Grimalkin

6 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

It would appear that Basschat is on the list, to judge from much of the posting of late. 

I've no idea what this has to do with the postal strikes or privatisation, tell me more...

"That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."

Noam Chomsky.

British Rail

The Royal Mail

Now the NHS.

6 minutes ago, Tim2291 said:

On the flip side, I keep reading about them being overworked etc, we have a postman collect the mail from work everyday. His allotted collection time is 4pm, I've yet to see him arrive after 3.30pm! He sits in his van playing on his phone for at least half an hour before collecting the post. Hard to find sympathy for those like him who clearly are not overworked in any way. I do appreciate that he could be a small minority but still isn't great for the image they are trying to portray!

Indeed, he should be flogged...

What a level of petty mindedness you have there.

6 minutes ago, lidl e said:

Aye, it's a shame because when i lived in London i was always impressed with how quick and efficient the Royal Mail was.

 

What's the world coming to...

An end. The plaything of a Pathocracy. 

These are the fruits of capitalism. 

I buy used so in that regard, about a grand if it was something I really wanted. But if the kid with the budget bass can play better than me, he's going to get the gig anyway...

"What's in a name?" Said Shakespeare.

"A shed-load of profit." Said Fodera.

When you run out of design ideas, to keep the market turning, you have to resort to peddling the ridiculous, with all the great 'claims' that accompany it.

And people will buy it.

"Unyielding Conditioning

Tune out from all that's happening..."

That bridge should have been a dead giveaway.

At the end of the day, the real value is not in what you have, it's what you can play on it. That's what is important.

A kid that has put in hours and hours of concerted practise on a budget bass, doesn't need a Fodera to get hired.

"We don't need experts..."

Yeah, look how that's worked out...

3 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

Some things don’t need to be overly complicated or intellectualised. If muting with your thumb works for you then do it. If growing up on a working class council estate where there is no work and lots of bored angry youths about is reflected in the music of the time then no middle class intellectual needs to write a thesis on the subject to make sense of it. Chomsky didn’t need to publish a paper on The Specials Ghost Town. I just had to walk into the town centre to get it.

Is this supposed to be some reply of sorts?

Stay in school.

1 minute ago, tegs07 said:

I know you love a quote! I’m no expert on the history of Punk but I doubt that many of the original punk’s thought too deeply about the subject. They were largely bored, broke and a bit angry about the state of their lives. It hadn’t changed all that much by my early teens:

I quote and credit rather than steal, that seems morally right to me. But people here seem terrified of quotes, like scalded cats. It's regarded as some kind of threat to their very being...

"Cash from chaos..."

Yes indeed.

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?..."

5 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

I was a bit too young to be a Punk but old enough to have been impacted by the social and economic conditions of the 1970s. I doubt if it was just a fashion statement for most. They were tough and bleak times.

“Punks don’t like to hear it but they and Mrs. Thatcher were both on the coattails of something bigger, which was the rise of individualism where we could be whatever we wanted to be,” he explains. “The Sex Pistols’ song ‘I Wanna Be Me’ came at the same time as a speech by Mrs. Thatcher that had pretty much the same message."

https://www.factmag.com/2013/07/11/filmmaker-and-massive-attack-collaborator-adam-curtis-on-why-music-may-be-dying-and-why-need-a-new-radicalism/2/

1 minute ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Now I understand.  You're one of those people who thinks what doesn't fit your personal taste is just bad.

Punk and metal are definitely about music. Metal in particular is often incredibly technical (nu metal and  hair metal excepted) and a lot of punk, especially ska punk is pretty complex. 

I have never met one so-called punk who could tell me what the definition of Anarchy was, not one. They just liked looking the part. Same as the rest of the tribe.

2 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Like I said, If you're getting the right sounds, why would it matter how you get them?

Lemmy, like all metal musicians are aiming for a sound which you may not consider quality but many others do. I think Lemmy's bass lines were often pretty much perfect for Motorhead's punk/metal crossover sound so where's the lack of quality? 

Punk/metal... I don't have any time for that scene whatsoever. More about tribalism than music.

I don't mind the character of Lemmy to an extent, he used to frequent the Marquee Club glued to the bandit chewing his teeth flat on amphetamine back in the day, so a couple of colleagues who used to play there mentioned.

But as a musical influence, forget it...

2 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Lemmy made a huge amount of money writing and playing music that millions of people enjoyed and travelled the world playing to enormous crowds and has influenced probably the majority of metal bands who came after. Id consider that to be a fairly accomplished bassist.

Does the actual technique used really matter if the sound that comes out is good? As far as I'm concerned that's the ultimate aim of playing any musical instrument.

I agree, learn the right techniques to start with but maybe later do what works best for you to get the sounds you want. 

I think the Daily Mail is the highest circulating paper in the UK?...

Quantity does not guarantee quality does it. That's been proven time and time again...

When people try every which way be an apologist for bad technique, I know they can't play for s**t.

15 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

There's a lot of very famous pro bassists who have made enormous amounts of money and made some great music playing with what some may call bad technique. Lemmy, Peter Hook, JJ Burnel and Steve Harris all had some techniques that weren't as per the textbooks.

Imagine if Larry Graham had stuck with the technique that his teacher taught him rather than trying something different. 

 

Using outliers as justification for poor technique. Many were self educated, that's how they end up with that technique. Lemmy as an accomplished bassist? I don't think so...

Never mind experts, we don't even need teachers anymore...

3 hours ago, BreadBin said:

It's far more important to create in a way that works for you, if that's the technically correct way than good on you, that doesn't give you the right to force your opinion on everyone else. 

It's terrible isn't it, all those tutors forcing correct technique upon their students.