Count Bassy

Roger Daltry + band at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, last night. Absolutely brilliant show, and the sound was absolutely perfect. Daltrey's definitely still got the voice, and comes over as a really nice and modest bloke. I was never a die hard Who fan, but some spare tickets were available so, happily, decided to give it a go. Brilliant. The only thing that irritated me was that the woman on the "Non-kit" percussion seemed to think she had to be playing something all the time and was constantly jumping around from one thing to the other.

Phantom Isle ate the Roadmender (Northampton)

My apologies all. It is a righty. In that case no reason at all why it shouldn't slap. Must be your technique then.

Actually "Bollocks" is allowed.

Please not again. We've just had another relatively civilsed thread shut down by the B word.

Well, it's obviously a lefty, which is never going to slap properly.

Almost an hour to impart 5 minutes worth of info. What an appalling presentation.

Don't want to derail the thread but, what ever the subject, that old argument is bollocks, and you know it. You can't allocate non-voters to either side of a vote.

It was a comment on Fleabag's spelling, not your thread!

or even "ridiculous"

We had a drummer in a folk dance band who did a similar thing kept saying that he was going to quit. What he really wanted was fro the rest of of us to say "Please don't quit". Eventually he mentioned a date - "I'm not doing anymore after Christmas", so we stopped asking him. Apparenly he was then moaning that!. He was good drummer (in the folk dance idiom) but was a bugger to work with - always turning up to gigs "Just in time", or just too late!

F me that makes me feel old. Only recognise about haf a dozen names, and the only one I'd get out of bed for is Richard Thompson.

Thanks Dad, I knew that, but I was querying how FRS stood for Fender Special Run (FSR).

FRS ?

Went as a gang to see Gary Glitter at a club in Leicester around 1977, after our second year exams at uni (Lufbra). Brilliant show.

Apologies, but whenever this subject comes up I have to post this:

And then there was Focus of course.

Purrfect. ... well someone had to start the terrible puns.

Fascinating video although I think I need to listen to it via headphones. Much more fun that reading a book!

Aprt from the playing in a function band bit (I never have), you summarise my position better than I could. Live performance (in a rock band at least) should have a bit of spark to it.

Am I the first to mention Pick Up The Pieces?

To be fair to them it wasn't my sort of stuff - a lot of disco medleys & the like. Don't want to say too muchto identify them in case the bass player is on here.

I was at my cousin's wedding last weekend and they had a function band on in the evening. Very polished, everything arranged to the nth degree, obviously some very talented musicians. But,........... ........................ my God was it dull! And you felt that if you saw them again it would be exaclty the same again.

Hardly controversial.

Jaco Pastorious? Ok when playing a proper bass line, but all that noodling, harmonics & stuff? Meh.