lurksalot

A welcome return to winning ways for @Leonard Smalls in January, who in his inimitable style has offered the following for our inspiration... "Here's a pic for next month entitled "Root Vegetables From South East London"" Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes/panpipes, everyone had the chance last month's last month, so there! ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 23rd (but probably until breakfast on the 24th) A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be lovely. Good luck, Have fun

Well done young Leonard , you have had to wait far too long for another certificate , you’ve been on fire for ages. ping me a photo when you are off the slopes 😁

well I for one will be very happy to listen through those a few times before casting my vote, top drawer , absolutely top drawer here we go .. anyone late to the party, just PM me and I'll see if I can accomodate Dive in

The start of another year of Basschat music making, looking forward to it already. Congratulations to Skankdelvar on his excellent victorious cover for the December challenge, but the honour of the picture choice for January fell to @AndyTravis, who won the November challenge, and he gave us this picture ... 'There we go…a nice cheery image for new year 😂' So that's it then , it's time to listen to the entries and vote for your favourite 3 1 @AndyTravis “You’ll be sorry” - basically just the idea of Technology being introduced into everything… Will it take over? 2 lurksalot Happy families , I was hoping for a slight edge to it , but it's come out as a wholesome waltz! 3 @Leonard Smalls I thought I'd celebrate Albert Hoffman's Bicycle Day a bit early this year 😁😎☠️ In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed, I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. 4 @Wolfram Ok, here is my horribly unfinished entry - I'm out of time - away for work next week, flying early tomorrow. Imagine this with vocoded robot voice musing on not losing sight of having fun and letting life pulse by mechanically - being more like the children in the photo than the adults. 5 @Doctor J The disintegration of the family unit due to overindulgence in technological quick highs can only be stopped by those who truly value and embrace the human experience... or forget to charge their phones. 6 @SH73 What a shame , a brilliant picture, but will have to leave this one out, not enough time in a day. Unless a 30 seconds intro I started would suffice. Rather than watching rubbish on telly or having an early night, here we go. 7 @upside downer Robot holds kids to ransom and maniac father tries to pay the droid off with an unsuitable offering then threatens violence to the droid who just wants a bit of TLC, or something like that. Warning! Puntastic Chili Peppers outro lyric! 8 @MoonBassAlpha Robots in the picture looking liverish after Christmas. A bit of dubby electronica should cheer them up! There we are then, a quality bunch of tracks that really fit the brief and a great start to the year . Vote for your favourite 3 Voting will close at midnight on 31st January enjoy Lurks

Unlucky there Douglas , I do recall you had a very good acoustic guitar VSTi at one point mind

You could do worse than an ‘all-in-one’ I have an old Lenovo that is still just about up to the job. I am looking to upgrade but the last box I tried went back as it had a pathetic power supply attachment.

Is it a swanky upgrade ?

I get a few days off this time of year and normally get a bit of time to sort the garden, but it's been persistently raining so I got a chance to stay indoors ! Happy families , I was hoping for a slight edge to it , but it's come out as a wholesome waltz Ez drummer does his job, a few strings via garage band on iPad, I play the rest on piano, Gretsch Junior Jet bass and an Ibby 6 string through waves gtr3, ozone 8 to rinse it off all in Reaper

Congratulations Mr Delvar , the music business arm of the mighty Delvar Industrial corporation appears to be on fine form 😁

Happy New Year everyone . For those of you who have no parties to go to tonight, you're in luck. You get a few hours jump on the January challenge

Well done to @AndyTravis who won the November challenge, he has given us this picture to post for the January challenge... 'There we go…a nice cheery image for new year 😂' Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and the deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ No Bagpipes/panpipes , everyone had the chance last month, so there! ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline-wise, we will go for Midnight on the 24th (but probably until tea time on the 25th) A line or two of blurb as usual for the vote thread will be lovely. Good luck, Have fun

I’ll try and add it later , but if you check the SoundCloud permissions are not set to private , I might be able to edit the voting thread

I have a couple of temporary links which I will sort in due course

Happy Christmas one and all, It's official, it's time to have a listen to the Basschat collective offering for the annual cover song challenge. Some of these have been recorded during the year and some have been recorded for the challenge, but they are all just a celebration for the end of term. Normal voting rules apply, choose your favourite 3, and the winner gets the kudos of printing one of Douglas's iconic certificates. 1 @sammybee My effort is a cover of Tom Misch's - It Runs Through Me recorded by my daughter and I earlier this year this is a Temporary link to the challenge thread I will update in due course 2 @Dad3353 As it's all we have from this past year, here's a medley of 'punter's' videos, taken at our rare outing, 3 @AndyTravis It DOES have to be a Christmas track 😂 4 @ezbass A recorded rehearsal with my band from earlier this year. A rough recording, even more roughly mastered in GarageBand (I don't know what I'm doing really). 5 @Leonard Smalls For the cover challenge I thought I'd do a completely original song wot is all my own work. Any similarity to the Sylvester disco classic with a very similar name is purely co-incidental! This also features my wife on backing vox! 6 @Nail Soup This is a song I've been meaning to cover for a couple of years now, but never found an approach I've been happy with - until now 7 @MoonBassAlpha I've chosen the Kula Shaker tune Start All Over from their "K" album, as it's got a Beatles - like vibe, and I thought my friend Rob would enjoy singing it (massive Beatles fan) With invaluable input from Phil Beavis (organ) and Paul Ibbott (Horn section), the guitar, bass, backing vocals and drums are me. Tried to keep this fairly close to the original this time, subject to my own limitations! 8 @SH73 I decided to cover the Blade Runner 1982 soundtrack the end song that has been used as an intro on Somewhere on Tour in 86 and The Future Past Tour in 2023 9 @upside downer I've recorded a version of the Pink Panther theme using the arrangement that the superb Russian surf-pop band Messer Chups use on their track Pink Pantheratu 10 Lurksalot I got Lurksalittle to help out on this one 11 @skankdelvar What ho! It's an old Joe Jackson song that's got nowt to do with Christmas and featuring Mr Gordon Gecko. 12 @BreadBin late entry A great way to end the recording year , I've really enjoyed it and look forward to doing it all again next year. 3 votes each, voting will finish at midnight on the last day of the year. Cheers , Salut , Nostrovia and Slainte Mhath

Well done all , that’s put a smile on my face at least ! I shall start the voting thread shortly , but a last gasp chance for anyone hovering over the ‘send’ button 😁.

Luckily I put my enlightened IT head on , I turned off the computer and turned it back on again, sorted

try again https://soundcloud.com/lurksalot/tout-de-suite-harold just trying something currently if the link embeds, it cant find the track. any soundcloud I try to play on the PC just has the little dot gif which suggests it is trying , but nothing else happens.. it's great when things just work , but boy is it a PITA when it just doesn't

its doing my head in , AAAAAAAAGHHHHH

Can the next person through let me know if this plays please. I seem to be unable to get Soundcloud to play anything on this PC all day, this might get messy if it doesn't work for me by voting time !! Tout de suite Harold ...... I need to try a new upload ..... Pooh they all play on my phone , that has me stumped then !

I was about to pop mine up, but I think either Soundcloud has a bug or my main machine has! I can't get any of the SoundCloud links to play at the moment , I'll try again later

I have decided on a tune to record, got the basics down , and just need to ruin it by putting my voice all over it . just thinking now , Lurksalittle is back home , I might try and persuade her to join in 😂.

I’ve got a can of own brand I bought from Tandy back in the day , I don’t use it much either 😁

I got one as well , and I think that that was generous to me given the entries this month, anyway, I digress, this is where it's at now..... its official

Well done to @AndyTravis who won the November challenge, he will in due course be invited to post the picture for the January challenge, however, with another year about to disappear from the calendar, we need to celebrate whatever music floats our individual boats. It is thus time to let us hear that incredible cover version, whether it is a full-blown studio production, a garage band knock up, or a quick take from an inspirational night on the pop, we want to hear it. Any cover version that you or your band have/will have recorded at any point between 1st January and 23rd December will be welcome. All of the usual rules apply with a few additional caveats: It doesn't have to be a Christmas song. You're welcome to submit anything recorded this year (not just from December), so there's no excuse for those of you in cover bands not to enter. Don't go lifting any samples from whatever song you intend to cover, as that will breach the usual terms and conditions leading to extreme punitive measures. This time of year a bagpipe truce is allowed! But that still doesn't make them right! I think that covers everything , so go for it deadline is midnight on 23rd December , so dive in

Well done Andy 👍 You can choose a picture towards the end of December for the January challenge. I just realised, I started the December one early last year to get a move on. the thread will go up as soon as I can today.