Nail Soup

Didn't realise that! However (and I'm not a massive fan of Stone Roses - they are OK) Ian Brown did turn out to be a good frontman and Mani a great bass player, so the shift around worked well for them!

Q: Why does the guitarist only use analogue delay pedals? A: They have (kicked the) bucket brigade devices!

Have this one on me: ∞ (wow it was a bit complicated to get )

Swedish band Goat... the fantastic "World Music" album

I can picture him in the guitar shop....... 'please give me the bass which looks most like a cricket bat'!

Didn’t know that. However he did play a bass player in a comedy TV show. He was bassist and leader of a band and tricked the rest of the band into thinking that they had had a hit when he had actually rigged the sales figures. He wrote the song and only years later revealed to the singer that the lyrics were about having a Joderal Bank!

I know what you mean... I often say to colleagues "I'm packing up early today" when I actually mean that I'm simply finishing on time!

No wonder the country's going to the dogs!

I'll go first - the bass player is probably good at playing ghost notes😕.

Just saw a write up of a new Netflix series - Julie and the Phantoms. It's about a pop/rock group. Julie (lead singer) is alive. The Phantoms (Bass/Drums/Guitar) as hinted at in the name - are all dead. They somehow are able to play instruments and do gigs. And they encouraged Julie to get back into singing after some personal problem. What do you reckon?

Agreed - it's not bad at all, in fact quite good considering it's not my genre! Good memory to have, well done your school!

I pity whoever has to make the radio edit of this.

Yep, they do things differently there.

This is the nearest I got........ I am a member of a facebook group for 'obscure and offbeat' music and someone posted asking for contributions to a kind of tribute album to Kimya Dawson. Kimya is not well known, but did the soundtrack to the film Juno and was one half of 'anti-folk' band The Moldy Peaches. Started off well... I was allocated the song I requested (Tyre Swing). I duly recorded the track, with multiple parts (including bass guitar!) and submitted the soundcloud link. Then never heard anything again☹️. But it was nice to be working towards commission for once.... normally I am working on songs just for myself. And I've still got the song😃.

I see it's being performed in Germany. I dare say there will be a few Krautrock purists who think the change has come too soon!

Yes, complete with alternative takes, mono mix, demo version😄!

I'd like to have been there for the drummer's 'four stick clicks' count in! I guess would need overnight accommodation between clicks.

Therein lies a big part of the problem for many of us who were not so favoured.

Found this on Youtube... pretty cool..... seems like a ramshackle rehearsal but sounds (and looks) great!

One particular memory I have from first year at high school was the teacher doing some kind of assessment of each pupil for suitability for the choir. It basically consisted of being pulled up in front of the music teacher (can't remember if it was in front of other pupils or not) who was sat at a piano. He said "sing the lower of these two notes" and then played two notes at the same time. I made some kind of discordant groan - I really had no idea about notes or pitch or anything. I was now in the 'not suitable for choir' group☹️.

A great current (UK) exponent of the genre are Beak. Drums/Vocals is Geoff Barrow from Portishead (But Beak are not a Portishead side project!!!) Bass/Vocals Will is a member of Robert Plant's band. Plays gigs sitting down. At the front centre. The other guy doesn't have another claim to fame I think!

My OP was a negative experience - but I'm hoping for some positives ones.... especially from younger bass-chatters🤞.

Always tricky when you discover a band with a massive back catalogue! Sorry.......I can't recommend a starting point, although I've been aware of the band for many years. But the band is the brainchild of a guy called Nick Salmon (or something similar)who has been very successful as a contestant on the TV show Countdown

I listened on BBC Sounds app.... still available for about 4 weeks 😉.

Just thinking back to music lessons at school (back in the seventies when I was at 'big school' aged 11-16) I can say I learned absolutely nothing that has helped me in my musical life. All our teacher did was to stand in front of a blackboard and make us learn the different clef and key signitures on the stave and that kind of thing. Never touched an instrument, occasionaly heard (classical) music and rarely did anything practical. Thinking back I'm getting angry at how bad those lessons were. It wasn't till I left school and got my first bass that I learned anything. Essentially taught myself from books and friends. Anyone have similar experience? Or a better experience? (Note - moved this from a thread in off-topic)