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Show me where else the same is true - certainly not in banking fraud, tax avoidance etc - and also tell me who would enforce it?

I've had his before and they are good, but they don't do bevelled edges so can't get the BWB look.

Hypnotised - Fleetwood Mac

In my opinion accusations aren't enough in this case, I hope someone will take it further, or the victims band together, or something. If you can still sell your stolen gear and continue getting the Instagram money, what's the deterrence for the next up and coming thief? One of these videos (can't even keep up anymore myself) made the point that the penalties need to be BIGGER than the profits, otherwise it's just a low-risk gamble to continue stealing and MAYBE if you get caught, then you get nothing but don't lose anything either. While if you don't get caught, you're a "winner". No. They need to lose, and lose A LOT.

It fascinates me to see this. Social mediais awash with ripped off content, rarely with acknowledgement of the original creator beyond cynical and meaningless disclaimer statements. What appears different here is not reposting someone's work, but studiously reproducing it and putting it out there as original.

That'll be most of them then, unfortunately...

Only the most naive of users would put a USB stick from an essentially unknown source into their computer. It's positively begging for your device to be hacked at turned into part of a bot net.

Take Me Back - Noiseworks

Two gigs in the last week or so.... Canadian melodic rockers 'Harem Scarem' turned in a fantastic set at Camden Underworld last Monday. Huge riffs and melodies and probably the most underrated rock guitarist of the last 30 years in Pete Lesperance! Sunday saw me visiting Hoxton Hall (a quaint old variety venue in East London) for the first time.... to see Yacht Rock kings 'Young Gun Silver Fox' with support from the excellent Joel Sarakula! Wonderful sets of 'west coast' sounds dripping with Fender Rhodes, tight bass grooves with a Doobie bounce... and luscious vocals. Simply fantastic!

This.

Return to Sender - Elvis Presley

Live footage of me installing another metal drum VST (thanks for the heads up!)

Damaged Goods - Gang Of Four

There will no doubt be a 'second wave' of accusations, cancellations, and people further capitalising on this. There'll already be hundreds if not thousands of people around the web digging for any evidence, no matter how tenuous, that one of the music influencers accusing this guy are guilty of the same thing. The desperate need to feed the machine to get attention drives fakery and plagiarism everywhere because it requires levels of creativity beyond nearly all normal people, so people become magpies, relying on the creativity of multiple other people to maintain status - I used to be an 'ideas man' in a science business, I'd open my mouth at a client meeting and two hours later there'd be a good chance that someone at the meeting had posted a 'Thought Leadership' piece on Linkedin along the lines 'So, I was talking to a guy this morning and it got me thinking.......' when it didn't 'get them thinking', they literally took my ideas word for word and presented them as their own. It happens in the arts, in science, in literature, in product design and manufacture, everywhere, it's rife and is being fuelled by what is to all intents the wild and lawless frontier of the internet about to be made infinitely worse by the indiscriminate use of AI by the type of muppets who would do that sort of thing........

Charley's put up a vid too!

Im not sure he does much of that. He seems to make a lot of mistakes. He is a good drummer but doesn't quite get the songs right these days. Nice bloke though and I would never want to argue with him, but things have to be said if they need to. He did ask me to remind him at the next rehearsal, which I took exception to and told him maybe he should make a list of the songs that need this. I wipe enough asses already.

If you have seen one of these, you have seen basically all, yes. BUT. The point is, if some guy now wants to look up the sick licks of the faker on YouTube, they will likely stumble upon one of the many exposes, as they should. The guy made sick money via STEALING. Let's not clutch our pearls that some of the wronged YouTubers and actual musicians are now making like £70 on the rageclicks. They deserve more.

Over seven years on, the board still looks fine and dandy. I may do it again at some point, but don't think it's strictly necessary. I did my Hamer Cruisebass as well.

Gig ink.

Dare I say it, Gig Ink?