Barking Spiders

what he says in an in interview I came across

Recently saw a post on the 'What are you listening to' thread showing some multi-instrumentalist fella playing Genesis and Rush stuff. Seems he's also a studio engineer and what not but says he's pretty much dedicated his life to music. Just wondering whether anyone's here has a. had the inclination to do likewise and b. whether you have/had what it takes. Come on, no room for false modesty here. Blow your own trumpet, so to speak 🙂. Speaking for myself, I've always been too much of a dilettante to dedicate myself to one area of life. Too many interests and distractions to keep me on a firm and steady course in one direction.

Musically not my bag one iota but there's no doubting the fella's multi-instrumental prowess. I'm impressed👌.

Huge shame especially since he had made a recovery from cancer . Remember seeing them at Sonisphere a few years ago. Best set on the bill by far and I mean that! C & D provided much needed levity and simple good fun to counter the sturm and drang of the metal acts around them. I was only there to see The Prodigy (who were a bit shoite tbh) and cos my good lady wanted to see Metallica

It might snuck up on you unawares and hang around for a while. It did me two years ago when I was 45 as I went all 1950s beatnik hep cat. Didn't last long and I recovered

Missed by 7 years! Were you at a shoite boarding school too?

How about this from former Donald Byrd proteges. Some lovely bubbling bass ting goin' on!

As a 14 year old I was listening to most types of rock my faves back then being Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, AC/DC, Bad Company, Quo, Judas Priest, Skynyrd, Collins era Genesis and U2 . Now if I hear any thing by any of these and a hundreds more of their ilk I turn off the radio. School life from the age of 14 was utter shoite. So mebbe subconsciously I associate those bands with a cr@p time of life. My best years were 18 -24 when I was mostly getting into synthy/electronic stuff and I've been within all that ever since.

Seeing as I dont live far from WuE i thought I'd check out the link but a but disappointed to see the music there isn't my bag

Actually I was a bit like these lads when i was their age too. I liked playing guitar, drums and bass but never actually enjoyed being in bands, though I've done a lot of depping since. I've always preffered depping as I don't have to commit myself and I avoid boring rehearsals going over the same old stuff again and again. Not that I ever pursued such a career but being a producer seemed more interesting to a 17 year old me than being a band member

Yep, I've seen em live a couple of times and they're not bad. Lau are another good outfit mashing up folk with electronics

hmm cant see them as clearly as I hoped but is a Peavey Cirrus BXP. Googled for info on what type these knobs are but nowt. Anyone else had one of these and might know?

BTW this isn't an insult to all you guys! 😉. Fact is, I've got a bass up for sale where the control knobs are a bit knackered and need replacing. The most convenient store for me is Bass Direct but I 'm a bit gobsmacked at the prices, between £6 and 12.. each it seems and I need five. Are these prices normal and if not where can i get cheaper plastic ones?

I've always been partial to Django and some others in that tradition, the jazz funk of The Brecker Brothers, Crusaders, Jon Scofield etc and odd jazz tunes like Sidewinder by Lee Morgan and a couple of tunes of Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay. But bebop, hard bop , riverboat type jazz , big band jazz and atonal stuff ...nah! Do like a fair bit of electronica with jazz influences like St Germain, Jazzanova, Cinematic Orchestra and Amon Tobin

I did try hard at getting into jaaazz a few years ago (honest) and bought a couple of Mingus platters and a whole bunch of other allaged classic, mostly those cheap as chips box sets. To be fair the Mingus stuff wasn't bad, not good enough for me too keep but not deserving being flung through the kitchen window. Most of the rest just didn't tickle the right parts and all ended up being sold on Zon

Aren't low-mid price Ibanez actually made by Cort? For my money Ibanez (SR) basses come into their own around the £800 mark, at current GAK prices. Under that, pound for pound I'd opt for Cort 's own basses over Ibanez

I guess like many of us born during the 50-late 70s/maybe mid 80s music in general and playing a guitar/bass or wanting to play in a famous band were near the top of my list of the 'important' things in life, with fit looking girls being #1 😊. Without mentioning the missus/mr and sprogs. is music in general and playing the bass in particular still way up there or have they been overtaken by growing tulips / steam engines / riding out on your Harley / other boat floaters. As a teen / early 20 something music was a big deal for me, mahoosive even, so much so I'd spend hours a day listening and playing. Now I can go for weeks on end without wanting to listen to anything and now more likely to have a teach yourself Czech/Greek/Hungarian CD on in the car than music (true!). Still, I probably spend more time noodling about on the bass and guitars etc than actual music listening. From the posts I read I think I might be in a minority here!.

Without question saturday night is the worst on Freeview /terrestrial tv and that's saying something considering the utter bilge shown on most channels the other 6 days. It's bad enough summer being over but the misery is compounded by four months of feckin Strictly and X Factor. I am partial to reruns of tec shows on ITV3 and Drama Channel, Doc Martin, the occasional science documentary on BBC2 or Yesterday and The Durrells and that's it.

I was hugely disappointed with Little Creatures as TH had dropped the funky elements on that album. Remain In Light is great but Fear of Music is their masterpiece IMO. Not a duff track on it. More Songs About Buildings and Food is brilliant too, Take Me To The River being 100 x better than the Al Green version and is one of the greatest covers of any song ever. Speaking in Tongues is generally good but inferior to the other three while for me its the Stop Making Sense versions of Slippery People and Burning Down The House that are definitive. I agree with what others say about TW, a classic case of apparently simple but memorable and highly effective playing supporting the songs.

I got my excellent SUB Ray 4 for £289 but nowadays most dealers are selling them for £320 -300 though I see Andertons, Thomann and PMT Online are offering just under £300. All reviews I've read have been positive and I concur. I'd say considering the quality of build and playability Sterling are robbing themselves

each to their own but I don't like the sounds of most metal/hard rock guitar solos. Love brain slamming riffage from the likes of Rammstein and Lamb of God but not trebly widdling .Prefer more jazzy, funk tones and the sounds Dave Gilmour gets even though I'm no PF fan.

The thread on overplaying made me think a lot of the fault lies with producers rather than players. Often I hear the kernal of a great song only for it to be ruined by OTT orchestration, leaden drumming to the fore , inappropriate metal widdling in dance songs etc etc. One of the worst examples has to be the hit version of Sound of Silence when the drums come in. Up to that point of course it's a great tune but for me the drums and kitchen sink the producer throws in ruin it. I also think Beat It would've been a better tune if the van Halen solo had been left out. I think Quincy Jones and MJ had a bit of a lapse there. So, what other essentially fine songs do you reckon have been mullered by inappropriate production?

mostly it's been the excellent twin albums by The Black Dog - Post Truth and Black Daisy Wheel, the former being darker dance floor grooves and the latter being more ambient in a Boards of Canada /come early Autechre stylee

Often more is more. IMO there are too many songs where the bassists, drummers or guitarists underplay. Not that I'm a fan but Bad Company, Free, ZZ Top , AC/DC, U2 , Oasis and Coldplay all might've been better bands (IMO) with a bit of overplaying, especially the rhythm sections.