Nail Soup

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.

Crystals probably.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that trick. Although I suppose it would be called a 'hack' nowadays.

Even Crass went a bit disco on this one

Is he Ned's 'lead' bassist or the the 'bassy' bassist?

I saw a band called Buffalo Daughter and they had one song were the bass line involved a lot of bouncing off an open string. Used a capo. It worked. I imagine that is one of the main reasons to use one.

Not my normal sort of music, but I enjoyed that!

Steve Ignorant and band on Saturday in London. Performing the songs of Crass. Birthday treat!

You mean it's exciting?

Observation: two different interpretations of "few notes" going on here. Some mean not having many different notes - e.g Public Image has only four different notes, but played 8 to the bar in every single bar of the song. Some mean having lots of space between the notes - e.g Walking on the Moon which plays 3 notes followed by a huge gap.

OK, it's pushing the definition of rock I suppose, but the Bees-Gees went from whatever they were to Disco without missing a beat. I'd always assumed that they got a bunch of session musicians in to make the switch, but no - according to the documentary I saw it was the same band that they'd used through their career.

The gun pic got me thinking of despair at needless deaths in American school shootings and the like. In particular one quote from gun supporter saying that the best solution to a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun - hence the (ironic) title. So the lyrics went there, and led me to a Dylan-goes-electric musical setting. Technical notes: DAW: Studio One, Vocals: Beheringer condenser mic, Guitars: Vox Standard 25 and Squier Tele, Bass: Vantage Avenger, Organ: Studio One, Drums: Cheapo snare and floor tom plus a ride cymbal borrowed from the rehearsal room, Mouth Organ. Lyrics in spoiler

Have not had a rehearsal since the band folded…. would love to have a few, not sure if I’ll be able to get to that point.

I don’t mod anything. I’m just not bothered about that kind of thing, I would not know what e.g. pickups to put in and don’t want to put any time or energy into finding out. I know it appeals to some though.

Discovered her about 5 minutes ago - Sunny War

There is a considerable element of truth to what you say (IMO of course) but scanning the band names in the orginal post I'd say at least half fall outside of what you describe.

Or try to read their logos. Exception being Party Cannon, who didn't read the memo on metal logo standards.

Good line up but can’t see myself being able to go. To all those going or playing- have fun!

Being serious for a minute, I guess it's more driven to make the name Google-able. Other search engines available.

Found this via Facebook - 1977 4 song demo by the Clash. For me this sounds somewhat better than the first LP. What do you think?