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I wish I could see it...
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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!
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I enjoy watching Ingrid Richter. She’s totally into the music and I like her enthusiasm https://www.youtube.com/user/RichterIngrid
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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...
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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,
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30 minutes ago, Cuzzie said:
Dave is great, fantastic artist
@Lozz196 you have put it exactly right, rap when done right can be exactly like punk in its principles.
Great performance, good to see british rap/grime getting more to the front
Couldn’t agreed more.
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On 17/02/2020 at 19:42, walshy said:
If you are anywhere near Hexham Northumberland I make furniture, kitchens and Shepherd Huts and have a large woodworking workshop you're more than welcome to use. Thats where I make some of my bits too!
I’m a very long way from there unfortunately, but thanks very much for the kind offer! 👍🏻😊
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On 17/02/2020 at 19:26, honza992 said:
Where are you?
I’m on the Oxfordshire / Warwickshire border.
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On 13/02/2020 at 10:37, jrixn1 said:
Google 'hackspace'
Never heard of these before, thank you 😊
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1 hour ago, Piers_Williamson said:
So what is the low down on Norm playing on London Calling?
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.
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1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:
Why can’t the two be combined?
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!
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20 minutes ago, Rich said:
Build thread urgently required, unless you already have one.
There will be, I’m pricing it up and gathering parts now. Will let you know! 😊
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3 hours ago, Delberthot said:
I wouldn't mind at all if one of the other bands did Sex On Fire, Dakota or Valerie. Not one bit - in fact I would encourage it 😀
Exactly, because it’s not about playing what you like, it’s about playing what your audience wants.
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1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:
I’m up for that, do you know when
May to August, it looks great.
https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london/whats-on/exhibitions/dub-london
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9 hours ago, Kiwi said:
Since they changed CEO a few years back, the MoL have put on some very interesting and entertaining exhibitions. I was a guest at an opening of one back in 2015 and it was a lot of fun - a surprisingly rare quality in the rarified circles of London's cultural glitterati.
They do indeed. I believe after The Clash exhibition ends they have one celebrating the history of reggae and dub. Can’t wait, personally.
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11 hours ago, fleabag said:
Well of course
Built on a factory line with about as much passion as a spotty McDonalds employee building a cheeseburger
But i guess this hardly matters considering how many have bought them and use them.
Millions of bassers cant be wrong
I was referring to the part of your post that mentioned the sound.
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On 13/02/2020 at 21:37, fleabag said:
They should epoxy that pile back together and it will sound just as good as when Fender built it
Which is pretty good, in my opinion 🙂
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Sad news, such a presence in the bass world, his passing leaves a big space.
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10 hours ago, ambient said:
Isn’t just a bass though at the end of the day? I must be missing something 😁.
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.
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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.
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On 03/01/2020 at 10:17, Dan Dare said:
I just don't get this. Mass produced stuff and tat acquiring the status of a holy relic because someone famous has used/abused it. I can understand why the organisers put on such events (bizness, innit?), but why do so many go along to pay money and gawp? Are people that gullible?
Why bother with museums at all then?
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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.
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Vinyl wrapping a bass
in Bass Guitars
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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.