This picture...

mmmmmmm

but tbh tuning insturments is kind of elitist


Edited by Vompatti - February 09 2016 at 17:19

Matthew _Gill wrote: Vompatti wrote: Nick Beggs is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard. Aye he turned to the darkside, now Plays with Steve Hackett, Steve Wilson and has his own prog group called the Mute Gods!

Slight correction - Nick Beggs is an English GOD......(.....carry on.......)
You need to check out the pre- 'Goo band ART NOUVEAU (the four of them before Limahl joined) - some interesting stuff right there........
As for the O.P. pic - I thought it was a picture of Grizzly Adams........

Vompatti wrote: Both seem to get irrationally offended by images and words, and both are rather keen on censoring or destroying everything they personally disagree with.

Edited by Replayer - February 11 2016 at 14:34

Woah.. What happened here? 

Mathew changed the album cover (I didn't find it offensive, incidentally), and I didn't see people going insane about it, nor did I see much hostility.

I think you're much too late to the party, there used to be much more hostility, insanity, not to mention offensiveness and altogether more fun in the forums. Or probably that's just nostalgia talking -- pining for the good old days. lol

My avatar of a cold-blooded TV series assassin could be deemed offensive.

Rednight wrote: Matthew _Gill wrote: Vompatti wrote: Nick Beggs is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard. Aye he turned to the darkside, now Plays with Steve Hackett, Steve Wilson and has his own prog group called the Mute Gods!  Thank God he came around. Kajagoogoo?

Nothing wrong with the 'Goo - great fun and great musicianship - looking past the New-Wave campiness of it all, they are pretty awesome. Nick was already ruling the bass. Most were bona-fide Prog-heads before forming the band !!

Atavachron wrote: Logan wrote: there used to be much more hostility, insanity, not to mention offensiveness and altogether more fun in the forums. Or probably that's just nostalgia talking -- pining for the good old days. lol My avatar of a cold-blooded TV series assassin could be deemed offensive. No just that jacket.

Tom Ozric wrote: Rednight wrote: Matthew _Gill wrote: Vompatti wrote: Nick Beggs is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard. Aye he turned to the darkside, now Plays with Steve Hackett, Steve Wilson and has his own prog group called the Mute Gods!  Thank God he came around. Kajagoogoo? Nothing wrong with the 'Goo - great fun and great musicianship - looking past the New-Wave campiness of it all, they are pretty awesome. Nick was already ruling the bass. Most were bona-fide Prog-heads before forming the band !!

If they were "bona-fide Prog heads", how the hell did they come up with such crap as Too Shy? Just f'ing awful!

emigre80 wrote: Rednight wrote:   If they were "bona-fide Prog heads", how the hell did they come up with such crap as Too Shy? Just f'ing awful!   Too Shy is an absolutely adorable song. Stop dissing it.

Too Shy is a ripper of a pop song - the extended 'Midnight Mix' is arranged in such a way where Beggs' bass is mixed really up-front and it's instrumental for the first half or so - it really highlights many techniques of his playing - slapping/popping, chords, mutes, trills, hammer-ons etc. And it's a very difficult line to play. Stu's Keyboards are lush and tasteful (sometimes goofy, but it was the 80's). He did go to Hawkwind and Budgie gigs in the 70's. Guitars are inventive (Steve uses an e-bow, for example) and I suppose Jez just keeps the beat on his electronic kit. Anyway, it's not the best song they've done - check out some instrumentals they've done : The Garden, Introduction, The Pump Rooms Of Bath (don't ask ....) - they matured after Limahl got booted out.
When Nick was around 15, he was introduced to Close To The Edge - he got obsessed with Squire and took up the bass. He loved Sabbath too. He thought of using a Ricky but the sound didn't suit the band. And why not style a band around the current popular trends - they did want to be successful. Perhaps if Nick wasn't the bassist, I would not bother with Kaja.........?

Edited by Tom Ozric - February 12 2016 at 14:11

Tom Ozric wrote: emigre80 wrote: Rednight wrote:   If they were "bona-fide Prog heads", how the hell did they come up with such crap as Too Shy? Just f'ing awful!   Too Shy is an absolutely adorable song. Stop dissing it. Too Shy is a ripper of a pop song - the extended 'Midnight Mix' is arranged in such a way where Beggs' bass is mixed really up-front and it's instrumental for the first half or so - it really highlights many techniques of his playing - slapping/popping, chords, mutes, trills, hammer-ons etc. And it's a very difficult line to play. Stu's Keyboards are lush and tasteful (sometimes goofy, but it was the 80's). He did go to Hawkwind and Budgie gigs in the 70's. Guitars are inventive (Steve uses an e-bow, for example) and I suppose Jez just keeps the beat on his electronic kit. Anyway, it's not the best song they've done - check out some instrumentals they've done : The Garden, Introduction, The Pump Rooms Of Bath (don't ask ....) - they matured after Limahl got booted out. When Nick was around 15, he was introduced to Close To The Edge - he got obsessed with Squire and took up the bass. He loved Sabbath too. He thought of using a Ricky but the sound didn't suit the band. And why not style a band around the current popular trends - they did want to be successful. Perhaps if Nick wasn't the bassist, I would not bother with Kaja.........?

All this for a band that's worse than The Fixx and Los Flock of Seagulls. And does this mean that Nick Beggs is the new Steven Wilson?