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rocketonarail said:
Saw the Stiff Live Stiffs tour when it reached Bristol in Nov `77 ....... Wreckless Eric ; Larry Wallis ; Ian Dury ; Sean Tyla ; Elvis Costello ; Nick Lowe with Dave Edmunds ..... bought the album as well .......
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I saw Ian Dury & the blockheads in 1978, at the Hammersmith Odeon, when they were doing the 'New boots and panties' tour. Dave Edmunds used to do pub gigs, and I saw him a couple of times at the Red Lion, Brentford ( a great music pub, sadly now a McDonalds); Great nights, great times.
 

After the Rezillos it was the Revillos .... this was the first single , if I remember .......

" Out with the gang on a Saturday night , catsuits and we look alright ..." ...

" Babs got a boy , so how can it be , all the uggs always go for me ... ? " .........
 
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rocketonarail said:

Forget The Flying Lizards Jon ...... the 5.6.7.8`s are much better ....... This is their version of the Ikettes " I`m Blue " with a firework up it`s backside ....... Quentin Tarantino always chose great music for his films .....
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Nice playing ( individually, no really ), be even better when they all play in the same time signature, barefoot gal drummer, our gal/singer/drummer used to do that at gigs, toes in the midst of chain link and moving parts gave me the horrors, you have a flair for the fringe Tony, even the fringe of a fringe... 'fraid its still the Flying Lizards.... limited talent is a talent... "we are amused.... apologies to Liz... j
 

... and So Nice Youth .... as the NME used to call them ( sometimes ) ...... He may be a Kool Thing , but walking down the street he looks like he`s just cacked his pants ( to me ) ...... but then I always thought the same about Tina Turner when she moved about on stage as well .........
 
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... and So Nice Youth .... as the NME used to call them ( sometimes ) ...... He may be a Kool Thing , but walking down the street he looks like he`s just cacked his pants ( to me ) ...... but then I always thought the same about Tina Turner when she moved about on stage as well .........
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Kim Gordon extra good in this, and a few others, also Kim Deal does well on bass, then there is Sara Lee, early Gang of Four, latterly the bass player on "Love Shack" great players/performers. Hard to go past the gals on Psychobilly slap Bass... run a few past the punters on the roadside...j
 
As threatened, also have a high regard for White Zombie bass player, Sean Yseult ( was in The Cramps ). Relax Trio gal singer slap bass player is tooo good, Linda Teranen.

Was at a gig last Sunday, started double, triple and quad slapping, pro bass player came up to me and asked what effects i was using...my hands the reply, happened more than once, slap upright can be quite startling if never heard before live. j

 

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I was also lucky enough to meet Abraham Laboriel, during a party at a friends house. He was on tour with Lee Ritenour.
When the band heard that I knew nothing of their music, they put me on the guest list 'Access All Areas', for their London gig the following night.
"Blown away!" doesn't begin to cover it.
 
No had not heard Hamish, of your post man above, somewhat akin to Michael Manring ( cut and pasted obviously ) Zon bass endorser.. esoterics, the likes of which is beyond my skills, do muck around on synths however, arpeggiators are my savoir, sequencers make me sound better than really am. Tah j
 
Saw Jaco Pastorius live with Weather Report in Perth in about '78 - he used a sequencer to lay down his own backing for a solo. As you can imagine, it was rather spesh. Peter Erskine, Wayne Shorter, Zawinul - yes please!!

Jon, i've played with guys running triples on the slap - never heard or seen a quad slap - that would be blurred right hand at R'billy pace!!
 
iis_iis said:
Nice playing ( individually, no really ), be even better when they all play in the same time signature, barefoot gal drummer, our gal/singer/drummer used to do that at gigs, toes in the midst of chain link and moving parts gave me the horrors, you have a flair for the fringe Tony, even the fringe of a fringe... 'fraid its still the Flying Lizards.... limited talent is a talent... "we are amused.... apologies to Liz... j
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Speaking of chain links

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piranha-bro2 said:
Saw Jaco Pastorius live with Weather Report in Perth in about '78 - he used a sequencer to lay down his own backing for a solo. As you can imagine, it was rather spesh. Peter Erskine, Wayne Shorter, Zawinul - yes please!!

Jon, i've played with guys running triples on the slap - never heard or seen a quad slap - that would be blurred right hand at R'billy pace!!
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Did well seeing live the notables in the day, as you say Jaco, waste and more than that...

Quads are side edge of palm ( 90 degree to string(s) ) strike sting, rotate palm to face the string,double palm, roll finger tip for the slap ie thump thump thump slap, running quads ( like a train beat on drums ) is murder on the hands, i dont play steels these many ears, Superior Bass works Kevlar cored nylon, 175 mil ( thou ) on the low E. Plenty of tuts on Quads, yt. In this clip, surprise, its not me, grin. Nice touch, its the speed of slap that gets the sound... slow is good also.

Have two piezo sensors on the finger board to get the slap, and a bass pickup on the bridge, for the bottom end, true stereo setup. j

 
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