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So Sad About Us - Breeders, originally by The Who

Head On by Pixies, originally by The Jesus and Mary Chain

trying to decide whether or not to wear a coat, especially in winter. You might have to wait outside for some time before the doors open, then you get in and it's hot and sweaty, but there's no cloakroom and you don't want to carry a big coat or have it tied around your waist all evening.

Young women sitting on their boyfriends' shoulders. 🤬 Crowdsurfers. I was at a gig once (may have been the Manics) and some silly billy thought it would be cools to crowdsurf when nobody else thought the same. A few people punched him in the balls as he passed over. He got to the front and kicked a young woman on the back of the head as he went over the barrier and fell on to the ground. When he stood up the girl's boyfriend floored him with one punch.

Would Fade to Grey count?

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

On 12/06/2021 at 20:11, Ricky Rioli said:

Imagine how wonderful it would be to be  a teenager in 1965 and hearing this and finding it thrilling heavy and dangerous

 

 

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

7 minutes ago, ubit said:

It was a number one. Check your facts

Not in the UK it wasn't.

why? Just why?

17 hours ago, paul_5 said:

This thread has alerted me to just how many great, tasty baselines have failed to get to number 1; 

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. 😄

20 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Coldplay for myself. Nothing gets in the way of a nice cup of tea! 

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.

15 hours ago, BillyBass said:

Anyone got one of these?

 

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. 😁

17 hours ago, 12stringbassist said:

All three of those can sing, but it's not exactly a pleasant listen...

Dylan has a grating tone, but some love it.
Rotten was perfect for what the Pistols did. Anyone else wouldn't have been half as good.
McGowan was also just right for The Pogues.
The guy I was talking about couldn't decide about sharp or flat on any given note.

 

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.

6 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

Where do we all stand on the brown M&Ms?

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?

13 minutes ago, ezbass said:

It seems we might have a new Ped&Kiwi production in the offing - DustChat.

will the first thread be about tone dust?

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Not too sure he doesn't believe his own hype...

Back in the late 90s I was working at BBC Elstree when Top Of The Pops was filmed there. One week Bon Jovi were due to appear; and it seems they insisted that they had exclusive access to both the canteen and bar over lunchtime. As a result, 500 or so staff had to traipse up to Borehamwood High Street to get any food.

This was the only time while I was there that anything like this happened. I remember once going for my lunch wearing my habitual bike leathers and Guzzi logo belt. A big American bloke came over and we started chatting about bikes - he was a Guzzi fan too. Turned out it was Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age... Can't imagine JBG doing that!

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