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[quote name='LeftyP' timestamp='1505943898' post='3375467'] "Black Is Black" - Los Bravos. There must be hundreds more but I'm enjoying this thread. [/quote]funnily enough this came up on my MP3 player the other morning (about 3am when I couldn't sleep) and I was thinking the song is really driven by a great relatively simple bass line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TN_NieR8lc

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1505378656' post='3371396'] my theory is a lot of bands/artists get overhyped if they die tragically or young. [/quote]that's because they've not had chance to go past their sell by date, who knows how Buddy Holly, Hendrix etc, would have turned out if they'd lived. Here's another one I just don't get Tom Jones

nice one, found yourself a band then?

[quote name='silverfoxnik' timestamp='1505342172' post='3371265'] To try to argue that The Beatles are overrated is an utterly futile exercise; all the evidence - their sales, cultural impact, critical acclaim, respect from their peer over the years, etc, etc - is too compelling a case. Be that as it may, it doesn't mean you have to like their music. [/quote]not wanting to start another Beatles debate but I have to say he's right, bit like saying Elvis was overrated, didn't like a lot of his stuff but I'd never say he was overrated

talking of the Who, Squeezebox, how the hell did/do they get with that one, did the BBC actually think it was about a musical instrument? they were probably the only ones that misunderstood those lyrics

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1505318780' post='3371021'] I'm with PW on this...at least they were vaguely original and pushed at the boundaries.... (...and were very well received at "Folk under the Oak" in Hatfield Park earlier this year) BTW there's a town called "Whitwell" in Herts too...they don't have an annual music festival though. [/quote]this Whitwell is on the Notts/Derbys border with a Sheffield post code, has a music festival every year, not sure how they get away with it, the out door stage is in the middle of the village, having a Slade tribute blasting out Merry Christmas Everybody at 11.30pm on a September night must be really confusing for some

[quote name='kevvo66' timestamp='1505317982' post='3371010'] The levellers,wtf what load of sh*te they are or was , who cares [/quote]quite like the Levellers myself, there's an awful lot of bands trying to sound like them if last weekends Whitwell Festival is anything to go by

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' timestamp='1505315111' post='3370979'] Yep, and [i]Gelatinous Ropes Of Curious Yogurt Splashing On My Stomach [/i]is another one. I've never understood why people so commonly use that for their first dance. S.P. [/quote]oh yeah, Dancing with Myself is another

[quote name='NickA' timestamp='1505041665' post='3369027'] I have an experimental J-bass that I keep meddling with. It recently acquired a series parallel switch; with the two pickups in series it does sound quite precision-ish. Sort of solid and thumpy. The pickups are no longer loading each-other so you get a "sum of" pickups instead of a kind of "average of" that a standard J-bass has which changes the frequency spread. Takes a bit of a re-wire - but interesting results. It will never be exact because the P's pickup is in a place that the J doesn't have one (see below, which also shows why a PJ doesn't sound like a J either). [/quote]this ^ I've a Squier VM Jazz as a backup for my P and fitted a parallel/series push pull switch and I think it's pretty close in the series position

there's a few songs about w***ing that people don't get, Teenage Kicks is another

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' timestamp='1505300980' post='3370823'] band of gold - especially when played at a wedding [/quote]yeah I've always understood that one, I heard it played at a wedding too, sat there with a smug grin on my face

I was listening to 5 live last night and they were on about misunderstood songs, they were talking about politicians using songs without actually understanding the lyrics, Ronald Regan used Springsteen's born in the USA without realising it's an anti American song. Another one I know is Rocking in the Free World, it was used a lot when the Berlin Wall came down but it's actually an anti western culture song. Anybody got any more?

isn't there a danger of dragging it around the stage with you?

one man's overrated is anothe rmans underrated, it's just personnel taste, but I really really don't understand how so many people rate Radiohead and Coldplay

funnily enough (not funny ha ha) the local mainstay of live music in my town The Greyhound in Beeston, Notts has just announced its closing, blaming high business rates, but the truth is not enough people were turning up every weekend to watch the bands for whatever reason

I've got one, but gone over to a Trace Elliot head with Fender Rumble V2 cabs, class D amps seem a little to polite for my taste they are light but also big with only a top handle they are cumbersome to carry about, the EQ section is limited (a sweepable mid would be handy) and unlike some others I don't like the overdrive, to spikey for my taste, ok if you're trying to be Lemmy, but nice voicing and loud, so some would really like them, depends what you're after, not sure about build quality either some of them rattle when turned up, apparently

[quote name='CameronJ' timestamp='1505138202' post='3369721'] No doubt because they have more sense than Trace Elliot and know fully well they would never have sold at the original price in a million years. Even at £450 they'll struggle IMO but they'll probably shift a handful to a few curious buyers. [/quote]they won't be selling them at a loss that's for sure Trace must be giving them a huge markup, a selling tatic is to start off with the price high then encourage heavy discounting, then people think they're getting a bargain

unscrupulous behavior granted, but is it any worse than buying something a much lower price than it's worth because the seller is a little old lady who doesn't know what she's got?

we played in a small club with it's own PA the sound guy came out with a comment I'd never really thought about before, "we'll mic up the kick, no need for the rest the vocal mics will pick up the drums anyway" edit, we had a really good sound as well

[quote name='Bonin-in-the boneyard' timestamp='1504625184' post='3366147'] Fender 69 [url="http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/116314836/fender-telecaster-bass-1969.html?link=%2Fclassifieds%2Fmaking-music%2Ffor-sale%2Fuk%2Felectric%2Bbass%2Bguitar%3Fpage%3D3"]http://www.preloved....itar%3Fpage%3D3[/url] [/quote]err, it's not a lefty, unless they've reversed the photo

[u]Update[/u], sent the Rumble back to Gear4music, didn't get charged the tenner for sending it back, got it returned about a fortnight later with no communication at all, tried it out at practice and it sounds fine, so thumbs up for their repairs and commitment to the extended warranty but 0 out of 10 for communication, a result all the same.

depends on the gig with my band we all bring the gear in 4 cars, PA backline drums etc, we're usually the only band on, but occasionally if I do an open mic in Nottingham I'll use public transport because of the parking problems,

[quote name='jensenmann' timestamp='1500743477' post='3339939'] I never cared much for TE amps until the series 6 SMX heads appeared. They were a game changer for me. I still play the SMX600 head I bought in 2000, though I´d never use it for recording. But for giging they are the weapon. [/quote]funnily enough when we were recording our latest album the engineer said "you're not going to use the Fender Rumble for recording are you?" "no says I I've got T E SMX GP12 now" and his little eyes lit up, got a really good bass sound on the album, so ones mans meat and all that

some of the trouble may be people trying to improve their playing by performing with better musicians than they are, frustrating if you're one of the better musos, or trying to find out how good they are, as well as the totally delusional ones.

I've struggled with this too, a lot of it's to do with the mix, if the kick is too high it masks the bass and that's what you'll hear, however you boost the lows, having said that I've heard some really prominent bass on pub juke boxes that I can't get at home, but I think that's because there's no treble on them, but I've messed about with EQ till I'm blue in the face, if the bass drum is higher in the mix than the bass guitar that's what you will hear I'm afraid edit, or maybe I've completely misunderstood the question