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[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1415643051' post='2602321'] Lemmy needs the four of hearts. Don't fall for his bullsh*t! [/quote] I heard it was Master Bun the Baker's Son.

On a related note, Rainbow split up because of intractable artistic differences between Ritchie Blackmore and Bungle.

King Crimson and Deep Purple merged to form Maroon 5.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1415358381' post='2599530'] This music lark is a very asymmetric business and musicians will inevitably have an inflated sense of the importance and worth of their creative output. [/quote] This.

I've seen some of these modern so-called "pop stars" on the telly - they're an utter disgrace. Not only could I hear every word they were singing, but I could quite easily tell the boys from the girls. It would never have happened in my day, I can tell you. A spell in a hippy commune is what they need. Yours disgusted etc etc.

Not a look that will work for all bands, but.... [attachment=174384:Whitstable.JPG]

but do they sell the matching whippets?

Brilliant idea. Let's all take sides without knowing all the facts and have a heated debate!

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If it's anything like my [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr02/articles/novationkstation.asp"]Novation K-Station[/url] (and it may not be!), you'll need a line-level signal to get much use out of the audio input, so you may have to go via a pre-amp first.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412184693' post='2566596'] My memory is failing me right now, so I've asked a bunch of friends somewhere else. They are bound to come back with some good ones. In the mean time: how traditional would you like it to be? Are you aware of Hinn Íslenzski Thursaflokkur aka. Thursaflokkurin? Their album "Thursabit" seems great. [/quote] Thanks BT, I'll give them a go.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412166437' post='2566332'] As to the lyrics, this is what LyricWikia says: [/quote] Thanks for that, BassTractor. Maybe you'd be a good person to ask about other Nordic folk/trad/fusion bands or musicians - it's something I'm quite into at the moment. I've already got stuff by: Alban Faust Väsen Värttina Virelai (Danish medieval / traditional band) Hoven Droven Hedningarna Emilia Amper (superb nykelharpa player) and of course the fabulous Mari Boine any others you'd recommend?

Hedningarna (translates as "Heathens"): I just discovered this Swedish/Finnish band. This track from the early 1990's blends Saami "joiks" (a kind of sung chant) with Finnish singing which (I think, judging from the rhythms and limited scale used) is roughly in the traditional style which has been used for centuries to pass on their folk tales. Finland is much more in touch with its oral tradition than we are, as their great national myths were only collected and written down for the first time in the nineteenth century, principally in the "Kalevala", an epic tale of shamans and spirits. Anyone from Finland care to add to or correct any of this, or tell us what the girls are singing here? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARpIQvGVbA[/media]

[quote name='BigGuyAtTheBack' timestamp='1411455353' post='2559577'] Just about to gig a £40 Peavey Milestone 3 from evilbay. [/quote] Great bass - you can't go wrong there.

An example of what can be done with a single traditional double-skinned drum: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_RKrumTMM[/media]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1410380543' post='2548892'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGIvND2TnFE[/media] [/quote] Well, that's (most of) us told! Love it.

Spending lots of dosh on a bass is more about making you feel better (for a little while) than about making you sound better. IMHO of course.

Timas Hans by Hoven Droven. Starts a bit laid-back and jazzy, then kicks a***. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b7d5ZOy_t4[/media]

[quote name='gadgie' timestamp='1411393302' post='2559026'] I mean, what about disco's or nightclubs etc..or even funfairs play music, or they did back in the day. [/quote] They need a PRS licence to do so.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410861418' post='2553892'] As for Stonehenge, I have immensely fond memories of family summer holidays in the 60s, leaving London at the crack of dawn for the drive down to the West Country and stopping off at Stonehenge for a breakfast and rest break. In those days there was nothing there except the stones and breakfast was foil-wrapped sandwiches and coffee from a flask that mum had made before we left, which we would eat while sitting on the unfenced stones before running around and climbing all over them after our early morning refuelling. Happy days, but now no longer possible in the wake of queuing, fences, admission fees, visitor centres and cappucino's from gurgly machines [/quote] [quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1410865813' post='2553972'] Oh man, you did that too? It was great, wasn't it? It was the early 70s for me, but the M4 was just a building site and the 'henge was still as open as you remember it. The journey took forever but it felt like more of an adventure because of it. Going to Dawlish felt like travelling halfway round the world. I know it's a crappy hackneyed old saying, but those really were the days.[i] *massive wistful sigh*[/i] [/quote] [quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410868954' post='2554027'] yeah, late60s/early 70s for me, and you're right about it seeming like a major expedition. My dad would be fiddling around with the car for the whole week before to make sure it was up to the long arduous trek (Ford Anglia - the ones with those funny angled back windows). I vaguely remember joining the M4 in Chiswick but am pretty sure we usually took the A303 for most of the journey - depends on where we were headed that year I guess. I don't recall ever getting as far as Cornwall, it was usually somewhere in Devon or Somerset - and yes, we did Dawlish one year. [/quote] Me too - mid to late sixties - getting up in the dark, leaving from Essex just as it was getting light, driving through the City in the pale dawn en route for Cornwall or Devon in the back of a two-tone blue Wolseley 15/60 very much like the one in the pic attached. In those pre-satnav days my parents sent off to the AA for a detailed set of route instructions which came in the post and were then fixed to a piece of hardboard with a large bulldog clip. I would be dozing in the back to the sound of my Mum reading out "after a third of a mile bear left and follow signs to Basingstoke", or somesuch. Always stopped at Stonehenge. Also the site of my first acid trip when I returned to attend the free festival in 1977, but that's another story......

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410857489' post='2553824'] Seems that YOU are the one with a problem with it, so why not just stay in bed until someone offers you some money to get up? [/quote] Zing!

Just don't ship it with Parcel Force - it'll probably arrive in perfect condition.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1410271061' post='2547681'] I was guessing Finnish. [/quote] [quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1410291202' post='2547949'] Not a chance! [/quote] Should that be "not an Eth-ing chance"? (oh come on, everybody loves an Icelandic alphabet-related pun, don't they???? No? OK, - Dad, hold the door, I'm right behind you)

Is it Icelandic? EDIT: D'oh! Roland Rock beat me to it with a more specific guess

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1410257137' post='2547498'] Did Slade make any jazz albums? [/quote] Noddy Holder's notebooks, recently acquired for the nation by the National Music Archive, reveal an early draft of the lyrics of one of their hits: [i]Are you blowin' out some bebop in 9/4? Are your flat five substitutions sounding raw? Does your tenor player tell you that Coltrane was the best, And that without his hat and shades he feels undressed? So here it is, Jazzy Christmas everybody's feeling cool, Learn to read music now, or you will feel a fool.[/i]