BrunoBass

Looks amazing, good job. As an aside; years ago I sold various surface finishes for a living, one of them was a self adhesive flexible laminate film made by 3M called Dinoc. I always remember an installation training session where the guy completely covered a football with one piece, with no wrinkles of creases at all, seriously impressive.

I wish I could see it...

Age doesn’t matter. After all, I met my wife when I was 35 and she had just turned 20... I’m now 51 and she turns 36 in May 😁 My last band, I was the eldest by far, the singer / frontman being the youngest with a fourteen year spread. My current band, we’re much closer in age - 53-45. And in answer to the earlier question about who’d want to join One Direction - if I were eighteen, yes, like a shot!

I enjoy watching Ingrid Richter. She’s totally into the music and I like her enthusiasm https://www.youtube.com/user/RichterIngrid

My spin on this is that bands like Queen, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles etc were viewed with much derision by the punk loving teenage me. But in 2020 the fifty year old me sees that actually, they’re pretty bloody good. I suppose it was considered uncool to like bands of that ilk, NME and Melody Maker considered them ‘the enemy’, and at the time I genuinely didn’t like their music. But now, I find myself thoroughly enjoying and maybe even downloading the likes of Rumours or The Stranger. Still prefer The Clash though...

RD

1. The Beatles - my mum and dad played them when I was a little boy. Their music is a massive part of my life and means a lot to me. If I could only listen to one band for ever it would be The Beatles 2. The Clash - the first band I discovered on my own. Everything about the excited me, and still does to this day. Paul Simonon is the reason I picked up a bass guitar. I wish I’d seen them live. 3. Billy Bragg - I first heard him on John Peel in the summer of 1983 when I was 14. I was enthralled, got a guitar and learned some chords. BB showed me that I could write songs, that I could relate to, and I didn’t need a silk suit or a Fairlight to do it. My punk moment, if you will. There are many bands that have inspired and mobilised me, many whose music has made a deep impression, but those three are the most defining, for me,

Couldn’t agreed more.

I’m a very long way from there unfortunately, but thanks very much for the kind offer! 👍🏻😊

I’m on the Oxfordshire / Warwickshire border.

Never heard of these before, thank you 😊

He didn’t. NWR played on ‘The Magnificent Seven’ from ‘Sandinista’ on sessions in NY. Simonon was filming in Canada, I believe with Ray Winstone, for a movie. It’s likely he probably played on other tracks from the same sessions whilst he was there. As for ‘Rock The Casbah’, Topper wrote all the music, played drums, bass and piano. Strummer later added lyrics and Mick Jones added the guitar stabs. Ironic that by the time Topper’s tune was released as a single he’d been fired from The Clash and Terry Chimes took his place in the promo video.

No reason why not, but I feel that the minute you start a paid gig you have a responsibility to entertain whoever is watching even if you’re not playing what you would personally listen to. If you’re playing stuff that entertains both audience and musician then it’s win/win 🙂 I quite like the stuff my band plays but it’s not really my thing. Goes down well in a pub on a Saturday night though!

There will be, I’m pricing it up and gathering parts now. Will let you know! 😊

Exactly, because it’s not about playing what you like, it’s about playing what your audience wants.

May to August, it looks great. https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/whats-on/exhibitions/dub-london

They do indeed. I believe after The Clash exhibition ends they have one celebrating the history of reggae and dub. Can’t wait, personally.

I was referring to the part of your post that mentioned the sound.

Which is pretty good, in my opinion 🙂

Sad news, such a presence in the bass world, his passing leaves a big space.

Yes, it’s just a bass. But it’s a bass that was played on a very influential album, and features in one of the most iconic photographs in rock history. Any instrument that has been used by a popular, influential, legendary musician has provenance and will be of interest to fans of that individual.

The Clash and Paul Simonon were / are a big part of my musical life so I really enjoyed the exhibition. It was great to see the instruments, clothes, artefacts etc from a band and an album that changed my life. It was great to see Paul’s bass up close. It’s an iconic object for sure, but also it was good to see and photograph it in detail as I’m building a replica at the moment. Intact though haha.

Why bother with museums at all then?

Big Rosetta fan here, her music is primal and thrilling with a life story to match. Unfortunately being black and female she seems to have been deleted from popular music history. Frank Turner recently released a song about her, with an accompanying podcast which is both fascinating and enlightening. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/frank-turners-tales-from-no-mans-land/id1470096231?i=1000443504606