Cato

Been lurking around browsing these pages more & more over the last few weeks & though it was about time I joined. Not sure how much I have to contribute as I don't have the experience or the equipment of some you guys. I'm not even in a band at the moment (although I'm trying to change that) & although I've always considered myself primarily a bass player most of my gigging experience has been playing rhythm guitar & doing lead vocals. Never planned it that way, its just the way things turned out. I'm actually looking forwards to standing at the back and concentrating on the instrument that was always my first love. Anyhoo, there you go, I''ll probably have some daft questions about equipment that have already been asked about a hundred times in due course. Cheers.

The chorus to 'By the Rivers of Babylon' was lifted, pretty much word for word, from Psalm 137 from the Old Testament. The Psalm itself refers to the exile of of the Jews after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC & was probably written within 100 years of those events, making those lyrics around 2,500 years old. Turn,Turn,Turn by Pete Seeger has a similar Old Testament pedigree.