Earbrass

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1462274317' post='3041584'] You can put just about any word in front of metal and it's a genuine sub-genre... [/quote] Precious Metal: - "Daahling!! Mwaah! Mwaa!h "<air-kiss noises> "You were faabulous tonight. Gorgeous solo. That tone is just to die for! Looove the new axe by way, wherever did you find it?". - "What this old thing? Oh I've had it for years. But I had it reliced by this wonderful little man I found....."

Endless rows between the guitarist and the singer.....they were a couple.....yes, I know [i]now[/i]......

+1 for New Moon. Nice people to deal with and highly recommended by a lot of musos.

Here he is guesting with one of my favourite bands, Väsen: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFal29U85aE[/media]

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1446597263' post='2900767'] Värttinä - went to their album-launch gig last month in Helsinki. Fabulous stuff and well worth the trip. [/quote] [quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1446677454' post='2901481'] I am jealous! [/quote] They (or at least the 3 singers) are in London in June: http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/music/v-rttin#.VxoU8fmnpws - also gigs in Liverpool and Newcastle. Already have front-row seats

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1461238500' post='3032725'] When others are making a buck not just playing songs, but using the whole image and likeness is is not right that there should be some kind of permission or licencing agreement? [/quote] Maybe they should be run as franchises. The tribute market is, after all, essentially about using an established artist's brand to generate income. Surely the artists who developed those brands should be able to license their use, and exercise some quality control?

I have a Korg Wavedrum (Global edition), which is a similar concept but a bit cheaper. I really rate it, though I have yet to use it on a recording. It has a real, tunable, drum skin and is very responsive to different kinds of touch, muting etc. No MIDI out though.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1461152158' post='3031882'] I think yellow staples indicates that the wood the cab is made of is diseased. [/quote] Has anyone notified the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development? Clearly the cab needs to be burnt to protect our forests from the spread of this disease, and some kind of quarantine area set up around chez Discreet. Biohazard suits will be required. [quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1461148221' post='3031804'] No I'm worried. [/quote] We're all worried.

You'll find a lot of traditional tunes notated on the web in ABC format. This is really handy as there are free utilities out there that will convert these to either dots or MIDI files that you can then play along to for practice, and the ABC files themselves are just text files taking up very little space, so easy to download loads (you'll find some ABC files containing many tunes).

Very obviously a fake. That's clearly 2 guys in a hedgehog suit clambering across a giant piano keyboard that's been specially constructed just to perpetrate this transparent hoax on a gullible public. Wake up sheeple!

Underpants. Knew I forgot something this morning. Oh yes, and trousers. Damn. Explains the strange tube journey though. And the chilliness.

I think I read somewhere that he had become a bikini model, but I could have got that wrong.

This is why I prefer to attend only seated concerts, preferably with pre-allocated seats. I could pretend it's because I'm old, but the truth is I was just the same as a teenager. I went to a prom once (as in Henry Wood, not the American high-school dance). Didn't care for it. I was 15.

another vote for Puff the Magic Dragon (brutal lyrics - was banned from our house when we were small because of the effect it had on my elder brother). and, since the death of my father, who taught me boogie-woogie, jazz and blues piano from a very early age, Oscar Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom" from Night Train.

...and "who were the Beatles, anyway?"