Daz39

This; just fab.

3 hours ago, stewblack said:

I'm not so sure about that....

The epic wooden top with paintings on it? (Scratches head)

@stewblack has a multi-pedal waaaay cooler than that.

That’s so unfair, awful to hear. She had some cool

ideas and great humour.

If i recall correctly, didn’t her cat meet an untimely end in the flat fire? If so, I hope they’re both making cool music up there together now.

Great band: classic divide with some hating post-Fish but that’s all a bit “Metallica after the Black album were rubbish”.

The early work is pretty brilliant but even there I found a lot of the slower/softer tracks mawkish and bleurgh, and it’s the longer, proggier tracks I prefer, mainly because of the guitar playing.
 

They do a two or three day event at Port Zelande every year recently that I tend to listen on Spotify when it appears). And I recall them doing fanclub releases way back when too; they really survive on their fan loyalty.

Some of the early H stuff I have found poppy and so-so, but having re-listened to their entire catalogue several times there’s some amazing music on there: Afraid of Sunlight, Real Tears for Sale, No One Can are all great tunes, H is a heck of a singer. Some of their longer works are pretty epic listens: Estonia, Ocean Cloud…

Steve R has done some good solo albums that are worth a listen also. I think he was once described as somewhere between Andy Latimer and David Gilmour.

I’ve liked Pete’s playing since the first Transatlantic album. He probs would get mentioned more if he played at the front and did wild things, but he doesn’t (nor does he need to)

1 hour ago, Jackroadkill said:

So they shot her and she's on an attempted murder rap?  Got it.

If she wasn’t white the cops would have emptied their magazines just to make sure their own lives weren’t in danger any longer…

1 hour ago, spongebob said:

Funny how some ‘big’ names from 15-odd years ago (Snow Patrol, Supergrass, Franz Ferdinand, Fatboy Slim, Scissor Sisters) have fallen so far down the bill. 

It’s 30 years since Supergrass’ debut album; that’s time dilation for you!

Crikey: tell him he’s a wanger…

1 hour ago, Bluewine said:

Things have changed over here since Covid. 

 

The standard bar/pub gig was 4 hours with two 15 minute breaks. Now it's 3 hours with the same breaks.

 

I'm bragging a bit here, but after 17 years Maple Road no longer books bar gigs. We do winerys,  brewerys, private events, festival, fairs and theaters. We plays an average of about two hours.

 

Daryl

Cor, even live music suffers from the corporate overwork as standard model!

32 minutes ago, toneknob said:

more random TLev content - this EHX demo dropped into my email today even though it's from 10 or so years ago. funny stuff.

 

 

Oh yes: "I set the sustain to sometime after the heat death of the universe..." (or something like that.)

Thanks for posting that; I do like Rick Beato's interviews.

Tony's one of my fave players - loved him since I heard him on the LTE albums, then discovered King Crimson and the epic trio of albums he was on, and then lots of other stuff - the metallic bass on half the tracks on Union (the Yes album no one admits to owning or liking, or somesuch.)

Love his quirkiness - funk fingers!, Chapman Stick work, love of Espresso machines, some good solo stuff too.

Amazing to think he played for JFK as a teen, and is still making fine music in 2024 - hope there's a live album for the Beat tour.

40 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

I would argue timing and good fortune are part of the recipe for success. Noel has penned some reasonably catchy tunes (first 2 records). Oasis were the right band in the right time in a similar vein to the Arctic Monkeys or Nirvana.

 

Exactly - writing some half decent songs (there are loads of small bands that have written great songs that get nowhere), and being promoted in the right places at the right time. The rest is hype. Oasis became more popular because they were popular and it was cool to like them to fit in - same as every other emerging big band.

I do love a Chase Bliss pedal - so many features!

I wonder if the vitriol from here (and poss. other muso fora) is that they found the formula to appeal to the punter, fairly simple and noisy, and did not evolve or progress. It made them millions, but artistically it was shallow - is that the issue?

Possibly why they 'won' against Blur in the 90s - the latter moved on with their sounds, off the rails a bit, back again, etc. which did appeal to many, but not as many as those that want guitars at loud on the jukebox they can sing along to atonally. I

Oasis were ruined for me by being the band de jour of all the bullies and n@bheads in my year and the year above at school - I was  just starting Lower 6th when their debut released.

All day long at the House in School (Boarding School) on full whack it was dirge-ful.

Then I went to Uni and the least likeable of our room mates (there were 7 of us in our flat) played Wonderwall every night at 2 or 3am when he came in from being on the lash. Loud, repeatedly.

Dinosaur Jr. Farm (15th Anniversary Edition) - with extra songs.

Lovely noise - their best album.

Looks even better on a sunny day, great reflections on the swirly bits (no, not your knees...)

31 minutes ago, Crusoe said:

I'll never know how Harris plays it with only two fingers.

Yeah, same. Bonkers. And his strings are massive too. He must have gone for adamantium finger implants sometime in the 80s...

I can do the 3-finger as mentioned above, and also manage to vary it so it's either 3 identical notes or 2 and then 1. I don't know about what feel they are - except that my fingers feel knackered halfway through.

1 hour ago, Doctor J said:

That recent Black album reissue will have topped up his account quite handsomely. He's not short of a few quid at all.

Have you seen US medical bills?!

But yes - he's loaded - perhaps he wants to downsize a little as he reprioritises: he's obviously had fun collecting these. Maybe he's moving to a smaller house, or not playing as much.

Maybe it's funding a new expensive hobby!

11 minutes ago, Misdee said:

If Jason Newstead doesn't want them then I don't either. 

 

 Don't let me put you off though, this could be your only chance to get that ten string Alembic that you have always dreamt of. And as for the three string Stingray, just get a regular Stingray and take off the G string. See how long it amuses you.

The G on a Stingray’s barely on the fretboard anyway…

Finally: it makes toast!

This looks ace. I am well-jel that I couldn't even entertain going. Used to live in Halifax, now down the road south of Manchester. Been to Clapham on my way up to the Lakes or Peaks. Lovely bit of the world. mm basses.

Will the UK get fewer points than Israel?

12 minutes ago, honza992 said:

Sides are nearly finished.  The final kerfing was glued in this afternoon....

 

Now that’s what I call a hollow-bodied guitar!

I'm of the '76 vintage. Wonder what would be available that was decent from that year?