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Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > La Maline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message: > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Alfred Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> on 07 Nov 2003 in uk.music.alternative, La Maline chanted thus: >>> >>>> Alfred Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >>>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>>> >>>>> on 06 Nov 2003 in uk.music.alternative, La Maline chanted thus: >>>>> >>>>>>> Pee poo belly bum drawers! >>>>>> >>>>>> Is that the support band? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Oh yah. By the way, if you fancy a piece of my past:- >>>>> >>>>> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2570637948 >>>>> >>>>> I'm not the seller. I wouldn't have the nerve to ask 8.99 for the >>>>> thing. >>>> >>>> And postage not included. That's outrageous! Can you remember how >>>> much it cost originally? >>>> >>> >>> What did singles cost in 1979? >> >> 50/75p? >> >>> I think it cost about 50p to produce >>> each one (for a lot of 500) and they sold for about 1.50. We sold >>> them through distributors such as Rough Trade and Virgin who bought >>> boxes of 50 for 50 quid a time (ie a quid a record). I remember >>> getting a cheque from Virgin which was drawn on a Coutts bank >>> account, which exemplifies Richard Branson's grandiosity. >>> >>> Of course we gave a lot of them away to family, friends and anyone >>> else who wanted one. We weren't in it for the money, maaan. >> >> Ah, right. I missed the "you" connection by a mile. Alfred - Bass. >> Doh. >> >> Perhaps you can settle an ongoing dispute we've had in another group. >> It's regards Jack White, of White Stripes fame, and his Seven Nation >> Army track. >> >> The studio version [and apparently the live version too, which is said >> to be poor] sounds like he uses both a 6 string and a bass - but >> different sources say different things. Some say he used a bass >> backing track to do it live, others say he used an octave divider to >> get the key. Liner notes make no mention of the bass. >> >> Wotchya reckon? > > Funnily enough, Jeezus your xface made me jump! > i was watching him play said song on the mtv awards (or > something) this evening, and i said (aloud!), "Who's playing the bass?" > > Looked like just an effects pedal to me. You couldn't see? > Are you the only two (3? 4?) left? Jyoti is our ruler. Only he's away.
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