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Brix has just finished, pretty good set. No sign of Mr Hanley as Brix has an all female line up including ex-My Bloody Valentine members Deb and Jen.

PiL tonight at Rock City with support from Brix Smith.

Here's mine for June. The image is of a bucolic scene so I decided to take a relaxing ramble through the musical countryside with not a care in the world. Used an acoustic Matsikas Greek Bouzouki recorded with an Apogee+ MiC, a Westfield Violin Bass and a Yamaha KPT-240 keyboard for the plinky plonky, swirly whirly and, erm, trumpety wumpety sounds. Recorded using Wavepad and Audacity.

Cheers for that 👍

Guessing it's these ones from about six years ago. No idea if he got any joy with them being returned. https://www.nme.com/news/music/sex-pistols-glen-matlock-stolen-guitars-1910540

I'm going to get around to watching it over the next week. In the meantime, here's an advert from 1977.

Skank says "Then I saw the image and it just screamed 'Do a Floyd rip-off!'" I say... 😁 Bravo Skank, another great piece 👍

Ok, here goes. AC/DC are utter tripe. Give me the Ramones any day. Thank you for your time

Ignore, was confirming Simon King. Didn't notice someone had already done so!

Just in time with my entry 'Time Portal'. The image made me think of a swirly time and space portal from those old 60s and 70s TV shows so here's a slightly-skewed-in-places tune with a few echoey bits thrown in for a wobbly 'Woah, time travel, eh?' feel. But what is time? “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so” said Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent as the Earth was about to be demolished in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Fair enough. Who am I to argue? Epiphone guitar, unbranded guitar in open G tuning, violin bass, Yamaha keyboard, Vivlex echo pedal, Zoom effects pedal, Roland cube amp, drums programmed with Hydrogen drums. Audacity and Wavepad remain my recording chums.

Not TV but a bass special from Vic Galloway on BBC Radio Scotland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0017cy9 A two hour show featuring some bass-heavy tunes, snippets of Peter Hook, Jah Wobble and Youth among others talking about the low end. Predominantly post-punk era so fans of Jaco, Wooten etc. need not bother themselves with such frothiness.

From the cigar advert of 40 odd years ago! My old duo nicked a name from an advert, too. We went out as The Lionel Blaircuts. Soz for thread derail. As you were.

Holly and the Italians.

Confession time. That's the first time I've ever heard Shpongle and I thought they were great! Will be delving deeper into their back catalogue and I'll also be having a look at the two acts you've mentioned 👍

Trying some Shpongle for this afternoon's entertainment.

As @KK Jale pointed out, it looks like the work of Carmelo Catania. Here's a Catania mandolin with the same distinctive 'harp' logo. This fella Gregg Miner seems to know his onions. Might be worth contacting him? https://www.harpguitars.net/2013/04/14/carmelo-catania-from-iconography-to-reality/ https://www.harpguitars.net/

Well done to both top cats 👏👏 A fantastic array of songs this month and good to see a few more voters tuning in 🎶

Here's mine to go with Skank's fine pic. Our hero is doing his bit for the war effort but he keeps on picking up sounds from the wild and wonderful world of pop music. Nonetheless, he'll do his very best until he can have a well earned drinks break. Westfield violin bass, Epiphone guitar, Hydrogen drums and an air raid siren from Freesound. All recorded on wax cylinder from those fine phonographic chaps at Wavepad and Audacity. Lyrics hidden below.

Daft is my default 🙃 looks like we'll both be tweaking our efforts over the next day or so, ooer, missus 😁

Started out with a couple of originals bands in the early 90s, family life took over, got back in on the pub covers circuit some 20 odd years ago but haven't gigged for just over 2 years now and, with an ever-expanding family, it's hard finding the time for a regular gigging band at the moment. Potter about with home recordings (hurrah for Basschat's monthly Composition Challenge) and sometimes record with others. I've put the 'don't gig, record on own' option.

Trailer for the upcoming series. Don't judge a book by its cover and all that but this looks worryingly like it's going to head down the cliché carriageway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ol1B3w7NtU

Having bored of convention, Hendrix would have learnt to play the guitar with his feet by the time of his appearance at Live Aid. By 1994 and the Woodstock 25th anniversary gig he'd be fretting with either ear and using his 'old chap' for strumming purposes. Karen Carpenter would now be a car painter.

A really strong field this month, well done to Lt Col Hector Del Var for holding off the opposition 👏

Here's mine, better late than never. Probably 😄 An instrumental with a slow and steady beat, a chilled feel and the wish that we'd all kick off our tight shoes, grab a tipple of whatever takes our fancy, smell the flowers and try and enjoy our time on this crazy old world with our fellow travellers in time and space. Drums - Hydrogen drum program Bass - Westfield violin bass Keys - Yamaha keyboard Guitar - an old, unbranded Strat copy using open G tuning and only 5 strings (like wot Keef does) with a dose of echo in places Recorded, as ever, with Wavepad and Audacity. I continue to give @skankdelvar a run in the cheapskate stakes

I did wonder that. When Martin Kemp was told about Carol's unfortunate situation and the need to find a substitute he said something along the lines of 'bass players are hard to find'. He should have just searched Basschat and he'd have found plenty on here in the right age bracket!