BassTractor

Thanks again, Rob, and thanks for your very kind offer! There's no need to take you up on that offer, though. See, I should've been more clear: what you see in the vid has little to do with the bond I own. - The vid shows the product as it's sold: cheap Chinese factory atoms and bonds made from an unknown but clearly diffent material. - My supersized bond (5 inches maybe) was ordered by my daughter from a lovely geek firm in the USA, who 3D printed it based on an adaptation of her CAD file. Only one copy exists, and no more can be ordered. As a result of your remarks I now feel more confident trying some two-component epoxy in a little corner, just to see if it will stick. If it does, I think I might fill the halves over time. At any rate I'll try and make a wooden filling as a possible alternative. all the best, bert

Thanks, Rob. Highly appreciated. Dunno whether it helps though. Does this mean gluing PETG gives an indication about how the glue might perform on other materials? I've contemplated filling the halves with epoxy, but there again haven't found articles stating it can be done with any of these materials Might end up making a wooden shape that fits inside, and use no glue. I can't risk damaging the halves, as no new ones will be bought. best, bert

Folks, does a glue exist that will stick to all or most of the common types of material used in 3D printing? Dunno which material I have. See, I have a non-solid object in two printed halves, and the halves have deformed. I wish to fill these halves with a weighty material that also brings them back to shape (the latter part is easy), and glue everything together. I've contemplated not gluing, but see before my inner eye that the two halves will show. The object is an invention by my daughter, and I want to display it in a nice display case. My object is a supersized version of the black bond like in the vid, as said non-solid, and was printed in a matte black material, of which I have no info. Thanks! bert

Yeah, and I'm similarly quite annoyed I let you have my perty bass! 😁

Don't enjoy having to say this, but a nonsense generator that refers to Baudrillard is not a nonsense generator I'm gonna trust or respect. Sorry, but that's the truth. 😉

Soft Machine at one point were identical to a previous or later line-up of another band. IMS no records exist with this line-up. Still cool. (We might be talking about Nucleus here, but I forgot the details and don't know whether the post-"Bundles" / pre-"Softs" line-up has actually been a real Nucleus line-up even though they were all Nucleus guys.)

Zappa: "Hey, Princy! Could I get lessons from you? You know, I can't get to grips with this I, IV, V, I stuff that's so popular these days. With teaspoons, eh? I'm a bit slow." 😉

Quite possibly I'm with one foot in several camps. I think his musicality is exquisitely refined, but his output seems to me to not reflect a lot of depth and also to bring much sameness. I think he could be a lot more interesting if he wanted to, but maybe he didn't want to. Bought and enjoy "Around the World in a Day", and enjoyed "Sign o' the Times", which seemed interesting, but haven't listened to it more than a few times, so it might grow on me more if I listened more and more closely. Don't really know much of his other stuff, but again and again record live shows from the tv, and then delete them quickly again. BTW, really can't stand that Purple Rain melody snippet "purple rain, purple rain" (1-2-3----, 3-2-1----), and duck and cover when it comes on somewhere. Oh, the fave! I forgot. This version of Raspberry Beret may be as good as any.

Hm. Dunno about this one. That bass sounds kinda ... pink to my ears. 😁 Thanks for posting! (I don't know whether it's Ida Nielsen; just saw her mentioned.)

Aye, and, if memory serves, Godley and Creme not only recognised that but also used it as a reference when explaining their variant.

Yeah, the Gizmotron was Godley and Creme before they became Godley & Creme. I think they may still have been in 10CC then. It's mechanical, but with that same make-the-strings-vibrate thing going on. IMS the bowing wheels had a button each, close to the bridge.

I lost interest at "I". I really hate people starting their sentences with "I". I'm a man of principle, I.

Different strokes for different folks, I gather, as I loved the sound of this right from the start, in no minor part due to that autotune or whatever it is. While the notes themselves do little for me, the way this was recorded grabbed me and made me listen right to the end. BTW, Blue, did you use two basses for the recording as well, or just for the vid?

You can either listen to your own thoughts and the wisdom already expressed, or ... ... just shove it through Autotune and be a star like Cher!

Some people are wary about giving out their banking details, but they needn't be. Not only is it safe, but also: how do you pay the plumber's bill that has banking details printed on it? One of the safest methods if not the safest one. ...but: Doncha UK guys have an app these days, paying from bank account to bank account by use of phone numbers instead of banking details? With such an app, the seller immediately sees that the money's indeed in. As it's the same principle as above, this money can't be retracted. In Norway, sellers routinely demand the app, as it does away with the risk of counterfeit money ... and in Covid times it also reduced bug risks.

Yeah, isn't that just how things work? I do like both, but a lot of work seems to have gone in the Homeball one, and it seems you have been taking care of every aspect, but still the radio decided like it did. I saw some of the same patterns in the classical world that I stem from. One example: a stellar soprano who was a tiny little girl and got no work, whilst a classmate of hers, with a good-sounding voice but rather shallow interpretation, got all the work. Why? Looks! (To the degree no-one would ever believe the one with the work had actually been my girlfriend. 😄 ) BTW, I also liked "You Don't Scare Me, Livingstone" a lot. (Just a shame they stole an avatar for it. Naughty.)

May well be, but you need a film maker to use that one 👍

Yup. Or what you do next. People already mentioned joking about it, and I remember Dutch classical pianist Daniël Wayenberg, during a light-hearted Sunday afternoon gig, crawling under the grand piano to collect the wrong notes - formal tail coat and shiny shoes 'n' all. 😃

It is, but it ain't "one" either. I care, and I like it. Now this thread wasn't for critiquing other people's music, but I do think @snorkie635 and the lads could've recorded and released this officially and it could've been a hit too. Nothing wrong with the song; "everything" wrong with what makes or breaks a hit. When I started the thread, I was originally thinking of music that could never be a hit (like classical, jazz, experimental etc), but changed my scope before writing the OP, and hoped many would feel at home in the thread, like people who could've had a hit but didn't. From what I've heard up to now (I can play most of the YT vids on my tv, and none of the rest), many kinds of music are represented, which is good in my book. Keep'em coming!

@Dad3353, I'd love to hear that, but still have no sound in my laptop. I forgot that little bit when starting the thread. 😟 😄

Might as well throw in some classical. (Admittedly, you might see it in a classical list ... in a very good year.) This time, I don't even know whether I'm on it or not; it depends on when it was recorded and on who you ask.

Sparked by the one-hit wonder thread, I thought it could be interesting with a thread for music you'll never see in the lists. I thought we had a thread, but can't find anything like it. I'll kick off with music composed and recorded by others. I just was in this band after they didn't have a hit ... and remained hitless even though I joined them. 😁 Dutch band The Group: "Ballad of Hathor" from "Omniphonic Music", 1975. Not their most marked song, but the only one I could find.

Still had it going in the '80s myself, and lurved it: a lot easier than playing blues, and with more chords to boost. Win win.

'40s without any doubt, even though I wasn't a teenager back then. I mean: Musical Offering, Art of Fugue, St John Passion, Mass in B minor ... ... the list goes on and on!

Delia Derbyshire must've written some of the first electronic music I heard as a boy, but I thought they were sound effects, not music. However, being the sensitive and inquisitive lad back then, I thought about it for a minute and told Mum that one could write music like this. That's when I learned that I'm crazy and need to be in a ward somewhere. Hm. She probably still thinks that, so BC is not alone! 😄