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Joey Jordison, Slipknot’s founding drummer, dies at age 46

<https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/28/slipknots-joey-jordison-corralled-chaos-with-his-explosive-talent>
 

Slipknot we’re never my cup of tea but it’s always sad to hear this kind of news. Particularly when the person is younger than yourself. 

There’s a whole album full on “Benny Hill Sings?”

Deliberately so and one of my favourite albums of all time. 
And who doesn’t like Ernie?  

Just now, yorks5stringer said:

it's a bit worrying that they have to tell us who some of the players worked with, e.g Paul McCartney (Beatles) whereas Scott Lafaro who worked with Bill Evans  has no such addition. Does that means a lot of the Jazz players will be ignored by the voting readers or are they well known enough  by the poll readers not to need the extra info?

It’s guitarworld. Don’t expect too much. 

12 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

Ultimate bass player- so it's a fight to the death?

Plectrums not allowed, and no hitting below B. 

The only thing a Fender P Bass needs to be more or less perfect, is a Jazz bass neck.  
There, I’ve said it. 

I love the way some threads on here gently slide from serious to frivolous within a couple of pages. 

4 hours ago, Judo Chop said:

As the actress said to the bishop. 

2 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Yikes.... Is religious punk a thing then ???

Why not?  Music is a kind of religion to many. 
Call it Christian if you like but that’s a bit exclusive and certain other religions are already a bit jumpy.  
 

For Religious Punk a cheap pair of sandals is essential along with a sanctimonious grin. 
Oh and any old bass and amp you find in Cash Converters will polish the image just fine. 

On 28/06/2021 at 00:46, Woodinblack said:

Which is even easier, you don't even have to solder to test it out. Get 3 short lengths of solid copper core wire, take the circuit board plugs out and shove the 3 wires in the sockets like this. Obviously you can take the battery out, not that it will make a difference.

I did this on my 2004 Korean SR900 on which I have installed Nordstrand Big Singles. It didn’t work. 
However the Big Singles are a major improvement over the Bart MK1’s even with the original preamp. 

48 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The only music that is truly no good, is any music no-one enjoys*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*i.e. Edith Piaf and yodelling.

Very difficult to find music no-one enjoys. Scottish and Irish folk music is certainly not universally appreciated (ducks). And there’s anything Morris dancers jig about to. 

36 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

Who came up with the name 'Heavy Metal'?

Lengthy piece here by Deena Weinstein, Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago (really). Library searches, phone calls, exchanges of correspondence; quite the detective story. The minor problem for me is that it seems that the originator wasn't really thinking of what we call heavy metal music when they first used the term.

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It was Lester Bangs in the Feb 1970 issue of Rolling Stone, possibly influenced by the writings of William Burroughs and / or an awareness of a Burroughs-influenced British band Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids, an art-rock combo unrelated to the band known as The Heavy Metal Kids which formed in 1973 and which might best be described as a hard rock band even though their Wikipedia entry dubs them a glam rock band which they pretty obviously aren't.

 

Interesting piece, thanks for that, but it fails to come up with a definite answer. All the suspects, music critics, never really liked the music, describing it in various ways as a load of over loud rubbish.  Bangs review of the Black Sabbath album though, is hilarious. 

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

Possibly, or some other music rag de jour. However, I think I’m right in saying that the term was pinched from Steppenwolf’s Born to be Wild (happy to be corrected).

Heavy metal thunder refers to motor cycles, not a music genre. Some people consider the song the first heavy metal song but this is not likely as it was written as a ballad. Steppenwolf just upped the tempo and changed some lyrics. And they were not a heavy metal band either.  But who originally applied the phrase to a music genre or a band?

On 10/07/2021 at 23:27, OliverBlackman said:

It’s classic rock, with emphasis on classic 😉

Depends on your definition of classic. It’s of its time, and it’s certainly not heavy metal in the recognised sense. And I’ve often wondered who comes up with these definitions. Why Heavy Metal ferinstance?

Was it some jobbing scribbler on the NME?

22 hours ago, Richard R said:

I just hide behind a pillar and try to play the right notes! 

Slightly off topic, I wasted an evening at a Mavericks concert in London. I couldn’t see where the high harmonies were coming from as the bass player and drummer were obviously not the source. 
 I moved across to the side of the.auditorium (standing only) and saw keyboard player Jerry Dale McFadden hidden just off the side of the stage supplying backing vocals. At that time the band was still officially a trio. 

What are your favourite settings on the BDDI 

Curious to know what sounds players get out of it and are any other effects/pedals used to enhance the results. 

Wanton vandalism. 
I foolishly sold a fine old Japanese Aria Pro II to a friend who created a similar piece of art when he realised he could never learn how to play it.  Bastard. 

He rarely used a pick, but when he did it is said it was a tooth pulled from the body of Marie Laveau. 
Others say he just pinched whatever was available from a nearby guitar player. 

1 hour ago, Kevsy71 said:

I'm guessing from all this he used different straps, which may or may not have been bought or included at the same time as his various Ps...which is not much help, sorry!

You’re being far too serious for this forum. 

Not going anywhere. The thought just came to me while listening to the radio and wondered if anyone else had similar thoughts. 

20 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

Does anyone know what kind of foam was on the beer?

According to a source familiar with the subject, there was no foam on the beer. Jamerson had a beer roady who slurped the foam off the top before passing the glass over.

His preference for Yorkshire Pale Ale is strangely attributed to his addiction to Yorkshire tea and Betty’s tea cakes with strawberry jam.

If you had been the session bassist during recording of a well known song. 

Would you have played it differently?

This question often occurs to me when I hear distinctive and sometimes complex bass lines on pop and rock songs and wonder “how did they come up with that?”

3 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

Mahogany? Maple? Rosewood?  With lemon oil? 

Were the floorboard nails steel, or nickel?

  

Now you’re being silly.

The Excitable Boy album is an absolute gem full of great songs. I was given a copy shortly after release and could not believe I had never heard of this guy before. His songs have been covered dozens of times .

7 minutes ago, bass_dinger said:

I heard that he once lay on his back in the studio while playing bass.  Anyone know whether it was a carpet?  Solid floor? Wooden floor boards?  Lino?

Searching for "the tone", Bass_Dinger.  

Word on the street is it was bare floorboards. The vibration through his back was how he got ‘The Tone”.