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Crusoe

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  1. 3 hours ago, mowf said:

    I spot an opportunity for cunning guitar companies to sell "signature" models without having to pay the artists. Look out for the new Steve Via model from Ibanez any day now.

    I've put in a pre-order for a Stevie Roy Vaughan Strat from Fender...

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  2. 47 minutes ago, chris_b said:

    You don't know Roger?

     

    Google is your friend.

    According to wikipedia he was an architect who worked on the Thames Barrier and redevelopment of Covent Garden. It doesn't say anything about his bass playing, though. 😁

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  3. On 10/05/2025 at 12:28, Wolverinebass said:

     

     

    Miming live is fraud to me. There's something that's been lost by all this and that's spontaneity. None of these clowns can play on the hoof. Like listen to a live album and you hear things being slightly messed up. That's gone now. 

    I was watching an Art of Guitar YouTube video about mistakes in recordings, today. Stuff like "Cannonball" by the Breeders. A lot of bands these days would have removed the incorrect slide up on the bass at the beginning, for example.

  4. 2 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

    This is a good point. I see many 'musicians' saying how they wont play for free etc, but quite of a few of them really should as entertainment wise, they are worth bugger all 😇

    I can remember a duo in a bar once, one on keyboards, the other singing and possibly playing guitar, doing Oasis covers. The singer made Liam Gallagher sound like Pavarotti by comparison.

  5. 16 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

    I’ve experienced a good few musicians on the punk/Oi scene gigging Mex Fenders, Squiers, Epiphones. Most of them seem to do so as they don’t want to gig expensive instruments, a few having had some uncomfortable days awaiting the return of their expensive Gibsons/Fenders from airlines who had sent them to the wrong countries.  

    I was watching a Trogly YouTube video yesterday, where Aldo Nova appeared to be playing a Chibson copy of his own Gibson signature guitar. He was working on a cruise ship, or something like that, so Trogly reckoned he probably just didn't want an expensive guitar getting damaged/stolen by a passenger or damaged by a salt water atmosphere and had bought a cheapie and fitted his hardware of choice to it.

  6. 1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

    Actually - this thread has dredged up a memory.

     

    At one gig for the Music Trust for the younger students one of the about 15 years old students from the rock band came up and said "Our bassist is sick and can't come. Can you fill in?"

     

    I said "Depends whether you've got the sheet and I can muddy through, or if it's something I know already" They had played a lot of new modern metal stuff I'd never heard before.

     

    He said "It's from a really old song called "Enter Sandma....."

     

    I said "Don't worry, I've got this."

    While dying inside at the "old" song bit! :D 

     

    (Obviously the 15 year old drummer was better than Lars ;) )

    That was released 34 years ago. When I was 15 a 34 year old song would have been "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley 😭

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  7. 7 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

     

    That works, as a band name. Simple, familiar, quirky without being weird.  And a brilliant band name when it comes to naming your albums!

     

    Sock it to me - the funk album. 

     

    Pop Sock - an album of chart-friendly tunes.

     

    Sock for Christmas - the inevitable Christmas album.

     

    Lost Sock - the collection of rare B sides, demo tracks and live versions. 

     

    Sock 'n' Soul

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  8. On 20/02/2025 at 21:14, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

    For the last six months or so (might be longer) I have been using a band name for one of my ongoing projects which is fairly obscure reference to something that will probably be meaningless to anyone who didn't grow up in the 70s in the UK.

     

     

    Is your band name "White Dog Poo"? 😁

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  9. 14 minutes ago, geoham said:


    A quite funny example - I was in a covers band called Loose Cannon. I'm sure there's plenty of bands with that name. We received an angry Facebook message from an American guy complaining we played too loud in the garage next to his elderly mother... aggressively suggested we keep in down or find somewhere else to practice.

     

    You could have been really mischievous and caused all sorts of trouble for them by telling him to f**k off and slag his mum off. 😆

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