Nail Soup

I like the rough and ready stuff... no bass on this I'm afraid. Bukka white - Po' Boy and District Attorney Blues

I listen to most of the stuff on the 'What are you listening to right now?'... I can't say everything though, there is a little bit of pre-screening. Discovered some very good stuff there which I didn't know before, and yes bought the odd CD or download. I'm always o the lookout for new suggestions. As much as (if not more than) ever.

Peel NME/Sounds Who my friends were mentioning. Got a lot of punk, post-punk and new wave that way. Later moved on to checking out bands who my favorite bands mentioned, or who writers mentioned in context of favorites bands.... digging back I guess you could call it. For example Velvet Underground, Beefheart. It was only after I had finished growing up that I got into some stuff I 'hated' whilst growing up...... Folk, Soul, Blues, experimental and so on.

The Bug Club, Bedford Esquires 13th April 3 piece band , Gtr, bass drums, two vocals. On record their USP is probably the vocal harmonisation, but live really bought their instrumental capabilities to the fore. Guitar has no effects pedals... just uses the knobs on the guitar. Lots of great lead guitar. Great Bass tone and playing. Drummer usually plays quite straight 'support the song' style, but on a few occasions showed he could really go for it when needed. Great show, really enjoyed it. On the other hand the support band were terrible. Singer, bass player and laptop 😞 . The singer had put a lot more effort into his between-song banter than the music. I had suffered them before at the same venue. So obviously chosen by the venue rather than the headline band. Sounded like a poor man's Divine Comedy. I always make the effort to watch the support band - have seen loads of great ones, some OK ones and the occasional stinker.

Based on the "Live at the Roundhouse" recording he did a great job on vocals too (co-lead vocals with Gary Kemp).

Good idea…. Hopefully I’ll have cause to post here. My next gig has been postponed by a year, so I might do the one I went to last week.

OK, here goes! The picture made me think of eavesdropping... did a bit of research and found stuff like a quote from Thornton Wilder (me neither!) : "There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head". Built up the lyrics with such ideas. God knows where the music came from 🙂! Technical stuff: Studio One DAW, Piano-roll drums with Red-Zep hits, Vantage Bass, Squire Tele gtr, Gibson acoustic gtr, Studio one strings, Behringer condenser mic. Lyrics in spoiler:

I only dip my toe into those waters occasionally, but I wouldn't mind going to one of those. Does seem a bit strange to put all those bands up against each other though rather than spread it out over a fortnight... or do they have such different fanbases? Anyhow I'll say one thing for the genre...... with those band names it feels good just reading the line up!

If it’s anything like the Roundhouse show I saw on TV if will be very good.

Wow, remember that….. the Windsock in Dunstable. So called presumably due to it’s proximity to the gliding club. The site is just up the hill from where I live now. As you say, long gone. Did they have bands there?

I dread to think what that has done to my YouTube algorithm 🙁

Yes, it seems to be the bigger venues .I manily go to gigs at small venues, so don't suffer as much. Ref the Stranglers example..... don't bands like that have a touring soundman who can prevent that kind of thing?

Did the OP know that when making the OP? Didn't seem like it. In which case: Weird co-incidence, man!

Bands who deliberately choose not to have a bass player - sometimes it works OK (so OK then) sometimes it just sounds like there is something missing (not OK). Having bass on a backing track..... no thanks, I wouldn't attend a gig like that. The whole sub-sonic bass mush thing? Not sure why this has become a thing in recent years, but no thanks. It seems to be a modern incarnation of the old 'bass should be felt and not heard' attitude.

Not gigging at the moment, but I do home recording. So that was how I voted. But here is my history, working backwards: Until recently I gigged in covers band, but that's on hold now. Before that I played solo.... but at open mics and similar, so may not count as 'gigging' Before that was a haitus (raising family) but kept playing in bedroom and home recording Before that I was gigging in originals bands. Just to expand on the open mic thing.... there are ways to play in public that are not exactly gigs: Folk sessions, Jam Sessions, Open Mics, busking

I like to play it cool when selling stuff, but I have to doff my cap on this one.

Careful with those inspirational pictures everyone!

In a way the non Fender/Squier P's bring into even sharper focus what makes a P: What features would a Precision-a-like bass need to have?

Not sure we could even agree on what makes a bass a bass.

Can't even say something good in the "for sale" ad. Probably best not to ask this guy to do your best man's speech 🙂 !

Just a thought..... probably better to grab the audio as .WAV rather than MP3 . MP3 is 'lossy' and the DAW will convert it back to .WAV anyway.

There are a few online sites which do Youtube to MP3 if you google. I've done it a few times, but can't remember which one(s) I used. They did give me the MP3 file, but sure how dodgy they are in terms of any other crap which may have come with it.

Daevid Allen? Is that autocorrect or a pseudonym known only to hardcore Gong-heads?

Around about the time I say "F*** it" usually.

I think that was Malcolm McClaren...... and he did speak a bit like that (but would not describe it as Eton though). Let's see........ it will maybe re-hash all the old cliche's...... but if it actually follows the Steve Jones autobiography on which it claims to be based it would be an interesting new angle.