Nail Soup

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?

Phew, made it! Time was short due to illness, family events and work trips... but finally completed.

Blurb:

I've gone for the boy racer angle, although with a punky sound not traditionally heard from such a vehicle..... so I present "Ford Cortina with a Home Made Flame Job".  

Technical details: DAW: Studio one, Guitars : Vox Standard 25 and Squier Tele, Bass: Vantage Avenger, Drums: MT Powerdrums, Vocals: Sure SM58

Lyrics in spoiler:

29 minutes ago, Dudgeman said:

Yes that's exactly it ... Which is a pain for me as learnt it as per record so my fingering is now going to be flat or more likely I will have to take another bass tuned up a half step.... And it with this bass that I will belt him over the head repeatedly until I feel justice is done. 😂😂

Got your point.

I think in a lot of cover bands they play the song in the original 'fingering' rather than the actual key in the record, so if the band play it in E and the producer slows it to Eb then the covers band will play it in E fingering (and hence E key) if it has benefits. Perhaps the slowed down tempo to keep the feel.

It's just about communication - the guitarist should have given a shout out nice and early  along the lines "I think they played this in E even though it sounds as Eb...can we do it in E?"

2 hours ago, Ralf1e said:

I appreciate your view and you are probably right but most of the people I have known who use a capo do it because they are too lazy to learn to use bar chords or other shapes further up the neck.

My choices are restricted as I can't hold a typical chord shape with a cut off finger that has a nail for a finger tip. (it just slides off) I can play single notes and use it for bars though using the flat face of the finger.

I was joking but my 🤣 vanished when I added my photo somehow.

Thanks, and yes I did miss the finger thing!

1 hour ago, Ralf1e said:

And if a guitarist was asked to play an Ab chord, they could play an E shape bar chord with the bar at the 4th fret to sound Ab

Yes and this is why capos should be banned.

Bar chords rule. Here is the proof 

Not sure if you were just joking, but the main reason people use capo/retune is to retain the possibilities offered by the specific chord shapes etc.

15 minutes ago, miles'tone said:

This would sound ace given the 303 treatment.

Who needs Morrisey and Marr?

35 minutes ago, bloke_zero said:

 

 

Thanks!

I took a listen... very interesting. Easy to see how it failed as bass guitar replacement and succeeded as bass guitar alternative!

15 minutes ago, bloke_zero said:

Sure thing - I don't really like it either!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u75zod1zry7gxlk/good_times.mov?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gumuu1rjyukqfk8/come_down.mov?dl=0

 

I tried them in FF and they didn't work but did work in Chrome and Safari

Anything that anyone can access like you YouTube or SoundCloud?

1 hour ago, Doctor J said:

The only shocking thing is if people are still shocked by women playing competently in rock and metal bands.

Absolutely. I think that in the past there may have been a transitionary period when it was understandable to highlight the skills of female musicians, but I like to think we are beyond that now and don't need to highlight any more.

However, based on vids that get shared on social media it seems like a lot of people are not so much shocked, but impressed by a woman doing rock instrumentation well.

I was going to suggest 2I want you back" by the Jackson 5, but I think it lasts 8 bars.

If you care to step outside of disco, please try Peaches by The Stranglers (there's two parts)

Good luck with the project.

I suspect I'm not the only one here with no access to Instagram... any chance of sharing a different way?

1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

If a rock band can all re-tune their instruments by the same amount then the approach is practical.

The OPs guitarist didn’t retune his instrument when he was with the band. He just detuned at home while learning the tune. Then back to std at band rehearsal.

Thats how I read it anyway.

Someone has made an 8 bit bass. That’s all.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/8-bit-bass
 

For future ref, he could also have raised the recording to E using software like Audacity and learned it like that.

He has altered the key to E. 

And his approach makes perfect sense.

I'm planning to inflict a version of this on my local folk/acoustic session  at the weekend. To make things worse, I'm considering doing it on banjo 😐.

Diggin' My Potatoes by Lonnie Donegan.

Heard this on the #Iggy Pop show last week. I think they capture the punk sprit pretty well... The Lambrini Girls - 'Help Me I'm Gay'

I though they are really good at what the do... and she is great drummer and singer. But not shocking as such.

Music is absolutely, definitely, categorically not a competition. Anyone who thinks so is not a real musician.

Anyway, can't chat here all day, need to work on my entry for this months Basschat composition competition.

18 hours ago, StickyDBRmf said:

Our band had a competition where whoever made it to the end of the song first, wins.

 

In my bands it’s who plays the last note is the best.

I'm midway through Billy Bragg's book on skiffle music. Skiffle is associated with washtub bass (although a lot of acts in the book used double bass too)... Anyone here had experience of washtub bass?

Tell us about it... and also about he technique. For example are you playing actual pitched notes?

5 hours ago, Old Man Riva said:

Nothing really winds me up language-wise musically other than people referring to an instrument as “she”. 

Agree... but it's better than saying 'these bad boys'

41 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Might explain what the controls do, but doesn't explain why you would or wouldn't switch it off if you could.

And here's the source material of one of Fatboy's biggest tracks: Camille Yarbrough - Take Yo' Praise

Fatboy Slim was on the BBC Radio 2 Blues show a week or two ago. He's a big blues fan and like s to listen to stuff far away from the music he makes... so very rough and low-tech blues.

We don't get may mash-ups in the Blues thread, but Norman (AKA Fatboy) played this that he made using the instrumental track from the Stones "Wild Horses" and the Van Morrison "Brown Eyed Girl". Works pretty well IMO.