Recent content by Mark_G

Oh I agree! KISS was the gateway drug when I was five, but I was over them by the time I was six ;)

That was my first concert! I was 12 and it absolutely blew me away.

Well when I was five, the answer would have been "Because their videos have explosions and the Bee Gees ones don't". My first-ever album was a cassette copy of Dynasty that Santa gave me for Christmas, and while I checked out of Kiss a short time later, I'll always be grateful to them for...

Sorry for the dumb question but what is the difference between '60s and '70s spacing? I tried looking at a couple of shots side by side and it looks like the bridge pickup is closer to the bridge on the real version - is that it?

That first one really made me laugh.

Happy birthday!

This is looking really cool. I'm excited to see it all come together!

Massappeal were a hardcore band from Sydney during the late 80s/early 90s. I hadn't thought about them for years before this thread came up, but they were one of the bigger bands on the Australian hardcore scene at the time.

I grew up in Australia and for a good few years the only country-ish songs I'd heard were a couple of crossover hits by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. I now live in the US in a city where country music is not as big as in some other areas, but it's definitely a 'thing'. I've been trying to...

I've just pulled the plug on an unsatisfying few months with a local teacher who just wasn't into it - guitar player who 'also plays bass', never prepared for lessons (I'd show up and he'd be holding his guitar and then have to scramble to find a bass - every week), never listened to me play...

Absolutely. I'm planning to go back and spend some time with OK Computer and Kid A again this week.

I haven't listened to any Radiohead in a quite while, and then heard Airbag for the first time in years over the weekend. I'd forgotten how cool the bassline is, so I went down a Colin Greenwood rabbit hole and found this article from a few weeks ago: “Sometimes I make the bassline too complex...

That was my first thought too. I read something a year or so ago about how cultural reference points fade over time, and as an example it highlighted the 20-somethings who don't know or care who Lennon and McCartney are. Quite a lot of them didn't recognize 'Imagine' when it was played to them...

There's a great book titled 'Nothin' but a good time' that is an oral history of that whole '80s Sunset Strip scene. I was never a huge hair metal guy but that book gave me a ton of respect for some of the people involved. Granted, it also reinforced a few of my preconceptions about some of the...

'Waterfalls' by TLC and 'He's the greatest dancer' by Sister Sledge. And this week, 'We don't talk about Bruno' from Encanto, because my young daughter wanted to put on a concert for my wife.