John Paul Jones on a Fender Jazz (with flats)
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@Wombat-metal Iâm 64 and have a lot of âfirstsâ connected to this album. Ohhhh Yeahhh.
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This is the version I want to do. Love this album
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I could become a fan
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Great family of musicians, @Wombat-metal , and Margoâs voice cuts like a knife,
very nice bass playing by Alan Anton, he has a very different style.
We have tickets to see them in Melbourne in 2022 after their 2020 concert schedule was cancelled due to that hideous COVID outbreak 
Cheers Brian
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I love Margoâs voice. On Sweet Jane especially.
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My favourite is Crescent moon 
Itâs really hard to pick the best musician out of that band. They are all awesome.
I had no idea the lead singer of The Buggles was a bassist, and on a 5er no less.
This might be a fun song to cover on a 5 string.
For all you younger metal focused types, this was the very first song/video played on MTV.
For all you younger metal focused types, MTV was a channel that played music videos 24/7 until a bunch of idiots from New Jersey degraded it into a reality TV cesspool. 
But if you grew up in the 80s, it was a MUST.
The Buggles by the way, went on to a very illustrious career of playing this song over and over and over.
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Hi John @John_E ,
He couldnât get a gig with YES as the bass player, how could he considering Chris Squire was their bass player when he played with them and was always the YES bass player.
Trevor Horn sung vocals and Geoff Downes on keyboards joined YES for the âDramaâ album which included songs âinto the Lensâ and âTempus Fugitâ
both great songs with cool bass lines, if you havenât seen them you should have a look on YT,
Cheers Brian
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They started as a 30 minute show daily around 3pm, after school.
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I wish they kept playing music videos only 24/7. It all went downhill when they stopped and stupid reality shows and other garbage took itâs place.
The last good thing to come out of MTV was Beavis and Butthead because it was at least a show that centered around them watching music videos. LOL
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Yeah, competing with Richard Bladeâs evening show (at least on the west coast) that started out Fridays only.
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Yeah, Trevor Horn, one of my favorite producers and legend on his own. This guy is behind some really great sounding records in 80âs and 90âs.
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Darn right!
What started as âFrog Baseballâ gave us one of the best covers ever!
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Indeed! My comment was on the Buggles as a group, not Trevor.
I am always fascinated by groups that create one, and only one, song that becomes so universal and so big but then get slotted in the âone hit wondersâ camp.
Itâs even more so interesting when members, or a member is so dang talented.
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@John_E And for all those that read my âintroduce yourselfâ post you are aware that I was lead vocalist in a punk/rock band called Cynical Inc. back in my younger days, and we did a cover of this song with the lyrics drastically changed and it was called âDildos Killed the Porno Starâ 
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