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We are detective - Thompson Twins
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Firing squad - Penetration
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Ugly bug ball - Burl Ives
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Bought a pair of (non-bass related) walking boots off Alan - smooth easy deal and great communications; as posts above show, he’s a true Basschat legend. Thanks mate!
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Dirty Pool - Stevie Ray Vaughan
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“Collection only” will keep the final price down.
Nice looking ‘Ray!
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49 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:I saw a show about Top of the Pops last night, and it featured the Ramones .... and they were inevitably 'performing' "Baby I Love You".
Not written by them and not having their trademark sound, it always bugged me that when I mentioned the Ramones to people (even people who I thought would know better) they would reference Baby I Love You.
So what artist can you nominate who is best known (by the general public) for a (or the ) song which does not represent what they do.
Already moaned about this in the “Song title association” thread, but I had a ticket to see the Ramones play live in Liverpool (1980?) - had always wanted to see them live - and they cancelled just beforehand to mime “Baby I love you on TOTOP instead.......grrrrrr
Re OP -
- Greg Lake (most people only know for his Christmas hit single)
- Slade - known for their chart singles, but like The Sweet actually a really heavy band live
- Landscape - a funky jazz fusion band in the early “80’s, but only known for the synth pop “Einstein a go-go”
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Six feet under - Billie Eilish
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Leather & lace - Stevie Nicks
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The right moment - Gerry Rafferty
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Day of the Lords - Joy Division
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No lullaby - Jethro Tull
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Throwing it all away - Genesis
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Midnight at the lost and found - Meat Loaf
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Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens
(Doh - beaten to it again: ignore post)
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It’s a kind of magic - Queen
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Decline of the West - British Electric Foundation
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25 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:Have you ever tried down tuning that mandolin, putting on a ton of gain and smashing out some heavy riffs?
We tried it with an electric violin left in a practice room and to be honest, it sounded terrible.
No, but I did try it through the sub-octave thingy in my Ashdown bass amp to see if I could make it sound like a bass, and it sounded.......terrible
However, it’s really really nice with a touch of chorus and/or reverb.
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Re oak as a “tonewood”, a couple of pics of my custom electric mandolin which is made entirely from oak, including the neck (with a strengthening aluminium central spine instead of a truss truss). Heavy, but then - it’s only a mandolin! You’ll recognise the pickups, and brass knobs have been temporarily nicked to go one of my basses......
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Spinning the wheel - @TheGreek ‘s cousin George
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Rat race - The Specials
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Fear (of the unknown) - Siouxsie & the Banshees
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All quiet on the Western front - Elton John
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EHX Q-tron + is what I use
Used to have an original ‘70’s Mu-tron, but the above covers what it did.
Have to say that although the Line 6 Pod XT is pretty old hat these days, it had a nice envelope filter on it (as well as a whole lot more), and can be had cheap.
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Song Title Word Association...
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Everybody’s talkin’ - Harry Nilsson