Barking Spiders

Do you mean a tune where bass is the only instrument, is bass led (e.g. Stanley Clarke) or which a bass solo in it?  The first two do little for me and am not much of a fan of the 3rd except for the short solo at 2.21. Louis J shows how to do it just right. Now OTT showboating here.

18 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

I've been listening to Sugar and Bob Mould today.  Bloody love it.

 

 Not seen any mention of the hugely underrated Sugar here till now. Much prefer them to Husker Du. Copper Blue is great but I prefer the Beaster EP. What are you listening to?

Currently have the new release by The Black Dog, The Grey Album, which is great. Recommended to those who fancy a bit of Warp type electronica

Only came across this recently yet it's been out for 10 years but it's the most interesting new bit of music I've heard in aeons

13 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

That's 15 musicians out of literally thousands 

..ok then here's another 15 and so.....Generation Sex (Billy Idol and Steve Jones both 67, Tony James 70, Paul Cook 66), Johnny Marr 59, Glen Matlock 66, Rick Astley 57, Steve Hillage 71, Robert Fripp 77 & Toyah 65, Steve Earle 68, Richard Thompson 74, Billy Bragg 65, Paul Carrack 72, Glen Tilbrook 65, Neville Staple 68, the Damned mid-late 60s I'm guessing. Didn't know they were even still going. And there were loads more guys from the electronica scene in their 50s. I'm not saying it's wrong for these older musicians to be there. I'm just surprised at how many bands from my youth and toddler years are still active. I don't buy music mags or read Pitchfork etc and nor do I listen to music on the radio so have no idea what's going on in the music world. I only listen to my CDs.

Is this the most senior citizen Glasto ever? Candi Staton 83, Debbie Harry 77, Sparks 77 & 74, EJ 76,  Cat Stevens 74, Chrissie Hynde 71,  Neil Barnes of Leftfield 63 or 62, Axl Rose 61, Fatboy Slim, Duff McKagen and Barrington Levy all  59,  Slash 57, Dave Grohl 54.  Take heart, BC posse. there's plenty of time yet to get booked 😁.  BTW I'm a slip of a lad of a mere 52 summers

On my boat kicking back to Music Has The Right To Children (That be Boards of Canada to the uninitiated) featuring

Learned how to read music and all that jazz (well not jazz per se) while studying clarinet and alto sax between 11 and 16, years of age that is.. not o'clock.  Then it all went t1tz up when I discovered gurls. Picked up guitar, drums and bass, initially thinking they might help me get to 4th base. Didn't happen but still kept up with them. The phrase 'self-taught' is a bit high-falutin in my case. More a case of fumbling my way up and down fretboards over the years.

Judging from the full line up it looks like nearly every band in Britain is playing there this year. Is yours?

In this glorious weather I generally prefer listening to summery, laid back, beach vibes such as ...

I don't know either but she's pretty fit

Probably 1988 - 1998...ish...the golden age of hip hop; grunge; the start of the best periods for Ninja Tune, Pork and Warp; peak era for House, Rave, trance, techno, drum n' bass blah etc, Pixies and House of Love do their best stuff. Yup, a great time to be in one's late teens-20s

A slamming bit of trance tunage from 1999...

This was an item in a newspaper????. Guess it must've been a quiet day across the rest of the planet then.

On 21/04/2023 at 19:12, White Cloud said:

A bottle of Jack Daniels and an upper class hooker ... Just joking 😁

mebbe more like a bottle of Lambrusco and a quick fumble down a back alley

25 minutes ago, stewblack said:

God you're a miserable judgemental bunch aren't you.

If they enjoyed making it then good luck to them. 

yeah but at least they could do it in the privacy of their own bathroom. Thing is it's just not new. Over the last several decades there've been thousands of groups doing rock covers whether in a jazz, classical, easy listening, redneck hoe down, metal stylee ....

or  

Sure was one helluva player and even stood out at a time when the 80s pop/indie scene was full of stellar bassmen

On 14/04/2023 at 10:49, ezbass said:

I'm thinking more Rod Stewart & Robbie Williams (I'm sure there have been others). It feels more like a case of needing/wanting to put out an album but having no material, rather than being moved by big band swing.

Maybe it's because both realise their own stuff is such utter gash the only way is up however dire the covers are

Metallica can only wish they were as good as Coldplay 😊

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

This is not an opinion, this is a fact!

 

 

 In my OP I did say terrible covers of GREAT or GOOD songs though!

Just been scrolling the DAB channels to see what's on and landed on Planet Rock while a truly awful song was on. I stayed to listen to it as it's just criminally bad. Now I'm not the world's biggest Beatles fan but one of their tunes I do really like is I Am the Walrus. However, the song I'm talking about happens to be a cover of this by something called Spooky Tooth. It has nothing in it that makes the original a classic but adds in loads of Keith Moon style drumming, overly loud sustained chords on a Hammond organ and a singist who sounds like Ozzy on an off day. Anyone else heard this and can you think of another cover that really mullers the original. 

On 09/04/2023 at 15:46, MothMan said:

UNKLE - Lonely Soul

 

 

Good to find other peeps on BC that share my taste. Big fave this one  though I tend to think of it mostly as a DJ Shadow album

Listen to the first two New Model Army albums  when Stuart Morrow was on bass and in particular a track like this one. Such as great tone!

At the moment Exai by Autechre is playing in the foreground.  Plenty here to irk those that think music should only be made with 'real instruments' 😊

I've left many bands entirely due to dull and predictable set lists, drawn up to appeal to the lowest common denominator to whit several tunes mentioned - Cocaine, SHA, Rockin in The Free World, anything by Oasis, Mustang Sally plus Valerie, Brown Eyed Girl, Living on A Prayer, Sex on Fire, Mr Brightside, Caroline, Sweet Caroline and Alright Now. If I never hear any of these again it'll be too soon.

On 26/03/2023 at 19:34, Rayman said:

I’m wondering if the current crazy upwardly directional prices of bass guitars is disproportionate to the increase of the cost of living and manufacturing?

 

 I mean, not that long ago you could pick up a Stingray for 6/700 quid? And an MIT Yamaha BB1100 for example, might have been 3/400 tops…. Now you can double those prices. I’ve had a bunch of BBs, inc a couple of 1100s…. they’re alright? Decent like? But a grand for a Made in Taiwan model? Nah mate.

 

So why are basses commanding such high premiums now? The used market, especially on here, used to be full of bargains! Now, you need a couple of grand in your back pocket while searching the ads?

 I've been selling off much of my collection of basses and guitars so have been very pleased to have been able to sell at much higher prices this year than say 2 years ago. Fr'instance I sold a 4-year old Sub Ray 4 for pretty much the same price I bought it for. The higher prices are pretty much entirely due to the hangover  from Covid impacting on shipping costs and the much longer lead times UK retailers have been reporting. Guy at my local store told me he's been experiencing lead times up from 3-4 weeks to 6 months plus at least a quadrupling in container costs.