Zenitram

I would put up Wombling Merry Christmas here, but that would just end the thread. Possibly all threads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q

There.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbS9Yr559pU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xfVlp5WsYs

The best funk is totes xenophilic.

Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, perhaps?

https://www.gumtree.com/p/recorders/h4-zoom-recording-device/1143057218

Not mine. I'm a bit far away and don't need it, otherwise I'd buy it.

I have one of these and it is very good:

http://triggera.com/kick-pedal-trigger

In fact I'm afraid you're being disruptive and we're going to have to ask you to disembark. Now. The authorities have been informed.

Where in south London?

He's playing [b]over the top of the original drums[/b]. So for there to be a point, he has to do wibbly stuff, add flavour to it. I bet he'd wouldn't ever say or claim or think that this is how the drum part should actually be played on Thriller, or a cover of Thriller, by anyone.

It's no different to any other musician asked to improvise or play around the groove of an existing song, where the instrument said musician is playing is already in the song. As bassists, what would you do? You'd wibble about all over the tune, probably with some quite busy licks, to justify doing the exercise in the first place. You wouldn't play the bass line, because it's already there. That's not the point of the piece.

And I liked the dry sound of his drums, very much (but that doesn't mean all drums should always sound like that, or always be played like that, or that a different sound wouldn't work).

And let's also consider the fact that "Simple Minds The Stranglers" is actually an anagram of [b]Tightness Reprimand Smells[/b].

Also: Simple Minds were originally a punk band called Johnny and the Self-Abusers.

Strymon OB-1. Sounds fab (but then it should).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OVi8g-6oM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZeHNvB9IfM

The genius pairing of Captain Sensible and Tony Mansfield.

Unrelated, but my girlfriend (an actor) is going nuts about [i]Hamilton[/i], the 'hip-hop' musical about the US founding father Alexander Hamilton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp9HUc9HraQ&list=PL3gFc2UA55bvj3kSR9IQpsE9hwWmzTug5

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vic-Firth-American-Hickory-Drumsticks/dp/B0021VGPNW

They don't make much of a difference, to be honest, but that may be because they're so thick (they don't seem to make them in 7A).

Now have any of you been to Johnson's of Leeds military surplus shop? That place is crazy. It used to have a white UN tank or something parked outside. For sale. And it's located round the back of the empty car park of a grim industrial estate, the kind of place you'd take someone to shoot them and dump the body. I see the website has various missile parts for sale, which is nice.

Not my photo, I should make clear. Not sure which pub you mean, sorry.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1442338712' post='2866209']
Years ago (30 plus) in Leeds there were a number of Second Hand shops, on Briggate and Boar Lane are two I can easily recall.[/quote]

And Boar Lane looked like Brooklyn back then, but nobody realised.

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D'you know, I'm such an idiot that using an insert cable had never occurred to me, but it makes perfect sense. How funny that you can be looking at something and still not really see it.

For that you win a picture of my cat Cosmo!

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Great work!

Late to the party, planer, but you still win a picture!

Thanks Slippery!

You win this picture of a cat having a swim!