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Tom Waits
Leonard Cohen
Nick Cave
Shane MacGowan
All superb and Lyrically wonderful. Guaranteed to clear a party in seconds (apart from fairy tale of new york - the pogues lovecats….)
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insomnia - faithless
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first and last and always - sisters of mercy
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midlife crisis - faith no more
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stanley road - paul weller
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the letter - pj harvey
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hanging around - the stranglers
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baby, it’s cold outside - ray charles
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psychonaut - fields of the nephilim
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2 hours ago, Clarky said:
Tried that early on in this thread with flamenco guitarist Vicente Amigo, who I absolutely adore, but fell on stony ground!!! A diss-fest is always likely to get more traction.
Vincente Amigo is great but possibly a bit niche even for guitarchat …
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Gathering Speed - Fu Manchu
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Most of the mega bands of the’80s:
Spandau Ballet
Duran Duran
Level 42
Simple Minds
Dire Straits
Queen
etc
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walking on the moon - the police
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fight for your mind - ben harper
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never enough - the cure
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1 hour ago, Newfoundfreedom said:
Another one. I could go all day on these but I'm trying to ration myself.
Eric Clapton is the most overrated guitarist of all time. Absolutely dull as dishwater.
Yet Cream were founded well over 50 years ago! A few years before there was basically no such thing as a teenager and Max Bigraves would have been fairly risqué.
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17 hours ago, BigRedX said:
It can be useful to have a (easily found) domain name with a single page that highlights any important information and then includes links to all your social media and on-line sales sites (Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok/YouTube/Bandcamp/etc.) You used to get more than enough web space free with your domain name registration to be able to do this, but that appears to be a thing of the past.
This. Possibly try AWS free tier. An S3 bucket can host static pages.
If this is all just unintelligible jargon wix.com is easy to use and can cost less than £5 a month.
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31 minutes ago, xgsjx said:
That's a good point. My thinking is that although it seems wood has little to no effect on tone, it does have an effect on the playability of an instrument. I still plan on having a nice £2k+ bass, not because it may or may not sound different from a decent £6-700 bass with the same pickups, but because hopefully more attention to detail will have went into it, giving a pro quality playability and feel as well as being comfortable.
I know that it's not a given with all higher priced instruments, which is why I'd likely be looking at the smaller companies. If I had the funds, it'd be a Ritter. 🤑
Good luck. Ritters are visually very interesting and unique. Speaking of which I guess semiotics also play a part. The contestants on The Appreciate may be tools a lot of the time but with the clothes and right surroundings appear convincing. The same can be said for a musician. Malcom Maclaren may have been detrimental to The Sex Pistols in that he didn’t appreciate the strength of the songs and they had a core of competent musicians. But he did understand semiotics and marketing.
Edit: What’s this got to do with tone and wood? How good an instrument sounds may depend on far more than just what its made of. Im sure there are studies out there where people judge the sound of an instrument as being better if they know it’s a famous make. Violins being a good example. There are also cases where world famous classical musicians busk underground railway stations and people walk on by. This maybe because people are busy and absorbed in the humdrum it may also be that without all the signals of success, power and theatre the music and musician is diminished.
Without a grasp of semiotics Hitler would have been just another bitter, twisted nut job ranting at passers by.
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Has the effect of placebo on tone been considered? An instrument may just be the sum of its parts but if someone really believes it sounds better and it gives them confidence they will most likely play it better.
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to bring you my love - pj harvey
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horses - bonnie prince billy
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31 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:
There are also a lot of anti-jazz comments here. Thing is, jazz is widely unappreciated/unloved so aren't any negative opinions about it, by default, popular?
Jazz is such a broad church. Some I love, some I hate. Kind of Blue for example is the perfect 1am soundtrack whereas beaches Brew is a difficult album to digest at any hour of the day.
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2 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:
our annual payment is coming up for our website, wondering whether it's worth it or does Facebook do the job for free?
I don’t think anyone under 30 uses Facebook …
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What's your "signature bass"?
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The Nate Mendel P.
But not roadworn, in Olympic White and with custom shop ‘62 pickups.