1 out of 3, but not all with individual names.
@Dad3353's pic: nearly all, but stumped by a few.
In my defence, I've had three centuries to learn the classical ones.
 

57 minutes ago, itu said:

Dear bro, do you use a tonecable made of tonecopper - or was it coppertone?

Yup! High density tonecopper without sudden bends. If you play really fast, like I do, you don't want some frequencies to lag due to angles and the like.
But we digress. This was about ToneTurtle^[TM].

Never mind the sceptics. They've read chapter 1 in Physics 101 and think they know it all.
Similar to you with your pickguard, I hear clear differences with or without a tuner,
and wonder: what's the best tonetuner?

2 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

My interest in chart music has yet to be aroused

My interest in chart music was aroused when I was aroused...
...and slowly developed the vague notion that "Penderecki",  "Xenakis" and "my book on Flemish Renaissance music" maybe were not the greatest of pick-up lines.