Minor Musical Observations (7 Viewers)

[seanc]

I played guitar in the company of other people last evening. Not a gig or anything, just beer garden stuff.

It's been years. It really was a lovely guitar, it made me look competent. Someone said play these chords, so I tried. It was the basics of "Fade to Grey", the 80's standard by Visage.

Once he felt comfortable with me playing that badly, he put his guitar away, took out his tin whistle and played that melancholic Irish tune over it. The one that we all know but never actually learned the name of. But you know it. It's probably on the soundtrack to the Michael Collins movie. One of them ones. And it worked, it worked really well.

It was nice playing music. In spite of what everyone else said, I felt self indulgent and rubbish. Bless them though.

 

[therealjohnny]

I played guitar in the company of other people last evening. Not a gig or anything, just beer garden stuff.

It's been years. It really was a lovely guitar, it made me look competent. Someone said play these chords, so I tried. It was the basics of "Fade to Grey", the 80's standard by Visage.

Once he felt comfortable with me playing that badly, he put his guitar away, took out his tin whistle and played that melancholic Irish tune over it. The one that we all know but never actually learned the name of. But you know it. It's probably on the soundtrack to the Michael Collins movie. One of them ones. And it worked, it worked really well.

It was nice playing music. In spite of what everyone else said, I felt self indulgent and rubbish. Bless them though.

this one?

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[seanc]

That's the one.
Would've been better if I didn't have a battered old football hooligan shouting "FADE TA GREY!" at me while I'm trying to concentrate.

 

[therealjohnny]

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[seanc]

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I thought everyone knew that.

In other bass related musical thingees, the session player on "take a walk on the wild side" plays electric bass and double bass for the slidey up and down bass line.

As a session guy, that equals two pay cheques.

 

[hydromancer]

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Bakithi Kumalo album from 2021 who played the bass on you can call me al

 

[seanc]

A friend is finding his feet in the printing business. He can do tote bags and mugs, he wants to do good t-shirts. He's nearly there, and he has sank a lot of blood and treasure in it.

Do your cockney accent, he said it's like, you do one note. Then, you do a second note. And it's like that. You know, like that Debussy cunt. You know, the music geezer.

 

[therealjohnny]

Do Americans wince at Jagger's Southern accent the way Cockeys do at Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins

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[Jill Hives]

Never thought about it.

 

[therealjohnny]

Never thought about it.

ok, "Southern" Americans. Yankee opinions are invalid

 

[therealjohnny]

I wonder if Oasis came up with this riff while jamming REM's This one goes out to the one I love

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[sleepy]

I wonder if Oasis came up with this riff while jamming REM's This one goes out to the one I love

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I remember seeing a video on YouTube before about how REM wrote their song Wake Up Bomb about playing with Oasis at Slane. The song is about how Oasis were boorish wankers.

 

[magicbastarder]

Wasn't 'a design for life' also written about oasis? And IIRC Mark lanegan was on record about his opinion of Liam.

 

[egg_]

I remember seeing a video on YouTube before about how REM wrote their song Wake Up Bomb about playing with Oasis at Slane. The song is about how Oasis were boorish wankers.

I presume I'm not the only one here who was at that? Underwhelming iirc (REM were like, obvs Oasis were shite)

 

[sleepy]

I presume I'm not the only one here who was at that? Underwhelming iirc (REM were like, obvs Oasis were shite)

I was at that. It was my first concert. I thought the whole concert was the most amazing thing ever because I was 13.

 

[ann post]

Anyone watch the new adam neely video at 6am this morning instead of sleeping?

 

[rettucs]

Wasn't 'a design for life' also written about oasis? And IIRC Mark lanegan was on record about his opinion of Liam.

Lanegan wrote about the Gallagher brothers in one of his books. He was full of praise for Noel but said that Liam was a thug wanker prick junkie

they also had an interesting exchange on twitter. Gallagher called Lanegan a junkie. Lanegan responded that we're both junkies, the junk you use goes up your nose. And called him a coward prick.

 

[taubstumm]

I was at that. It was my first concert. I thought the whole concert was the most amazing thing ever because I was 13.

I had a ticket and couldn’t go. never got to see REM. then, years later, i stumbled on a super-crappy video of the whole gig, on youtube, and it is quite a time-capsule...

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[sleepy]

I had a ticket and couldn’t go. never got to see REM. then, years later, i stumbled on a super-crappy video of the whole gig, on youtube, and it is quite a time-capsule...

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I sort of want to watch that but don’t at the same time in case it wrecks my memories of it

 

[seanc]

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, ABBA: Inside the Music

Exploring ABBA's songwriting and craft on the 50th anniversary of their Eurovision win.

www.bbc.co.uk

Listening to this.
None of the observations are minor I suppose, they're clever insightful observations made by people who are better at doing music than me.

But really, I just wanted to let one quote made by one person be known (at12:30), which I can't let go to waste:
"There's something sensuous about a really good turd"