bass_dinger Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) 39 minutes ago, oldslapper said: Exudos? What’s that? It is an operating system, used on Tablets (of Stone) . . . Edited March 16, 2022 by bass_dinger better words 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 52 minutes ago, oldslapper said: Exudos? What’s that? Maybe it’s a term describing how one used to be an “Udos” I know I can still be a proper Udos at times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I'm guessing, but it's just a guess, that it could be Bob Marley's Exodus. I could be wrong. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I just checked who gonzalo giron is to see if they had uploaded any more vids with interesting spelling. At least they got Leburn's name right Mep 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Spoiler alert…but best line yet ”as long as I can have a wee within next 20 minutes, I’ll have beer now”😂😂 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 10 minutes ago, oldslapper said: Spoiler alert…but best line yet ”as long as I can have a wee within next 20 minutes, I’ll have beer now”😂😂 And it was from the bass player! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 10 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: And it was from the bass player! Ever practical, thinking ahead, all about the timing. Bass player. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 When the drummer came in on "Don't let the sun", he was about 25% too fast. Either he can't play slow or he was desperate to get it over with. Male bass player seems rather better than my first impression of him. Carol is really bloody annoying, although she has a better sense of timing than the "I can't feel it" drummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I've been reading the comments in this thread whilst watching the show as the episodes are released and something has been bugging me. There are many annoying factors, most of which have already been stated here, but here's another thought. It irritates me that two lots of musicians have been thrown together and pushed forward into a slot at a globally recognised music festival for the sake of making this series. Knowing how difficult it is to get gigs like this, for a musical celebrity to be able to ring one of his mates and get these bands on at the IoW is beyond irritating. Personally, I don't rate either lead singer above anyone you might find down the Dog & Duck. I don't care what they've done in the past, the vocals just ain't there. Putting the 90 year old drummer in there was a mistake waiting to happen and probably by design and the guy in the wheelchair, well 🤷♂️. There's a couple of good musicians in there. I'd go and see Lebrun on a big stage with his regular band any day of the week. Both keys players are competent, the gent more so than the lady, although she is good fun. The male bass player I despair with, but Carol is solid. The other guitar player is also good. They could have made a half decent band with the best people out of both, but they would have needed a singer that can actually sing, which is where it all falls down for me. I hope episode 4 is the last one and they don't make any more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH73 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I only watched episode 4 , tbh the "performance" is worse than a pub mediocre band. But, this programme has been written/produced for general public viewers, not musicians and definately not for bass players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upside downer Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Let's face it, stick any competent pub band of a senior vintage in this show and get them up to speed regarding presentation and stagecraft at a massive festival and you've got a better programme with better music in right away. The series started as a light piece of froth and nonsense and has continued in that vein but with increasingly extra dollops of TV artifice. All that arm waving at the 'gig' on last night's episode, Leburn's angst at getting that complex song Angels bang-on, it's all trifling cobblers aimed at the sort of viewer who has never picked up an instrument in their life. "But, it's never too late!!!" the show is seemingly screaming at those people, avoiding the truth that, if you do grab yourself a cheap electric guitar off of ebay and a copy of Bert Weedon's Play in a Day, the chances of Mica Paris turning up in your back garden to warble away with you to get yourself ready for a two hour set on Saturday night down the Queens Head are slim at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 14 hours ago, oldslapper said: Spoiler alert…but best line yet ”as long as I can have a wee within next 20 minutes, I’ll have beer now”😂😂 13 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said: And it was from the bass player! 13 hours ago, oldslapper said: Ever practical, thinking ahead, all about the timing. Bass player. Those were my thoughts too 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 29 minutes ago, upside downer said: Let's face it, stick any competent pub band of a senior vintage in this show and get them up to speed regarding presentation and stagecraft at a massive festival and you've got a better programme with better music in right away. The series started as a light piece of froth and nonsense and has continued in that vein but with increasingly extra dollops of TV artifice. All that arm waving at the 'gig' on last night's episode, Leburn's angst at getting that complex song Angels bang-on, it's all trifling cobblers aimed at the sort of viewer who has never picked up an instrument in their life. "But, it's never too late!!!" the show is seemingly screaming at those people, avoiding the truth that, if you do grab yourself a cheap electric guitar off of ebay and a copy of Bert Weedon's Play in a Day, the chances of Mica Paris turning up in your back garden to warble away with you to get yourself ready for a two hour set on Saturday night down the Queens Head are slim at best. Maybe Plaster of Paris? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huge Hands Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I am not normally one to have a go at anyone individually or question people's talents, but I think to have made it work they should have gone for a certain basic level of proficiency and for me, the drummer in the wheelchair is not anywhere near where he needs to be. As said before, the way he came in way too fast in Angels and that comment about "I can't see her because I have my eyes closed to listen" shows he is way off the standard he should be. I guess he was kept in to impress the disability campaigners? I myself thought it was great to see until I heard him play..... I think they should have realised his standard and swapped him out, like the 95 year old was gracious enough to admit himself. I think the guy they have used to replace the 95 year old is much more solid and that band (including the guitbassist) is sounding much better. I think the lady bass player is a bit patronising but I don't blame her for getting mightily frustrated. I have played with many drummer with basinc timing problems and it reflects bad on the whole band, not just them. For this reason, I struggle to listen to them without cringing every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrig Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I've watched all episodes so far and it's like any other reality program, they have put people in there to be mocked, (think Ann Widdecombe on Strictly for example). Personally, I don't take their music proficiency, or lack of, too seriously, and if I was in the room with them I would accept their level, but the one person I would have had the hump with would have been Lebrun, regardless of ability, I expect everyone to turn up to rehearsals prepared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velarian Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I’ve only watched the first two episodes and cringed a bit. After that and reading the comments here I don’t think I can be @rsed to watch the rest. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 1 hour ago, thebrig said: one person I would have had the hump with would have been Lebrun, regardless of ability, I expect everyone to turn up to rehearsals prepared. Leburn How would you know they didnt tell him how to behave , a fabrication, just like the rest of the program. They're deliberately squeezing in drama. I blame Chris Tarrant's millionaire producers way way back on that quiz. " And pause for the result .. wait for it ... hang on... just a bit more... " Etc etc Create tension. Now that phoney tension is everywhere on TV like a bad rash. If you knew Leburn, you'd realise how professional he was, even if he isnt a top A list artist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 12 minutes ago, fleabag said: Leburn How would you know they didnt tell him how to behave , a fabrication, just like the rest of the program. They're deliberately squeezing in drama. I blame Chris Tarrant's millionaire producers way way back on that quiz. " And pause for the result .. wait for it ... hang on... just a bit more... " Etc etc Create tension. Now that phoney tension is everywhere on TV like a bad rash. If you knew Leburn, you'd realise how professional he was, even if he isnt a top A list artist. Yep, that whole sequence screamed manufactured to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Yeah it’s a bit much to believe that someone who gigs basically for a living struggled that much on Angels. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I'd have been far more impressed if some more interesting songs had been chosen for both bands...It's always so safe! And if they had to do "Angels" they could have used the lyrics from the extremely filthy version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Agree, it would be nice to see the band with the male singer do something like I Predict a Riot, a song with a bit of guts to it. It would still need to be a bit mainstream as both for the TV show and the generic festival audience but something with a bit of life to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nail Soup Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 Agree with the comments about the song choices. I can forgive that the producers engineered some difficulties in.... it's a TV show and they had to give it a narrative. But the song choices are a snooze-fest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiram.k.hackenbacker Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I think the playing of All Right Now should be restricted to Free tribute bands only. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I think it's possible to be relatively mainstream and still a bit interesting... Frinstance, the "rock" band could have made a hash of Bowie's "DJ". And the ""Reggae" lot could have butchered Dawn Penn's "You don't love me"... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrig Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 hours ago, fleabag said: Leburn How would you know they didnt tell him how to behave , a fabrication, just like the rest of the program. They're deliberately squeezing in drama. I blame Chris Tarrant's millionaire producers way way back on that quiz. " And pause for the result .. wait for it ... hang on... just a bit more... " Etc etc Create tension. Now that phoney tension is everywhere on TV like a bad rash. If you knew Leburn, you'd realise how professional he was, even if he isnt a top A list artist. I don't know if he was told to act unprepared, but I would still have the hump with him, and if he was told to behave like that in front of the camera's, then he should have refused to do it, after all, he's a pro musician and has his reputation to think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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