Hey hey! I thought you two would like The Stranglers!! :D Your first gig was to see these Kilby? I was obsessed by this band from the age of 11. Their whole sound mesmerised me so I'm well envious!! Where did you see them? My mate in Glasgow saw them at The Barrowlands and his Sister Karen snogged JJ Burnell!!
I agree Phil, his bass tone was just something else, it all came about by accident so I understand.
It was in Belfast in Jan / Feb 81 and was a sight to behold.
Funny enough a friend of mine was told to fu*k off by Jet Black earlier that day. Apparently Jet was pigging out on his dinner just inside the stage door (for all to see). Needless to say he asked for an autograph and got offered some advice instead.
I also saw them in Alexandria Palace just before Hugh Cornwell left and I have to say it was one of the most dissapointing gigs I have ever been to.
From what I remember from a JJ Burnel interview, much of his bass tone comes from using 2 sharkfin picks. My daughters little Daisy rock bass gives a tone bery similat to the Peaches tone.
Check out the lyrics to Ugly and listen along. To those who don't know download ugly from the Rattus Norvigecus album, it's a fantastic song.
2 shark fin picks and a large marshall amp as well, didn't the sound engineer get it wrong when the recorded it but left the bass tone very loud in the mix as everyone loved it?
Here's the lyrics!
I could have read a poem called Ozymandias to her
Instead I lived for the moment
It was a futile gesture anyway
I was here, and she was here
Ana being broad, of minds and hips
We did the only thing possible
I guess I shouldn't have strangled her to death
But I had to go to work and she had laced my coffee with acid
Normally I wouldn't have minded but I'm allergic to sulphuric acid
Besides she had acne, and if you've got acne, well, I apologise for
disliking it intensely, but it's understandable that ugly people have
got complexes I mean it seems to me that ugly people don't have a chance
It's Only the children of the $%&#ing wealthy who tend to be good
looking An ugly fart attracts a good-looking chick if he's got money
(x3)
It's different for Jews somehow. it'd like to see a passionate film
between the two ugliest people in the world. When I say ugly, I don't
mean rough looking, I mean hideous.
Don't tell me that aesthetics are subjective. You
Just know the truth when you see it, whatever it is
Muscle power (x4
