MacDaddy

To clarify: ELP would have been out of place in the hit parades of the 50's; Iron Maiden would have been out of place in the 60's hit parades. But take this weeks top 10. Is there anything there that would be out of place in a top ten in 1999?

If the point was put forward, that there has not been anything in the hit parade since the 90's, that would not have been out of place in the 90's, would you agree? Has there been any 'new' music?

You are missing something. Ignore the picture, the link is to Dio sing God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman. Which is definitely a Christmas song.

this is brutal, could have been a normal Dio track - Awesome! God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, not whatever song the picture is showing!

Mark Mendoza playing a rather nice G&L too.

Mainly I've been listening to all the Christmas songs that have been crow-barred into the set over the last week or so, plus New Years Day - U2, which we are going to play after 12am at the New Years Eve gig.

in the setlist since last Friday: Slade Band Aid Jingle Bell Rock Last Christmas Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Springsteen version

is there a left hand version?

Eric Faulkner... when he saved a suicidal man with the words: ‘You think you’ve got problems? I used to play guitar with the Bay City Rollers.’

Anyone going from that London?

if there's no Woody it ain't the Rollers! 🥰

i don't do the iTunes or put any money into the already overflowing Apple coffers, but I fully support this initiative.

Got to be better than 'a bloke down the pub says...' 🙃

Be the better man? So that the band get what they want and continue to think the way they treated the OP is ok? My 2 cents: do the pros of wanting to do a great gig, outweigh the cons of doing a gig with people who have treated you as they have? If you choose to to the gig, as someone said earlier, I'd asked for half the fee. FWIW I would not do the gig. Though had the split been amicable I would have.

absolutely this. I once quit a band 2 weeks before a British tour and have no regrets/guilt for having done so.

the last kippers I had were smoked in Grimsby.

on bass...

Yup, original on the left, and the one on the right for when I join Steel Panther...

My Shukers'?

my Mum can still name all the dragons that used to live in Ivor's furnace...

A joke of former rubber faced TV mimic Phil Cool, back in the day: Who has the easiest job in the world? The person who does the laundry for Motorhead.

Possibly subtlety has been my undoing, and therefore the point of the thread has been missed . In the OP the song examples given feature NO BASS!