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Great, great stuff! Here's another rare one: the triangular cover for Willem Breuker and Leo Cuyper's "Live in Shaffy", IMHO beautifully designed by Ger van Elk. IMHO, sadly the pics don't do it justice. It's also about the quality of the materials and the inks used, just like in @bartelby's Ufomammut example. I've had this one on the wall for decades - as a piece of art.

That, dear sir, is as invigoratingly unacceptable as a good joke in a bad jokes thread! 😡 😂

@bartelby Wow. Just wow! Thanks!

Another special one where the idea seems to trump the demands on prettiness: "Pool" by Norwegian rock band Bever. This is how to design a cover when you're skint (though the iron was slightly warm for my tastes):

As per the title, I guess. Many record covers exist that are sublime in many ways, and many of these are also very well known. I was thinking we could delve into and post really unique covers that we love, but that are NOT very well known. Lemme start: Like Yes had Roger Dean, Swedish band Bob hund (stylised "bob hund") has their record cover designer in Martin Kann. For bob hund's officially untitled 1996 record, the cover read: "cover: Martin Kann" in Swedish, and indeed a photo of Martin Kann graced the cover. Ingenious, I though, and highly original. Of course, the record is now generally known as "Omslag: Martin Kann". I'll indulge in another one, also by bob hund: In 2011, their record "Det överexponerade gömstället" came with slightly different covers on CD and vinyl, one of them being of a yellow sticky note just stating: "I have no ideas for a cover. Sorry, Martin" 😁

A professional beggar, according to Wiktionary. Whoda thought! 🙂

Nice music. Cool thread title.

I'll never be able again to pull out my picture of a Daimler DS420 hearse when questions like this are asked. You won! 😊

We had a five piece ensemble and noticed a pattern: it would often be difficult to say yes to gigs due to prior obligations for some of us. We were all busy musicians with lots of commitments and depping. Our solution was to build a double quintet: two of each. If you hired us, you'd get a quintet consisting of the ones that were available on that night. Anyway, on most of our rehearsals, eight people turned up: two bassists, two keyboard players, etc... and... you guessed it... zero drummers. That very sadly was the end of our fantastic scheme.

My condolences to Colin's family and friends. He was an important BC member for me when I started on BC. I'd noticed he posted less the last couple of years, but had no idea it might be related to his health. A sad loss. Rest in peace, Colin.

🤣 (Though I didn't click on that link. Why? Didn't need to. Still have them in stock, five years after closing my kayaking firm. Very practical product, but nobody ever bought one - not online and not even from my wife, who to some degree resembled a woman.) As to GuitarChat, I think it would be a good idea if we all were to post there often, and show a particular interest in the B-string, especially when talking about fingering. ...which brings us nicely back to KazooChat.

Most people here can't play the bass for life, but that doesn't stop them. In fact, if they'd spent their 10,000 hours not on BC but on practising, all things would've been different many places. (Yes, I knooow what I'm talking about. 65,000 hours ago, I decided to read something on BC...) 😁

We wouldn't know, would we? It would be helpful though if someone could finally post a photograph of him. 😂

Yes, but with the caveat that the physical connector must be protected. It's not really made-for-live equipment like an XLR. Also, running newer software on older hardware has the same disadvantage as always, also on Apple gear.

🙂 You're not alone. Me, I sometimes have to check the initialism. That I remember for some reason. 😕 As to Chris Squire, I knew about him before I heard the first song. I read a lot back then, and bought NO albums coz I didn't have pocket money, and had read about a promising band called Yes with THE Chris Squire in it. Never having heard about the man or The Syn, I still was interested because of that article. "Yes", whilst nice to hear, contained too many lyrics for my young ears, but by "Time and a Word", I'd given up any hopes of only playing instrumental albums forever. Then "The Yes Album" removed all doubt. "Roundabout" was the first song that made me realise just how exquisite his bass parts were. The rest is history.

So is mine in a way. It's my cousin. Me, I'm blue and rusty.

Didn't know that, but then I always preferred James Newton Howard & Friends as a far better band than Toto. 😉 Back to Yes though, whilst I do love TfTO, it has many parts where it feels as if they have no clue as to where they're going. Also, the taking up themes from one movement in later ones never felt as making the unity strong on this one.

From Wikipedia: Michelle Lynn Johnson, better known as Meshell Ndegeocello (/mɪˈʃɛl ndɛˈɡeɪoʊtʃɛloʊ/; born August 29, 1968), is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist. She has gone by the name Andrew M.L.J. Gowing which is used as a writing credit on some of her later work.[1] Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career,[2][3] and although she has never won a Grammy Award, she has been nominated ten times.[4] She has been credited for helping to have "sparked the neo-soul movement."[5] So I think it's safe to say he does look like that. Me, I'm confused by these modern gender things. Sigh. Getting old. 😉

🙂 Yup.

From what you've told so far, I still gather your best option is a sound module. There must be modules on the market that are aimed at your type of band, i.e. with piano, electric piano, organ and some fave synth presets. You wrote about a "good" piano etc., and I think it's essential to define what "good" is, as quality comes at a price. From how I understand you, you're probably looking at an OK-it-sounds-cheesy-but-we-only-make-50-quid-a-night!-module. However, a used module like a Yamaha MU128 (£250 used on Amazon UK) might be a solution. See vid below. As to Android apps, I'm wary of that idea for now: - For one, you're already using an app for driving your desk. How are you gonna control two apps at the same time? - Another thing is that Android traditionally was not the natural habitat for synth apps and the like (the iPad is), but I know things have changed to some degree. You could have a look at Bebot and Caustic 3, for example. A search should give some more results.

I hear there's a song called "Take Four", which is written in 4/4. Clever. No changes though, but then again we're on BC. 😉

You've made your choice, and I respect it. It's bloody stupid, but I bloody respect it. Also, it's absurd, but I respect it. Oh, and it's treason worse than betraying your country. but I respect it. ... Please stay? 😉 Seriously though, if you do not wish to stay-on-BC-and-just-use-the-C-only, which still is a good option, then I wish you all the very best with your endeavours! all the best, bert

Hehe. Me too, but let's just be grateful hundreds of fiddles and mandolins burned. All part of God's plan! PS and BTW in the interest of full disclosure: I own a fiddle, and a mandolin is the very next instrument I'm gonna buy. But still... 😉

As you seem to indicate, I was wise when demanding a 4-manual, 65 stop organ, and not a 1-manual, 6-stop one.

No such thing as a left-handed 4-manual 65 stop pipe organ. No such thing as a left-handed triangle. No such thing as a left-handed crash cymbal. Glad to be of service. 😉