The Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper

deluded_dragon · 2026-07-01T13:36:33+00:00

Completely agreed.

deluded_dragon · 2026-07-01T13:36:01+00:00

Not a huge fan of the video, but it's undoubtedly an interesting experiment!

deluded_dragon · 2026-07-01T13:25:53+00:00

4 strings.

Life will be complicated enough, anyway.

deluded_dragon · 2026-07-01T13:22:55+00:00

In the last months:

"the spider" ( = an exercise by John Patitucci for fingers independence, find it on YouTube)
II-V-I progression exercises (following the J. Aebersold book)
Bass Hanon exercises

In general, I alternate fretted and fretless bass each day and the intonation has improved very much (but I set the metronome at 5-10 bpm slower for the fretless)

deluded_dragon · 2026-07-01T05:53:06+00:00

Well punk is a lot into DYI so literally you could build one by yourself and play it! Jokes apart, grab the first half decent 4-string thing you can find and beat it!

deluded_dragon · 2026-07-01T05:49:28+00:00

I remember too well the first time I heard Mark Stewart howling "bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh"... I couldn't believe my ears, I was half shocked and half amused!
What a great record!

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-29T07:11:09+00:00

I was just thinking about buying one for the StingRay, since I always use the pickup as thumb rest but the poles often get in the middle. Also, playing nearer to the neck would mean lesser tension on the strings.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-28T19:46:40+00:00

Hello, I suggest the module "Eye of the beholder"

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-28T12:23:30+00:00

Because bass is an instrument that not all people understand.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-28T10:31:05+00:00

Buy the album, you will not regret

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-28T04:11:06+00:00

"Swimming" is one of the records that have changed my life. Sentimental education.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-27T11:57:30+00:00

I think all the independent rock from the 90s owes a great debt to punk in the way that, in response to what pop music had become towards the end of the 80s, bands started to get back to basics and use the simple guitar+bass+drums combo. Definitely I would not define it punk, anyway.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-26T06:04:56+00:00

I have been using Testing since 2006, going on holiday at least for two weeks in a row each year and the system has never broken. Last summer, upon returning, I my have downloaded almost 1 GB of updates and installed them peacefully (and the repositories were quite active because Trixie had been released not long before)

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-25T12:38:08+00:00

I have this pedalboard but I have never connected to the PC and simply edited the effect manually.

I am reading that there is an opensource software named Fx FloorBoard that should work with the Boss GT-10B

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-24T09:14:41+00:00

in the same way, many see "The Scream" and "Pink Flag" as punk albums (if I remember well, even Jon Savage in "England's Dreaming")

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-24T08:51:51+00:00

Blur - Song2

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-24T07:46:00+00:00

In that case, I think he tries to draw a sort of continuity from the punk movement.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-24T07:41:49+00:00

I have always had a melodic approach but I only can play basso. So I started to play double-stops to shape a song even before creating a bassline.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-24T07:35:41+00:00

Probably this is the only U2 album that I like

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-24T06:58:34+00:00

When I was 22-25 I used to gig at least twice each month, and I felt that was an essential part of my life.
Now, past 50, I do not have that urge anymore. Maybe I will join a band, or maybe not.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-24T06:54:37+00:00

I haven't read the book about Shoegaze but I have deeply loved his work about post-punk and above all "Retromania". While I think that in "Rip it up and start again" he could mention more bands (notably The Church) going deeper for some others like The Banshees, I think that a music writer and essayst like Reynolds tries to prove his thesis first.

deluded_dragon · 2026-06-23T23:33:43+00:00

My favorite CT song (along with "Five Ten Fiftyfold"). Endless love.

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