Barking Spiders

Dunno why but in the last hour naff pop tune The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been worming its way into my ear. This is a song that peddles misinformation inferring that lions live in the jungle but as any fule kno, the habitat of lions is grassland, savannah, dense scrub and open woodland. Open woodlands are no jungle tho'! Now if they'd sung 'in the jungle... the tiger/panther/jaguar sleeps tonight' that would've been better. Fleetwood Mac are woefully ignorant of the fact that thunder often happens during dry conditions and not just when it's raining. The lyric should read 'Thunder often occurs when it's raining'. What other song lyrics are factually incorrect

and fortunately many Oasis and other Brit-Pap CDs now find themselves residing on the shelves in your local branch of Age UK, rubbing shoulders with Dido's No Angel and assorted Katie Melua albums

...and what other musicians have had long and illustrious-ish careers but have only ever owned/played just one or at most 2 or 3 instruments of any kind?

An indie type band I was in submitted a couple of tapes to JP but were rejected as we didn't have a shed to record in but had to make do with the outside khazi round the back of my mate's nan's house

The EBMM Stingray is hands down my #1. Tim Comerford's has the edge on Josephine Wiggs' cos of the finish. Quite like Doug Wimbish's Spector though I'm not a big Spector fan. Not sure when this vid was put together but Ian Hill from Judas Priest needs to gen up on his erm.. geog or 20th century European history as Czechoslovakia is no longer 😏, certainly not when I was last there two years ago.

you mean to tell me that's not bass playing?

A good example of this is Dreadzone's 2001 session, which for me is their best CD.

Fairy nuff. Yep, seems he generally stopped playing prog from 1977 , if the festive 50 lists are anything to go by. He didn't really champion metal bands and jazz and disco didn't seem to be his bag either. I didn't get his love for The Fall nor The Undertones and indeed he did play a lot of drivel. IMO Undertones spin-off That Petrol Emotion were 1,000 x better. But his hit rate for me was way higher than any other radio music show.

All of it? But the thing about JP is his tastes were so eclectic Look at 1976 festive 50s and there's Led Zep, Floyd, Dylan, Hendrix, Beatles, Neil Young, Genesis. They're not my bag at all but JP covered most genres.

Nice!! that's the next few weeks for me sorted esp 23 Skidoo, ACR, Cabaret Voltaire, Culture, Curve, Dreadzone, FGTH, Half Man Half Biscuit.. Yikes, makes me realise how much influence JP has had on my music taste.

If I was being honest with meself I could pick a load of trance hits from the late 90s but to curry cheap favour with senior members of BC here's Acker Bilk 😉😀

I quite like it but the best part is the intro. That said I've heard it all before. Big chunks of Chic in there what with the bassline and the strings.

Yep, a short lived career of 4 tracks

My fave bass players are those with pretty long resumes but there are several others I reckon could've been up among the bass greats if they had longer CVs .. Stuart Zender - well there are the first 3 Jamiroquai albums and then errrm... Michael Dempsey - lent some great lines on the first two Cure albums and Sulk & 4th Drawer Down by The Associates and hmmm sappy Scouse pop combo The Lotus Eaters. Seems to've been lying low ever since Deon Estus - played much of the bass on Wham's three albums and then nada as far as I know Stuart Morrow - came out of the gate strongly on the first two New Model Army albums then seems to have sunk without trace Brad Lang - played on 7 of the 10 tracks on Lexicon of Love by ABC. Check out the peachy lines on Valentine's Day, Many Happy Returns and 4 Ever 2 gether. Tried Googling him . There's a Brad Lang who plays with some US metal band called Y & T but I doubt it's the same bloke So, who else is worth unearthing then?

By and large I like good dozen or so there and would be happy to be in a band covering them. Indeed there was a lot of dross in the 80s but IMO there was even more in all the other decades pop and rock have been around. Lot of good stuff John Peel was playing back then and in particular the Sheffield scene was very strong with bands like ABC, Heaven 17, Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, Comsat Angels, Pulp., Chakk...

It used to be around half a dozen plus years ago. Sweet FA from the 15 and 13 years old girls, not even a quickly mumbled/grunted happy father's dad pops. Oi vay!🙄.

It's definitely among my all time top 10 albums and I've also bought it several times in different formats and versions. Currently have the 25th anniversary double CD album and like disc 2 as much as the original.

I tend to get GAS at first sight so I go back a good number of times to the guilty web page /store and try hard to find fault with the gear to convince myself not to buy. I've been having GAS for the pre-loved, mint condition MTD Kingston Heir currently at Bass Direct. The unusual hardware set up particularly appeals though I've managed to talk myself out of it just because the neck is in natural while while the body is in a cherry finish. I tend to only go for natural finishes. So, I'll save up for a Ray34 or make the long trip to Guildford for a Sire Marcus Miller M7, have a play and then find some piddling reason not to buy it.

For me his tone there is even worse than usual and yes there's nil bottom end on the drums. Clanky bass tones are the last.

errm, I'll stick my neck out and admit I can't abide the 60s sound of Motown though the P bass playing is its one saving grace. Diana Ross in particular has a voice that grates on me like fingernails down a blackboard (if anyone here under 30 whatever doesn't know what one of those is?)

Yep I've always liked this muchly too although I prefer Propaganda, which I must dig out for from the murky depths of the understairs cupboard for a spin.

what do people mean by 'coffee table' basses? do they mean custom £3k+ instruments by Ken Smith, Pedulla, Wal etc?

what about one of these?

Depends whether the car is a or

You've certainly got it right about the dreary jean. Why wear them when you could get yourself a nice pair of cavalry twills? As for Ps I always tend to gloss over them whenever I'm in Bass Direct or wherever. They're a bit like the workmanlike back four in a football team rather than the centre halves or strikers.