Len_derby

Thanks for all the feedback and info chaps. As someone said above, a lot of these players are still around and active. However, the longest serving bassist, Hugh Hopper, died in 2009. It's all great stuff. Very English and eccentric. Everyone else in the house hates it though.

I'm really enjoying listening to Soft Machine albums 3 to 7, which I bought for a £10 all together. They're in the 'Original Album Classics' series by Columbia. I haven't listen to some of the this stuff for nigh-on 30 years. Can anyone recommend any books about the band and the Canterfbury Scene they were part of?

Well done 'Shell. I remember your first posts last year. Onwards and upwards!

Welcome Dan. Have fun.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1328453923' post='1527218'] What does great musicianship mean in the context of a tribute band? On the one hand, I would expect APF's guitarist to be able to play exact, note perfect, feel perfect, expression perfect renditions of Gilmour's playing. On the other hand, [b]if he's that good, what's he doing pretending to be someone else?[/b] [/quote] Making a decent living I hope! £30 for a 'tribute' band might sound steep, but it still sounds better value than most sports events.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1328390942' post='1526446'] IMO the ease at which music is available on the internet has completely devalued music and taken a lot of the passion out of it, a classic case of more is less [/quote] I disagree. Music has been around for a long time. Maybe since before humans could speak to each other. There was a blink of an eye, in historic terms, when producing music on recording formats was a viable industry and a cohesive social activity. Music will live on, and thrive. As it always has.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1328363220' post='1525997'] At the end of the day, the rehearsal place is a 15 minute drive away and it's a couple of hours out of my life. Hardly the end of the world if it all goes pear-shaped! [/quote] Exactly right. Please let us all know how it pans out! I love following these sagas.

If you're a Facebook user you may find this interesting. https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Cornbread-Banjos/253963047987661

Good thread revival! It's another gem of the Squier stable as far as I'm concerned. I tried flats but found the sound too muddy for my liking and went back to Rotosound rounds for a zingy tone. I bought mine pre-owned off this forum (or rather, the previous one)and it's all stock apart from a Badass II that had been fitted. It's in my avatar photo. I say it's 'mine', but I originally bought it for my daughter who was 15 at the time. She loves it and named it Gloria. At the time she was still quite short with little hands, so it's a testiment to the playability of the neck. I 'look after it' for her.

I've just bought a nice gig bag of Keith. A lovely bag, well packed up too. Good communications and an easy transaction all round. It was a pleasure to do business with him and I wouldn't hesitate to give him even more of my money.

Maybe the drummer isn't representative of the rest of the band regarding his attitude, but then again, you've got to be able to work closely with him. If he's being a bit squiffy, for whatever reason, it would be a bit of a concern to me.

I've fitted two Badass II bridges on to Fender Jazz bodies and they dropped into the existing holes perfectly. That's the info you wanted. Of course, there is differing opinion on whether it's worth doing it or not.....

Welcome Arnaud. We like noise rock here! Enjoy the forum.

Welcome Kev. Enjoy the forum.

Somewhere along the line the border between a person's output (be it artistic or any kind of produced good or service) and their personal character has been lost. For a lot of people it seems you can't like a performer's output unless you somehow approve of them as 'a person'. Infantile. Apparently Mozart was a bit of a d1ck. So what?

I try and circulate mine, to give them all a 'run-out' regularly. I like to think (maybe erroneously) that swopping neck profiles, numbers of strings, frets vs no frets adds to my skills. One funny side is that one of my two teenage daughters gets on at me for making the wrong wardrobe choices. I had this last weekend ' Dad, you cannot wear that colour shirt with that bass....'

Hello Michael. There's lots of fans of the Squier VM Jazz here. I love mine. There are pegged links here to several sources of sheet music which I think you'll find very useful. Look under 'General Discussion' second entry from the top. There are also some hard core Funk Fans. Sounds like you'll be at home!

Welcome to the forum Marc. You'll get lots of encouragement and advice here. But some of it will be contradictory, so get those pinches of salt ready! It's perfectly OK to enjoy yourself with an instrument 'home alone', but a lot of us on here will encourage you to play with others as often as you can. It really does fast-track your experience and learning. Have fun!

[quote name='Randy_Marsh' timestamp='1327941124' post='1519135'] Do you mean that he appears on Everyone hates chris or he was the composer for the show? [/quote] Yes, he did compose the music, but I've also seen one episode where he actually appears in a cameo role.

Hi Connor, Welcome to the forum. I go up to Sheff quite often because my brother lives there. We like The Greystone as a venue, but it's not really Metal! I used to like The Boardwalk a lot - but it's gone now My guess is you're more of a Corporation man. Len

Ashley has always been one to nurture new talent, and I suppose the ultimate is to develop your own replacement. In Business Management Bollox-speak I thiink it's called 'succession planning'. Good on 'im.

Well I like it. I've liked MM's stuff since 'Tutu' and loved his guest appearance in 'Everyone hates Chris' IMO what makes him a cut above most slappers is that he has a balance of skill and technique between both the right and left hands But then again, WTF do I know?

Do what the missus says!

Welcome Evilc. May the quest for The Ultimate 3 continue...... Len