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Cor!

1 minute ago, skankdelvar said:

I return to my contention that Mr James Blunt and his ilk feigned their pathetic uselessness in an attempt to brainwash an entire generation of young men. For while Mr Blunt was shilling the notion that a state of complete and utter subservience was a condition to which all men should aspire it is also a matter of record that he was getting so much punani that his cronies referred to him informally as 'C**ty Blunty'.

Not that I am casting doubt on his swordsmanship, but are you sure that's why they called him that?

10 hours ago, caitlin said:

I think you're being a bit unfair, they're only on about animals and insects in most of the GOOD songs.

Anyway, some of it is metaphor. you're just not *getting* it, man 🤣

Anyway everyone DOES want to be Naked and Famous and we're definitely not going to maaaaakkkkeeee eeeeeiiiiiiit,

No, genuinely I'm a big fan.  Got all their albums and seen them live a few times.  They're brilliant. 

I think one or more of them are some sort of entomologist or other animal scientist.  Hence all the lyrics about weevils, ants hiding in peaches, kitties, bug cities, monkey rivers, electric spiders, fleas versus mites (fighting with bites), slow slow flies, ladybugs, troglobites, butterflies, salamanders, frogs, etc..

That's my morning's iPod playlist sorted though!

*puts on headphones to try and pretend I'm not stuck in an office*

11 minutes ago, caitlin said:

None of this stuff is not true, but I really like PUSA lyrics.

I have long loved PUSA, but they're always banging on about insects and other animals. In nearly every song.

Lots of great tunes and good entertainment value though.

15 minutes ago, Monkey Steve said:

Exactly.  There's a fairly strong opinion about the death of heavy metal that since it went all PC and largely stopped singing about abusing women and killing people, RnB and rap have massively increased in popularity amongst teenage boys because it hasn't had the same pressure to grow up

That's quite an interesting theory.

She should still be made to smell the glove though!

I think metal music is mostly angsty, angry, stuff written by and for reasonably intelligent misfit nerdy types and/or people who may be going through a teenage identity crisis.  People who think about existential stuff, possibly channelling this through heretical ideas about religions and the occult or escapism through fantasy novels/films.

So certain buzzwords about Satan, mouldy old Babylonian (or wherever) gods, Dungeons and Dragons type creatures, being sad or angry and being able to pull through a phase of being sad and angry is all easily marketable stuff.  As it's at least in the right ball park.  If you believe anyone in the music industry could be so cynical.

Before anyone gets upset at my stereotyping, I say this as misfit nerd with a mid-life identity crisis who has listened mostly to various types rock and metal music for the past twenty years.  😀

Like everything, if you filter out the dross there's some thoughtful and intelligent stuff.  Also some stuff that's just plain old good daft fun.

Speaking of which, @Leonard Smalls I loved the image of the heavy metal goblins in shrouds.  If you felt up to reproducing the lyrics of "Sex Feeling" I imagine it would surely brighten up a tedious Tuesday afternoon!

There's loads I don't think I will ever tire of, but there's only a few that, when they appear on my iPod, I'll almost always rewind because I want to listen to it again.  Weirdly none of them are from bands I'm particularly into either:

• Close to Me by The Cure
• Undone (The Sweater Song) by Weezer
• Battle of Who Could Care Less by Ben Folds Five
• Ballroom Blitz by The Sweet

The first two are so very nicely put together and the other two are just great fun and they all make me smile to listen to.

On 02/09/2019 at 22:33, FinnDave said:

In October (12th) and December (7th), we are at the Fiddlers Elbow in Camden.

The band I joined this year are playing there the week after you guys.  What's it like as a venue?  It'll be my first gig in London so looking forward to it.

Hope you enjoy your gigs!

That looks lovely.

Maybe the reduced load of 40 gigs next year will feel like much less of a hassle?  Do you know what you'd do with all the time you'd free up without all those gigs?

A change can be as good as a rest, so perhaps changing to a different band doing a different style of music?  Or if you're on the cabaret circuit then maybe try joining an originals band or even writing some songs and starting your own?

15 hours ago, Richard R said:

It was my son's wedding on Saturday. Fantastic day, and the band at the reception were cracking and had almost everyone on the dancefloor. They played Proud Mary, and as you said, everyone seemed to go mad for it. It's a perfectly good CCR song, if you like CCR, but playing it at 900 bpm as a hardcore dance track just wrecks it. 

Bemused of Solihull 

The CCR version somehow manages to be even worse to my ears than the Tina Turner version, which is awful in itself.

The Tina Turner version is the one we do and as soon as it changes from slow to the faster bit suddenly the dancefloor is full of women rolling their arms down the imaginary river.

55 minutes ago, 4000 said:

Street Spirit is one of my favourite songs of all time. But Radiohead are one of my favourite bands. 😉

All very interesting this. Just shows how different we all are, as expected.

Yeah, it's all subjective.  I'm not saying it's a bad song per se and I know it's held in high regard.  They're a good band and I love "Just" and a few other of their tunes, but I just can't abide slow, quiet music.  Maybe it's because I'm a pretty laid back* guy or from the MTV generation or something, but I need stuff that's fast and dynamic with lots of changes to get my blood up a bit.  If it's slow and sticks on the same section for too long I get wound up by it and lose interest.

*lazy

1 hour ago, Mykesbass said:

Summer of 69

Alexandra Burke's version of Hallelujah

60% of the Beatles output, but for this exercise I'll go for Yesterday.

You can say that again! 

😃

Cor!

Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis - BORING!  Plus the bass is so tedious to play.  I can't decide if the bass player out of Oasis has the cushiest or the most soul destroying gig in musicdom.  Champagne Supernova is another one by them that winds me up as soon as it comes on.

Summer of '69 by Brian Adams - Unfortunately this is my covers band's set.  *uncurls toes*  Proud Mary is another contender from the set but for some reason people go mental for it, which has made me hate it less but I still can't listen to it.

Street Spirit by Radiohead - Stop whining for goodness sake!  After about 20 seconds of it I want to scream "This is so boring and taking forever!"  If I ever got imprisoned by the US war machine in Gitmo or another of their torture sites like Belmarsh or wherever, then they'd just need to play that song through once and I'd be psychologically broken before the chorus that I presume there must be somewhere in there.

19 hours ago, TheGreek said:

In fact, virtually anything from late 90s/early naughties...

Heretic!!  All my favourite tunes and albums were knocked around then.  Lots of really good stuff. 

Now the late naughties/early 10s...  That was all rubbish!

20 minutes ago, Teebs said:

All good, but Nevermind had a seismic influence at the time, and still sounds fresh today.

27 minutes ago, Paul S said:

No contest as far as I can see.  Nevermind defined a new music genre and in its way changed the direction of contemporary music.

I think these posts pretty much sum it up.  Amazing album really.  Some great bass playing on it too.

On 22/09/2019 at 03:05, Doctor J said:

Ondt Blod from the very far North of Norway. They take hardcore, metal and melodies which would make Brian Wilson blush and somehow make it all fit together seamlessly. Natur is my favourite album from last year by some distance.

https://ondtblod.bandcamp.com/

KXM, which consists of Doug Pinnick from King’s X, George Lynch from Lynch Mob/Dokken and Ray Luzier from Korn, have just released their third album, Circle of Dolls, and it’s another top quality slab of modern rock. A great band which only exists for a few weeks every couple of years but has released three superb albums.

https://kxmmusic.bandcamp.com/releases

Had a quick listen to those and on early impressions I like them both.  Cheers! 

54 minutes ago, jacko said:

have a fosters before you go on

I think the swear filter has probably changed this.  If I'm right then the post as it should have been is good advice!

1 hour ago, TimR said:

Have you considered depping? 

I'd be interested in that but no idea how I'd get into it.

Congratulations!  I think a few low end sounds would be perfect.  The womb is a noisy place full of the sounds of the outside world, blood rushing around and digestive gurgling noises and they manage to sleep in utero, so a bit of bass would probably soothe the little one.  As long as you aren't rattling the windows with it obviously!

It's definitely scary the first time round, but you'll do great as long as you give the little one lots of attention.  Keep talking to them and carry them round as much as possible.  You can spoil them with stuff but you can't spoil them with love.

All the best for the three of you!

17 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:

When you find out please tell me! Mine are 2 and a half and just three weeks. The eldest is left handed though so my GAS is an investment in her future. 

Mine are 11, 9 & 4. Congratulations on the new arrival! Enjoy them before they get too lippy and while you can still pick them up for a hug without doing your back in!

😀

17 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:

If you want regular gigs then try to find an opportunity with a well set up covers band that has a lot of bookings. You may need to compromise a bit on taste in set list or location to rehearse but it could still be fun, paid, and scratch the gig itch.

Yeah this is what I'd like to do.  I'm happy to compromise for the right band.  I don't mind what the set list is for a covers band as long as they've been chosen to get punters enjoying themselves.

21 minutes ago, uk_lefty said:

You've got three kids, form a four piece band. 

They're far too young but believe me I'd love to get them interested in playing instruments.  I keep trying to suggest it in a non-pushy way.  I've offered to teach them, to let them have lessons or to buy them a book so they could learn in their own time.  They just look at me like a smell of gas and decline.  Like the episode of South Park where the kids are all excited about getting high scores on Guitar Hero and Stan's dad comes in to play along on an actual guitar.

Suggestions for how to remedy that are welcome also!

2 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

I intend no disrespect to my good friend the learned Professor @ahpook when I tentatively venture to point out that the correct spelling is 'berk'. 

Berk is a contraction of Berkshire (pronounced as in 'work' rather than 'bark') the county name being here a component of the word formation Berkshire Hunt,  a passing reference to a long-established aggregation of fox hunting types but in this instance employed more specifically as an example of Cockernee rhyming slang.

Berk = Berkshire Hunt = a pejorative term or insult which rhymes with '-unt'.

You live and learn!

*James Naughtie likes this*

3 minutes ago, Monkey Steve said:

And is there any more that you could be doing to fix it?  Because, pointing no fingers, I've sat in enough rehearsal rooms with band members complaining about this and that that they think the band should be doing more of, who then do absolutely nothing about it, instead waiting for the magic gig fairy to come along and find them the higher profile paying bookings that they think they deserve

The BL in the covers band is pretty good at getting gigs so I've stopped trying as after a year of going round to pubs handing out cards and trying to chat people up for it with zero success I gave up!  The problem with that band isn't getting gigs, it's getting the other two to be available to play them.

I've done all the running for gigs for Originals band #1 with only one hit and about twenty misses.  The one hit was excited to have us back and asked us for dates, but I couldn't get any answer about availability out of the other members.  It would help if we had some photos or a video of us playing.  Which I've mentioned several times and is filed under "good idea, let's do that some time" but we don't get together enough to sort it.

3 minutes ago, Stylon Pilson said:

If you want to rescue the covers band, you need to talk to the band leader and agree to replace both of the people who have limited availability. If you don't want to do this, then you might as well get your next covers band lined up, because this one isn't going anywhere.

Thanks for the considered response.  You're right and I've been speaking to the BL about this for a while and I think we're on broadly the same page with what we want from the band.  We did agree to try out new people for both positions and he's supposedly been in talks with a few potential new members and we even auditioned one new guy, who was just awful - which happens. 

It's just that after a couple of months of dissatisfaction with it we aren't getting anywhere.  I messaged him for an update yesterday after a week or two of no contact and he told me he wasn't sure what was happening but that he'd been depping for the other covers band of the band member I think is the problem.  A band I thought had already folded.  So I think that is what made up my mind that the band is probably unfortunately beyond rescuing.

3 minutes ago, Stylon Pilson said:

If it does happen, then you can just say "sorry, I made alternative plans elsewhere as we were gigging and rehearsing so little - if you want to increase our activity, then you'll need to find another bass player to do it with."

I think this is the way I'll proceed with Originals band #1, thanks!