now then, now then, how cool would this be!!!

from xfm.co.uk
Your Bass Or Mine? Mani, Hooky And Rourke

According to reports, three of Manchester’s finest bass players have joined together to form a low frequency rock supergroup. Step forward Peter Hook, Andy Rourke and Mani.

New Order's Peter Hook, The Smiths' Andy Rourke and onetime Stone Roses bassist and now Primal Scream stalwart Mani, have formed a new outfit to be named either Freebase or Stalingrad according to Ananova.

Hook has been writing material for the project (while working on New Order’s new album) which may have been borne of a recent ‘bass-off’ that took place between the three musicians.

"We decided to find out once and for all who is the best bass player ever to come out of Manchester," Mani recently explained to the Manchester Evening News, "We locked ourselves into a room for a few days and got down to some serious rhythm playing.

"It was because of people like Peter Hook that I picked up the bass in the first place. It was great to loosen up with them."

This isn’t the first time the trio have worked together. Back in 2000 Hook, Mani and Rourke joined forces to start Collective, a business venture which ran the Bar Cuba nightclub in Macclesfield, and intended to produce a television show fronted by the three bass players.

Strangely enough, it was never commissioned.

oh boy
This would be amazing. I think there is already a local minneapolis band named Stalingrad, so they should take the other choice if they can.

Well, all them boyz are gettin pretty old. I've got a bad experience with "come back bands" like Journey and Genesis in which I went out and puchased both of thier album. Sorry to say that after two good listens, I sold one and have never listened to the other one since.

Now, I'm a fan of New Order but I can't say that I've heard any of their stuff that has come out in the last ten years, who knows, maybe they be like Santana and hit up the charts or somethin like that. I'm just more causious with bands that WERE great, most of them are just past due.

We'll see bra, I'll look into it.

Peace! dontya'llniggastryinbeplayinme

i'm definitely all for freebase. cheeky. haha. yeah, everyone was influenced by peter hook. this should be interesting.