Dishonest? Is the artist (wholly, specifically, or generally) a charlatan? Does he misrepresent himself IN HIS ART somehow? Well, ignoring that he obfuscates his person (which can only be construed as misrepresenting himself), I don't have any idea. He treats the public side of his music (and inter...

I've had good experiences with Talking Ts.

Solo (.... ish): Map Ref 41degN 93degW, Wire; Cody, Mogwai...

Band-wise, I helped out some friends by playing bass in the pit band for a student musical; thankfully I can't remember the songs, but I do remember taking a solo in the middle of "Theme from 'Ghostbusters'".

Oh dear.

Seefeel have to be somewhere in this discussion too.

Of the ambient/neo-shoegazer crossover, which I think deserves to be in here somewhere, Boards of Canada and Ulrich Schnauss are both great...

Mike Greenlees wrote:Thanks for the responses. All are helpful.

My existing turntable is a 15 year-old, bottom-of-the-barrel Technics. I doubt this UBS one is worse. NuMark sells the same exact piece with their brand on it...aren't they somewhat reputable?

Ion/Alesis/Numark/AKAI are all part of the same company.

The rights situation with the Peel Sessions is... complicated, I think; there were intimations that Pinkflag (the label) was working on it for the PF/CM/154 reissue boxset that just came out. I'm hoping any new Peel Sessions disc would include the recording of Wire at ATP which the BBC have, and the...

I'm English in Scotland, Scottish in England - and low-level prejudice still definitely exists, both ways.

El Protoolio wrote:You're all fucked. Wire beats them both.

Amen to that, but Wire have a pretty good claim to being the best band ever.

My acoustic spends most of its life in open D (DADF#AD). My electric's often tuned down half a step (Eb etc), but that hardly counts...

Not crap on the strength of "Hannah" alone.