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For my money completely dead flats played with a light touch is where its at, and I cut the bass on the amp a bit and push the mids a bit. A recent play back of my CV70 P bass going out thru the pa and I might as well have been playing the bridge PU on a J bass. Crystal clear gnarly mid range punch but with more heft.

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John Lydon is so utterly unique and iconic he is ....the Sex Pistols. You can substitute any of the band members but without JL its just not quite right... kind of Steve Jones and his mates which ain't the SP's.

Im over 50 but up until about ten yrs ago Id never really listened to Classical music. Now I get it, now I get why old crappy classical music is still huge. Music which is written with tunefulness in mind is always great. Dare I shop in the Co-Op where Im subjected to what can only be described as very very poorly written rap style nursery rhymes which 50 yrs ago wouldnt even pass muster at your local Kindergarden. Thats what Im getting at.

The ads Ive seen on TV are full of under 50's, way under. . I still hold my case. Old tunes are simply more tuneful, more interstng and just plain better than anything today.

Its a deadly serious Q. TV people arent stupid, far from it, and Im totaly familiar with what passes for music today....Cant go in a shop or store so yes I know. So where are ur Adels, Sheerans, girl bands, boy bands, guitar bands etc....Im hearing none of them apart from the odd bit of watered down ....Rap? in current TV advertising. Guess its a simple answer . Old tunes tended in the main to tell very clear stories and were very well written....TV people know.

Every other ad now aimed at young people playing a jolly tune from yesteryear... expecially the 70's. So yeah I rest my case, the 70's really was the best decade for diverse music, whether happy, groovy, difficult, miserable, edgy, funny...you name it and every single one melodic and written for the job it was set out to do, and yep Agadoo is a superbly written party tune, in fact so many tunes from then sound like party tunes..... Question is why arent the TV big wigs using stuff from todays current crop of "artists"?

Ha.. a great question sir. It was a bloody nightmare with the entire band lifting shoving, sweating, cursing, you name it. Funny thing is it always sounded ok...I cant remember the musician having to tinker too much, but yes the good old days really.. where you had to work for everything. Kids today got it way too easy now....he said. But I loved it back then, everything was organic, real if you like. Real kit, real gear.

As some of the above really, not so much band break up .. more of the "your joking right"?. Decades ago was in a very good prog rock outfit.....Melotrone, rotos, two guitards..long hair all over the place...gnarly old school JBL, Altec, EV PA, desk etc ... tour bus and then one night after a gig I get the message that those running the show wanted 85 quid from each band member for more PA. This was 1980 and that was a lot of dosh. We'd done some demos but they werent good enough so I said, surely better to pay for more demos..."Nope, more PA is gonna make us". From then on it was never gonna work and I left....I was pretty sad cause live we were very good...just needed more time in the studio. We were Marillion before they were even a band and our tunes were more melodic and more interesting in my opinion... but hey there you go, and without sounding to smug, six months later they broke up.

Couldnt disagree more with everything said negatively about Brown Sugar, and that Jagger, who dont forget was one of the greatest proponents of the Blues, but who has become a puppet of the establishment, is now buckling under the woke political pressure too is appalling, silly man. What, so no one is gonna look at any Picasso anymore? etc etc. Brown Sugar is a stunningly original piece of well written hard hitting rock and the lyrics tell a story. Thats it they tell a story. We have become so caked in this modern idea that nobodys feelings are to be hurt by anything that anyone says that we have become blind to what makes us human.. ie Flawed. Flawed and endlessly capable of all sorts of healthy crap. Yet the modern narrative is to try to pretend that we are not like that, that we must be fluffy, safe, gentle, and ultimately.......dead.

Nice old thread this. We've all cited our famous heroes but to be honest there was a guy back in the very early 80's who played in our local area, probably the smoothest bassist Ive ever heard/seen and he's still at it as far as I know.....Guy had a huge influence on me. Some people are born to play a certain instrument and he was a heck of a melodic player, one of those that made it look like he wasnt even trying. Funny thing was I eventually replaced him in a pretty good show band but I was never as good... And I knew it.

Agree with OP and its that very plain C&A JD look that is important. There look is just as important as The Beatles look as well as the overal tone and sound.

Bernard and Boz.

Its all so serious and dull. Click on Bucks Fizz and be amazed. Bright and breezy, superbly written and just fun....Guess modern music reflects modern society .

When AI can write an original piece on par with any of the Bach cello suites or, as bitingly original as say Cavatina from The Deer Hunter, then just maybe that will be the moment humanities creative force will be over. What a miserable thought.

Ah takes me back...What kind of tunes?

Totally agree with you, the dep played some notes so should be paid.

Good grief what a to do. In the old days you turned up, you played you got paid, and if you didnt turn up you didnt get paid, and whether you drove 100 miles or 1/2 a mile everyone got the same.

I'm old so done a load of auditions. main thing the 'auditionee' forgets is... its also us auditioning ... THEM. Been to a few where half way thu I'll stop the band and politely say... sorry guys not for me and leave. They, as individual muisicians are no better than you...so if the singer, drummer or whatever is not up to snuff, I wont waste anymore of anybodys time... it's a good thing to remember.

In the past he would have been a very young prodigy on first chair in an orchestra somewhere playing the instrument of his choice...All I see here is someone whos talent is completely wasted on bass....I mean its just bass right? and always will be. Bass.

Love it, it walks,chuggs and just takes off....I like clever, busy melodic bass lines.

Played Freebird in an original prog rock band back in the late 70's. Our stuff was pretty good but I would wait all evening for that double guitar solo to get going....Our two guitarists nailed the speed and feel perfectly....kinda miss it.

U do know RS is marketed at 12 year olds.? Kind of obvious. I can name a good handful of schooled American drummers that can smoke that entire list. Off the top of my head Gregg Bisonnette...He can play and sound like any other drummer and has played with everyone... but hes oldish and RS have probably never heard of him.

Could never get Chics Everybody Dance.. Rythmn Stick no probs, but EB Dance....nope. It was never often Id have a band leader constantly looking in my direction...

Agree with the OP. You had to be there as a teen to understand what an original entity he and his music was. Unlike today his image and sound was utterly original and in some way futuristic almost. Its also important to know too that it was all put together by the Chinny Chap guys, the tunes, the sound even the image, everything...But as for Gadd as a person without the Glitter outfit? ....evil beyond words.