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Our posters usually have 'rock and pop classics' prominently on them. That should be clear enough. However, due to some fun and games this year from the singer, thinking of changing it to 'rock and pop classics sung by a moody bugger with a face like a smacked derrière who always shows up late and frequently forgets his harmonica' 😖

No lessons, self taught so flawed technique to this day 😊 Had no one to advise me otherwise so whenever I picked up a friends' guitar it tended to be a righty. Haven't found it a problem down the years. I guess a teacher would have advised differently. I do muck about with some other instruments (mandolin, saz, Greek bouzouki) and play them flipped too, apart from the bouzouki which is strung lefty. There's no rhyme nor reason to this, that's just how I bought it. Fancy a challenge? Try a sitar upside down! 😁

It's how I play, hence my user name. Have always played a flipped right-hander. Some previous issues with my arm rubbing against tone/volume knobs have been resolved with blu tack. Hail to my putty-like pal!

Influences when I were a lad were Jah Wobble's rumblings on Public Image Ltd's Metal Box and Klaus Flouride's clumping and clanking on The Dead Kennedys' Plastic Surgery Disasters. Seminal for me, anyhow.

Derek Smalls.

I don't smoke anything. I love PiL. Sorry.

Albatross, Death Disco, Poptones, Careering, No Birds Do Sing, The Suit.....what great and strange tunes to play along with. A stunning album.

Use them. They sound fine. Handy for passing notes and tricky riffs/fills if you're an enthusiastic weekend warrior like me.

[quote name='PawelG' timestamp='1505411377' post='3371769'] Very interesting thread. I don't get how AC/DC can be overrated. They came up with something fresh (sound wise), established that, wrote countless awesome hard rock songs and never changed. Not to mention that they sound much better live than they do on the albums. And what a great name for a rock n roll band :-) Ok, they had some help along the way but still, I think they deserve the fame they get. [/quote] It's all just personal taste. I don't like them. There, no harm done. Saw them live back in 1992, bored me to tears. Have to play Highway to Hell and Whole Lotta Rosie at every gig we do too which doesn't fill me with joy either. There's about twelve other bands named in this topic who I really like. I don't get some of the hate, but it's nice to get to five pages and no one's had a slanging match. Yet

AC bastard DC.

Give it a go. Learn the easiest tunes and a couple of the harder ones and have a rehearsal with them. If it feels good, do it. Good luck!

My old three-piece band used to do Breathe by The Prodigy which was always well received. I think most punters love a 'curve ball', it shows you've made an effort. I'd like my current lot to try more but the drummer's a set in his ways rocker and won't have it! Would love to try something like a Lady Gaga tune or a 90s dance classic.

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1497906406' post='3321282'] Whole lotta love is one of those numbers that is considered simple, until you try to do it properly. [/quote] As JPJ explains here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=011ZJRydMSU

Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones. In fact, anything by The Ramones. Stereophonics are pretty straightforward too, basslines mostly root notes. And if your guitarist is experienced then he shouldn't have any bother either.

Public Image by Public Image Ltd springs to mind.

Friggin' In The Riggin' by the post-Rotten remnants of The Sex Pistols.

Play in a rock/pop covers band and current favourites are 'I Am the Resurrection' and 'I Am the Walrus'. Maybe I just like playing songs that are titled 'I Am....' something.

I used to have a real problem when i was in my teens and early twenties about bands not having 'proper' instruments. This was late 80s, early 90s so it was the time of rave and dance culture when a line-up of guitar, bass and drums was non-existent in much of those acts' line-ups. It wasn't until I heard The Prodigy a fair few times that I realised I was basically cutting myself off from so many forms and styles of music due to some outdated notion of what 'real' bands were. Silly, really. Decided there and then to listen to and absorb as much variety as possible. You still might dislike a lot of things but by opening up you're bound to come across something that otherwise would've remained hidden to you.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1486928889' post='3235665'] Yup. I frequently search for 'base guitar', often comes up with some interesting results. [/quote] Try 'base giter'. Might get even luckier!

You might find a bargain under gitar, guiter or giter. I've found that misspellings are a good indicator of someone not having a clue about an instrument or its worth.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1486918574' post='3235510'] One word: market forces. [/quote] That's two words but point taken.

Currently Oasis' Rock and Roll Star but previously it's been The Who's Substitute or Dick Dale's Misirlou.

I've always struggled on guitar with anything more complicated than rhythm playing. Soloing remains a ham-fisted catastrophe. Mandolin is another instrument of fat-fingered frustration.

A chart hit from 1992. They did play it on the radio quite a lot. I threw a lot of radios at the wall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqD1OohY2to

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1484511207' post='3216011'] I have a soft spot for Perfect Strangers myself. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_kez7WVUU[/media] [/quote] Just beat me to it! Great track.