BassTractor

Aye. The keys/synth fruitcake, like every keys/synth fruitcake, is brilliant, as of course is SpondonBassed. 🙂

Ha. Then imagine the look on the face of this very young female attendant in the record shop back in '69 or thereabouts, when this nerdy looking 12-year-old me, after having listened to one side of Yes' eponymous album answered her question: "Did you like that record?" with a disappointed: "Nah. They sing too much..."

Officially licensed lyrics-deaf, me. Just telling in case @PaulWarning wants to tally all of this.

Look at the picture, fer cryin' our loud! He's a wing/enginecompartment-holdtogetherer! ...and of course he dresses differently during winter flights.

You're gonna reel in a line with an empty hook. @dave_bass5 has no time to argue; he's out leisure-driving the band van today.

Ah! Mike Keneally, a great musician, and has some luvverly albums too. Also one of the loveliest blokes known to mankind. Acts like a normal human. Thanks for posting this link, steve-bbb!

You could just cover your whole body (or rather, roughly 50% of it) with wide black stripes - for example at an angle of roughly 45 degrees. Huh? Not bass related enough? Hammond-Hammond might disagree...

Love the roadworn look, me. Actually, as I'm an organ player by education, I tried to find me a nice 3-manual, 65-stop, road worn pipe organ, but sadly couldn't find one. To this day I can't understand the weird, prejudiced looks I got in every pipe organ builder's office. Sigh...

Don't know the theory about this, but did read that the 1.2V was specifically chosen so as to compensate for the rechargeable batteries' ability to produce a high Amperage. This is done so the Wattage remains roughly the same. I'm sure I'm using the terms amateuristically here, and likely wrong, but also guess that one gets the idea. From what I read, you then wouldn't need 7.5 batteries normally speaking. Though: some gear indeed specifically demands one type, and the manual then warns against using the other.

😄 Perfec!

I've solved that with my BT SmartSwitch(TM). The BT SmartSwitch(TM) is built inside the jack. Just unplug your bass after rehearsal, and the BT SmartSwitch(TM) will automatically disengage the electrickery and, importantly, the battery! Yes, I'm a genius. Ad in Marketplace to follow.

Well, on the other side of the spectrum, the old Korg OASYS cost like £8,000 when it was released, so what are you really comparing to? Me, I'd need quite some convincing before buying a Kurzweil after their history with crappy keybeds and impenetrable user interfaces. Not saying I can't be convinced - just that I need to be convinced. OTOH I'd have bought an original OASYS on the spot if I'd had the money at the time. Of course, these days one can buy a Fantom, Kronos or Motif for considerably less, but still. Is it worth £3,000? Probably. But as the market segment is tiny, it's bound to be somewhat overpriced, but not by that much. A Waldorf Quantum is more expensive than that. Haven't looked up its direct competitors, but feel secure they're not that far apart. To me personally, saying yay or nay would depend largely on the quality of the offered keybed, as the last time I bought a really good MIDI set, I paid £2,500 for the keyboard alone and £2,000 for the 19" synth module. That's £4,500 with only one synth engine and no workstation functionality. Totally worth it. IOW, I think it's all about reference frame.

From what I understand - which is little - it's an artificial means of making it look nice. A nice bonus is it's partially seasoning the wood, making it stronger, harder and more stable too. 😉

The Kinks: "Rats" The Beatles: "Blackbird" Ketil Bjørnstad: "Sommernatt ved fjorden" (not well-known, but still radio-friendly enough in the right version)

OMG! 😱 George, Ringo and John is dead?

Needs to be mentioned every so often. Luvverly stuff. I like Moonmadness and even Breathless a lot more than the one I'm commanded by other progsters to love: The Snow Goose.

Yes, luvverly, and cheap as well, but it must be mentioned that its most important capacity always has been that you could ask people if they liked Telemann's "Water Music", and most of them would then try and correct you, saying. "Händel!", uponwhich you could retort, with formal logic: - "You do not really have a telemann on classical music, do you?" Great times! 😉

I'm glad I said my list is valuable only today, as tomorrow I might very well write this exact list! Coincidence? Hardly! 😐

This list is only valuable today. Tomorrow, I'll probably remember some other stuff. Gentle Giant: The Power & The Glory Gentle Giant: Free Hand The Group: Omniphonic Music XTC: probably Nonsuch Yes: Close to the Edge Yes: Relayer Zappa: Läther Zappa: Guitar Zappa: Civilization Phaze III An album with the most soaringly beautiful classical piano music, with some Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin...

I forgot to tell that my ship is loaded with 8,000,000 similar albums, so when it sinks, you just have to stir well, and they will be distributed over the whole planet - - just like people distribute their micro plastic these days. One each! Hardly greedy. 😉 But OK, I'll play according to the rules later. 🙂

One album only for me! It's designed for this very purpose, and IP-guaranteed waterproof. When you open it, in cavities in the cell foam, you'll find ten SSD-upgraded iPods, a charger, a wall outlet, a wall and an electricity factory. I digress. You wanted to know what I'll bring. OK, I'll bring - Medieval and Renaissance, - Baroque, - Classical including "Rococo", - Romantic, - Post-Romantic - WW2, - Contemporary classical - the so-called "avant-garde" stuff - on 2 iPods, - Pop, rock, alternative, world, unclassifiable and Dance music, - Prog, - Country & Western, including Country Rock and historical styles. Gimme a few minutes for a complete song list.

Oh! Haven't heard that for forty to fifty years. I do like a bit of Telemann, so it's playing on YT now. Thanks for mentioning it.

CD: Joni Mitchell: a live thing where she reportedly sings Both Sides Now well before she wrote it. Download: Lutz: "Nowherebound" Tool: "Fear Inoculum" Georgian State String Quartet: "Miniatures for string quartet".

NSFLAWMILF (not safe for lazy afternoons with mother-in-law's family), but the idealistic organisation Fück For Forest have done "what it says on the tin" on stage as part of a Norwegian rock show I attended. One could google this organisation and visit their website, but one would have been warned appropriately. 😐 Now, I don't mind nudity at all, and am more "shocked" by some of the responses in this thread, but I do admit that a lot of on-stage nudity simply has no relevance whatsoever above trying (I'd say failing, but this thread proved me wrong) for a shock effect. Norwegian band Turbonegro's singer had this tendency to pull his trousers down and stick a cake fountain firework thingie up his behind before litting it. Some people loved it. Some people were shocked. I was bored, as it left the show without musical drive and didn't offer anything in compensation.

I notice you notice stuff I don't notice. It's the war wound from my classical days: tending to think of one composer rather than of a cooperation between band members, and of the dynamics of band life. IOW this is not stuff I can hope to have a contribution to. But you're right, of course! 😁😁