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1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

Why only two gigs if, as you say, you "loved every minute of both"?

Things just never worked out. The singer and guitarist went to university. Other stuff happened.

16 or 17. I played bass and sang, but couldn't do both on some of the songs we covered eg "All Day and All of The Night". We also covered Peggy Sue and Sheena is a Punk Rocker. The next gig we did was a memorial concert for a guy in another band in the area, who has died in a car crash. By this point we were covering Joy Division's "Transmission" and "Isolation" (well, Therapy's cover of Isolation). That was the last gig I ever played and I loved every minute of both. 

15 hours ago, Dan Dare said:

 

Agreed. Using words for their sound or rhythmic qualities, rather than their meaning, together with onomatopoeia and other devices are long-established literary traditions. Poets have been doing it for centuries. Pop music follows in the tradition and has done so for a long time. How about "Tutti Frutti. Aw Rooty. A Wop Bop A Loo Bop, A Wop Bam Boo" from the 1950s? And Little Richard was following in the footsteps of artists like Slim and Slam before him. Poetry, music and literature doesn't HAVE to mean something/anything. Sometimes, it's just pleasing to the eye or ear.

The Black Angel's Death song by Velvet Underground is my favourite for this sort of lyric.

Myriad had choice of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate for him to choose
What had he to lose?
Not a ghost bloodied country all covered with sleep
Where the Black Angel did weep not an old city street in the east
Gone to choose

And wandering's brother walked on through the night
With his hair in his face on a long splintered cut from the knife
Of GT
The rally man's patter ran on through the dawn
Until we said so long to his skull
Shrill yell
Shining brightly red-rimmed and redlined with the time
Infused with the choice of the mind on ice skates scraping chunks
From the bells

Cut mouth bleeding razors
Forgetting the pain
Antiseptic remains cool, good buy
So you fly
To the cosy brown snow of the east
Gonna choose, choose again

I can confirm that it is not good for metal.

Welcome!

Anyone else think this thread was going to be about an embarrassing hygiene situation? 😬

That took me longer than it should have. I was looking for any mention of Level 42 on the graphic and even clicked it to see if it was a hyperlink. 😂🤦‍♂️

7 hours ago, knirirr said:

Still unavailable and jealously guarded!

Understandable. It's a beauty 😄

On 06/04/2023 at 23:58, greghagger said:

That is so great to hear. I’m really glad that you got a lot of use out of this video. Good luck with the songwriting. 

I'm getting a strong smell of chopped pork and ham under a proprietary name from that account, Greg.

1 hour ago, Waddo Soqable said:

You're Danny Defoe aren't you..? 😁

How on earth did you... no.

School days nickname, based on my surname. I'm sure you can work out my surname from that.

11 minutes ago, knirirr said:

This is no longer available.

What about the pen? 😄

The younger ones all moved on from internet fora a long time ago. They moved to Facebook, then when their grannies and aunts started to follow them there, they moved to Instagram, then to Snapchat and Tik Tok.

19 hours ago, paul_c2 said:

"Lovingly displayed on a wall hanger, never been played" - in direct sunlight, so that it has faded like my teenage dreams and aspirations. The neck is as warped as Frankie Boyle's sense of humour. 

 

 

On 14/04/2023 at 21:40, Rayman said:

They used to stick it to the man, now they are the man.

 

The last good thing they made was the Black album, but unfortunately that was the very record that turned them into Coldplay. 
 

They’re not relevant anymore, but then who IS? Who will be the next Metallica?

I hated the Black album, because it was the one where they turned into Coldplay. 

I think their ubiquitousness is because of Stranger Things. Suddenly, kids everywhere were listening to and learn8ng to play Master of Puppets. There's even a guy with a Tik Tok account, who plays MoP on all sorts of things from bicycle wheel spokes to bananas.

Welcome James.

21 minutes ago, How1 said:

I wouldn’t go as far as terrible but I don’t particularly like Limp Bizkit’s Behind Blue Eyes. It brings nothing new and sounds a bit whiny. My problem may be with Fred Durst though rather than the actual song.

 

Is there a ‘covers better than the original’ sister thread?

That's just a list of Bob Dylan songs.

I'm sorry to hear it. My condolences to Nigel's family.

I saw Lou Reed performing the "Berlin" album live. I was a bit apprehensive as he had a reputation for messing with the arrangements of his songs, but they played the whole thing straight. He even did "Satellite of Love" as an encore. It was probably the best concert I've ever been to.

37 minutes ago, Machines said:

Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Find Google Chrome, click unisntall.

 

Oh wait, i'm not at work.

I came here for this reply.

I don't mind much if a band changes some of their songs a bit, but stretching a four minute song to fifteen is just self-indulgence. I'm away for a pint at that point.

Welcome!

Welcome!

On 24/03/2023 at 22:46, Dad3353 said:

 

Alas and alack; I rue the day (well, it was night, actually..) that this burden was laid upon me by The Seeker, cursed to roam the pages of forums (fora..?) to mete out retribution to those defaulting on the use of apostro...

 

Ooo look..! A bee..!

Quick, someone call the ellipsis police! 😄😋

In the very brief time that I played in a band, I hated playing Zombie by The Cranberries. It was just plod along and tedious.