Nail Soup

Pedants hat on...... isn’t it impossible by definition to play scat on a bass? I thought scat meant the human voice doing an improvised instrument-like performance?

I’m just glad this thread is about the musical form.

I have a favourite type of pick ( Jim Dunlop .88) and I like them new.... so no issue you would think. Problem is I keep playing them even after they go past the best (rounded) - cannot get the habit of throwing them out. This stems from younger days when I would always lose picks before they rounded off - nowadays I rarely lose one.

From today’s Daily Mirror

New song: Dub Pistols - Go Tell Your Friends ft. Horseman

Kim Deal of the Pixies springs to mind. For sure she has a distinctive bass syle/sound (and persona), but it is based on root note patterns and often the contribution to the Pixies sound is/was over-stated.

The son claimed his dad only ever owned one bass.

Perhaps silver could be reserved for the strings which are on a real bass.......

I've been trawling through te TV recorder and watching the old stuff I never watched. This week it's a 2009Japanese film called "Fish Story". It's about fictional punk band in Japan in 1975 who invented punk before the Pistols. The Films pretty good, and the I really like the music. I can't work out who made the music though. Here is the main/title song which recurs throughout (note: it goes punk after the intro): Here's one more song clip: As an added bonus the bass player in the band is the leader, song-writer etc.

my ever so slightly interesting story regarding Hot Chocolates original bass player...... Many years ago my driving instructor told me that he was previously a session musician - guitar. One of his circle of friends/colleagues was the original bassist of Hot Chocolate (who basically formed the group and co-songwriter) - Tony Wilson. My driving instructor was invited by Tony to join the group at the start ("I've written some great songs with a great singer") but declined because he had too many projects fail before. Just think - If history had worked differently I may not be able to drive today!

I didn't know about it either. I will download it. BTW - I had forgotten about Gary Crowley!

I heard about this episode, and have been looking forward to the repeat. Thnaks for the notice! Sounds like it's not great though........... but I'll still watch or record it.. I'll categorise the repair on the following scale: Great>Good>OK>-Bad>Awful>Even-I-Could-Have-Done-It-Better

sorry for thread diversion.......... I don't think so. I think the basic issue was that Jones and Cook were kind of 'power pop' (coun't find better word, sorry) and Rotten wanted to do something experimental. Matlock was in the same mind-set as Cook/Jones. I don't think Rotten would have done another album based on rock&roll riffs.

Great idea.... I'd love to go down that road. It's been gaining a little bit of traction in my family, but not there yet. Apologies to @Mike Brooks for trying to bring down the concept of Xmas gifts in the Xmas gift thread! Actually I am more open to present giving to people who have some kind of list of things they want - e.g. Bassists. My in-laws for example have no hobbies or interests and there is nothing to really buy them .

I think he was also considered as a hired hand on NMTB??? In the end Steve Jones recorded the bass, I think simplifying the parts a bit from what Matlock had. Around the time of the Filthy Lucre tour Lydon said that much of the animosity between Matlock and Lydon was stoked by McClaren anyway. Now is that something we could imagine Malcolm doing?

This one comes to mind: The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies ........comes in at just under 27 mins. The songs are are short and fast, and it does seem long enough.

Great playing - well done Clair! OK, her name is not Clair.... but I did have to Google it! Am I a heathen?

JJ Burnel. Great player, and gets acknowledged as such.

One of my favourites too,........ .........but (pedant on) I think that was a Dee-Dee Ramone lyric (and music). As I understand it: if the Ramones song is about love etc then it's probably Joey.... all the Geeks, Cretins, Lobotomies and general Ramones-world stuff are probably Dee-Dee.

Great thread........ here's the youtube link mentioned previously - just had a listen in memory of Brian...... and it's a great track!

Good point, well made😄! The pursuit of unnecessary perfection!!

I made the same choice... well it was no contest really, PIL all the way. When Metal Box was released on vinyl it was 2*33, so I guess it qualifies for this thread. The Clash and John Lydon both decided to progress from punk, but did it in two different ways. London's Calling sounded like the past, Metal Box sounded like the future.

I guess Townsend was a songwriter first and foremost...... with rhythm and lead guitar very much second and third respectively - thus happy to allow John do that 'lead bass' role when he showed the inclination/ability to do so. I'm not sure the isolation does much for John though - his lines were already clearly audible in the final mix, and they just sound a bit worse on their own. For some other player who made good lines but was buried: I can see why the isolated tracks can prove something.

Nope, still working!

Well, you're a right nasty pasty if you did.