Does anyone here remember The Damned? Some of you might need to ask your parents 
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This track, Pleasure and the Pain is from their 1982 album Strawberries- although admittedly it’s quite different to their classic earlier material, it is still totally worth a listen. The bass player, Paul Gray graduated from Eddie and the Hot Rods (another solid group) and later went on to play with UFO and Captain Sensible (also from the Damned).
The basic song isn’t too hard to work out but Paul puts so many interesting fills and transitions that it never gets boring. I personally love this style of playing but it’s really quite tough to add these extras without dropping a beat or losing track of the song; also knowing when and how much can be hard to judge. Still, I’ve moved my John Entwhistle poster a little to the side to make way for Paul Gray up there on my bedroom wall alongside Lemmy.
The setup is pretty simple - Rickenbacker, bass pickup (feels weird after all the Motörhead covers…), AC340 emulator on the Zoom with high mids and lower highs and bass.
Do not let my stoney mask of intense concentration fool you - behind the face of an Easter Island statue, I am actually having a blast playing this 
Oh and here’s the original cover by Paul Gray I reverse engineered it from -
