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Out of musical attributes, play-by-ear is far and away my weakest. So I would turn any such thing down. To accept it would be not fair on me, not fair on the audience and not fair on the other musicians.

I've heard a few comments over the years praising Pete's demos... and that some people prefer them to the Who versions. Based on the YT link in the OP I can see why. Would be interested if he really did these alone... impressive if he did.

But I'd probably go with the green one because I'm shallow and It's prettier.

Ref the thread title. Saying that a bass is your love is going quite far enough. Saying it's your lover is going too far.

Chris Stein is out of the live lineup too due to health issues.

If you are sharing the vocal load between the band, one thing you should consider is distributing the vocal part where the instrument is simple.... so if song has a simple guitar part then guitarist sings it. If has a simple bass part then bass player sings it. Of course won't always work out that way.

Yes - his interest in Satanism etc is purely academic!

Broken - the only options are band mate or audience? I guess you are assuming that Paul Simenon is not a member here?

Agree - in fact they could make their set more live by having a live bass player IMO.

Even if you did, I'm sure you'd find somewhere to tuck it 😟

Stone Valley South festival. Will meet up with some of the family - my sister and her partner, and our mum will come on Saturday morning and stay overnight too.

Just something that puzzles me, would be interested to hear some discussion and thoughts on it. Go to a drum tutorial and before long the teacher is teaching how to do rolls etc which are expressed in terms of left and right hand. So a paradiddle is RRLR-LLRL, and another different sounding roll is RRLL-RRLL. Both have the same 'hits' as each other, it's just the handedness that varies. So far so good. So... in a world with sophisticated drum sounds, multi-layered samples etc why does no drum programming software I've ever seen have the ability to program a 'left hit' and 'right hit'?

Here goes. My initial thought was remembering back to when I was a child... my friend told me that his parents had told him that they could see him all the time, wherever he was, whatever he did. I told my Mum about it and (looking back) her body language showed no little disapproval at their parenting methods. So it's about the "eye in the sky watching you until you die". The music came naturally but didn't support a full set of lyrics, just the single refrain. Technotes: Usual suspects... Studio one DAW, MT Power drums (with some tweaks by me), Vantage Avenger bass, Squire Tele guitar, a couple of keyboard settings in Studio One.

Who says the bass player can't pull? Or maybe it doesn't count if it's another bass player 😀!

Good Job! Bonus points for all the stop/starts... always a danger point when playing unrehearsed. And looking like you were enjoying it too!

RIP Andy. A great bassist, but never given the recognition he deserved. I saw a Smiths Tribute a few years ago and was amazed at the number of cracking basslines Andy produced.

Good for if you are a) single and b) want to stay that way.

In my experience the evolution went: a) We won't do the obvious cover songs of our genre (punk/new wave) b) OK, we'll do Teenage Kicks c) repeat step b for various punk and new wave classics. d) similar set to the other cover bands

I don't have a dedicated chair for practice, but I did adapt my home-office chair for music by removing the arm-rest things.

£300? Great, an upgrade! I don't dabble much in the market, so I'd have to go for a safe bet - Squier P. Or J if it's a nicer colour.

Give me hard-to-understand lyrics over overly-literal stuff any day. For reference I think Dylan, Mark E Smith and Captain Beefheart are great lyricists.

Just checked them out on youtube. They cover stuff from a whole bunch of genres into a single style - so they don't get included. And they sounded OK too.

I think any one is free to cover anything, but I don't hold with doing a cover 'ironically' or to poke fun at the original. And don't get me started on the acts whose whole thing is "A-in-the-style-of-B" (Metal in bajo style, Elvis in Nirvana Style, Led Zep in Reggae).

It's bad I agree. But it's just bad through incompetence, which I can easily forgive. For me, to a truly bad cover has to contain the element of intent.

Going to see The Undertones in Gothenburg on Saturday, supported by Hugh Cornwell and Band. I've seen the Stranglers a couple of times since Hugh left, but his is the first time to see Hugh solo. More importantly than the music I'll be visiting my brother (also going to the gig) and his family for the weekend 🙂 . (OK, I might have lied about something being more important than music 😉)