Cliff Edge

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?

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?

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.

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.

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?”

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 .

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

There is a Spotify playlist “Originals that are less famous than the cover versions” Makes interesting listening.

I saw The Animals perform House of the Rising Sun just as their single was released to become a hit. Keen to hear the original I bought the Dylan album on a trip to New York shortly after. Only to lose the album shortly after returning. Around that time many English groups were covering obscure US artists songs. The Bobby Fuller Four version of I Fought The Law is almost identical to the original Crickets release recorded in 1959 when Sonny Curtis joined the band, shortly after the death of Buddy Holly.

Well that’s better. Just installed a pair of Nordstrand Big Singles into my SR900, still using the original preamp. Made a big difference to the sound. Much cleaner, punchy and responsive using LaBella Deep Talkin Flats. It’s now a joy to play. Very happy about that

Boom Radio just played Applejack by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan. Pretty good station for those of us of a certain age. Oh now we have Cleo Lane and Let’s Slip Away.

I would add the original pop version by Ritchie Valence. The song is real ear worm and a blast to play and sing.

One safeguard used by sellers is “will only ship to PayPal verified addresses”. So how does that work now?

I could be wrong, but it’s only sellers who are now obliged to supply bank details. I can’t see any reason why a buyer would need to. Unless eBay is not going to allow card payments.

Not SkyArts but on BBC4 early last evening Singer Songwriters, the caption writer made an interesting error. Calling Carol King, Carol Klein. Klein is her birth name of course, but it’s very unusual to see it used and I’d guess not many people would know. Carol Klein is a regular on the BBC’s Gardeners World. Maybe the caption writer is a gardener.

You don’t want bass heavy as that will not give you the real sound of the instrument. Buy the best studio quality full range monitoring headphones you can afford. There are some good suggestions in this thread. Avoid Beats.

I caught their fairwell/revival/final, whatever you want to call it tour show in London. Very embarrassing..It was like a shambolic un rehearsed jam session. Levon was obviously ill and looked to be on the point of collapsing. So bad we walked out before the interval. They really shouldn’t have bothered.

His predecessor in the 60’s realised this. A 90% top rate persuaded many high earners, including pop stars, to move overseas. It didn’t last long. George Harrison’s Tax Man for reference.

The Cream Doc. was entertaining. Ginger Baker had a lot to say and didn’t pull any punches about the excessive volume of the bass player 🙂