It doesn't matter what it looks like...

1bassleft · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:35 am Post subject:

Funnely nuff, does anyone in Blighty remember Making Music magazine? They used to have their annual Reader's Poll and, seeing as I worked for them, I couldn't help pointing out to the Ed that "Best Bass Player" top three was always Flea/Billy Sheehan/Nathan East. All good, but coincidentally...
1) No RHCP album in ages, but Flea does feature in vids a lot for a bass player
2) Billy Sheehan, despite being in a band no-one bought in this country, leans against an Ampeg rig on the back cover pull-page ad every month (in stretch denim and black leggings, yeeeuuw)
3) Nathan East, busy touring and not recording, grins out of the centre pages clutching a set of Elites stainless strings.

So I wondered aloud if a lot of six-string bedroom onanists voted for bass players purely on the basis of "If they're paid to endorse something they must be good" and knew stuff-all about the instrument. Unfortunately, Ed printed the letter, so I might as well say it again and get shot twice Razz

bobhoulston · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

1bassleft wrote:

Funnely nuff, does anyone in Blighty remember Making Music magazine?

I most certainly do remember Making Music. In March 1999 issue 156 they reviewed my BLANK MANUSCRIPT PAPER as an "Interesting Internet site" at URL:
http://www.houlston.freeserve.co.uk/5.htm
"It's easy - just log and press print."
I was most grateful for their comments because not only did I get many visits to the site and customers for my guitar tutoring but it encouraged me to continue learning HTML skills and development of the:
"Free guitar tips + tabs" web site at URL:
http://www.houlston.freeserve.co.uk/
I do miss Making Music magazine. It was a sad loss to UK musicians when it folded.
Best wishes,
Bob Houlston #==(o )
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Starcraft 2 replay

1bassleft · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:06 am Post subject:

It was a sad loss to me, Bob Crying or Very sad

. Although I was only a freelancer (or "stringer") and it didn't pay the rent, I got enough to cover costs and generally see live bands and interview the demi-famous without burning my wallet. Nice people, too - they'd have a Xmas party for contributors with a free bar and the editorial staff would brave Camden Market in December flogging off the CDs sent in by the record companies in order to finance it.

I'd stopped working for them before '99 because of a sprog killing my gig-watching ability. While I was there, they were part of Mirror Group and sold on to Nexus Publishing when The Bouncing Czech fell off his boat. All I could find of Nexus on the Web is that they do some tedious-looking online journals. If Paul Quinn, Andrea Thorn et al ever look in this way (or do that very vain thing of searching for your own name on Google), say "Hello".

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