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Hadn't noticed before you said so, but they did indeed. As a result, I think it's safe to assume that: 1 - "Costumer Assistant" is correct too. IOW this is a luxury scheme that nobody should not apply for. 2 - They're not on BC. 😉

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Ah. That there Derek Bailey fellow who plays pretentious stuff just because he's unable to write anything of value? The Derek Bailey that Merle Hazard was able to look through in mere milliseconds? That Derek Bailey? 😁 Seriously though, IMS, Derek Bailey knows every style intimately, and can be asked to do just about anything. I hope I'm not mixing up with a different person of roughly his calibre, but if I do then the point still remains: When guys like him choose to make plink plonk screech music, more than anything else, it's their love for music that makes them choose that. They do not throw away their time on pretence or pretentiousness, and why should they... Merle Hazard made a unique and funny vid, and I love it. It really is in the dark to me who is being "spoofed" here, and I believe it's about having fun rather than making fun of. Hazard was being a bit sly with this one, and that's part of the charm for me. The underlying themes though, generally about taking the fun out of music and exchanging it with pretentiousness, while long-lived and probably eternal outside this particular vid (also here on BC), if taken seriously, are simply wrong. Guys like Bach, Webern, Penderecki and Bailey simply exchange simple fun with more demanding fun - fun for different humans with different reference frames and... dare I say it?... different abilities. Nothing wrong with that, even when enough pretenders do exist amongst composers, players and listeners alike.

Same here, and in my case there's a pattern I don't understand fully: - No trouble ever with classical musicians, who are famous for being difficult people. I'm one and I hate us. - No trouble ever with jazz musicians. - No trouble ever with ad hoc ensembles for many types of projects. - Only slight trouble in a multi-style "double band" (just some people not turning up for rehearsal) - Trouble in a few rock covers bands, and it was always just one person who should've been kicked out but wasn't because people were being way too nice and including and tolerating. Worst band mate ever: a three tone solo guitar player in a pop&rock covers band. Our soloist mainly because he could hardly play a chord. This was in a five or six person band with democracy and veto rights for some songs. Planning on entering originals as we were developing as band, with the goal of playing 50% originals. So far so good. Guitar Star kept nagging about that we should exclusively play The Shadows covers, and that, as he was the guitar solo star, we others all had to indulge. After all, when five or six people get together, Guitar Star automatically is the owner leader of the band, right? No reasoning with him had any effect, ever. People lost the will to live, but still were way too nice, and tried to keep him in the band when he threatened to leave. My head exploded. BTW, today, 35 years later, when I meet one of the band members, there is no chance they will not talk about Guitar Star's antics. When people on a bass forum ask about the worst band mate ever, there's no chance I can resist the urge to relay the story. Made an impression, he did.

Grew up listening to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, and from August 1963 tried to warn the grown-ups against that simplistic "She Loves You" music, strongly advising them to rather listen to the music of the greats. BUT WOULD THEY HEAR OF IT? 🤣 The rest of the story involves electronic classical music and other pretentious stuff before Prog opened the road to popular music in general, and Jaco and Stanley Clarke opened the road to all jazz for me. Long story short, my deep love for Ol' Atonal Music never diminished, but more and more stuff was added to it, and these days I'll listen to anything from traditional North Indian music to death metal to bluegrass to minimal music to opera to Goa trance to... Through many decades my record collection has seen a consistent ratio: 3 classical albums for every 2 prog albums and 1 jazz album, plus very few albums that are not in one of those three genres. My deepest, deepest love probably is for Bach and Penderecki, but if forced to choose just one style, I'd probably take no Bach to a desert island (just play it in my head), and maybe I'd leave the Penderecki at home too and just take all my prog albums instead.

😃 Now THAT would be great, if true. I'm not bothered enough to play Webern's complete works (just 6 LPs IMS) in order to check, but I hope this is true. Must say I remain sceptical though.

Does everything sound wrong to you or just the atonal bits played on the banjo or just the bits that are not the banjo solo? 😃 Without studying the score, I'm convinced the banjo player just plays some random notes to illustrate (I know there's a better word) what "atonal music" is perceived to be by many. The rest of the song sounds all wrong to me personally for quite different reasons, and in my ears it's written either as a spoof of bluegrass* music, or written by someone unable to write a good song in that style. *) I'm using the term bluegrass without checking whether this song might fall into that category.

Am I deaf? I hear that as a whole step, but saw the same half step claim in the YT comments. But yeah, lovely spoofing, putting in the key change after a bit of Cage.

I think I get where you're coming from. To me, the first part is more annoying than anything else, but I stuck with it because of my source, and they took me with the "Ahaa" over the banjo, the producer and engineer dancing, the closing of the piano lid so as to perform some "atonal" Cage, and the "emotion is for simple folk; art should be arcane". BTW, I suppose this is just some innocent having fun. If they wanted to make fun of anyone, it's not the avant-garde that's the "victim" of the mockery here.

This is the last time I listen to your advice! 😡 ...and relax... Silver lining: already looking into buying a new Kindle and a new MP3 player.

Now the song is as bland as they come, and I'm being very polite here, but I still liked this a lot. Enjoy!

"I Don't Believe in Miracles" - The wonderful song by Colin Blunstone from his 1972 album "Ennismore". - The powerful song, but different in every respect, by historically important christian artist Larry Norman from his 1969 album "Upon This Rock".

Indeed it does. Should've been in the "Depressing things your bandmates say when your setlist is depressing enough in itself" thread.

Not to my knowledge, and we had a thorough look into The Police tribute band names before settling for our own name: Accidentally Falling Down a Staircase.

Yes, it does happen sometimes, but when I then remember again, I just play my part from the very beginning but slightly faster, always making sure that I'm back in sync again just before the song finishes. Sadly not everyone in the band understands or appreciates this very demanding and highly musical approach, but I think they too will develop given time. I know the singer will. In fact she's already come far!

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4-0-0-3, but then again we're called The Rickenbackers (as the other three guys have the surname Hall) 😐

I'n on the fence in this. Never liked "Sie liebt dich, jawohl, Herr Obersturmtruppenführer, jawohl, Herr Obersturmtruppenführer, jawohl, Herr Obersturmtruppenführer", but could appreciate the English version "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah".

Thanks for posting! I'd forgotten about him and badly need to revisit. Sorry to see the fans never forgave Len for doing the Cottage Delights Jam ad in the seventies. 😉

Yes, that is a serious option. Last time I tried Audacity, admittedly long ago, it would allow you to chop off bits of indescript length. You might need a paid version to be allowed to store the result as an mp3 though. There's a workaround in you just play the track in some sort of player, and record the first bit into something else, like a pedal for one shot stuff or a Waldorf Quantum or a Synclavier or... 😁 As to the drums in the background: So What? I don't see any need to try and edit them out. It's just a sample. The drummer doesn't even need to cue in, IMHO.

Just having listened to the effect, I now think they used the Yamaha organ after all (and my doubt was about me forgetting I'd never owned organs with that sound character). It would be easy to reproduce on many synths with the mod wheel set to one or two octaves (haven't checked the exact amount, but one of them should do), and have the base organ sound as one of those sixties combo organs, which means a bit sharp and raspy. Since you ask about an mp3, you could easily make an mp3 yourself by importing the song into Audacity or similar, and remove everything that is not the intro. It's as easy as making a statue of an elephant! (*) 😉 . . (*) For the uninitiated: you start with a large block of granite, and then simply chop away anything that doesn't resemble an elephant. Done.

In the vids, Donny playbacks on a Yamaha YC-30 indeed. Remarks by the band suggest that the same organ was used during the recording of the song, but I've always felt doubtful as I've never been able to recreate the sound on Ribbon Controller-equipped organs, and have never heard anyone else do it. Can't help with an mp3. Sorry.

OK then: Yes, I have indeed played in several pubs. No, I wasn't recognised. 😐

Haaaahahaha! Afrikaans is a master language (as seen by a Dutch boy like me).

Swedish band Komeda. Their first album "Pop på svenska" was kinda like pop... erm... in Swedish.