Barking Spiders

10 minutes ago, MikeTheMisfit said:

 

Do you play quite softly with your fingers then? Perhaps i am plucking too hard.

Some well known players like Geddy Lee often dig in really hard but IMO start off softly using the fingertips rather than the pads. Another tip is to just fret the bottom string  and strike with with the index finger first playing quarter notes then advancing to 8ths gradually adding the index and then the ring finger. Of course, it goes without saying to do this with a metronome.

Now I've got a newish car fitted with DAB radio I've discovered Jazz FM, which is now my default station when driving. Nice to hear the Jackson Sisters 'I believe in miracles' after many years. Cracking bassline, which is next on my list to suss out

 Lovely

agree with suggestions doing chromatic exercises. Try playing scales slowly with just the index finger first, then moving to the middle finger when ready and so on. Do this while watching TV etc to develop muscle memory but avoiding getting bored. BTW I played classical guitar before picking up a bass so it was quite easy to transpose. Conversely I've never played acoustic with a pick and am still not comfortable using one to play bass after 30 years! 

Viz affordability of housing in England the real problem is the private rental sector is unregulated so landlords charge what they can get away with. Tory backbenchers who are landlords have pretty much blocked any attempts to bring in regs

Went on YT and gave each act about 2 mins which is enuff to tell me the whole shebang amounts to one big meh! I've no particular beef with Laters..especially as it introduced me to Sigrid. But the Sugababes, Rod the Plodder, Raye, Muirrean Bradly, Olivia Dean, Joss Stone,  the Mary Wallopers (Northern Premier League Division One East version of The Pogues) were all stunningly run of the mill compared to others doing their types of thing.

This release by Sheffield's The Black Dog in 2023 is a cracking example of ambient electronica with a strongly dystopian vibe

Isn't Hootenanny  recorded in the summertime? If so there's not gonna be as my kind of real festive vibe. I was out on the lash so didn't watch any NY slebrations on TV 

I feel your pain. When my second marriage was falling apart and we had £45k of debt I had to sell my motorbike, 4 basses, 4 guitars, 2 drum kits, 3 keyboards and my collection of hand and stick drums. Got back in the game a couple of years later once I hammered the debt. Best of luck to you Bubinga 🤞

All those US bands that came after grunge died which MTV used to show on rotation. All identikit clones Quite a few of them had 'three' or 'third' in their names All total ballcocks of course.

In one of my minimalism frenzies I got shot of half a dozen basses over 2 years leaving me with just a Cort GB74 OPN, a Cort Action Deluxe AS and  a Sterling by Musicman Ray 4 HH. I'm now suffering from an acute attack of GAS and pour over the web pages of Bass Direct, Gak, Andertons etc the way I used to intensely peruse the ahem....'articles'.... in a certain publications as a teen. I'm quite tempted by the pre-owned  Fender 75th Anniversary Jazz Bass 2021 in Bass Direct. How fortunate it's only a 10 minute drive away 😊.

Not a lot of love for esteemed funk/slap merchants - not even MM -  among the BC massive. Well, there's a surprise....naht!

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As Louis Johnson is my #1..... but isn't there.... the 3 I've clicked on are my 2nd, 3rd and 4th....at this particular minute! ..Mark King, Bernard and Marcus M.

Definitely Justin Guitar. IMO he's the best guitar tutor on YT and I've checked out a lot. I suppose you also have to think how your nephew likes to learn stuff e.g. reading/writing, auditory, visual, kinesthetic. Speaking for myself, as a kid I struggled learning from Bert Weedon's and others books and only got to grips when others showed me how to do it.

I count myself lucky to've been born in 1970 and so was  a yoot during the heyday of music (IMO)...the 1980s!!.  Two tracks where the basslines blasted my soft and unformed auditory cortex were 

 and this featuring one Mark King!

Currently listening to a best of compilation by Phoebe Buffay

I still listen to CDs 🙃. Dunno what a Spotify does but from time to time I go on Last FM. Problem that often crops up there is you might click on say track 3 of album WXY but it plays track 7 instead. Oftentimes, I find only a couple or so tracks are playable on some newer releases. Had thought about Spotty but I think I've now got all the albums I'll ever want in the old CD format.

8 hours ago, MichaelDean said:

I see it all the time in the Bristol store.

I was hoping to pick up an electro-acoustic guitar from PMT Bristol next weekend as the online prices are competitively priced. If the store price is 30% higher I might as well by one locally and save myself the cost of a 60 mile round trip. 

mammals found in north America

Ay ay ay ay moosey -Modern Romance

Beaver patrol - Pop Will East Itself (though somehow I don't think they had these furry critters in mind!)

Hungry like the wolf -Duran Duran

Buffalo stance - Neneh Cherry

Cougar -2 Live Crew (not sure these were actually rapping about mountain lions either)

err..that's about it 

4 hours ago, Lord Summerisle said:

Extremely admirable, even if only for the singer’s extraordinary haircut when viewed in profile. It’s the ultimate case of stubbornly refusing to accept something has gone. 😆

Was it intentional to have them walking past a men's hair salon (or barber as we called them back in the day) at 1.41? Maybe he's going back there to ask them to return his money

When I occasionally do tune into Planet Rock and hear 70s-early 90s hard rock and metal I wonder to myself what I ever saw in it. On the other hand I still enjoy a big chunk of synth/electronic and post punk from the 80s.

As a teen and 20 something I was a sucker for music with loud distorted power chords and warp speed fretwinking. Nowadays I way, far, much prefer stuff not 'made using real instruments '. Perversely I still love guitars but hate most guitar centric music other than flamenco and country chicken pickin.

Don't really have a sound as I use pick, fingers, thumb only and slap 'n pop/pull. Fave way of playing is 16ths at the bridge in a 'Chinese Way'

On 14/11/2023 at 20:29, dclaassen said:

Super heavy touch for the style, plus really busy in lead-ins… not much space for anyone else imo.

As a drummist myself I found his playing pretty heavy handed. I think he was trying to release his inner Bonham 

3 hours ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

It probably just further confirms that these list are just a lazy way to fill column inches, but hasn't Rolling Stone been a fairly pop/rock-oriented magazine from the off? So it wouldn't surprise me if they focus chiefly on rock and its subgenres, while paying lip service to Jazz, Country, Blues, Folk, etc - the likes of John Fahey or Davey Graham probably flicker into their peripheral vision only occasionally. Their main crime is being sloppy with the title - "greatest rock guitarists" would probably appease most of us - but then it wouldn't attract as many clicks!

And that's the problem with pretty much all 'greatest guitarist/bassist/whatever' lists , that rock and blues are the default genres and others count for pretty much nowt. Even old Rick Beato's channel is largely geared towards rock and blues although there's the occasional article on / interview with a jazzer e.g. John Scofield and Keith Jarrett. I wonder how highly rated rockers like Hendrix, Beck EVH, Vai, Malmsteen and young guns like Abasi and Henson would able to match top jazz, flamenco or country players.