Andy was the best.

RIP.

Damn. So many great bass lines. I feel like I should be saying more but don’t have it in me right now.

RIP

jfv wrote: Fri May 19, 2023 6:43 am Damn. So many great bass lines. I feel like I should be saying more but don’t have it in me right now.

RIP

Yeah, same. Smiths were a very important band for me in my adolescence, and as much as any, were a band I latched onto as a soundtrack for my own physical, emotional, and intellectual changes in that period.

This is closer to what I wanted to post. This song. This bass line. It could have more closely followed what Marr was doing, but it doesn't. It's fucking awesome. He does this shit all of the time and I love it.

(Marr's part is pretty damn good too... eat your heart out, Peter Buck.)

Absolutely one of the greatest bassists ever. At least he managed to live his later life without having to reunite with Morrissey. RIP.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Tue May 09, 2023 11:47 pm The great Frank Kozik.

Damn. Good, original artist.

Martin Amis.

I'm kind of wondering what the Brits on the board's opinions are of Amis.

Tedious, flashy writer of knuckledragging chattering class bullshit who was lucky enough to receive an entry to the literary world as a birthright.

iembalm wrote: Sat May 20, 2023 5:14 pm Martin Amis.

I'm kind of wondering what the Brits on the board's opinions are of Amis.

Curious too. I HATED Time’s Arrow, which still makes me angry 20 years after I read it. But I’ve considered giving Money a try.

Only read one of his dad’s books (Lucky Jim, of course), and I liked that one quite a bit.

I’ve never finished one of Amis’s books, while enjoying parts of them for his famous aerobatic stunt show sentences. I felt immediately sad on reading of his passing, and surprisingly pleased to find out he’d long ago made up with his old friend Julian Barnes. He said a bunch of stupid stuff, recanted much of it, and I’m idiotically disquieted that he’s still not out there, infuriating away.