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  1. I saw him and the drummer from his band enjoying themselves at the Bridgewater Hall gig in Mcr the other night.
  2. It’s over a year since this thread was mentioned. Is it still worth doing?
  3. There is a great live music bar called the Ungelt near a Church called Our Lady Of Tyn (or something like that). It’s in an old medieval cellar. Loved the place when I went. All of Prague is stunning.
  4. I messaged Geddy Lee about the book on his Instagram account and within an hour or so got a message back from the man himself. Gobsmacked to say the least. I’ll definitely be ordering a copy.
  5. I’ve just got back from watching The Slow Readers Club play an acoustic set as part of the Manchester Food and Drink Festival. I can’t remember ever feeling as excited about a band and see them as much as possible. They are going to be huge!
  6. The new album, Build A Tower by The Slow Readers Club. Absolutely brilliant as is all their stuff. I watched them play an intimate acoustic set yesterday and it was superb. It's the sign of good songwriting when a band's music can sound just as good acoustically as it does at full concert volume. They are definitely a band to watch out for.
  7. Louder Than Bombs is a great place to start and features some very tasteful basslines. Back To The Old House is a particular favourite and is very subtle and melodic. Andy Rourke is an incredible musician and well worth listening to and learning from. He was barely out of his teens when he recorded the bulk of their work. He had an ability way beyond his years. What I particularly like about his bass lines is that they stand alone as really nice pieces of music in their own right. He's also a really nice, friendly guy. It's also worth noting, if you're trying to transcribe his lines that he often tuned up a tone to F#.
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  9. Thanks for the replies and for the link. It would appear that the dots are only relevant for open string keys rather than for any other key, unless of course I still have more to understand and learn.
  10. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but does anyone know the reason frets are marked the way they are i.e.. dots on the third, fifth, seventh fret etc? Obviously the 12th fret is the octave of the open string but is there are a theory behind it that I haven't quite got yet?
  11. Skunk Anansie about an hour and a half ago at The Albert Halls in Manchester. They tore the roof off the place.
  12. i have an M-Audio Fastrack interface plugged into a macbook pro. The problem I appear to have is that when i plug in my bass and listen through headphones I get the dry, unaffected bass sound and this doesn't change when i select any of the amp effects that are available in GB. I have the input switched to mono and the monitor switched on. Sometimes GB works fine and I can access the effects but 90% of the time it's just the sound of the bass. I hope I'm making myself clear.
  13. [quote name='KevB' timestamp='1448037117' post='2912599'] I'd forgotten one, the all-girl 'band' (I think they were more performance artists than actual musicians tbh) that were on first at the RHCP's gigs when James Brown was second on the bill, think it was a greatest hits tour. Man City's football stadium. Shambolic from start to finish. Think they were Australian but could be wrong, forget their name. [/quote] If I remember correctly they were called Chicks On Speed. They were beyond awful and the response from the crowd certainly let them know. I remember Anthony Keidis berating the crowd during the RHCP set for booing COS. I thought James Brown was pretty good though.
  14. The first gig I ever walked out off was Badly Drawn Boy at Manchester Academy shortly after he'd won the Mercury music prize. He was being a prize dick and I wasn't the only one who thought that as the place emptied. The Jabez Clegg saw a lot of business that night. Another was a Monaco reunion at The Ritz in Manchester. Peter Hook was unrehearsed, unprofessional and basically crap. He couldn't remember the words to his own songs and when he wasn't effing and jeffing every other word he seemed uninterested. His other half in Monaco, David Potts, basically carried him through the set and looked thoroughly pee'd off with Hooky. The final was The Cult a couple of years ago at Manchester Apollo - just dire.
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