(posted on behalf of McHaggis) Billionaire Bully McTaggart/Owens Nov 24/22 I am the Musk That you can smell on the breeze I’ll both give you hope And take you out at the knees I’ll buy up your start ups And turn them around With a flick of the wrist I will run them to ground If I see profit I’ll sho...

A new musical friend from up Truro way has asked me to submit an entry for him, but he hasn't given me a band name yet. We're working on it. . .

(UPDATE) -- It's sorted, he's in.

Billionaire Bully (Owens/McTaggart) Now, I’m a believer in freedom of speech And I've lots of money and plenty of reach So when people say things and I disagree I buy them all out and I set them all free But one quiet night I was late at my work When out of the dark came an arrogant jerk He told me ...

I'm in with a bully ballad.

Thanks for the comments, peoples. I've been negligent with mine the past couple of fights, hoping to be back on track. Always appreciated James Owens: My girlfriend and I got back a few days ago from a road trip to Halifax via New Brunswick. We spent three nights in Halifax, loved it, and were not ...

Berkeley Social Scene : The vocals are a bit muffled and hard to make out. The scan of the lyrics is forced, but so consistently that it feels like it's on purpose. The song is brisk and energetic, with a very economical arrangement: gritty rhythm guitar and bass pattern and steady drums, with some...

The morning you announced yourself I felt so sleepy-eyed The radio was telling me How twenty-one had died I drank a cup of coffee As the nation softly cried By the time you said your heart went out My eyes were open wide It's not like it's the first time We've seen it all before Someone buys a gun a...

Finally I have some lyrics! I' hope to be in for this one, possibly with some musical friends.

Berkeley Social Scene : This has a vast, urgent sound, driven by open textures, interesting rhythms and patterns, and heavy reverb. The contrasting parts of the song are blurred into an enormous yet compressed sonic space. Gil Sans : Beatle-esque changes and harmonies delivered in a hammering punk-...

The beginnings of something for Abuse of Power, in case anyone can use it:

He's an industrial shredder
With a million-watt head
He's got a Marshall tower
That inspires dread
if I turn my guitar up
He's gonna turn up too
It's an abuse of power
But what can you do

Thanks. I was mixed up about what day it was, but I knew it would be late. I just sent it in now. Deadline is 10am PACIFIC. You have a couple hours yet. JB A friend wrote some lyrics and we've recorded the outline of a song -- it's already well past the deadline, but I'll see if I can get something ...

A friend wrote some lyrics and we've recorded the outline of a song -- it's already well past the deadline, but I'll see if I can get something in before the fight is posted.

Egad, I just Googled the title.

Also, this:
https://ridiculouslyinteresting.com/201 ... -own-face/

I'm in a little late with something sketched last week, then abandoned, then bashed together with a hammer at the last minute.

I have a monitor that emits a high-pitched whine when the brightness is set a certain way. Otherwise it's fine. Before you give up on yours, try experimenting with the brightness and contrast controls.

I think in some thread, somewhere, someone (current fightmaster?) mentioned that that information was never archived. It's only listed on the front page at the time of the current fight, or like you said, in the review thread. See "Documenting the optional challenge," a few items down in ...

After all these years, I finally got around to setting up a free blog on WordPress. It has nothing to do with music, and it's tacky-looking (let's just call it "hipster HTML"), and so far it's just a barely discernible sketch of my Grand Vision, but I'm plugging it anyway: https://staggeri...

Real life good friends love to rip on each other (in a hopefully funny way) not flatter each other. I generally think that too but for a while now I have started to think that may be a generational thing, and the whole "tearing you down to toughen you up" vibe I had/have with my siblings/...

Most of what needs to be said has been said. Even the cheapest Yamaha bass is a reasonable-quality product, and there's nothing wrong with the one you have. I use a '65 Hofner 501 (almost the same model Paul bought in Hamburg because he could afford it at the time) and an American P-bass (sounds a l...

I found out about Song Fight! from a co-worker who was married to a guy who was in a house band with the company I worked for. He didn't work for the company, so I saw him only at practices. After the band dissolved, I lost touch with him, but one day I asked his wife about him, in that polite offic...

Caravan Ray wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:03 am

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 2:04 pm

Flabby/farty bass

Can we have a thread for that? I often think my bass is flabby and fatty - and I screw everything else up trying to fix it. I’ll take this elsewhere and ask for tips

Do not feed your bass beans.

In fairness, the same kind of thing can happen in a parliamentary democracy. When Stephen Harper was Canada's prime minister, he attempted rule by decree. Prime ministers traditionally stack the appointed Senate with political supporters, many attempt to stack the Supreme Court with like-minded judg...