My new contribution to thread. Me on bass
Wow - flashbacks for me! Thanks for some memories. The angry youth...well, youth at heart...
Reminded me of Agnostic Front Live at CBGB's - thanks for posting, sounded good.
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New Wave / Punk forebears...
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Wow - flashbacks for me! Thanks for some memories. The angry youth...well, youth at heart...
Reminded me of Agnostic Front Live at CBGB's - thanks for posting, sounded good.
Appreciate it. Yeah mid forties and I found myself in a band that is playing the same kind of music I did in my first band when I was thirteen. Haha. Just three old washed up skaters. Still skating too.
It's also a great change of pace from the other two bands. Alt country and Art rock. Thanks again.
Yes, loved the Smithereens, and sadly their front man Pat Dinizio passed away this morning. End of a very special band...
Yes, loved the Smithereens, and sadly their front man Pat Dinizio passed away this morning. End of a very special band...
Agreed. Guess you saw one of the last concerts.
Lately I've been on the lookout for this album by Felt, it's one of my favorites. I managed to score an unplayed copy of it on vinyl, an import from Japan with two extra songs on it, no less! (This video doesn't have those two songs...). I'm spinning it right now in headphones and it's so good. I spent more than I usually would on vinyl, but I figured I'd treat myself. Worth it.
Lately I've been listening to bands with two guitars that break away from the usual lead/rhythm thing, studying how their music ticks. Bands like Television, The Cure, etc. Felt falls squarely into this, with great interaction between the guitars and a really cool bass tone.
Lately I've been listening to bands with two guitars that break away from the usual lead/rhythm thing, studying how their music ticks. Bands like Television, The Cure, etc. Felt falls squarely into this, with great interaction between the guitars and a really cool bass tone.
Somehow this has a Velvet Underground vibe to me. I really dug it. Never heard of them, but I'm becoming a crotchety old prick.
My all-time favorite bassist is Nelson from New Model Army. The guy's playing speaks to me.
Here's one of my favorites off the first NMA album he played on.
And one off the last NMA album he played on, 20 years later.
Others I like a lot:
Tony Butler (Big Country)
Chris Bauermeister (Jawbreaker)
Jeremy Chatelain (Jets to Brazil, as long as we're bringing up Blake Schwarzenbach bands) -- his playing on JTB's "Perfecting Loneliness" album in particular is amazing
Brendan Kelly (The Lawrence Arms)
Mark Sandman (Morphine)
Andy Rourke (The Smiths)
And I just have to say that Nate Mendel should be better known for his absolutely brilliant pre-Foo Fighters band, Sunny Day Real Estate.
But the single biggest influence on my own playing has been Simon Gallup -- he's not my favorite player, but I was a big fan of The Cure when I was learning to play, and practiced by learning quite a few of their songs.
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Here's one of my favorites off the first NMA album he played on.
And one off the last NMA album he played on, 20 years later.
Others I like a lot:
Tony Butler (Big Country)
Chris Bauermeister (Jawbreaker)
Jeremy Chatelain (Jets to Brazil, as long as we're bringing up Blake Schwarzenbach bands) -- his playing on JTB's "Perfecting Loneliness" album in particular is amazing
Brendan Kelly (The Lawrence Arms)
Mark Sandman (Morphine)
Andy Rourke (The Smiths)
And I just have to say that Nate Mendel should be better known for his absolutely brilliant pre-Foo Fighters band, Sunny Day Real Estate.
But the single biggest influence on my own playing has been Simon Gallup -- he's not my favorite player, but I was a big fan of The Cure when I was learning to play, and practiced by learning quite a few of their songs.
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Nelson was amazing!
Remember seeing NMA in 1990-ish, and the warp speed version of "Get Me Out" that they played, had the craziest fills (like JJ Burnell on fast forward).
Search YouTube for a BBC radio broadcast of The Great British Music Weekend, at Wembley Arena - short, but really great set.
BBC also broadcast a really good live show from Germany, in 90/91 (they used to have a brilliant Live in Concert slot, on Friday nights, on Radio1 - imagine that happening now
). No idea if it's available online, but it was a really good performance.Yeah, I saw that XTC documentary last week. Good stuff. Interesting to hear that Andy Partridge's anti-touring stance was brought on by Valium withdrawal. I had always heard that he just suffered from nasty stagefright, but never heard a cause.
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I need to catch up on this thread. So many greats...
Nice to hear Felt mentioned!
Not sure if he's been name-dropped here, but man--Bruce Thomas from Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Great player and composer of awesome lines!
Nice to hear Felt mentioned!
Not sure if he's been name-dropped here, but man--Bruce Thomas from Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Great player and composer of awesome lines!
Yeah! Really interesting atmospheric band.
I would add The Chameleons from Manchester. Reg Smithies and Dave Fielding did some very cool unconventional dual guitar work in that band.
Yes, I have their Script of the Bridge album as well. Good stuff.
Haha. Thanks for the memory! I was working with the support band when Meat Puppets played The Marquee on 15th October 1987. I remember the date because it was the night of one of the UKs greatest storms. We had no idea when setting up in the afternoon, but came out to see detritus flying horizontally down Oxford Street and nearly losing the van doors to the wind, after they smashed the stage under a strobe to end the show.
Just ran across a youtube channel that features a lot of those bands that never made it big, and some of them were/are really good.
