Nail Soup

Thanks for reminding me that I have not practised any band songs since lockdown!

I am relying on a last minute splurge before the rehearsal.

12 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

I don't  even like them on guitars if I'm honest.

I’m inclined to agree with that.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden

Lyric: "Hong Kong Garden Take-away - lay your Yen on the counter please"

A) UK take-aways accept payment in sterling, regardless of the nationality of the cuisine

B) Yen is/was not the currency of Hong Kong / China

12 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

The Kids Are All Right.

 

 

 

Oh really?  So you can ask a question of any child and get both a truthful and factual answer every time.  Okaaaaay...

Might be some truth in it........ when I was a teenager, my default answer to anyone asking how I was or what I thought about something was a grudging, semi-grunted "all right"!

2 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Some Scousers...

 

I love this, and the 3 or 4 other songs by them which got a fair bit of play on 6 Music.

Great racket from a 3 piece.

If I were ever to upgrade my ukulele to one which cost a ridiculous amount of money (to be honest that probably won't happen), I may well have chosen a Mya-Moe.....

...... except for the headstock theme which seems common to them all:

1 hour ago, Maude said:

Ah I see, that makes sense. 

They'll be checking boots then. 😁

In which case..........

My rate of gear acquisition is so slow that I don't need to stop.

Like those elevators which don't stop, if you will.

Better than a lot of bass solos I've heard, and they have good stage presence and movements... so overall not too bad.

International Reggae Day......... was yesterday (July1st).

Sounds like 6 music missed it too as they are mentioning it today in a retrospective way.

There's always next year

On ‎13‎/‎06‎/‎2020 at 16:40, oakforest5961 said:

In the mid to late '70s punk and reggae became the most unlikely bedfellows. I don't think that any reggae groups covered any punk songs... but there were some notable reggae covers by punk groups. 

 

I guess the most notable would have been Police and Thieves by the Clash.

Lee Perry apparently gave his verdict: "They ruined it"

1 hour ago, Frank Blank said:

My first introduction to serious reggae this track. The only other reggae or reggae-ish track that I'd heard and liked (loved actually) was Althea & Donna's Uptown Top Ranking, a track I'm still crazy about, which was released in 1977, Cocaine in my Brain was released a year earlier in 76 but I didn't hear it until after Uptown TR. Funnily enough there was, obviously, a lot of Bob Marley around but somehow his utter brilliance alluded me. Then I heard Handsworth Revolution by Steel Pulse and then the first three LKJ albums and suddenly the reggae world opened up in colour... I'm rambling and repeating myself. In short Dillinger - Cocaine in my Brain, very important track for me that.

 

Yes - definite gateway track!

Dillinger - Cocaine in my Brain

One of my all time raggae faves.

2 hours ago, JottoSW1 said:

Went to Bloomsbury Theatre many years ago to see Magma. Was perplexed to see Steve Davis there, turned out he'd underwritten and organised the Gig

Cool! I heard the story (on John Peel, many years ago)  that there was an obscure prog band that sang in their own language and had a tour bank-rolled (or something) by Steve Davis.... so that would be Magma then!

1 hour ago, PaulWarning said:

If I go there will be trouble

If I stay it will be double

Well Joe, clearly you should have gone, so why bother asking?

Actually, maybe this is understandable if we take into account what psychologists 'the endowment effect' where we place higher value on things we already posess, and will need non-rationally high incentive to relinquish them.

Perhaps it is more easily explained via this diagram :

7 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

If I go there will be trouble

If I stay it will be double

Well Joe, clearly you should have gone, so why bother asking?

True, but pedant alert... I think it was Mick singing that song.... and he was actually writing about how he felt about the Clash.

They eventaully made the choice for him by firing him

10 minutes ago, Trueno said:

I used to like the Cramps' "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns"... it's possible, but not likely. However, I really can't believe that the Was Not Was ever "walked the dinosaur"... it just didn't happen.

I love the Cramps "Stay Sick" album, and used to think that Bikini Girls with MAchine Guns was just a flight of fancy.

But apparently it's a thing in the US (as entertainment, not actual conflict)...see example

The Utopia Strong.

Debut album last year..... some kind of elecronica, and the band features snooker player Steve Davis.

His last record was the very different Snooker Loopy!

Steve is actually a massive music fan (prog is his primary genre), but has only in the last few years started doing DJ sets, and even more recently actually making music (with the two other members of Utopia Strong)

Listing to blues show on catch up  - she also played Crossing The Rubicon. 
Also pretty good!

Cerys Mathews played Call Letter Blues on the blues show last night. I thought it sounded really good. 

Thin Lizzy "There's Gonna be a Jailbreak, somewhere in this town" is definitely exaggerating the multiplicity of possible locations.

4 minutes ago, Ricky 4000 said:

Also, Weller should have specified which tube station. Imagine my surprise when I stayed for the weekend in London 20 years ago, only to discover that Notting Hill station was all locked up by 11pm.

Indeed.

Also I think that, given the tube frequency at midnight, the curry going cold was a likely risk regardless of any unprovoked assault.

The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight:

"'Jesus Saves' painted by some athiest nutter"

Implies an incorrect definition of athiest.

6 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

2 of my basses have a bend-well. Does that count?

I guess a bend well can only increase the pitch while a whammy puts the pitch up and down. 
Whoops, forgot to put “pedant alert”😄!

3 hours ago, Shaggy said:

Pretty sure BM played a Telecaster on "Crazy little little thing called love"

If you're thinking rhythm guitar then maybe not... story I heard was that Freddie played guitar on that song and Queen recorded it as a three piece without Brian,.... they left space for a solo which BM filled later on. 

However, just listened to it and yes, sounds like the solo/lead bits could be a tele... a bit different to his normal sound. And he could have snuck some rhythm overdubs on when no-one was looking😉.