Second Hand Cymbals For Sale

[mofgimmers]

Eyup lads and lasses

Just got my hands on a very large set of second hand cymbals. As I don't play the drums, I'm looking to sell.

Any takers?

[Worthy4England]

What sort of price are you looking for

[mofgimmers]

My first 'bid' is a couple a milk bottle tops and a pack of Pannini stickers.

[InsaneApache]

Can you be more specific on the brand of cymbals - Zildjian, Sabian, Paiste ect? and sizes?

[Bruce Rioja]

For Sale: Two halves of coconut shell.

[mofgimmers]

For Sale: Two halves of coconut shell.

Let's start a prog band!

[Bruce Rioja]

For Sale: Two halves of coconut shell.

Let's start a prog band!

Well, what I remember from my old music lessons at Smith's were something along the lines of:

"Today we're going to do Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell. Oldbury - Balalaika, Gosling - Harpsichord, Rioja - Two Halves of Coconut" and on it went!

[bobo the clown]

For Sale: Two halves of coconut shell.

Let's start a prog band!

I can do flute ... just not sure I can spend all that long on one leg any more.

[mofgimmers]

Excellent. I've got a set of cymbals (to be attached one-man-band style) and can play guitar. Hell, I'll give yodelling a go and we can do Focus covers.

[Worthy4England]

Excellent. I've got a set of cymbals (to be attached one-man-band style) and can play guitar. Hell, I'll give yodelling a go and we can do Focus covers.

Do we need a lead triangle too?

[mofgimmers]

This is prog. We need eight triangles of varying sizes, each with lazer beams firing off 'em.

[Worthy4England]

We might need two trianglists with 8 of them to deal with. It would probably leave enough time for me to play certain sections on the jews harp and the comb.

[InsaneApache]

I played bass for a punk band in the 70s, can I join as the cymbal player?

Oh I nearly forgot, I once accidentally heard a track by Yes in 1976. So I'm nealy a hippy!

[mofgimmers]

You're in!

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Well, what I remember from my old music lessons at Smith's were something along the lines of:

"Today we're going to do Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell. Oldbury - Balalaika, Gosling - Harpsichord, Rioja - Two Halves of Coconut" and on it went!

You got taught music at W H Smith? Neat.

[TANGODANCER]

I should be okay , it seems I have a natural talent for music. When doing singing tests at school the teacher heard me singing and asked "can you play any instuments?" Well, I can actually, Castanets!. I do a rather mean maracas shuffle too. Count me in.

[mofgimmers]

This is going to be the best band ever!






Or the worst.

[InsaneApache]

I saw The Worst at Holdsworth Hall down Deansgate in '77. They'd never be prosecuted under the trades description act, that's for sure.

[warthog]

This is going to be the best band ever!

Or the worst.

The worst band is undoubtedly The Belmonts. Not the lot who used to accompany Dion. I refer to the magnificently bad act that did the rounds of Bolton pubs a few years back. I don't know if they're still in existence, but I hope not. I saw them once in the Black Bull in Edgworth and honestly couldn't decide if they were a spoof band. The lead singer never quite got to the intended note and they had a guitarist who went the entire set without using a single bit of vibrato. You can usually get some, even if it's only by accident. I referred to it at the time as Stratocaster abuse.

Like all the best untalented people, they had no idea of how bad they were. They even had an agent who used to tout them round. I was stood at the bar in the Strawbury Duck, one night listening to him trying to persuade the Landlady to give them a gig. She smiled politely, took his details and said she'd get back to him. I was going to warn her about the consequences of doing that, but I didn't need to bother.

'I'm not booking them, they're shite,' she said after matey boy had exited the door.

You have a lot to live down to.

[bobo the clown]

Oh I nearly forgot, I once accidentally heard a track by Yes in 1976. So I'm nealy a hippy!

Did you understand so much as one word of the lyrics ??

Even Jon Anderson now admits that they didn't know what their lyrics meant ... & they wrote the bloody things !

Bless 'em, I did like them at the time.

Close to the Edge is only an example .... & far from the most indecipherable ;

My eyes convinced, eclipsed with the younger moon attained with love.
It changed as almost strained amidst clear manna from above.
I crucified my hate and held the word within my hand.
There's you, the time, the logic, or the reasons we don't understand.

Sad courage claimed the victims standing still for all to see,
As armoured movers took approached to overlook the sea.
There since the cord, the license, or the reasons we understood will be.

Aye, they don't write 'em like that anymore !!