The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[ColinJ]

Now you've given me "Jilted John" as an earworm!
Aaaarrrrgggghhhhhh.....

I was working in a factory at the time, not far from an irritable little machinist named Gordon. Radio 1 would be playing from 5 or 6 radios dotted round the shop floor.

Every time the Jilted John single came on, we all swivelled round, pointed at him, and sang "Gordon is a moron"... He didn't think it was funny!

 

[DCBassman]

I was working in a factory at the time, not far from an irritable little machinist named Gordon. Radio 1 would be playing from 5 or 6 radios dotted round the shop floor.

Every time the Jilted John single came on, we all swivelled round, pointed at him, and sang "Gordon is a moron"... He didn't think it was funny!

Poor bugger!

 

[ColinJ]

Poor bugger!

It wasn't done maliciously. If he had only laughed along with us, we would soon have got bored and stopped, but he threw a hissy fit every time...

 

[DCBassman]

as far as earworms go, it's good one Had it going round my skull the other day at work: Dang dang dangdang dang dangdang dang... but only the one line... I was so upset that I cried all the way to the chip shop ...on a three hour loop.


You're welcome

I just had to look up all the lyrics...this is over 40 years old after all!

 

[Drago]

Mrs D listens to Heart FM. The only two songs they ever seem to play are Don't Speak and Gangsters Paradise.

 

[delb0y]

I have that Jilted John record... I recall the B-Side ("Going Steady") wasn't bad. Just looked it up - and it turns out that, originally, Jilted John was the B-Side.

 

[delb0y]

Another morning of several hours practice - one of the very few positives to this whole mess. Never before, not since I was a kid anyway, have I had the chance to practice for hours at a time, for days at a time. Anyway, here's one of this morning's "discoveries". "The Lick" - one of the most commonly used jazzed lines:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDxhnaKD7Q

 

[MontyVeda]

I have that Jilted John record... I recall the B-Side ("Going Steady") wasn't bad. Just looked it up - and it turns out that, originally, Jilted John was the B-Side.

I've got the album somewhere... I should give it a proper listen sometime.

 

[Drago]

Done a couple of hours practice as well. Some scales, then playing along to my special bass playlist set to shuffle.

 

[Oxford Dave]

Two and half hours playing along to Grateful Dead live from 1971 - knackered now!

 

[delb0y]

Back to work tomorrow (from home) so the guitar focus will reduce. But in the meantime here is the fruit of our latest remote labours:


View: https://youtu.be/kJ62U_Wbj4o

 

[rogerzilla]

I was working in a factory at the time, not far from an irritable little machinist named Gordon. Radio 1 would be playing from 5 or 6 radios dotted round the shop floor.

Every time the Jilted John single came on, we all swivelled round, pointed at him, and sang "Gordon is a moron"... He didn't think it was funny!

Everyone was singing it at school when it was in the charts. Then it turned out someone's dad was called Gordon, so we sang it even more.

It would probably get banned these days; although the joke is supposed to be on John, the lyrics are rather misogynistic!

 

[MontyVeda]

if anyone's interested in what became of Gordon...
https://ilovemanchester.com/whateve...ron-the-man-who-inspired-a-punk-cult-classic/

 

[Drago]

Finish the relic job on the Jazz. Even went as far as rubbing coffee into the white paint on the control knobs to make them look grubby with age. Then celebrated with an hour's practice.

 

[Drago]

Done 90 minutes practice today. Put my bass playlist on random and played along with my headphone amp as Mrs D was having a lay in. Great fun.