one man band

Good stuff. If it's good enough for ants it's good enough for me.

Nope. I'm 25, so thinking about it though. Not getting any younger (i'm having a quarter-life crisis)

To pass my genes on. That's it.

(we've gone very off-topic)

(j/k)

Yes, yes he would.

Human sized dog chain. Come on, use your initiative. You've obviously never had to chain up a woman before...

That's how a real man does it. Or gets a cobra to bite each one out.

Acting innocent? MOI? Well i just didn't want to type BALLSACK again so early in the morning. Although it was quite enjoyable.

Now Jessica's got the seal of approval, she's sure to go far... (j/k)

The nose? You legend!

OH GOD! TWEEZING? Where? Or do I really not want to know? I tweeze my eyebrows, by the way.

What year were both of them released?

Should guys wax chest/back/crack/sack? I'm not one for mincing my words.

Already know The Prodigy. Only have the newest album (Always Outnumbered never Outgunned) but i hear the rest of them are awesome too. And bands like Sonic Youth and Radiohead...that's tricky... How about Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement for SY. And how about Muse, Soulwax (bit tenuous but still rock with electronic tendancies)... Depends what sort of radiohead you are after...'The Bends' Rock style or 'Kid A' electronic landscapes. You can always try Kraftwerk if you like Kid A. Plus Kraftwerk have a great name.

This thread works by someone asking if anyone knows a band/singer that sounds like a particular favourite of theirs. For example, If someone asked for a band that sounded like Coldplay, someone else could say Snow Patrol, or Keane or whatever. So, to start off, i'd like to plunder the collective wealth of musical knowledge of Bellazonians and ask; Does anyone know of a band that sound like The Chemical Brothers. My knowledge of dance music is poor, so help me out here guys.

Poppycock!

Made many a fatal error with speaker-phones...

Check your PM Red. (sorry, forgot to do Santana and Deep Purple, will do it another time.) I certainly get what you are saying - I assume that most the jazz players you listen to are 'of a certain age', correct? Older jazzers have infinitely more experience than players of my generation and know many more songs than i do, so have heard most chord changes many hundreds of times. They can therefore 'feel' their way around songs much better than someone like me - they've heard it (or things similar to it) before. That's why jazzers keep going till their 70s and even 80s.

The last one is sick. Funny, but sick.

Well of course it's a conspiracy. This is a web-forum - its just not cricket without the odd conspiracy. (I'm British and therefore allowed to say 'cricket')

Well obviously not all jazz musicians are as lazy as i am, but many jazzers prefer to just reel off a solo and change whatever doesn't sound good according to theory - jazzers my age (mid-twenties) don't usually just play jazz, they play all sorts of styles and play jazz because a) It's cool to play jazz and, more importantly in my case, b) jazz cafes pay better than blues or rock venues. And of course some of them actually enjoy playing jazz! Nowadays, its more about theory than 'feel' - if you are going to feel your way around a jazz solo, you have to concentrate - difficult if you're plaing in a cigar and strong coffee smelling cafe. So many just rely on theory - you look at the chord changes are being played, work out the corresponding modes/scales and work out what licks you already know that can be applied to that song, unless its a standard, like Blue Boy or something, in which case the whole band knows it so well you can 'feel' you way around it. As you may have guessed, i'm not a particularly radical jazz player, i just nick Barney Kessel/Metheny/Howe licks and apply them to new songs. Unless i can work out the song very quickly, that's what i do. And i can PM you a recording Avenger. Just give me 30 minutes or so. I'll do something silly like Santana and Deep Purple so you won't think i'm cheating.

Big fan of Moonlight Sonata too. I had to laugh when someone asked the house band at a gig for "Moonlight Sinatra"... I play guitar, and have a Gibson Les Paul Custom, A Hofner jazz guitar, Fender Strat (1989), and a Sessionette amp. I have a few FX, but i cant be bothered to list the whole lot.

hehehe... Red, I play more than just Hendrix. I play jazz, blues and rock, and i have passed all the grades you can throw at me. If you particularly want i can do you a rough recording of me. I was being arrogant then to raise a laugh, i wasn't seriously believing that i was amazing... As for Hendrix vs Metheny that would be interesting. If it was a CrossRoads style thing that would be hilarious. Hendrix would have the wow factor, but obviously Metheny would "be more complex and all... he would own Hendrix as far as technique and improvisational complexity are concerned". I've heard Little Wing and Purple Haze far too many times for me to like them any more. But live, Jimi out does most jazz guitarist for sheer emotion and drug-fuelled intensity. Jazz musicians (i know, because i'm one of them) tend to find their way around their song based on the chord changes going on around them and stick with licks they have already learnt, applying them to new chord changes as the song goes on. Jimi had more guts, and went all out every time, with (nowadays pretty average) speed and guile. And some capital letters wouldn't go a miss, Red. (j/k)