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Here's a nice video of Simon Gallup playing to bassline to 'Cold' with his feet, and, only occasionally playing a high solo line on his Rickenbacker

I was surprised to read that awaiting release are both a Cure album and a Robert Smith solo album. I had had no idea that Robert Smith had ever self-identified as a collaborative musician, and had assumed that everything that ever appeared on a Cure release was pretty much what he wanted. Working on those two things at the same time sounds potentially messy, and, lo, a mess.

Since slow isn't always meant as a compliment, I like to think of the P-bass making me play with greater poise

It seems to me that nestling between rosewood and off-white is the only place tort looks really good

This looks so great.... and I'm enjoying imagining how it will sound.... and it's just dawned on me how jealous I am.... and how this mod needs to be on a 424X dammit

Last night I was trying to find a live recording of Back In The Village, and was surprised to find that Iron Maiden have never toured it. YouTube though did give me a terrible recording* of The Iron Maidens playing it, which was enough to make me think it would sound great live. So.... have you ever played it? (*meaning it was terribly recorded – beyond the sludge of sound there seemed to be a good performance. Certainly felt exciting!)

Weird, I normally don't like natural finishes, but that stripped back plywood is proving weirdly appealing to me 🙃 How does it sound, and how does the neck feel?

Hardwired: nothing compared to Dyers Eve The four of these six I've listened to so far: ditto So I'm not yet convinced that you've proved your thesis that I chose "a poor example". But I do still have two to go..... 😋

A band... equipment... space to rehearse... looks like heaven... 😊

What I find fascinating is the case of those examples of rock music which have clear roots in rock and roll, but which aren't light or fun or simple and definitely aren't easy to play, but which are – it seems – still dependent on youthful energy and naivety to come into existence. Metallica might have put a lot of deliberate effort into recreating their early style in the title track from Hardwired.... ....but does it get anywhere close to, say, Dyers Eve?

If I had those three basses, I wouldn't be playing it at all

The upside is that you will never have to fear that most devoted fans are desperately hoping for a return to the form of your early 20s, you can enjoy knowing that they will be simply appreciative of the consistency of your output over the years.

I'm thinking again what I said elsewhere yesterday, we can tell that your hands have an instinctive understanding of the sound of the SB-1 – there's no sense of your consciousness having to tell them how to produce what you're wanting, the colouring and the articulation feel natural and uninhibited, so the line is both smooth and characterful.

Jimmy Page, Houses of the Holy, 30th birthday, Physical Graffiti

How many bands filling stadiums get the crowd bouncing when they play the music they wrote after 30? I love that video of ACDC playing River Plate in 2009, the crowd a massive sea of life, everyone having a great time to music Malcolm Young when he was in his twenties

January Cocker turned thirty before he hit his peak. Turned 30 in 1993, His'n'Hers in 1994, Different Class in 1995

Some rebuttals: David Bowie, turned 30 in Jan 1977, with Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters and Let's Dance ahead of him Bon Scott turned 30 in July 1976, before Powerage, Let There Be Rock and Highway To Hell Back on point: Be Here Now was released 3 months after Noel Gallagher's 30th birthday

How many of your truly great albums did you write after turning thirty?

Wasted Years, Sea of Madness and Stranger in a Strange Land are all excellent songs, and all written by someone who hadn't yet turned thirty.

"Robert Smith's depression prior to the recording of Disintegration gave way to the realization on his 29th birthday that he would turn 30 in one year. This was frightening to him, as he felt all the masterpieces in rock and roll had been completed well before the band members reached such an age." Robert Smith was born in April 1959, finished recording Disintegration before he turned 30, and next produced Wish, which kind of proved his point. Here are four more songwriters of the 80s, and what they produced either side of their 30th birthdays: Steve Harris – Mar '56 – Powerslave – Somewhere In Time Andrew Eldritch – May '59 – Floodland – Vision Thing Dave Mustaine – Sep '61– Rust in Peace – Countdown To Extinction James Hetfield – Aug '63 – The Black Album – Load I had the idea of looking up every songwriter I could think of but seem to have run out of energy. Plenty of songwriters seem to fall off their creative plateau well before 30 - Black Francis, Paul McCartney, erm Simon Le Bon. You get the gist.

I 💙 the (OPPOSITE BUS GARAGE) detail

I filled this in in a minute or two on Sunday and it arrived in the post today 👍

False relations, an important part of the English style once upon a time, very delicious 😊

PS love the unexpected major third at 1'14" 😃