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[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1436805251' post='2820947']
On the other hand I've spoken to people who'd worked on the same bill as him who said the opposite. I guess this is the problem with 'known' people. You catch them on a bad day and they can get tarnished with it as a generalisation in next to no time.
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Drummer with one of my old bands worked with him a few years ago, said not only was he a really nice guy, but a surprisingly good guitar player as well.

As has been said, you can catch someone on a bad day, and being a nice guy doesn't mean they suffer fools gladly.

I have heard that Joe Brown - my 1st guitar hero - is a nice bloke. But I heard of him shouting at a guitar player at a rehearsal " Turn it f***in down, I'm the star here, people are coming to see me not hear you" Which is harsh, but also fair comment. Isnt it ?

[quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1436785243' post='2820647']
Was he having cuppa soup for his breakfast?
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Washed down with a kipper tie ?[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1436781705' post='2820594']

What about the 1975 hairdo?
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I always thought it was a combover, probably why he wears a hat these days

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1436723080' post='2820234']
For those of us that are very active in bar band business it's actually a valid and good business model.

Blue
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Cant argue with that. Its just not the English way.

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1436707919' post='2820068']
If you see the rock and roll show footage of the Wembly show from the early 70s you can spot a long haired Wilco Johnson in Chucks band..
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And in Heinz's. One of the best lines I've heard from Wilco was when he said Heinz was a talent free zone.

I have a great early 60s live CB album 'Chuck Berry on stage 'All the tracks are just studio versions with applause dubbed on. Which gives me the impression that he wasnt that great a live player even back then..

Still without what he wrote, most people agree Rock n Roll would have been very different. Have you ever wondered how it would have gone though ?
Would all the modern greats, as kids all have taken up Piano instead, and tried to sound like Jerry Lee, or like my other hero Little Richard ?


Or maybe tried to emulate Pat Boone ... errm.. Nah !

I been a Chuck Berry fan since I got my first LP - as they were called then - which was the Stones first one, and of of my sisters boyfriends, realising that at 11 is was already into R&B played me some Chuck.

Never seen him live, but I think the reason some people dont get it when they see him on TV is probably that the atmosphere is missing. Rock n Roll aint about perfection is it ? Although some of the live CB I've seen is pretty bad, I still cant help but break out into a grin watching him.

The story I heard from a guy who reckoned he'd been in one of the bands he'd used. Was that Chuck turned up alone in a cab with just a guitar and demanded cash up front before he went on. He hardly spoke to the band, no set list, more or less just " when I stamp my left foot its the end of the song" Trouble was, some of the songs were in different keys to the records, and the intros were all but unrecognisable.

At the end he thanked them, didnt give them anything, and left in a cab

Yep, Mighty Mite Lic by Fender neck I bought off ebay years ago now is good. The guy even put a Fender decal on it

I put a £30 MM Jazz neck on a east European precision copy fitted some Kent Armstrong pickups and the jobs a good un, very heavy, but a great bass that cost me less than £100 all in.

On the downside, I usually have to tweak the truss rod when the wet winter comes, but have had to do that with my Fenders sometimes as well.

Its been done though.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1436540272' post='2819021']
Not as underused as its synonym, 'cuspidor'. As in:

[i]Toreador don't spit upon the floor[/i]
[i]Use the cuspidor[/i]
[i]That's what it's for.[/i]
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Wot. For keeping cigars moist ?

Someone told me the spitoon joke on my first day at work when I left school nearly 48 years ago. I still remember it, and it still makes me heave...

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1436545022' post='2819076']
Or maybe that he doesn't dribble whilst he's playing?
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Hope not, wot with him bein a naturist in the lemonrock photo.
Is your drummer happy with sharing a stool ?

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1436445940' post='2818199']


The acid test is do they buy James Last records? If the answer is yes, ignore them.
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[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1436443723' post='2818178']
I think it's to do with fasting Muslims not being allowed to swallow anything during daylight hours - even their own saliva...
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Thanks.

I honestly didnt know whether to believe him or if he was winding me up a bit as revenge for me telling him it was both Kilroy Silk and Enoch Powells old school. Half of which is true...

But spitting out a bit of saliva is not the same as hawking up a green ernie is it ? Either way, spitting does help spread TB so I dont see why other arrangements couldnt be made.

I dont do facebook myself, but if your interested, theres a facebook group titled something like 'Give Norman Watt Roy a Knighthood Now'.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1436286102' post='2816758']

Sorry guys, just not into bands like that, they have no credibility with me and as you can probably guess they were not very good in my opinion.

Blue
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This.

No problem with the doing it for fun. But they shouldn't expect to be taken too seriously except by guitar shops, where they can usually be found buying whatever expensive gear is recommended by glossy magazines.

I do have a problem with them if they are playing for free though. But that thread has been done to death on here more than once hasnt it

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1436039720' post='2814566']
Everyone has on opinion, and is entitled to share it.


There's someone on here who I'm ignoring at the moment, he used an error of mine as the basis for a smart and sarcastic post. He obviously thought himself too clever to apologise.


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Wasnt me was it ?

If you dont reply then I'll take that as a yes and guess your ignoriing me for something I dont remember.

Opinions are like arseholes, we all got one, but its usually safer to keep it out of sight.

I worked for a while at one of the schools in Brum that were involved in the Trojan Horse cover up a few months ago. The caretaker was complaining that the kids are allowed to flob IN the school during Ramadam, but he was refusing to clean it up.

Appy polly logies if its a stupid question, but why during Ramadam ? In most schools kids just gob on the playgrounds anyway these days.

Is it still against the law ? When I were a lad you could be, and people were, fined for it.
Part of the fight against TB dont you know.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1435674790' post='2811288']
Depends how old you are but I always nip for a pee before going onstage. Nothing worse than getting halfway through a set and getting *that* feeling.
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This + dont drink too much + check your flies + if you can, look in a mirror just before you go on.
When your on, try and look the part, keep your head up and dont hide.

Dont worry about stage moves just yet, but remember that unless you exaggerate every move or expression nobody will notice.

If you hit a bum not or fluff a line or anything like that, forget it and press on. Odds on nobody will have noticed it, and if you think about it too much, apart from being a distraction it will spoil the gig for you.

Liked.

[b]But who the hell is Peppy Pig ?[/b]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ZsWENob1s

Does it have to be whistling, this is mad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXuJsjXbEoE

Wilko Johnsons Barbed Wire Blues.

Easy enough to wing it and bluff when gigging, but I cant get anywhere near the studio version.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1435059966' post='2804975']
In an interview with Derek Pippin published in Kreem magazine in 1972 Bill Wyman insisted that the lyric is 'sidecar raver sinks his dong all night' - a reference to the band's early days when he - Wyman - would transport himself to gigs on an Ariel Arrow motorcycle and sidecar combination.

Upon leaving the gig with female company Mr Wyman would repair to a layby on the Western Avenue near Denham where - being of sufficiently diminutive stature - he would engage in sexual congress in the sidecar. This arrangement continued until March 1964 when Wyman bought his first car (an Austin A40).

(Reproduced from 'Bill Wyman - Minute By Minute: 1962-1982' / Rocco Siffredi / Backdoor Press)
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Having read Wymans autobiography a few years back, I'd take anything he said about his pulling power with a pinch of salt.

Also having been a fan of Ariel Arrows back in the day - they were pretty fast for a 250 of the time & with a few tweaks went really well, I never saw one with a sidecar. They didnt have a conventional frame, so dont see how you could fit one to be honest, and even a shorthouse with a very small girl would need to be a contortionist.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1434976161' post='2804285']
Don't know who Keef is but this is the perfect explanation for me


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Never heard Midnight Rambler either ? Feast on this, my favourite version....

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN2cWWUHa5g"]https://www.youtube....h?v=EN2cWWUHa5g[/url]

Maybe we are all thinking differently here. Put it this way, if Keef plays Midnight Rambler with a Strat, then I play Midnight Rambler with a Strat, the two would sound very different. Thats whats in the fingers.

If Keef plays Midnight Rambler with a Strat, then plays it with a Les Paul and a cheap woolies amp, the two would sound different, but thats the gear.

Nobody, but nobody would ever play it like Keef, which is why I used it as an example.