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5 minutes ago, MHMSWC#03 said:

King Edwards

The potato leitmotif continues.

It should not pass from the memory of mankind that the Mellotron was manufactured in Streetly, a leafier suburb of the leafy Birmingham suburb of Sutton Coldfield.

So: no Birmingham, no Mellotron, no prog-rock.


Streetly Electronics factory in the 70's (Reliant Robin at far right of parked vehicles).

4 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

You only had a Semi you say....

Something a bit like this Commodore...

Looking back to 1977, my first amp was a 200w SS paired with a 2x12 cab and the bass was a short-scale semi.

So if I was starting out now I probably wouldn't change anything 

18 hours ago, Richard R said:

One of my school friends had a really thick brummie accent. French lessons were great. He had the language and grammar down perfectly, and spoke pretty well.  But every so often his natural accent would break though. Bonn jewa!

Imagine sitting in a classroom where all thirty of us were speaking French with a Brummie accent. A bizarre consequence of this was that whenever I spoke French in France some locals would ask me if I was from Paris. 

'Paris?'

'It's your accent'.

Either this was (i) a very subtle insult aimed both at me and at Parisians or (ii) Parisians sound like Brummies to other Frenchmen.

Similar thing happened a few years ago in St Omer. The Missus and I bought some chips and sat on a bench in the town square to eat them. Some local kids walked past, pointed at us and shouted 'Look at the stupid Belgians eating their chips outdoors like Belgians do'.

I is a chameleon, me, a master of disguise.

1 hour ago, MHMSWC#03 said:

it's the city I was born and raised in

Likewise.

13 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I know both the late chair of the Black Country Geological Society AND the Keeper of Geology at Dudley Museum so i knows where the coal goes

5 minutes ago, MHMSWC#03 said:

More importantly, do you know the Keeper of the meerkats at Dudley Zoo?

I know a chap who owns a t-shirt bearing the slogan The Peoples' Republic of Walsall and he would doubtless assert that Walsall is part of the Black Country.

In the event that he were to do so I should snap my fingers in his face and cry 'P'shaw!'

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Err... you can stand with one foot in Walsall and one in Sutton Coldfield.

 

Perhaps. Walsall is considered by many to be part of the Black Country and most maps accord with this view

They are, of course, completely wrong. The real Black Country comprises Dudley and Wolverhampton whereas Sandwell and Walsall are mere Yammer parvenus who feign a taste for porky scratchings while secretly obtaining foie gras from an artisan delicatessen in Aldridge.

Your periodic reminder that:

* Academic research has established that the first reference in print to 'heavy metal bands' was penned by the American rock critic Lester Bangs in the February 1970 edition of Rolling Stone

* Born To Be Wild songwriter Mars Bonfire has stated that the line 'heavy metal thunder' was a reference to motorcycles

* 'Hapshash & The Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids' was an art-rock band

* The Heavy Metal Kids didn't play heavy metal and were an entirely different band to 'Hapshash & The Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids'

* Author William S Burroughs invented the term 'Heavy Metal Kid' and accidentally shot his wife dead in Mexico City in 1951

* Rob Halford allegedly managed a porn cinema before joining Judas Priest and was born in leafy Birmingham suburb Sutton Coldfield which is about as far as you can get from the Black Country and still be in the West Midlands.

Just bought a guitar from Greg. Very nice man, smooth transaction. 

Thanks, Greg 

6 hours ago, FinnDave said:

Interesting tidbit of information there - so Mr. Glover had got past his (deep) purple phase by then was more into the yellow/red end of the spectrum?

Okay, the first paragraph was true. The second was an outrageous lie; Mr Glover was potting on some begonias.

PM'd 

To bring some perspective my auntie used to live next door to Roger Glover in Richings Park, Iver, Buckinghamshire and my (then) teenage cousin Pete used to wash Roger's car to make a few bob.

One time Roger was in his garden planting out some marigolds and my uncle leaned over the fence and said 'Rog, is Smoke On The Water heavy metal?' and Roger put down his trowel and thought a bit and said 'No, Norman, it's hard rock but played with a hint of heaviness'.

6 minutes ago, Cliff Edge said:

it fails to come up with a definite answer.

Indeed so.

I think the definitive answer is 'nobody's entirely sure' 

3 hours ago, Cliff Edge said:

Depends on your definition of classic. It’s of its time, and it’s certainly not heavy metal in the recognised sense. And I’ve often wondered who comes up with these definitions. Why Heavy Metal ferinstance?

Was it some jobbing scribbler on the NME?

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

Possibly, or some other music rag de jour. However, I think I’m right in saying that the term was pinched from Steppenwolf’s Born to be Wild (happy to be corrected).

Who came up with the name 'Heavy Metal'?

Lengthy piece here by Deena Weinstein, Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago (really). Library searches, phone calls, exchanges of correspondence; quite the detective story. The minor problem for me is that it seems that the originator wasn't really thinking of what we call heavy metal music when they first used the term.

Answer in spoiler box:

14 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

I'm quite used to 'accents'

I can do 'accents'.

Oo-ar, moy ol' lover.

That's West Country.

22 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

It could have been worst, I could have been a Mancunian liking gravy pea.

14 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

And 88 millimetres to a shortarse. 

Hi JD and   to the forum

5 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Indeed, each of them confusing the hell out of the g*******t who will always insist that the first chord in a song is by definition the root 

Even more fun: stick The Joker in the middle of the medley thereby reversing the chord movement, stand there and watch peoples' heads explode.

At one time it was my cherished ambition to construct a medley comprised of Sweet Home Alabama, Werewolves Of London, All Summer Long and Mr Steve Miller's Take The Money And Run.

Not that it would necessarily be any good but  it would be the ideal riposte on those occasions when someone in the audience calls out for Sweet Home Alabama.

'Yeah, no problem, hope you like it'.

Just now, Beedster said:

Plagiarism is the best form of flattery.

First heard that song on the radio while coming back from band practice late one night. I tell ya, I almost wrecked my automobile laughing at Mr Rock's effrontery.

8 minutes ago, FinnDave said:

it kept trying to turn itself into Sweet Home Alabama

A tendency capitalised upon by Mr Kid Rock in his 2008 song All Summer Long

Also spotted on Amazon: Multipack of Warren Zevon's first five albums on CD for £12.62

Hi Scott and   to the forum!

4 hours ago, WinterMute said:

let the mix engineer decide what he wants in the LF

 This suggestion was more for when the OP is doing stuff for himself. I subscribe to SiBob's earlier opinion that anything sent out should include a virgin stem.

4 hours ago, WinterMute said:

definitely don't filter over 10K, plenty of useable stuff on a bass above 10K

 I'm sure that's true in a studio context. With cheap or free plug-ins I've sometimes found some nasty fizzy stuff up there so the suggestion is in the nature of a starting point. I'm sure the OP will experiment with his cuts as time goes by.
 

4 hours ago, WinterMute said:

Also Line 6 Stomp, does amp and cab sim and a bunch of FX too, choice of compressors and limiters etc. Takes a bit of learning, but sounds very good. I take a feed from the stomp and a feed from the Rupert Neve DI in the Shelford channel, mix the two.

I dreams of a Rupert Neve DI Shelford at three and a half notes!