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What if anything are you listening to now?
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- MaryMillingtonsGhost
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Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
Fucking hell mate, that makes me feel REALLY old.
SOS Band, Change, Alexander O'Neal, Luther.
As Cabbige would say, 'good times'.
SOS Band, Change, Alexander O'Neal, Luther.
As Cabbige would say, 'good times'.
- Takashi Miike
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Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
zebthecat wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025, 20:53Bungo wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025, 20:26SurfaceAgentX2Zero wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025, 11:57It's not always about playing at 1,000,000 mph. Funnily enough, despite PG's well-deserved god-like status, a lot of famous early FM guitar parts are played by Danny Kirwan. Oh Well, for starters.Far from it, hence my comment about the 'sound' of the guitar not how quickly or otherwise it's being played.
Do pay attention Pike...I am generally not a fan of guitar solos and needless guitar wankery in particular.
The hammer on/pull off widdly stuff is actually pretty easy to learn even for ham fisted bass player like me.
It is ALL about the sound and melody and feel is much more important.
There are loads that I love and most are about the feel. Mind you the first time I heard Eruption...
Then you get this:
Likewise. There are many bluffers who hideously overuse flashy techniques such as hammer-ons, tapping and pinch harmonics to try to dazzle the audience.
Accurate use of string skipping and clean sweep picking are much harder to do. Most impressive if you are able to use these techniques skillfully, and then only use them REALLY occasionally and appropriately.
Accurate use of string skipping and clean sweep picking are much harder to do. Most impressive if you are able to use these techniques skillfully, and then only use them REALLY occasionally and appropriately.
Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
Bungo wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025, 20:26SurfaceAgentX2Zero wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025, 11:57It's not always about playing at 1,000,000 mph. Funnily enough, despite PG's well-deserved god-like status, a lot of famous early FM guitar parts are played by Danny Kirwan. Oh Well, for starters.Far from it, hence my comment about the 'sound' of the guitar not how quickly or otherwise it's being played.
Do pay attention Pike...
I am generally not a fan of guitar solos and needless guitar wankery in particular.
The hammer on/pull off widdly stuff is actually pretty easy to learn even for ham fisted bass player like me.
It is ALL about the sound and melody and feel is much more important.
There are loads that I love and most are about the feel. Mind you the first time I heard Eruption...
Then you get this:
The hammer on/pull off widdly stuff is actually pretty easy to learn even for ham fisted bass player like me.
It is ALL about the sound and melody and feel is much more important.
There are loads that I love and most are about the feel. Mind you the first time I heard Eruption...
Then you get this:
Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
SurfaceAgentX2Zero wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025, 11:57It's not always about playing at 1,000,000 mph. Funnily enough, despite PG's well-deserved god-like status, a lot of famous early FM guitar parts are played by Danny Kirwan. Oh Well, for starters.
Far from it, hence my comment about the 'sound' of the guitar not how quickly or otherwise it's being played.
Do pay attention Pike...
Do pay attention Pike...
Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
Love this one.
Robert Smith looks so young and him and Budgie were only depping at the time.
Robert Smith looks so young and him and Budgie were only depping at the time.
- MaryMillingtonsGhost
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Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
the coming of gary" wrote: ↑11 Mar 2025, 17:08Yeah we know you like it.
87 separate listens of this album means 87 separate posts on here.
its just spamming up the board
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Disagree fella.
Spamming up the board is complaining about a user posting the title of the album they're listening to now, on a thread titled 'What if anything are you listening to now', without actually mentioning what YOU are listening to now.
A pointless post, as you've imparted absolutely no information on what you're listening to now.
Anyway

Spamming up the board is complaining about a user posting the title of the album they're listening to now, on a thread titled 'What if anything are you listening to now', without actually mentioning what YOU are listening to now.
A pointless post, as you've imparted absolutely no information on what you're listening to now.
Anyway

- Takashi Miike
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Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
Yeah we know you like it.
87 separate listens of this album means 87 separate posts on here.
its just spamming up the board
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87 separate listens of this album means 87 separate posts on here.
its just spamming up the board
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Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
I remember seeing Simple Minds at the Marquee in 1980-ish on the nack of hering Changeling on the John Peel show. They were bloody good - effects heavy guitar backed up by a wall of sequenced synth noise and pounding Krautrocky rhythm.
Not such a fan their more poppy stuff but I guess that is what made the band survive for so long.
Not such a fan their more poppy stuff but I guess that is what made the band survive for so long.
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It's not always about playing at 1,000,000 mph. Funnily enough, despite PG's well-deserved god-like status, a lot of famous early FM guitar parts are played by Danny Kirwan. Oh Well, for starters.
- MaryMillingtonsGhost
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- MaryMillingtonsGhost
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Re: What if anything are you listening to now?
Takashi Miike" wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025, 19:41I loved them, they lost a lot when the keyboard player Mick left but good to see they're still touring
Think they've another live album coming out, Live In The City Of Diamonds.
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MaryMillingtonsGhost wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025, 19:24Go's against the grain, but still think their set at Live Aid was the mutts nuts.
No easy feat when you're up against both Queen and U2, who were also blinding
I loved them, they lost a lot when the keyboard player Mick left but good to see they're still touring
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Go's against the grain, but still think their set at Live Aid was the mutts nuts.
No easy feat when you're up against both Queen and U2, who were also blinding
No easy feat when you're up against both Queen and U2, who were also blinding
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