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I was jesting of course. Nowhere in Scotland can hide from the rain. To be honest i don't really mind the rain. Not been in Pitlochry for many years now. I generally stop at the outdoor adventure centre cafe in Ballinluig on my way North. Its approx half way to Loch Ness for me. Dave

Thanks for that your reply 👍 Well, it's home, very pleased with it and looking forward to the journey ahead. A setup & strings, as mentioned in the above posts are fairly imminent but I'm getting a decent noise out of it, as is.

more fusion but the synergy and groove is insane!!

I always resolve that issue with a shortish one of these. Safe as houses and no drilling or gluing.

All you have to do is avoid the high st in season. Go north of the Co-Op and it’s always quiet (we’re much closer to Moulin). As to the rain, I have a water butt that says that it really does rain. After the 3 weeks of constant sun, it was bone dry, once the wet returned, it was back to full up in 2 days or less.

Oh yes, I remember now.

Now can somebody tell me what that picking style is called. When I learned it (a long time ago) it was called clawhammer with the pinch being the 'claw'. Now i see internet guides callingthe picking that I call 'frailing' being described as clawhammer.

Takes me back to summer season holiday camp gigs in the 80's.

What's the deal with buying a used (registered) Stomp and then trying to get the reduced cost Native software. Doable? Cheers, Rich

I will say - I adored a blue one I picked up for Walshy in March. It was a beautiful bass. we sold it at the bass show before I got chance to buy it.

Something of a contrast between the two open mics I did this week - Wednesday was all male, minimum age 65, one really good performer but the rest (including me, I'm not a great singer and only an average guitarist) mediocre. OTOH, last night there were (I think) five male singers and six female ones, and I think only me and the host were over 65. Three featured bands - a quartet (female singer, DB, drums, keys) did jazz covers of various rock songs (eg Eye of the tiger, Sunshine of your love, Seven nation army), a sextet (2 gits, bass drums, female singer, female keys) playing straight rock, and a conventional quartet, female-fronted, also playing straight rock. I was recruited to play bass for someone who is an even more recent arrival than me, so I learnt All the small things on the hoof. Also accompanied the youngsters again. The guy who played drums for various artists has just returned from playing Download with his band Jayler, who are playing Glasto shortly - very capable multi-instrumentalist called James Bartholomew who generally plays guitar and sings but can also turn his hand to bass and the aforementioned drums.

Close To The Edge - Yes

I’m sure @walshy has one - if he sends it me…I’ll do you some videos. see that Walshy? You have my address 🤣

I've been trying to find a decent video of someone demonstrating a recent non-reverse Thunderbird on clean strings, fingerstyle. But typically, they all seem to play the damned things with a pick! I don't suppose anyone could do me a quick video with their non-reverse T-Bird just some simple fingerstyle playing..? (No pick, no fuzz or drive. Just the bass with clean strings, please?) Thanks in advance 😎👍

It has NOTHING to do with LB's acoustic, and trust me, you do not ned to hear the bass 👍

What a f***ing awful looking instrument, frets aren't even parallel (might be photo), plus why such a wide neck, could easily fit another string on there And then, there's the feedback.....

Hopefully Lee and I will be meeting soon, we’ll do our famed hammed up Version of school days or something…

It seems that I have finally succumbed to the cold that Mrs Norris has been sporting for a week or more. Soapy throat, sneezing, snot. It'll be a long night of paracetamol and adrenaline. To cap it all, I got two tickets for Iron Maiden baby - before I realised this is one gig that couldn't be moved or avoided. Mrs Norris is dutifully depping for me at Maiden with my son while I go off to spend a very long night playing in a barn (setting off just before 5pm - got 45 mins to drink my cuppa then go). It's a ticket do with hired PA, sound guy, etc. I told her to get me a tour T shirt though.

White Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson