Nail Soup

Luckily I don't receive any voice texts.... but they would probably annoy me if I did. I don't like (or listen to) voicemails on my phone... the type you get if you don't answer a call. Instead of listening to them I call the person back - as others have said here. However the "call back instead of listening" approach is heavily criticised by David Mitchell in this clip. I normally like him too 😐.

Not sure I can comment on how things will go in the future but the Indo-made Squier Tele I bought last year was great .

One way is to get some pre-recorded beats from a 'library' of some kind which you then loop in the DAW. The other way is to program your own..... most DAWS have a kind of "piano roll" where you can place each drum onto the beats you want it. I prefer this way as a) I feel the end product is 'my work' and b) sometimes you can't find the beat you need. Example of a piano roll, with a (simple) drum pattern I made for a middle 8 which I probably could not have found in a library.

Yes - I'm not spending much time keeping the knowledge up to date. But on the occasions I do practice I remember more than I thought I would. But not enough!

Youtube favourite which I keep coming back to. Not well known.... but brilliant punk / power pop from 1980 Canadian band The Modernettes "Barbra". All in 2 minutes.....and the bass player is pretty cool too!

In theory I do the following: Learning or writing songs - sitting Practicing and band rehearsals - Standing. In practice (no pun intended) I usually practice sitting down though .

If someone stops playing for some reason, they signal the rest of the band to carry on playing with a circular motion of the hand... kind of vertical like a bike wheel.

In folk circles, the chord sequence (maybe an A part and B part) tends to repeat throughout the song without an agreed end, and people join in as they feel like. To bring the song to an end the 'leader' of the song sticks his leg out - then at the end of that repetition everyone ends together.

So do you start with two anonymous blocks of wood (body and neck) or something that is already somewhat body/neck shaped?

Lol, must have been fun working for them! I guess, if you want to rationalise it, the 'naked' fruit machine actually looked fragile and was therefore handled as such.

Not sure how widespread it is, but the Stones trib I saw a while back had names like Mick Stagger or something. But they kind of got into slightly comical versions of the band (well Jagger/Richards/Woods anyway).

Then there is this band:

I kept hearing 6Music DJs back-announcing John Cooper Clarke in the last week or two, and thinking that I didn't remember hearing a JCC record. I worked it out eventually! Good song though!

I'd love to do that if I was going to spend £1000 on a bass. A P would be fine by me, and would love the learning. Bass and mini-holiday in one! However, I'd prefer to go solo (rather than take anyone from home) and either go for a drink with the other builders or hang out on my own.

This looks worth a listen: Don Letts presents the story of King Tubby on Radio 4 Thursday 21st at 11.30. BBC Radio 4 - Dub Revolution: The Story of King Tubby Available to listen on BBC sounds afterwards of course! Here's the blurb: 28 January 2021 would have been legendary sound engineer King Tubby’s 80th birthday. The sonic experiments he created in his tiny studio in the ghettos of Kingston Jamaica during the early seventies helped create a genre that’s now part of the very fabric of contemporary music – Dub. Tubby’s productions pre-empted today’s remix culture, were instrumental in the creation of rap an inspired an eclectic mix of artists from Massive Attack to Primal Scream. Dub went on to inform Jungle, Rave,Techno, Ambient right up to Grime in the 21st century. Don Letts celebrates the godfather of Dub, with contributions from Dennis Bovell, Adrian Sherwood, Hollie Cook and Mad Professor.

They don't work aesthetically for me - so I wouldn't splash any cash on one. Never tried one so don't have any opinion on playability sound etc.

Basically it's Punk and New wave stuff, it includes the usual stuff like Pistols, clash, stranglers, Jam, Undertones, etc but we do include Psychokiller, Boys Don't Cry, Blister in The Sun, Goo-Goo Muck by the Cramps, Another Girl Another Planet, Boredom.

JJ Burnell's 1979 solo album "Euroman Cometh"

250 is a lot for 10 years ..... well by my standards anyway. I think If I added up all the songs i've done over 37 years (minus a few years where I didn't do any music) in a few originals bands, couple of covers bands, home recording projects , solo open mics spots and songs learned for folk circles it might just get to that number.

thanks, enjoyed that..... showed chops etc but still worked for the music. Would be good to hear a final mix of that with the choir more audible etc.

Makes me think of Dinky Diamond who was in Sparks classic 70's UK line up. He was a drummer though......😕

He seemed like the least of a twonk out of the brothers too. In the Clive Anderson storm-off (which some of us may remember) I think Maurice seemed like the one who may have been prepared to take the joke and laugh it off. Subject to my memory of course.

Cool.... that's 3 songs I sing in my covers band. Not recently of course......... good to be reminded of them!

I've read the book....... and I think it has the potential for a really great series. Plenty of strands in there. The following topics if covered thoughtfully would work really well: the punk scene, McLaren, the Pistols explosion/implosion, the pistols creative process , an insight into the theft culture/lifestyle which Jones inhabited..... But most of all there is the titular 'lonely boy' aspect. Jones had (extremely) brief sexual encounters in massive quantity, but could never form a relationship with a woman. .And the childhood situations which probably led to that. That came across as the underlying thing in the book in my eyes.

I'm not very hardware centric, so don't gas for basses much. But to get into the the spirit of the thread: someone started a thread in GD a couple of months ago about a nice orange bass - I wouldn't mind having that one.