Nail Soup

The Nirvana and Pixies albums I bought and loved at the time, but they have have not endured in my listening to today. But can still appreciate the quality. RHCP peppers I generally don't like, but cant ay I actually know the album. I Don't know the TCQ album, so can't comment, but they sound OK on the occasional radio plays I hear.

There a short thread about it:

OK, here it is. Blurb: The image bought to mind the saying that kids at school used to say if they thought someone was looking at them - "do you want a picture?". As I was falling asleep the musical idea came. I decided to do something different - and recorded real drums, including my home-made suitcase bass-drum. Technical stuff Daw: Studio One Drums: Un-named car-boot snare, Gear-4-music floor tom, suitcase bass drum. Played with thunder rods. Bass: Vantage Guitars: Squier Tele, Vox Standard 25 Vox: Shure SM58

Nearly there with this month's entry. However, I will avoid any pigeon stuff as I fully covered that topic in a previous entry.

Wow, there’s loads there, stopped scrolling in the end. Reckon they have some kind of script or program churning these out?

I think the problem is that people may find that they have good voice and good pitching, and think "I'm a singer". They don't find out if they have timing until they join a band.

Cheer! Yeah, the costs did rack up a bit by the time I’d included everything - I naively thought it would work out cheap. But worth it!

Good stuff... his ideas were things I could use. Other YT'ers play stuff I'd want to avoid doing.

Yeah, the Shoreditch one was interesting. I got to stay two nights in a trendy hotel (the Z). The open mic itself was held in a clothes shop. At the end of the day all the clothes racks are moved to the side and it becomes a kind of venue.

I think we need to hear this in one or both versions!

Aquila Nylgut are pretty well known in the Ukulele world (where non metal strings are the norm of course).

I sometimes forget that 40 years ago not so many people went to uni….. it was more elite then. Mind you , Hugh was one of them!

Enjoying all the klezmer and klezmer inspired stuff. Thanks all!

And just try rolling a J on an MP3

Last week I took my ukulele to a local folk session. I wanted to have a couple of pints, so instead of driving I went by bike. Uke/case on a shoulder strap. That reminded me of the Uke/bike based adventure I treated myself to for my 50th birthday. Hope it's OK to share the memory. My hobbies at the time were open mic nights and a bit of cycling. Basically I put some clothes and toiletries etc in a rucksack, and strapped the uke (in a case) to the back of the rucksack. Then cycled from my home near Dunstable to Portsmouth in 4 legs with overnight stays in hotels. Each of the 5 nights I played the uke at an open mic night. Got lift home. It took a fair amount of planning and preparation. Also had to increase my bike stamina as I was a 10-mile-ride guy prior to this. It only rained once (but absolutely whizzed down for a few hours).... but it was the last leg so didn't seem to matter as much. Here is the itinerary and map (the map still shows a stop at StAlbans which was cancelled by the venue, and replaced by an extra night in London) May 10th – 14th 2015 Sun: Paper Dress, Shoreditch Mon: Bedroom Bar(?), Dalston Tues: Jolly Tanners, Staplefield Weds: Fishbowl, Brighton Thurs: Crown Inn, Portsmouth It was an absolute blast, met some great people - one of my treasured memories.

Works pretty well. I guess he might not get as many wedding gigs though!

I first became aware of klezmer via a documentary program, and thought it was a great sound. I see the occasional clip on YT. Care to suggest a YT vid?

I hope one day to play a gig which has actual rows of people, and as many as 10 or 15!

Closer to the original African sound I guess. Not an expert or nuthin. I've been listening to a few songs from Rhiannon Giddens on her gut string Banjo recently. Fretless too!

Indeed:

The Fall never released a cover for the first 8 years of their existence (77-85)- then they did Gene Vincent's Rollin' Dany. After that covers become a staple part of the output.

I can't say i've really used an alternative to a bass guitar for the bass line - except in a couple of electronic experimental pieces where the bass was programmed synth. I did once decide (well, half-@ssedly think about) I was going to do project of a small set of acoustic recordings where the bass was played by a non-stringed acoustic instrument. I looked at bass recorder and bass harmonica and maybe one or two more. When I saw the price of the bass versions of those instruments compared to the 'normal' ones I didn't take it any further 😕.

Bass saxophone?

The Stranglers - Live X Cert Band stop the song after couple of bars. "Did someone say w*nk3r? Where is he? (pause) Come on then, Isn't he going to own up?" At about 2.40. You can hear the original "w*nk3r" if you listen carefully.

Picture please😀