Nail Soup

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 😉)

I'm familiar with the band and would definitely take the chance to see them live.

Agree with you about the talented lads, but I think the songs were pretty good. And Annabel had good vocals and loads of image quality.

I saw the Blockheads at a Butlin's 'punk and new wave' weekender... No NWR though 😞 - I think he was playing with Wilko instead. They had a dep bassist of course who did a great job... and during his turn to do a bit of a bass solo he walked up to the mic whilst playing and apologised for not being Norman!

Great name! I even suspect they maybe thought of the name first and had to invent a product to go with it 🙂 .

I read the blurb too, and yes it does aim to be more than a spanner. It grips the inside so it doesn't twist while it turns the nut. If it works I think it's a pretty useful tool. I'll consider getting one. Although as others have said, there may be steps you can take to prevent loose nut in the first place.

I wouldn't call the bass chat ones pop ups. They just sit at the top of the page and disappear as you scroll down. And they are bass-related. So noy much to be annoyed by IMO.

The young bands I see usually have a bass player, so not dying out dinosaur style. There may be more competing genres that don’t use a bass than there was before.