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56 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

They weren't trying to be funny, or even post-ironic

What kind of a band are you? Every one knows that any band should be able to do any song at the drop of a hat.

We were actually asked this frequently when we said we didn't know particular songs. 

1 hour ago, Muzz said:

one hero just stood right in front (like, a foot in front - there was no room for him to get round in between 

This happened to me many years ago. We were playing in a pub with a very small stage only about 12 inches high. Just enough to lift the band above the punters. This ignorant girl came and stood right in front of me on the stage with her back to me. It was clearly meant to wind me up as she came from a hard family and was friends with an ex of mine. The security moved her off and she waited until he moved away and stood there again. I was singing and playing and had to suffer this until she got bored with her stupid little game. I had the last laugh when we got a good reception right enough.

9 hours ago, Bunion said:

Would have been better if she’d tried stage diving….

And crowd surfed

I have been playing and singing (I'm the vocalist so I am singing pretty much all of the time) and people have come up to me and said how's it going? What are you up to?  I mean seriously?

Man this brings back some memories for me. Why do drunk people think that everyone in the bar wants to hear them sing rather than the band? It happened to us so many times. Then there was the can I sing? Every time they were rotten and if you refused they got shirty.

8 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Having watched two of the car-crash live videos, I'd say that was being fairly generous to Vince Neil; like saying Phil Collins can still drum, just his physique stops him holding a drumstick.

Its not the same though. Phil collins can't physically play drums as he is too frail. Vince Neil can still hit the notes but he's so fat and out of shape that he is breathless when he sings. Losing weight and getting fitter will help him but I'm afraid Phil Collins has no future playing drums.

8 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

He can't stand still and sing any more either. Maybe he should just sit down then? 

He needs to get in shape. You can hear that he is hitting the high notes no problem but he's out of breath and his diction suffers because of it. Slowing down would indeed help. Or just get fitter.

4 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

Looks like you are right and they are indeed planning to go on tour again. I thought they had retired. Their last tour was the so-called "The Final Tour" (2014-2015). Maybe they should call the new tour "The Final Tour II". Reminds me a bit of a computer game I played back in the late 80s: "The Last Ninja II" 😉 

Thing is Vince Neil can still actually sing. It's his physique that is letting him down and he is hitting the notes but can't run around and sing anymore. He is apparently trying to get back into shape for this tour. You can hear he hits the notes but doesn't form the words clearly as he's so out of breath.

I remember one of my favourite video games was out in the 90's Road Rash for the PS1. It was a great game with a superb soundtrack of more or less all grunge bands.

39 minutes ago, oldslapper said:

If it’s filth you wants….

Very reasonably priced too.

Just heard that the original bass player for the Quo has died today. Sad news.

14 hours ago, Eldon Tyrell said:

Sorry but I think your sentence ended rather abruptly. I am sure you were meant to say: "Motley Crue continue to be hugely embarrassing"  😉 

 

 

 

Yeah, you can dig up any amount of footage showing Vince Neil over weight and struggling to sing but they have remained one of the highest grossing bands of all time and they are about to embark on another tour. They continue to sell out stadiums.

I was always a rocker at heart and loved metal and rock bands. When Grunge appeared I thought I like this new type of music. I do think the term is ridiculous right enough as it seems all you had to do was come from Seattle in the early 90's and you were grunge. The variety between bands was quite noticeable. I pretty much liked them all apart from a couple. I couldn't get into the Melvins and others just didn't float my boat. The big players were all up my street and I liked their music. I do tend to be quite easy to please right enough as I pretty much like most music unless it's dull and lifeless. (Like jazz funk)

2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Top Ten Hair Metal Bands Utterly Destoryed By Nirvana.

 

 

 

Hanoi Rocks

 

Skid Row

 

Warrant

 

Britny Fox

 

Poison

 

Dave Lee Roth

 

Cinderella

 

Motley Crue

 

Err...

 

... that's enough hairspray - Ed.

 

 

I think utterly destroyed is a bit wide of the mark. Hanoi Rocks have always been doing what they do quietly. They were never a hair metal band anyway. More a rock n roll band. Skid row disappeared once they parted ways with Sebastian Bach although they are still going. Motley Crue continue to be huge. The rest I can give you.

13 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Again the usual interesting assortment of tinny, scratchy, driven, fret-buzzing bass-lines that end up sounding so good in the mix. I don’t think I’ll ever be not amazed by this.

Same here. You hear Steve Harris isolated bass and it sounds relatively rough (certainly not the dead on, syncopated track I would expect.) It just shows what a real band sounds like and what makes it so organic.

I remember many years ago we did a demo in a studio. We played the songs in one take and listened back. I remember saying I'm going to have to re-do the bass. It sounds rough as hell. The engineer said leave it with me, I will tidy it up. I couldn't believe it. He made me sound really good in the final mix.

1 hour ago, Bassfinger said:

It was hardly a new type of music

I never said it was new. It was relatively new and Nirvana were the first to be mainstream. No genre of music just appears. It's the same with heavy metal. Everyone tries to say this band or that band and fair enough Black Sabbath were among the first but it is always an evolving thing usually many bands contribute to this.

8 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

I never understood why they were considered to be such a great band. 

I think it was partly because it was groundbreaking music. Grunge was quite new at the time. Certainly with me it brought something out in me. I was a metal head but I thought this music sounds better, newer, dirtier.

Then there was the fact that they wrote such good songs.

6 hours ago, geoham said:

He proceeds to try and sing the part to me - "You do know it - it goes dooo do doo dodoo...".

We used to get people asking for songs. "Don't know it mate". " Aye ye do, it goes dee doo dah dee doo". As if we are going to suddenly go "oh you're right we do know it after all mate, thanks for reminding me!"

On 25/08/2021 at 13:24, dmccombe7 said:

Some talented punk musicians back then.

Definitely! Just look at the Clash or the Skids. Top musicians!

I also think, up this way, If you try to talk to audiences in bars they can't hear you anyway. When you sing it comes over nice and clear but the spoken word is quite indistinct over the bustle of the pub. You quite often hear bands talking and you are thinking what did he say? If you see professional bands playing in big concert halls, usually they shout into the mic plus the audience will all keep quiet when the band talk. We used to get a decent enough reception but to most punters you are background noise. Fair enough people won't stay if you are bad background noise but background noise it is. Punters like to have the noise of a band to accompany their shouting and laughing but certainly in one of the pubs we played in very few people were actually actively watching the band.

I will add, on nights when no band was playing, this same bar used to be quiet.

Many years ago when we were in our very first version of our band we used to regularly play with another band who were technically more proficient than us, more experienced and had better gear but we always blew them off the stage at dances. Why? Because we played songs which, although may have been easier to play, we better floor fillers and we used to enjoy ourselves on stage. We were like the Scorpions and Motley Crue combined with our antics. We didn't give a toss. Nine times out of ten the audience liked this and gave us a good reception. 

25 minutes ago, Lord Sausage said:

I think timing is under appreciated by a lot of musicians. I don't think it gets practiced enough once you get decent. Kind of gets taken for granted. Obviously I can't speak for everyone. I've fell into the trap before. Heard back a recording of a show and my timing wasn't perfect on some bits. So this led to months of playing along with a metronome. Stripped my playing back to basics. Scales, arpeggios etc. Did the trick, now it's a regular warm up.

 

 

Thats such a coincidence. I was only just watching a video on Youtube. It was Nikki Sixx interviewing Slash and they were talking about how John 5 ALWAYS rehearses with a metronome and if you listen to that guy he is so technically gifted. A while back I was trying to learn banjo ( I took a notion) and any videos I saw stressed that metronomes are such an important part of learning to play not just literally in time but smoothly as well.

24 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Lol. Look like a pair of dodgy geezers down the pub then...

Everyone gets old and as we know looks aint everything!

This is excellent! Steve Stevens playing rhythm and lead at the same time. The guy is a machine and old Billy still has it in him to belt out the old songs!