tegs07

sugar magnolia - grateful dead

Sleep - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

la fille de la mort - the young gods

devils haircut - beck

heaven knows i’m miserable now - smurfs

first we take manhattan - leonard cohen

i don’t wanna dance - eddy grant

spies on the wire - caberet voltaire

If it brings you pleasure then don’t worry what people think. As you say playing an instrument is a pretty cheap hobby. If you play that thing for 70 hours then get bored let’s face it in this day and age how much is there available to do in terms of leisure activities for £10 an hour? Pub, cinema, coffees out? Even if you gave it away it’s better than frittering your cash away on the above.

Problem is without the context we are all just guessing. We don’t know what type of music they play, what their personalities are or their political etc etc. I’m sure this could be researched in advance in the same way as say going to an interview for a hipster soho media company or a city of london bank, they will be looking for different individuals to slot into the existing team and culture. At college I went to join a band and after 15 minutes it was clear they were all massive football fans and wanted to be a Madchester clone band. No thanks. Similarly in later life I had an interview for a major US Accountancy firm in the city. All flash, swaggering big fancy watch squash playing types. I would have been a poor fit regardless of ability.

Really depends on the band. Jaco would have destroyed The Cure and Dempsey or Gallop would have been useless in Weather Report. Possibly best outcome for all parties. Band may have required a really minimal player or been more interested in the aesthetic/image. Can only really guess without asking why.

walk on by - the stranglers

i know it’s over - les smurfs

dawnrazor - fields of …

I guess it’s like collecting teaspoons, wedgwood figurines or loving musical theatre. Lot’s of folks are into it but I just don’t get it.

whose been talkin - howlin’ wolf

hawaii five-0 - the ventures

china girl - bowie

manhattan - ella fitzgerald

pimper’s paradise - bob marley

play like Peter Hook?

jesus of the moon - nick cave

Don’t think I can top this for value. In fact whose silly idea of a thread was this? I’m now really tempted by the JB2. Never got on with a jazz body shape … mmmm

undertow - tool

play for today - the cure