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upside downer

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  1. I have one exactly like yours which I bought about 25 years ago for around £30, I think. Had to tinker with it a little to lower the action slightly but I gigged it a few times and it never let me down. In fact, I'm having a noodle on it right now and it feels and sounds really good. Definitely made in Korea, mine has a sticker confirming the fact!

     

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

    What's "incurious" about not wanting to watch a TV show about bass that's NOT aimed at all bass players regardless of how often I choose to frequent Basschat? I know my musical tastes. 

     

    I doubt very much that there will be a plethora of bass-related TV shows coming up in the new year so, personally, I'm glad to grab any that happen to come along. Clearly, you feel differently and, as I expressed in my last post, each to their own.

  3. 42 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

    But it would have then at least done what it said on the tin. Based on information gathered on this thread I won't be watching any of it. Never even heard of Peter Hook before.

     

    Maybe give it a watch then? Seems rather incurious that someone who frequents a site called Basschat wouldn't want to at least attempt a peek at an all-too-rare TV show about the subject. Each to their own, I suppose.

     

    6 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

    Gosh we can all be very precious about this.

     

    Testify! 👏

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  4. Here's mine, Jeremy Vine.

     

    A light and frothy tune with a Portuguese title that translates as Hate Everybody Immediately, ha, no, not really, it means Sleepy Village. I could imagine supping a cold beer in one of the beach huts and listening to this. Mind you, I could also sit in one of them listening to Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine, so what do I know?

     

     

    Ended up sounding like a Fisher-Price Johnny Marr on my Westfield Les Paul copy through an RP80 effects pedal, cursory bass came from the Vester P copy and MT Drums went bum-tet-bum-tet. Wavepad and Audacity, as ever, put it all together.

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  5. And, staggering in late again...

     

    Going off at a tangent from the 6-in-1 wonder oven theme (although an air fryer is mentioned in one verse) I instead decided to celebrate a comedian, a singer, a professor, a philanthropist, a cricketer and a cartoon character with an in-depth(!) delve into what makes them who they are. What they do have in common is that they all share the same surname, Fry. Ended up doing that as I couldn't think of six folk with the surname Oven.

     

     

    You want words? You got 'em, buster (but they're hidden below)

     

    Spoiler

    Fry!

     

    Stephen Fry used to be on QI

    A clever fella, quick-witted and dry

    Erudite, a brilliant wit

    Also General Melchett

    Blackadder had to deal with this guy (baaah!)

     

    Martin Fry sang with ABC

    His younger brother's name is Jamie (true, that)

    Poison Arrow, All of My Heart

    The Look of Love, they all did chart

    Top ten hits, they had three


    Hannah Fry is a mathematician

    Who doesn't deal in superstition

    The Secret Genius of Modern Life

    Destroyed an air fryer with a knife

    She has a happy disposition

     

    Elizabeth Fry in 1780 was born

    A champion of prison reform

    For better treatment, she was the driver

    She got her face on the back of a fiver

    The paper ones that were easily torn

     

    Fry!
     

    CB Fry was an all-rounder

    He could also be a bit of a bounder

    Had a problem with the mania

    Nearly became the King of Albania

    It may have helped him sleep a bit sounder

     

    Philip J Fry appears in Futurama

    A very funny animated drama

    For a time we never knew whether

    He and Leela would get together

    But they did, and now they've found their nirvana

     

    4-string cigar box guitar, Les Paul copy and P-bass copy. Ableton provided drummery programmery tomfoolery. A bit of RP80 for guitar effects. Recorded and dusted down with the dynamic duo of Wavepad and Audacity.

     

     

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  6. 10 hours ago, Inga said:

    RULEEEEEEE BRITNNIAAA!!!!! BRITANNNIAAA RULES THE WAVESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BRITONSNSSS NEVER EVEVRV RV VEVER SHALL BE SLAVES RULEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BRITINANNIA ABRITNANTNAI RULES THE BRITINAD ALL THE WAY? i

     

    Were you having a few pints with Nigel Farage last night and he got hold of your phone?

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  7. 1 hour ago, chris_b said:

    I know a drummer who has used a stage name since the70's, for tax purposes, he says. 

     

    I think it was Captain Sensible (born Ray Burns) who said that he and some of the early punks changed their names to help avoid the DHSS from sniffing around too much as they were still claiming 'the dole'.

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