So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Alanko]

My buddy had a Telecaster out with him yesterday, so I was trying out Wilko's right hand technique. It is brutal! All the muting and phrasing comes from the left hand, which is bloody hard work.

Wilko's schtick of being Mr. Canvey Island polymath geezer was quite endearing. Not sure how well it translated outside the UK!

[Dave W]

Happy 76th birthday to Nick Lowe.

[Basvarken]

I hate what that bass player does on "half a boy...". Turns it into a hoompa two note bass part. While Nicks original certainly wasn't.

[uwe]

Rob is manly like Alan Lancaster then! Asked to do a two-step bass on Marguerita Time by Francis Rossi, he was first aghast, then played it under duress, but only under the condition that he would NOT be required to appear in the promo video

NOR have to mime to it in TV studios, instead Jim Lea of Slade took his place:

Alan wanted Status Quo to sound like this:

Yeah, I can understand his (and Rob's) sentiment, but admittedly Marguerita Time (which I thought horrendous at the time) has grown on me over close to half a century, I must be growing old.

PS: But here they actually got him to do it once at a TV appearance ("It had gone to #3 and he sure didn't mind the royalties!" Rossi sniffed):

You can tell that he was taking the piss doing it, even playing/miming with fingers, something Alan - a committed downstroke only pick man (hence his throbbing sound) - otherwise never did.

[uwe]

My favorite two-step bass song ever, courtesy of Randy Meisner:

Not real country of course, except in the more rural parts of Germany where the feathered ones were miscast as "country rock" in the misinformed 70s.

[Basvarken]

I associate it with the music that I detest the most: Nederlandstalige volksmuziek.

Obtuse songs by dito artists:

Haha, it took me some time to find these examples. Waaaaaaaayyy out of my comfort zone.
Now I gotta wash my ears and eyes with soap.

[Basvarken]

My favorite two-step bass song ever, courtesy of Randy Meisner:

Not real country of course, except in the more rural parts of Germany where the feathered ones were miscast as "country rock" in the misinformed 70s.

That bass line is way more intricate than that dumbed down two-note bass part in Nick Lowe's live version that Dave posted.

[Dave W]

My buddy had a Telecaster out with him yesterday, so I was trying out Wilko's right hand technique. It is brutal! All the muting and phrasing comes from the left hand, which is bloody hard work.

Wilko's schtick of being Mr. Canvey Island polymath geezer was quite endearing. Not sure how well it translated outside the UK!

Dr. Feelgood was little known here, but if you did know them, you paid attention to Wilko.

Gypie may have been more versatile but Wilko was a presence.

[Dave W]

I've posted the video with Albert Lee and Sterling Ball but this is quite a group.

[Dave W]

[uwe]

A Dutchman playing with Michael ...

[Dave W]

[Dave W]

Eric is 80 today.

[Basvarken]

A Dutchman playing with Michael ...

You mean Barend Courbois? He is from Arnhem.
His dad is a well known jazz drummer who (supposedly) invented the double bass pedal.

In the early nineties Barend played in a trio with the brothers Whistler, who are also from Arnhem.
Instrumental rock in the vein of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.

And while from Chicago Joel Hoekstra must be from Dutch descent, since Hoekstra is a typical Dutch (Frisian to be exact) surname.

[uwe]

I actually meant Hoekstra! Besides his last name, he looks totally Dutch to me. We saw him together in Utrecht at the WS gig, remember?