Nail Soup

Or go to a decent tribute band?

Aah, the old Fergie-time eh?

An obscure oldie from circa 1980, but new to me:

I’d like to see a Duran Duran trib pull the same trick.

My old covers band (punk / new wave) always did one or two at Christmas, just to get into the spirit. People are at covers gigs for fun rather than chin stroking. The odd bit of xmas clothing (hat/shirt) etc goes down OK too.

Napalm Death have no original members, but they still sound like Napalm Death and have maintained the quality. I think when both the members and sound have changed then it's time to stop using the name.

I couldn't name a bass that reflects that period - but I'm not a hardware person as such. I'm not sure the audience will be able to either... I think they could just about do : Violin Bass 60's, P Bass 70's, Cricket Bat 80's.

Amongst Fall fans a number of celebrity Mark E Smith lookalikes have been proposed (Including Richard Madely and Hurrican Higgins IIRC), but the American actor DJ Squalls comes closest for my money:

Defeats the purpose of the guitar IMO... might as well have a bass player and another chordal instrument instead of the other strings.

Sounded good... good way to flesh out a solo guitar piece. Could have done without the drum machine to be honest. Not a good way to flesh out a solo guitar piece.

It's only allowed if she chooses you as hers. Same for you!

The producers of DID encourage the islanders to choose their songs based on the latter (important life moments etc) more than the music quality. I had always suspected as much, and in one episode a guest actually alluded to it. My (tongue only slightly in cheek) response to this is to say that discovering my 8 favourite songs are the 8 most important moments in my life!

Saw a Wilko documentory... on the subject of his style/gear/technique/etc the interviewer asked about his pedals. Response: "Pedals? I'm not driving a car!"

Here's my entry. The picture gave me vibes of looping and continuation, so a repetitive bassline and yes it goes on a bit 🙂..... The words (such as they are) came from a bit of word association: Blue Circle > Cement > Concrete > Abstract Finally, the sad death of Keith Levine means I tried to channel some KL/PIL.

Tessellation!

Going for the 'meow' sound I suppose?

Provide info about what strings are fitted to a new instrument, to give the option to replace them with the same.

721 +1 = 722

Three popular bassists did form a band in which they all played bass. Bassists are Andy Rourke, Gary "Mani" Mounfield, and Peter Hook. The band is called Freebase (see what they did there?) From wikipedia: Peter Hook stated that all of the songs have three basses; "Mani does the low part, Andy Rourke in the middle and I do the high bit"

I'd have to say the same as you. My tastes are not mega-obscure... it's stuff that gets regular plays on 6 Music. But they are typically at venues with capacity of couple of hundred. But just go on my own in general. Mrs Soup is OK to come to some gigs that fall outside of my core tastes.... e.g .folk festival or a covers band of AC/DC and the like.

80% of Andy Rourke is no bad thing!

Or unite with the Andy Powell version of the band?

For a lot of people - yes they are.

Should not have went to S***S*v*rs 🙂

Lightening Bolt's "Fantasy Empire" album. A bass/drum/vocals duo.