Make sure that the ticket buying process doesn't present any potential issues like the attendee having to show receipts in their name, have access to a certain phone or any of the other weird and wonderful precautions venues and promoters employ - especially at gigs by big stars.

She's very good. Interesting songs and she has no time for anyone's bullshit. More importantly, one of her middle names is "Pirate".

Never mind recommendations. Just go and listen to some of her stuff randomly on Spotify or YouTube. You'll soon see if you like it.

Good song. Overhyped, overplayed.

>Leonard cohen 🔥, nick drake 🔥, Velvet underground,🔥 miles Davis🔥, the kinks🔥, john coltrane,🔥 Nina Simone, townes van Zandt🔥

I pretty much agree with your fire rating for all the above. However, both your rating and mine are subjective and not based on a universal consensus of what makes good or interesting music. Different people value different things.

Furthermore, the parameters are very different. You're not comparing like with like. 'A Kind of Blue' can't be held up against 'Sgt Pepper' and a winner chosen. That's like comparing Usain Bolt and Pele and declaring Bolt better.

TBH, your post had L written all over it from the moment you hit send.

>Watch recordings of shows and critique yourself etc.

This is so totally the thing.

>He plays guitar, sings and fronts, and writes the songs? It’s his band.

Not that simple. One band I was in was started by the drummer. He was the guy with the connections who got the gigs. He was the diplomat who kept friction in the band to a minimum. He found all the people in it, including me, and put together a band that worked well. He didn't sing, front the band, play any instrument but drums or write songs.

We had a great singer who was a natural frontman and a great harmonica player. He didn't write but he arranged pretty much every song. He got most of the attention at gigs and was the guy everyone knew. It wasn't his band.

When the drummer had to go on hiatus the band didn't continue. It was his band in all our opinions.

Make no mistake, The Beatles were pretty much at the leading edge of production and songwriting for the time. They may not have been the most technically accomplished musicians but they were a couple of rungs up from your average pop players.

Time passes and things change so their stuff has dated, as everything does, but the influence lives on and is widely acknowledged by many contemporary artists. It is likely that some of your favourite musicians list The Beatles amongst their influences.

I was born in the 1960s but I still prefer music that is being produced now to the crude stuff we thought was cool when I was a kid. It's an evolution - stuff develops from modest beginnings and some of what that evolution has produced is fantastic. My favourite band has only existed for about 3 years yet I still sometimes think I hear Beatles influence in some of their music - even though they're a metal band.

So, I'm not a huge Beatles fan but I cannot, in good faith, deny that they largely earned their rep.

Yup. Same as "writers" who use AI.

Not creativity, not art. Cheating.

Assuming your question is serious (quite an assumption, all things considered), well, you're certainly not a composer. Beyond that, who cares?

Dude. Why the fuck would you even watch that, lol.

Seriously, the fuss over this is just stupid.

I'm not a Smith fan by any stretch but they haven't done anything with their video that others haven't done before without getting shit for it.

People aren't offended by the "raunchy" aspects, they're offended by the message and generally by people who don't fit their traditional gender, sexuality and body-shape templates. Lizzo gets similar treatment. It's immature and tedious.

Electric Warrior - T Rex

Lookin' Through the Windows - Jackson 5

Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

I can't remember what else. I'm old af.

There are two most common ones. The Gibson style that goes right at the end of the fretboard and the Fender style that is kind of embedded in the fretboard (like yours).

Nuts of the same type are usually a similar enough size to work with. Sandpaper is the main tool for fitting a new nut. a slightly oversized nut can be sanded to size with a bit of patience.

Nuts are so cheap I'd buy two or three in case you mess up. Watch a few YouTube videos for guidance (there are many) like this one by Dan at Stewmac which is a pretty good introduction...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7LtmdOrFw

Fitting a new nut is a great DIY skill for any guitar player to learn.

You should be able to fix it with a spot of CA but honestly I'd just replace the nut. They are really cheap.

'Mmm Bop' by Hanson?

The Cult? They're still around? Seriously never even knew.

Nemophila.

That's the problem with most decades, I think. What we are exposed to as passive listeners is the stuff that is declared fashionable. That's not always what many of us would consider best or most interesting but it's what we mostly hear unless we actively go hunting for new stuff.

Finding new music is easy now thanks to the net but in past decades opportunities were sometimes limited by whether one lived somewhere with a fresh music scene or whether one was aware of people like (in UK) John Peel, Andy Kershaw etc who would play stuff that was very far from fashionable and which didn't have a snowball in hell's chance of getting mainstream airtime.

The good music has always been there, but the salesmen have often been pushing other things.

LOL. I'm a musician too and have been playing since the 1970s. TBH, I don't think being musicians entitles us to judge whether other people's life priorities preclude their having a strong emotional response to music.

What really puzzles me is that you responded to my comment with a rant about not hating when the only emotion my comment addressed was love.

Funny old world...

Then they're listening to the wrong musicians or they don't love music. IMO, my favourite musicians contribute so much to my life that they have earned love.

Meh... Muse are ok.

I'd have had 'Walk This Way' by Aerosmith and Run-DMC in there somewhere...

Not bad. Something to please most people.

Nice to see those tracks from Outkast, House of Pain, Prodigy and Beasties. Personally, I'd use the Peter Cetera song as a cue for a bathroom break so I didn't miss the classics, but not every song is for everyone, lol.

The 1980s did have a set of very distinctive sounds across many genres. A lot of them haven't aged well - or at least, not fashionably. That doesn't mean that the music was uniformly, or even generally, inferior, just that some styles have longevity while some have to wait for periodic revivals to enjoy popularity again.

That reverb thing you mention is definitely an '80s trait, especially on vocals and drums. Then there is the limited palette of synth sounds and all the chorus on the guitars, lol. Anyone who lived through it can often nail an '80s song at 50 paces even if they never heard it before.

As with every decade I experienced before it and after, there was some music I loved and some I hated.

I can understand people saying they hate '80s music, but really it is a sweeping generalisation that is quite difficult to justify. There was probably stuff you'd have loved but if it wasn't fashionable you may not have found it. What you probably hate were the predominant popular/fashionable musical trends in the '80s that featured heavily in record charts, radio and TV.

Honorable mention to Voice of Baceprot for making me proud to have heard them even though they're not from my country and I'll never meet them. Powerful, determined and talented young women who rock hard af.