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[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1367937016' post='2071210'] The title track's a belter though and I'm not their biggest fan as a rule. [/quote] Of Long Road Out Of Eden? Yeah - it's a good'un. Not sure one the 'Eastern' intro and interlude, though. They're a bit 90s...

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1367924124' post='2070997'] Has Guy Pratt been in Pink Floyd longer than Roger Waters yet? [/quote] Probably, but I don't think he wrote any of their hits ;-)

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1367922202' post='2070963'] I may have to watch this, I loved the Eagles for a year or two when I was 18ish (super cool I was, this was in the mid-90s) Always felt that once Bernie Leadon left it all got a bit sh*t though. I am right in thinking that Timothy B/ Schmidt really was only on 1 album though aren't I? So all this reunion stuff is largely lies isn't it? When you get Leadon, Meisner, Frey and Henley to do the gig, I might want to see it. [/quote] Tim's a great player too. His lines on The Long Run are great. Yep - he was only around for the last album and tour, and the 'new' album (which is mostly junk IMO) but, in total, he's technically been in the band far longer than Randy. I don't agree that they went t'pot after Bernie left. The post-Leadon albums are awesome, IMO.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1367879891' post='2070672'] I'm in two minds about the Eagles. They're just a bit too sterile. [/quote] I hear this a lot about the Eagles, and it's something I've never understood. 'Sterile' to me is the shiny, polished stuff that comes out of Nashville. The Eagles canon is just meticulously arranged songs played incredibly well. IMO, of course.

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1367868825' post='2070490'] Watching the DVD - during the section about Bernie Leadon pouring the beer over Glen Frey's head - I was thinking, "why is the theme tune to The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy playing in the background? ". A quick google search revealed thst the theme tune was sctually a segment of the Eagles' track "Journey Of The Sorcerer". Well I never, who would have guessed? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOMGIbY-9s&feature=youtube_gdata_player"]https://www.youtube....be_gdata_player[/url] [/quote] That tune is burned into my psyche. Whenever I used to go for car journeys with my dad when I was a nipper, I'd ask him to put One Of These Nights on, on JotS in particular. I adore it.

That reminds me - what about a gig up Newcastle way, Guy? Go on.

Welcome aboard! Hopefully everyone can kiss and make up.

By the way - if you're thinking about buying it, unlike the US version the Blu-Ray doesn't have the bonus concert disc. IMO it's essential, but you only get it with the DVD.

(Yeah, yeah.. I know. I couldn't possibly get any uncooler anyway.) I picked up the new Eagles documentary last week - four hours of interviews and archive footage tracing the history of the band. It's incredibly well put together, and it doesn't shy away from the battles between various members, management, etc. All very revealing stuff. I'd hate to be in a band with Glenn Frey (but the money could ease the pain). The big thing for me is that there are interviews (current and archive) with Randy Meisner. IMO the guy is a legend, but he pretty much disappeared after leaving the band. It's great to hear him talk about his days as an Eagle. I got the version with the bonus live DVD from 1977 - it's the footage that produced the live version of Hotel California you always used to see on MTV, but the audio and video has been restored and it's astonishing. Randy's playing a Rick with flats and it sounds great, and when he sings Take it to the Limit... whooah. I know 90% of you won't agree, but... what a great band they were.

Your measured response doesn't change that, IMO, it looks like someone was sick onto a bit of paper and decided to use that as as the template.

[quote name='Smythe' timestamp='1367407972' post='2065194'] They felt cumbersome, stiff and had a tacky/resisistant feel straight out the box and were no good for sliding with, [/quote] Giving them a good rub with an old cotton t-shirt helps to shift the tacky feeling.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1367328667' post='2064242'] Seconded! And proof of the flaws in the "tens for mid-punch and fifteens for bass" argument [/quote] Actually, if I'm not sorted with something by June, I might be knocking on your door cap-in-hand again.

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1367313151' post='2063936'] Looks like a Deltalight and a cheap bullet in a thinwall cab. I must be missing something here as I don't see anything to get excited about. [/quote] You can tell that from the photos?

I suppose there's a few types of signature basses: 1) Exact-ish copy - Pino 2) A version re-specced for mass production - Nate Mendel 3) Something built from scratch to the artist's spec - Roscoe Beck I can understand 3) costing a few quid, due to R&D.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1367219212' post='2062568'] Morning all - no problems musically, personally, etc. other than it seems to me that Auntie, yet again, selects and reports to its target audience a tale with limited information and not the full story. That's all........ [/quote] I think you're over-analysing it. It's just a daft news story.

I don't understand [quote name='Musky' timestamp='1367183901' post='2062404'] What's the problem? A record for the number of consecutive weeks in the albums chart is based on... the number of consecutive weeks an album is in the chart. It's not like it's a value judgement on the merits of those recordings. [/quote] This. Not sure what the OP's point is.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1367142907' post='2061563'] Soul and gospel maybe but jazz I'm not hearing to be honest. Who is the singer and where is he from? [/quote] The Jazz influence comes from a lot of the material we do, not necessarily how it's played (wrong notes don't count). There's a lot of trad jazz / New Orleans tunes in there, and the whole genre developed from the 50s jazz scene. The singer is Peter Donegan, son of Lonnie.

There's country in there for sure, but also rock and jazz. And soul and gospel, for that matter. The proportions of each have massive influence on the final sound, though. Little Feat are another example, I'd say.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1367134447' post='2061486'] My problem is what is a Blues, rock, jazz, folk band. [/quote] A few of my bands fall into that range of genres, kind-of. Here's one of them. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsTP543lpqQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsTP543lpqQ[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xbTA7hU0s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xbTA7hU0s[/url]

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1367062456' post='2060784'] I thought I was alone in not liking the Midget. I wish Alex made a 112 with a fat, quality full range tone that would challenge Berg and Aguilar 112's. [/quote] Yes. Me too...

Mrs. WoT & I are in quite a lot of bands together, and go on little tours pretty often. We treat them as a break away from the kids. Unless there's something she hasn't told me yet, I don't see any break-ups on the horizon...