upside downer

Must get me a Fart Pedal. It'll go nicely with my crappy six-string skills and this quality item that I've just snapped up at an online auction.

Pffft. I could jiggle an egg shaker when I was 6. Granted, not in time, but still...

Welcome to my world 🥴 it rarely ends up as I first thought it might but I plough on regardless and usually end up with something approaching listenable 😁

In my last band myself and the vocalist (40+) were always trying to get the other two (drummer 50+, guitarist 20+) to play songs that were not necessarily ones we were desperate to do but tunes that everybody knows but hardly anyone does, things like' Bonkers' by Dizzee Rascal or some dance banger that we thought would get the room jumping, something a bit more modern. You could easily come up with an arrangement for this sort of stuff as we had done in a previous band with' Breathe' by The Prodigy which always went down well. But, no, let's just do another AC/DC track instead. Very frustrating. We even ended up doing 'Johnny B Goode', fer chrissake. On a personal level, It is with deep regret that I've never had the chance to perform one of the greatest noises ever committed to vinyl, 'Bikini Girls With Machine Guns' by The Cramps. However, I have played 'Another Girl, Another Planet' many times so it's swings and roundabouts, I guess.

Talented dude on the oud.

I tried that but never got the options that he does on screen ☹️

Ignore this. I tried something and it didn't work properly. Story of my life, mate.

Thanks all, I'd better start looking for a picture!

Bruise Pristine - Placebo

I'm Henry VIII, I Am - Herman's Hermits

Tally Ho, here's my 3 minutes worth for this month. Hello, I'm Johnny Trash. The image brought to mind the rising sea levels and the consequences of climate change. However, I'm a glass half full kind of guy and that struck me as far too morose so instead I went with a country tinged toe-tapper about a train trip gone awry and the narrator more worried about his lack of Adam Peatyesque prowess and getting to his journey's end. Where was he hoping to get to, though? Epiphone guitar, Westfield bass, Hohner harmonica and drums programmed with Hydrogen. Vox Apogee Mic+. Recorded with Audacity and Wavepad for that wax cylinder clarity that I'm accustomed to. No auto-tuning has been harmed in the making of this ditty. Lyrics hidden below. And now to listen to all your splendid efforts, you clever Trevors.

A PJ Proby track featuring all the Led Zep members before the recording of their debut album.

12XU - Wire

Sounds sensible. If it's a complicated part I'll break it down in sections and work out a chunk at a time.

Just once?

Anyone want to form an 80s tribute act? I've just listened to Now That's What I Call Music! Volumes 1 through to 15 and can play all the songs on them now. Wish I hadn't, the 80s were shyte.

Yeah! Why don't you all naff off to the Areyoureallyabassistchat forum? Enjoy the replies coming your way, Tim.

It can be done. I've listened to 4' 33" by John Cage just the once. Nailed it.

Looks like a panduri. https://www.hangebi.ge/eng/panduri.html

It looks like the consensus is just grin and bear it if you're having to play a few songs that you dislike. This is the experience of pretty much anyone who plays in a covers act. In my last band we played a mixture of pop and rock and there were certain numbers that each of us couldn't stand, but not all at the same time! Three of us liked 'Club Foot' by Kasabian, drummer hated it. The others loved the two AC/DC songs we did, I'd rather gnaw off my own foot than listen to them. And so on. It's compromise time, OK, you can have that if I can have this. Never any rows about it, we're all doing something that's fun so there's no way we're going to fall out over something as trivial as 'Whole Lotta Rosie'! It's also true that sometimes playing something you wouldn't listen to by choice is actually quite fun to play. It can take you out of your comfort zone and make you work that little bit harder. And when I say work I really mean it opens up more creative routes in your playing. 'Place Your Hands' and 'Dani California' were two such tunes for me. Likewise, there's song I love but with dull as dishwater bass parts. Just enjoy it. I'm currently bandless and am starting to miss it. Right, where's that short scale....

Weird old time for PiL in the late 80s. 'Happy?' was a decent follow up to 'Album' but it was the beginning of a slicker sound that sat uneasily alongside earlier works. Anyway, more post-punk from New York.

This is a curious oddity of peculiarity.