Crusoe

3 pages in and no one has mentioned Peter Hook yet. Until now.

or going back to '58, being a teenager and listening to Link Wray's "Rumble"

Not in the UK it wasn't.

why? Just why?

I just checked and Chic have never had a UK number one! As for starting the thread with ...Rhythm Stick, that kind of makes the thread redundant straight away. 😄

get in the sea...

In the late 80s I started listening to Iron Maiden, Guns n Roses, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne etc and gradually got heavier and into Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, then into the likes of Boltthrower, Kreator, Candlemass. Then in '91 Smells Like Teen Spirit came out and my taste changed and I started listening to Nirvana but oddly no other grunge stuff. I went for punk, like the Pistols, Blondie, Buzzcocks, Undertones, SLFetc. Then i got into the Breeders, the Smiths, Suede and branched out. All the metal stuff fell by the wayside until a couple of years ago. Maiden rolled into town and having never got to see them when I was big into them, I went to see them, started listening to them again, then a bit of Metallica and Kreator. I don't think I would have found the band in that video heavy enough for my liking.

Acoustic bass?

Olympic white '91 Squier silver series Jazz Bass, so something like a Mazda Mx3 maybe.

Erick Lee Purkhiser and Kirsty Wallace, better known as Lux Interior and Poison Ivy of the Cramps

The first bass I ever played was an Ibanez p-bass copy. I've no recollection of ever playing a Fender Precision, except maybe in a music shop and even then I'm not sure.

Try to convince the band to either go glam rock or else Slipknot style metal. That way you can wear makeup or a mask on stage. 😁

That's exactly it. Those three, whilst not being good singers in the traditional sense all have/had character to their singing voices and stage presence. I've never been able to understand the liking for Neil Young though. I just don't think his voice has any character; it's just a nasal whine to me.

Bassists in the Netherlands are using this one simple trick to restore their pickup covers. 😄 Nice job.😃

I've no idea why Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV should have felt the need to change his name. (Frank Black, Pixies, for those who don't know)

It really is a bit of a grower.

Is that a euphemism? 🤣

Has it been in a fire? The top of the headstock looks charred. 😄

How long do you think it will be before you see her auditioning on the X Factor or similar?

will the first thread be about tone dust?

When they said they wanted their own canteen... Coronavirus: Jon Bon Jovi washes dishes at restaurant for the needy (planetradio.co.uk) 😁

I don't hate Genesis/Phil Collins the way I used to. I wouldn't say I'm a fan but I don't turn the radio off these days when I hear them.

Video Killed the Radio Star by Buggles?

Like so many, possibly Motorhead at the Ulster Hall, although I saw Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in the Mandela Hall, Belfast and at the very end it was a wall of sound with smoke and strobes which overloaded the senses. Stiff Little Fingers can be loud too.

I've heard of them, but never heard them. He looks like he's going to give himself a hernia.