music in the shed

iis_iis said:
Burke Shelly.... all before their time, on the play list here ( some songs destined for live gigs with fellow performers ) words cannot cover how good SAHB, TOGWT "Compliments.." there has never been a better bassline live in the studio to this day, ( suspect it was BBC studio telecaster bass, thin line(*) ), then everyday is a dose of Jonathon Richman Modern Lovers, not for everyone i know, it is for me 100%ers...j

(*) playing on borrowed basses is a skill that requires good technique, more so when the original owner hears whats coming out, there is a look of surprise, never has a bass been the limiting factor in performance, cheap or no.
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Here is some Jonathon Richman, just for you:
cheers,
bazzee
 
bazzee said:
Here is some Jonathon Richman, just for you:
cheers,
bazzee
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Tooooo kind, Astral Plane, Modern World, The stonking Pablo Picasso ( even love the covers, David Bowie with Gail Ann Dorsey live ) Someone i care about, even road runner. First two i can sing/play bass, just need the guitar player with the right groove...tah Bazzee....
 
Andy said:
Shed time finished for the weekend, relaxing now with a bit of Jethro and a suitable draught 👍
“and contemplating the milking girl” 😁
(Well, I am the youngest of the family!”)


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MMmm, wagon days these days.... for some "we fell off the wagon...ya'shuda heard the thump..." with Ozark melody... Tull, i bought a flute after seeing JT/Ian Anderson live 1977 i think ( John Glascock on bass ), took it back to Harry Landis music..."its broken, cant get a thing out of it", sales guy assembles it, plays fine... Armstrong 103, not a great flute.. i was even lesser than that... cut to 2018, picked up an ex school Yamaha YFL 225S, battered and broken.... $47, fixed with some learned skills from Laverda motors...true. This time had a clue, double on flute, no one more surprised than myself, even have an Alto now... all down to Ian Anderson, bless his one legged stand..... BTW its "Hunting Girl" for me, one of my great lady friends is of the essence portrayed in Hunting Girl.... well done the music taste herein this forum....j
 
rocketonarail said:

Don`t worry , I`ll soon get fed up doing this sort of thing...
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Not sure, it may well be the odd Orange amps/boxes on stage, hard to tell with all the orange there..... love the EODM, then my friends do despair of me and try to look the other way.... another man to be noticed, Steve Jones...all good to read...j
 
Yes looks like Orange to me , they`ve been around a few years now , not sure if it`s always been the same company .
Neil Young was / is an amplifier fanatic so it would seem , into old Vox AC30`s and suchlike , it seems he would take a perfectly good amp to bits to repair an old one , if that makes sense....
Steve Jones said once he and Paul Cook would go to London gigs and sometimes hang around backstage in the hope of nicking something...they went to see Sparks a couple of times but because of the Sparks setup there was nothing really much of use to them so they just ended chatting to Ron and Russell and became good mates with them.....This town ain` t big enough for the both of us.....I think they are still performing now....
 
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rocketonarail said:
Yes looks like Orange to me , they`ve been around a few years now , not sure if it`s always been the same company .
Neil Young was / is an amplifier fanatic so it would seem , into old Vox AC30`s and suchlike , it seems he would take a perfectly good amp to bits to repair an old one , if that makes sense....
Steve Jones said once he and Paul Cook would go to London gigs and sometimes hang around backstage in the hope of nicking something...they went to see Sparks a couple of times but because of the Sparks setup there was nothing really much of use to them so they just ended chatting to Ron and Russell and became good mates with them.....This town ain` t big enough for the two of us.....I think they are still performing now....
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Priceless Mr Rocketonarail..... love it. In the day i repaired genuine AC30 ( even an AC15 ) UK made, why my right side is lower than my left, weighed as much as myself. Worse, Fender Rhodes 88, thought it was bolted to the floor, weirdest, Farfissa guitar with string to fret electronic organ function.... about 200 trim pots for frequency adjust.. no master oscillator.... no wonder i am weird...the customers made it so... yes Sparks, strange is strange, and those blokes are beyond strange... then you see Bjork... strange has no real defined meaning in the music world.... look at me...well better not look... less alarming that way...tah. j
 

One last one and I`ll give it a rest for a while .......
This time it`s an Irish / Netherlands group with a Spanish name...
Singer Gay Woods along with Terry Woods were a couple of original Steeleye Spanners...they left and formed the Woods Band , and then performed as Gay and Terry Woods..." We can work this one out " is a good single...then they split up and Gay joined Auto De Fe , whilst Terry went on to join the Pogues...
This is ok , although sounds dated in a mid `eighties sort of way...still quite good though....Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy produced some of their stuff in the studio .
 
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Talking of bass players recently , Les Claypool of Primus was always reckoned to be pretty good ( although not Japanese ) ...tried to post the original video of Tommy the Cat ( with Tom Waits on it ) , but it`ll have to be this instead...

I like how he appears to check his watch at 4:09....must have some other pressing engagement....
 
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Cedric and Roy advocate a return to Africa....interesting idea , but come on lads...not likely to happen is it....it`s a bit like all the Americans who claim Irish ancestry deciding to get on the next plane to Dublin...

Lyrics draw from Isaiah 43:6....the North and South climates giving up the Lords people unto Him...

( Talking of the Bible...If you ever need an Ark , I Noah guy who can help...)...
 
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Not exactly something you can whistle along to whilst changing the brake fluid , but with the USA mid terms featuring on the TV at the moment I was reminded of this.....
William S gives his thoughts on the State of the Union back in 1986...probably a more sincere outpouring than you`re likely to hear from many of the current political participants...

William and his second wife once thought it would be a fun idea to recreate the William tell thing....placed an apple on her head , William retreated a few paces and took aim , not with a crossbow but with a pistol.......lets just say the apple survived unscathed.....
 
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rocketonarail said:

Not exactly something you can whistle along to whilst changing the brake fluid , but with the USA mid terms featuring on the TV at the moment I was reminded of this.....
William S gives his thoughts on the State of the Union back in 1986...probably a more sincere outpouring than you`re likely to hear from many of the current political participants...

William and his second wife once thought it would be a fun idea to recreate the William tell thing....placed an apple on her head , William retreated a few paces and took aim , not with a crossbow but with a pistol.......lets just say the apple survived unscathed.....
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Was he a bad shot nor a good shot?
 
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Was he a bad shot nor a good shot?
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Maybe not a bad shot.......There is another version of the story ( I think all this took place in Mexico ) where he reckoned he was fooling around with the loaded gun , accidently dropped it on a table , and it went off killing the wife...
On his return to the USA he was given a two year suspended sentence ( not that sort of suspended sentence...they didn`t hang him...)
 
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