Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...

[saltymonkey]

[westen44]

Oh, I really like that! Bit like an over-ecstatic Chrissie Hynde. And it's always nice to hear a chick play solos who does not sound like a man while doing it.

I read that she has been playing guitar for quite a while.  As for Chrissie Hynde, I liked her okay.  But I would prefer more of a rock voice like the April Art singer for this Nashville band.  Anyway, considering that Nashville is so competitive, this Gloom Girl MFG seems to be doing well.  In Nashville it seems that rock is more underground and is even geared more toward young people than most other places.  Even though I could, I doubt seriously I would go to a Gloom Girl concert.  Definitely wouldn't fit in.  Besides, like I said, the music is probably a little too post-punk for me anyway.

[gearHed289]

This is a band which seems to be achieving some local success at small venues.  Still, I didn't even know about them until I saw this video with a Gibson bass.  They're a little too post-punk pop rock for my taste.  But I genuinely wish them success and maybe they will get it, too.
  https://www.spin.com/2023/07/gloom-girl-mfg-nashville-interview/

I dug that. Singer is good, band is high energy, the tune is good. Probably the first time I've seen one of those LP DC basses in a real video.

[westen44]

I dug that. Singer is good, band is high energy, the tune is good. Probably the first time I've seen one of those LP DC basses in a real video.

Like I said, it was the Gibson bass which got my attention.  I watched several more of their videos and the LP DC tribute bass is prominent in them, too.  As for the band itself, I honestly wish I liked them a little more.  Because I do think they're worthy of consideration.  But there are so many bands I'm trying to keep up with now.  Plus, I'm buying too many CDs lately and trying to cut down a little.  I haven't even listened to all the CDs I already have. 

[4stringer77]

North Korea makes pretty good music but they can't top Up With People. EB-0 at 1:20 here.

[Dave W]

That was dreadful.

[Alanko]

All that lead in the fuel, paint and water pipes had a profound impact on people back then.

[4stringer77]

Sure it's corny but that guy got a pretty good tone from his EB-0. It stood right out in that big mix of singers and instruments.

[uwe]

That was dreadful.

And creepy. There is nothing more unsettling than ordained joy and happiness. It reminded me of The Book of Mormon musical somehow ... and lool & behold:

The creators of The Book of Mormon, a musical that satirizes the latter-day saint movement, cited Up with People as an inspiration for the cartoonishly joyous style of several of the songs in their musical performance, which sends up the clean-cut image of Mormon culture.

[Pilgrim]

Uwe, you put words to something I've felt for a long time. It's very creepy indeed when people are forced or intimidated "group thinked" into performance. I've never trusted it, and that's one reason I tend to shrink from musical performance at churches or religious ceremonies. It's too close to a form of propaganda. But I do attend the Christmas concert at a church when a number of my friends play in the band, as it's sufficiently non-specific-dominational enough for me to enjoy it.

"I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one." - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along." - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

[Dave W]

And creepy. There is nothing more unsettling than ordained joy and happiness. It reminded me of The Book of Mormon musical somehow ... and lool & behold:

The creators of The Book of Mormon, a musical that satirizes the latter-day saint movement, cited Up with People as an inspiration for the cartoonishly joyous style of several of the songs in their musical performance, which sends up the clean-cut image of Mormon culture.

Up With People was definitely a pseudo-religious cult.

[Ken]

Now I want to check out this documentary on them.  I remember Up With People from when I was younger, but just that it existed.  I don't remember anything about it.

Here's another fun documentary.  We used to go to this in the mid-'80s.  It was nuts.

[Alanko]

And creepy. There is nothing more unsettling than ordained joy and happiness. It reminded me of The Book of Mormon musical somehow ... and lool & behold:

The creators of The Book of Mormon, a musical that satirizes the latter-day saint movement, cited Up with People as an inspiration for the cartoonishly joyous style of several of the songs in their musical performance, which sends up the clean-cut image of Mormon culture.

These sorts of institutions seem to be perfect environments for industrial-scale abuse, be it physical or sexual, as well. Weird, rigorously enforced power hierarchies, codes of silence etc.

[uwe]

That reminds me of a water park I visited in the early 80ies in Michigan (was it Dearborn?) that had all of these "rides" that would have been unthinkable in Germany - it was good fun. 

The kind of stuff you like as a teen/adolescent/young adult when danger is still sexy. The philosophical question of course is if not more casualties had occurred without that park had people in its absence done silly things outside in the wild. There are lots of good places to drown or fall to your death if you're a reckless teen.

[uwe]

These sorts of institutions seem to be perfect environments for industrial-scale abuse, be it physical or sexual, as well. Weird, rigorously enforced power hierarchies, codes of silence etc.

Whether religious, political or sports-related - as a teenager I avoided situations like that like the plague. Ok, school was something you had to do, but other than that I had an abhorrence for any kind of activity that involved adults or other figures of respect. It was nothing my parents had ingrained in me, but I simply thought of adults as a different species that shouldn't have a say whaat I did and that could not relate to anything in my life in any case. I was wary of them without any real reason. (Members of Deep Purple and Status Quo excepted of course!  ) I didn't even aspire adulthood, I could have stayed 16 for the rest of my life.

I guess that is why my music tastes are kinda stunted!