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+1 for the TC

Fuzzrocious Grey Stache sold to ProjeKtWEREWOLF just recently. Nice easy transaction and good communication throughout. Thanks!

I've mentioned this before on BC, but I once left a band by going to the toilet during a rehearsal and escaping through the toilet window. There's more to the story, but the crux of it is that I ran away in the least dignified way.

needle and the damage done - Neil Young

I'm a fan (geddit?) of these amps too, really punchy, full sound, I have one which is my back-up. It is only used in loud situations so the noise isn't a problem for me.

The final shape I'm going with, once ive got in hand I might take a bit off here and there but generally very happy with it 👌

A long overdue update that the body is finally thicknessed and ready to work on. Next step is to get the updated template printed and get chopping.

I'm a Grand master. I guess that means I've spent even less time practising, or living a life, than you!!

A few years ago, I was fired by a drummer and it wasn't even his band. I complained to the band leader but she was so intimidated by this guy that she wouldn't talk to him about it! Even more years ago I was being screwed around by a band leader. He started cancelling gigs, then started cancelling gigs and not bothering to tell me!! I told him to shove it and I'd never play with him again, and haven't. It was a shame because that was a very good band!

I realise nobody was asking me, but... I play acoustic rock and singer-songwriter stuff with fingers as I prefer the sound for those genres, and I use a pick for pretty much everything else. The 'everything else' is a much greater proportion of my playing time, though, so my fingers aren't always in the kind of shape that can withstand hours of playing without risking blisters. Some seem to accept blistered fingers as an occupational hazard (maybe because it's their only option) but I can just switch to pick and not have to suffer, so having a pick and/or pick technique that gets me somewhere in the ballpark of my finger-style sound is really useful as it keeps things consistent-ish.

Ant bought a Handbox WB-100 from me this week. Great comms and payer making it all a nice and simple transaction..... Highly recommended.

Yeh, its gone up since I bought mine, crazy the cost of living IMG_9101.mov

I just bought a Handbox WB-100 amplifier from Paul. I paid for the amp on Tuesday evening and it was here at 10am on the Thursday morning, impeccably wrapped. Can't say fairer than that! The whole transaction and communication was tip top. Thanks very much for being such a good seller. A pleasure to deal with. Ant

Sew You Win Again - Hot Chocolate

£7 🤣

It is not. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184374210289 As already mentioned upthread, they are hard to come by in the UK. The last few I got was ages ago from a U.K. eBay seller, and I've not seen any since then for sale in the U.K. whenever I've looked. Mark

I was in a band in the late 90s, and we had a "battle of the bands"-type gig lined up. We'd have some trouble getting hold of our guitarist for the previous week or so, and he'd been a bit off at our last rehearal. He showed up at the gig about 10 minutes before showtime, and basically told us this was the last gig, and that he'd decided he didn't like rock music any more. We got up, we did the gig, the guitarist played most of the show with his back to the audience, and then he left immediately afterwards and nobody saw him again for years. It wasn't dramatic or anything, there were no punches or pint glasses thrown, but it felt like a very selfish act on his behalf. He wasn't lying either - a few weeks later I saw his two guitars and his Marshall up for sale in Loot. For what it's worth, we won that heat of the battle of the bands thing, but, of course, we couldn't progress to the next one. I guess time heals though, our old drummer and him recently reconnected and started a new band. He obviously rediscovered his love of rock music sometime in the intervening 20-odd years! Our former singer now curates an art gallery in Germany, and I'm stuck out here in the States, but it might be a nice idea to get the band back together for some kind of one-off thing one day.

ESP do a left handed B-206 which had a decent reputation and was a fair price. https://www.espguitars.com/products/9858-b-206sm-ns

I use GHS Gorgomyte to keep mine as good as new. It's amazing stuff. https://astrings.co.uk/products/ghs-gorgomyte-fret-and-fingerboard-treated-cleaning-cloth-1