Big_Stu

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441552093' post='2859727']It may be the case that I commission a [i]fabulously[/i] expensive blinged-to-the-nines jumbo with S K A N K D E L V A R in mother of pearl letters along the fretboard. Thusly equipped I shall pose and sashay and swoop and randomly point at people in the audience and smile as if I know them. It's stagecraft, you see. [/quote] Pfft - who do you think you are, this bloke?

Can I just say I have absolutely no idea what this thread is about any more?

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1441535804' post='2859525'] Not sure about wisdom, but definitely a certain perspective (as anyone will have being born and growing at a certain point in time).[/quote] True - and for any nine (or ten) year old kid to be given wisdom AND perspective from watching a TV show of any magnitude in the early 60s, while the rest of their classmates would have been playing with their G.I. Joes, watching Bugs Bunny or playing cops and robbers etc. I would say makes them a child prodigy - or at least a twisted firestarter.

I'd hope but I wouldn't gamble the cash that things have improved. But in the early 90s I bought a Squier Tele. The pickups were fairly microphonic and the machines didn't hold tune very well. I bought Fender US pickups for it and Schaller machines. It later turned out that the frets were a bit soft too - but that might have been me being heavy handed. If there was a next time & I had the cash to hand, I'd spare myself the hassle and disappointment of gambling I'd have to do that again by going for a better spec (therefore higher cost - probably) guitar..

Been watching Motorhead since '78 when I was under-age for the venues they played in. Seen them many times since. Met him many times too but the last time we had quite a long chat. What surprised me was most of the laughing and joking was gone, Lemmy had a PA ffs! They each had separate dressing rooms after the gig and all of them were alone. He did pour me half a pint of JD though . As I said earlier, I wouldn't like to think it's just a corporate money spinning machine running him into the ground because of his oft quoted "I'll die on stage".

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1441488603' post='2859269'] I think the op means the chamfer/bevel cut all the way around* the top edge *so so desparate to use the word "curcumsized" which literally means "cut around", but I fear it would lead to confusion [/quote] Found this on YT, I haven't researched this guy but I'd assume he's been doing this for years. After all the use of power tools throughout I was surprised to see the chamfer was hand done using a wood-working rasp then glass-paper. FF to 24:00 to see that part alone, though the whole thing is an education........... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rus_GtHqOLM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rus_GtHqOLM[/url]

[quote name='JJW' timestamp='1441486591' post='2859253'] Oh no! I should read over before posting! I'll try to edit that.[/quote] Sorry - just kidding. Which particular angle are you talking about, one in particular or all of them? For a body like that you'd need either a lot of practised and acquired skills and tools, or access to and knowledge of machinery that can do it. If you're handy with power and hand tools (I generally am) I'd cut it roughly to shape with a jig-saw or band-saw, then over a great deal of time sand it down by hand to the shape you want. I wouldn't be expecting to get it perfect first time, so a great deal of swearing and Polyfilla would be used at various points.

Saw it on FB, must be a right PITA to want to tweak the middle tone up a bit mid-show.

I thought Gene Simmons was a demon - not an angel?

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1441483822' post='2859216'] I never counted how many times but I saw them when they were The 'N Betweens, when they were Ambrose Slade, as fresh skinheads called Slade (with the Northfield Mob after them because, of course, they weren't real skinheads) and actual Slade ... but many times around Birmingham and environs between about 1966 and 1972. Slade were a great band but I don't really get how you could be a Slade fan and not get The Beatles unless it was merely a rejection on principle of the previous generation - which would not be unusual. I'd be extremely surprised to find Slade not being big fans of The Beatles. [/quote] I'm not "getting" the overuse of the word "get"; is it a euphemism for "deep almost transcendental hyper elite holier than though understanding"? Jimmy does list McCartney as an influence but last I heard they don't preach Beatles, as is being done here. Apart from the aforementioned "Martha" Beatles material didn't feature in their stage shows or recordings - as you'd know.They aren't mentioned highly amongst their lists of "faves". In fact they went out of their way to track down obscure tracks that they'd modify and make their own, which formed the basis of a bootleg album way back. Nod cited Little Richard and Max Miller as his inspirations and the first song the four ever played together (possibly at Jimmy Lea's audition) was Otis Redding's "Mr Pitiful" As I said a while ago, I've never yet had a professional musician question my none-interest in The Beatles. I have a few of their albums, but they're gathering dust and virtually never played, same with the few Pink Floyd I have & if I'm honest virtually all of Slade's studio stuff. Regular plays at home varies massively depending on mood, need for quiet or loud, alone or with company - and who that might be. The fact I just don't think much of Beatles music doesn't seem to bother anyone other than Beatles fans, I know a few Floyd fans but I never get grief off them for not playing the stuff I have. It just seems to be an inadequacy among Beatles fans to not just let people not like hearing them, it's all very strange.

[quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1441460600' post='2859053'] Can we all agree that Slade are goddamn brilliant. Please? [/quote] Some bloke here wants to ponder that a moment......... ........... whereas I could be biased having seen them 36 times over ten years.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1441451915' post='2858975'] They play a fair bit of Slade on Planet Rock these days and it's surprising how fresh it still sounds. Slade Alive still rates as one of the best 'live' albums for me. Great band, Merry Christmas Everybody notwithstanding. [/quote] I stopped listening to Planet Rock a while ago, strange considering I use a "Planet Rock" Marshall DAB radio. A long time ago I was Rick Wakeman's "quote of the week" when I pointed out that Charlie, Slade's sound guy used Genesis' "Turn It On Again" to test their PA as he reckoned it was the perfect track to test all the channels. Rick W loved my line "You ain't lived until you've heard 'Turn It On Again' at 26,000 watts". [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1441457365' post='2859025'] ... and I believe [i]Merry Christmas Everybody[/i] features John Lennon's harmonium (borrowed from the next studio) on the opening chords.[/quote] True; MXE was recorded at the Record Plant in NYC during the summer of '73. Lennon was using the studio next door at the time & apparently at one point stuck his head in the door for a listen and said, "Good singer you've got - he sounds like me". MXE was their third single to go straight to No.1 that year, with sales of half a mill in the first week. It has kinda eclipsed the fact that they had 32 other top 40 hits, but since it makes Nod the best part of a million quid a year in royalties I don't think he loses sleep over it. [quote name='Colonel36' timestamp='1441455973' post='2859019']Here's Slade in ...............1969 covering a Beatles song.[/quote] In between recording the track for their first ever album and making that appearance Slade had shortened their name from "Ambrose Slade" & had also had their heads shaved to try to latch onto the ska & soul tide that was doing well at the time.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1441418773' post='2858799'] Stu, you know better than I most bands don't last for 10 years. And for those of us that were there and those who are well versed in Beatles history know they accomplished more in 1 year (1964) than most bands ever accomplish, no less 10. Blue [/quote] All of the bands or artists I was or am into lasted far longer than 10 years, and were (or still are) playing live for far longer than 4. The aforementioned Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley, both of whom invented RnR between them. The UK band "Slade", who I've mostly "grown out of" now and were largely but not entirely repelled by the US market but were huge on the East coast and some southern states, also influencing Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley to copy and exagerate their stage act, inspired Cheap Trick (it's even where they got their name) exceeded several Beatles accomplishments. Elvis, another Beatles influence, was also recording and gigging before and AFTER the Beatles split. But yet still - the bottom line, that you seem incapable of grasping, or allowing me to have by personal choice; is that in my - and that of many others - the Beatles music BORES me silly. I would not listen to them by personal choice. [quote name='blue' timestamp='1441418773' post='2858799']........those who are well versed in Beatles history know they accomplished more in 1 year (1964) than most bands ever accomplish, no less 10. Blue [/quote] only if those "who are well versed" write fiction.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1441444294' post='2858896'] Of course, Python were only influenced by The Beatles. They were comedy when The Beatles do it. No influence at all from The Goons, from Edward Lear, from Max Wall, from Round the Horne, from TW3, from Peter Cook, from Bernard Montgomery, etc. etc. etc. and just in case anyone thinks I am serious ... [/quote] You forgot ISIRTA, no ISIRTA no Python,ergo no Beatles - fact!.

No wonder the FBI had Lennon on a watched list - they were trying to bring him [i]in from the cold[/i]. I reckon OP Blue knows too much about this not to be involved.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGDQ85Dg-ss[/media]

1973, my last year at junior school. My parents bought me what I think may have been one of the first replica football kits. Man Utd full strip, including George Best boots with rotating studs on the soles and laces up the side, not the top. So what did I do? Bought the first edition of a new series of Marvel comics - with a free gift of a Spiderman iron-on transfer - yes - yes - I did! Went from trendy bugger of the team to sad git in one week. Now - George Best wasn't from Liverpool - but he was Irish - and that's close enough; if it wasn't for The Beatles, there'd have been no George Best!

Growing up in the 70s child here. Power cuts Harold Wilson & Ted Heath both being impersonated to hell on comedy TV shows. Power cuts Top Of The Pops in black & white - or at least it was on our TV. Power cuts Slade going straight to Number One three times in one year. Osmonds and David Cassidy fans out-screaming Beatles fans at various airports. Northern Ireland's "troubles" Raleigh Chopper bikes, Airfix models, Action Man

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441376099' post='2858445'] In fact, the OP is as far from the stereotypical 'down-home good ol' boy' as one can get.[/quote] Dag-nabbit!!! Though to be fair, Mr Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson seems to be rarely seen wearing very much at all.

[quote name='Si600' timestamp='1441295204' post='2857702'] I coil my cables over - under style but both the spare one that lives in the bass case and the one that goes between the pedal board and bass have developed a sort of permanent curl to them. Am I coiling them badly, or doing harm by keeping them coiled when they're in storage as it were? [/quote] I did that for a "name band" many years ago and was given a right bollockin' for putting tension in them as I did it, ie. pulling the lead taught as I did it. Coiling them loose is the way to stop kinking so I was told. It's what I do now with no issues & once coiled I use the coloured velcro'd cable tidies that places like Maplins and Chas Olsen (??) sell to tie them & also the colours are handy for remembering different lengths of lead.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441375143' post='2858432'] I can see why the phrase 'Not getting it' might rankle, there being an association with an unlovable individual. In this case, I can imagine no one less 'up himself' than the OP, him being a modest, likeable chap entirely devoid of pretence and artifice. A bit like you, me and a select few here on BC.[/quote] If it turns out the OP looks nothing like either daddy or Grand-daddly Walton, sitting in a chair, possibly a rocker, on the stoop of his house, drinking "sippin' whiskey" and wearing dungarees and a straw hat, while setting the world to rights and saying "Dag-nabbit" occasionally - I shall hold you personally responsible. Don't tell me I'm not being fair in that.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441372900' post='2858402'] Stu, me old love. This is the fundamental misunderstanding into which so many otherwise well-meaning posters have tumbled. At no point has anyone (including the OP) suggested that we aren't allowed to have opinions or tastes. Or that their opinions are [i]wholly[/i] invalid. [/quote] I'd beg to differ on that, "not getting" is - to me - a way of belittling a differing opinion. Possibly down to my once knowing the most self-loving egocentric you ever met, the proverbial "so far up he can see daylight" who's cop-out was always the same phrase. Though I did see the "humor" in his post, which is why I said "geddit" in a later response (My talents are wasted etc etc ad lib, exeunt stage left) [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441372900' post='2858402']Stu - of all people here I would have thought you'd support the idea of holding an unfashionable view and politely sticking to one's guns in the face of provocative comments from a bunch of offended pinkos.[/quote] I represent what you're trying to incinerate!............ and anyway - flares are coming back in!

[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1441367278' post='2858297']Blurb goes: [i]Mitch has realised that over the years many people have claimed the title The Fifth Beatle. In fact, so many of them have been described as such that there are [b]now at least 36 of the[/b]m. They can't all be right. But some of them are righter than others... [/i][/quote] More than were in the crowd at the first ever Sex Pistols gig - but about an eighth of the number who claim to have been at the first ever Sex Pistols gig. [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441371581' post='2858379'] Among the many attributions for Mr Blue's opinion, it has been........etc. [/quote] Maybe some respondents don't like being told that if they don't agree with the "[i][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]American,[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] hopeless nostalgist, [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]trolling,[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] bit 'superior',[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] unwilling to 'see reason',[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] bad attitude,[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] old person" © SKDLR Enterprises - [/font][/color][/i]it's only because they don't "get it"? A consequence of that statement is that the non-gettee isn't entitled to have tastes or opinions of their own.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1441322896' post='2858022'] I'm afraid it is. It's happening right now, all over the world. Anytime and any place where any group of people are walking on stage with electric guitars. Blue.[/quote] Hmm! Even my thoughts and personal tastes in music are dictated by a fan of advanced years of a band which barely lasted 10 years? Why do I suddenly feel kinda....... OK - how deep does this influence go, is this Beatles influence so spectacular that is has retrospective capabilities? What for example does it have to say about people who are singularly unimpressed by the Beatles, but ARE into people who influenced them? Such as the afore-mentioned Robert Johnson? Or Chuck Berry and/or Bo Diddley?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1441315173' post='2857950'] See that's where your wrong IMHO. It's not the ancient past, it's still happening this very moment. That's the part you don't get Stu. Blue [/quote] There's a million and one things happening at very moment, I "get" many of them. Your favourite band that you saw half a century ago isn't one of them. It takes a certain kind of "fan" to feel the need to convince others of the essentialness, "getting" or history of their chosen band. IME the actual people in those bands don't actually care. They feel secure in their place, while some of the fan(atics) don't. All very strange.