Greg.Bassman

On 02/06/2022 at 10:19, Captain Bassman said:

One from Chic…

 

Everybody dance to the loo

Cr*p your pants, cr*p your pants

Speaking of chic, as a child, I always thought it was…

‘Aww freak COW’

‘Le freak, c’est SHEEP’

Ol’ nile is clearly fond of his animals! Who’d of thought it! 😂

Listen to 00.10-00.15 and tell me I’m wrong 🤣

3 hours ago, Oomo said:

Tiffany - I think we're alone now. As a kid I'd always thought the lyrics were "I think we're in gnome town" (I read a lot of fantasy/adventure books as a kid).

10 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

It was a while before I realized The Jam were not singing about 'eating trifles'.

Sounds tasty! 😆

8 hours ago, Maude said:

You kiss his ring. 

 

Makes no sense at all. You'd have to part them to kiss that! 

Naughty girl! 🤣

9 hours ago, ambient said:

Madonna: ‘last night I dreamed of some bread rolls……..a young girl with eyes like potatoes’.

 

I mean, what’s that all about?

Who knows what goes on inside madonna's head?! lol 😆

20 hours ago, jazzyvee said:

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I just hope Nile Rogers is not a member of this forum.

21 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

On the other side of the coin, I always assumed that I was singing Tubthumping by Chumbawumba wrong, because there's no way they'd play "P#ssing the night away" on the radio. Would they? 😳

I questioned this for the longest time too, but I am pretty sure that is the lyrics. Bizarre isn’t it. Still, makes me laugh! 🤣

21 hours ago, gjones said:

I always heard the Police song 'Canary In A Coalmine', as 'Mary In A Coma'.

Thats you and me both! Especially the ‘coma’ part 😆

8 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

There followed a fumbling, confused search for the end of the curtain

 

I had a curtain blunder once. It was the first time my band had ever had a curtain opening/reveal to start a show with. Very new to us. While we waited for the show host to finish announcing us, we decided to make hand shadows against the curtain. Of course, after the dog and the bird, we couldn't resist giving the middle finger and making ‘w*nker’ signs. The drummer, who was late to the stage, arrived and said ‘you do realise that the audience can see that on the other side, don’t you?!’. Before we could process the horror of what we had just done, the curtains opened to a rather annoyed looking first row. That first song was pretty awkward, let me tell you! 😆

21 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

Goodness knows I've made a fool of my self on many dance floors.  😀

20 hours ago, ubit said:

He had a very peculiar style of dancing...We need more people like that at gigs.

Agreed! It can be infectious. I always loved playing shows where 1 guy would turn into 10 and then 10 to 100 [and so on] on the dance-floor. All because one guy had the guts to do his own thing in the beginning 🤘.

That said, I have seen my fair share of ‘peculiar’ dancing too, and it is usually because of the ol’ ‘amber nectar’. Happens to the best of them! 😂

I should’ve realised that I am not going to be able to un-hear these now! Memories upon memories just out the window lol 😆.

I was just listening to all your suggestions on youtube, gleefully anticipating the points, and none have disappointed so far. So funny! 😆

34 minutes ago, Velarian said:

Bee Gees, How Deep is Your Love - You come to me on a submarine. 

Submarine! Ha! 🤣

37 minutes ago, JottoSW1 said:

The Cure. Love Cats

 

One Flea, One Flea, One Flea, One Flea Pretty.

Yes! I always thought this too. When I was child, I actually believed it. At the time, it made sense to me because the song is called love ‘cats’, and cats get fleas, so go figure! lol 😆

1 hour ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

Cue the Peter Kay videos. 

Ha! I know, right 🙂. I thought that might be the case. But, perhaps if we keep clear of the peter kay videos for now. They are funny, but we have all seen them 😉.

What is a song lyric that you have got wrong in the past?

To this day, I still question what Eddie Vedder is saying in ‘yellow ledbetter’. I’m not even sure if its english! 00.29-00.35…

… when I first heard the song, I swear he was saying ‘on a ceiling, on a porsche, glitter, say’, and thats just 5 seconds of the song! 😆

I think SNL said it best [or not said, as the case appears to be!] 🤣

‘It doesn’t have to be in English to be good, does it?’. Well, I’m glad you said that because, still to this day, I question what Eddie Vedder is saying in ‘yellow ledbetter’! 😜😆

It’s supposed to be english, but you could’ve fooled me. 00.29-00.42...

...and thats just 10 seconds of the song!

Oh Eddie, Eddie, Eddie! 🙄😆

3 hours ago, Marcray said:

A friend took me out after soundcheck and gave me way too many large shots, by showtime I was wrecked.

Happens to the best of them 😉.

3 hours ago, Marcray said:

We were friends, still are, and we never spoke of it, but it embarrasses me to this day.  

Glad to know that you are still friends though. I have witnessed a couple of occasions where it was the break up of the band: someone has worked off the stage out of frustration and apparently never came back. Yikes! 🙁

7 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

The only people on the dancefloor were a couple.

You get some characters on the dance floor sometimes. Still, at least they were enjoying themselves! 😀

I’ve probably seen every dance move known to man on the dancefloor… and they are not always good... quite frightening actually! 😆 😉

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1 hour ago, ezbass said:

My moments come from when I was playing guitar. The first, I was playing the Crystal Palace Bowl and a really big stage for the first time. We started the first song, which opened with my playing the song’s signature riff, I then went for my Woodstock moment and ran across stage, my normally quite long lead wasn’t that long it turned out, as I pulled it out of my pedal board. Fortunately, I made it back and plugged in again (which could be heard on the recording) just in time to play the riff again. The second time was with the same band, but this time on a much smaller stage. Suddenly, I had no no sound, yet everything was plugged in and all indicator lights showed all was working. It turns out that due to my movements (I had had a wee drink or three) my lead had snaked around the level control of my OD pedal and had turned it right down (perhaps this was a critique of my playing).

The famous cable blunder 😉. I have a cable story. I remember having a wireless pack for the longest time, and on the one occasion that I had to use a cable, I forgot. Thinking that I was wireless, I decided to leap toward the front of the stage to interact with the audience, but as you can imagine, I did not get very far when I was yanked back. I managed to catch my balance, thank goodness. Can you imagine if I had fallen over as well! 😄

9 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

Can the words "Amber Nectar" be used in the same sentance as "Rock Star"?

As in the energy drink? If so, yes for me. I do not drink alcohol, but a few swigs of caffeine and I am H.Y.P.E.R! I play ever song a million bpm and do not blink for the entirety of the show. What can I say? 😆

20 hours ago, ubit said:

I have nothing against backing tracks but this band was more or less completely backing tracks with singing and an acoustic over the top. Basically Karaoke.

If I could find backing with just rhythm and some fillers like horns I would be tempted as we are guitar bass and drums but I haven't the first clue as to where to get these and how to trigger them.

They can be a little fiddly sometimes, admittedly. It can be tricking to find good sounds on a budget too. The more realistic brass and string libraries, for example, can be quite expensive. Unless you have a friend that can do it on the cheap and knows about that sort of thing.

20 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

I never liked playing with backing tracks but I eased my conscience a little by making my own wherever possible, usually drums, bass (I usually played guitar in the duo), keys and any spot effects (brass etc). We had a drum machine too, and did the same as you for some of the songs. 

I have done it a lot with brass. While it is nice to have the real thing, at the end of the day, it is less people to split the money with. There, I said it! lol 😜

21 hours ago, Pea Turgh said:

1.  Early days of gigging, maybe ‘97.  Some Battle Of The Bands thing in a uni bar.  Funky number, everything but the vocals drop out, I try to start a crowd clap.  Despite my flailing arms, nobody in the audience joined in.

One of the worst ones is try to start a call and response with the crowd, but they do not sing back. You sing the feed line but… [tumbleweed] 😆.

21 hours ago, Pea Turgh said:

2. Much more recent (age has not bestowed me with wisdom) at a decent venue, just us playing to an almost sold out crowd.

A little tipsy, tried to moonwalk on to the stage for our 2nd half.  Knocked both my basses over.

This tickled me! So funny to imagine. I wish I was there to see this! 😂

22 hours ago, ubit said:

 

 

I remember seeing a band years ago in a local bar and one of the girls who was in our company commented on how good they were. I was shocked as it was a guy strumming on an acoustic guitar and a singer playing to full band backing tracks with horns and everything. Hardly taxing.

On the flip side, we used to play as a two piece, bass and guitar with a drum machine. This guy said to us "turn off your machine and let's hear what you can really play." I said it's a drum machine mate. We are playing live but he wasn't convinced.

Yes. I knew a keyboard player once, who would use a synthesiser and a drum machine to play shows. Pretty good really. He would start the drum machine, loop a bassline, play some lead and sing. But people weren’t always convinced and sceptical. I suppose the thought that the drum was something else.