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[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1321730252' post='1442579'] Aherm. Works the same with a woman too. ... [/quote] I like this part of this post (I liked the rest of it as well, but not enough to say so...)

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1321727839' post='1442520'] But the top two are in favour of different things so [u]shouldn't[/u] be conflated. [/quote] Fixed

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1321703462' post='1442131'] This is a good point. It should be the post that is being 'liked' not the person. [/quote] That is true. I approve of this post.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1321658065' post='1441831'] <snip/> Already we know of one member (not a mod) who created a separate profile so they could like their own posts under the other profile and then asked why we were taking issue with their posts when they were liked so many times...but my lips will remain sealed...they know who they are. [/quote] Someone set up a sockpuppet? Really? Wow.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1321658889' post='1441836'] He doesn't get to see you have disliked him. The system is anonymous for everyone apart from admin. [/quote] Okay, thank you. [quote] How do you see nationality influencing the rep system? [/quote] If you live in (example) Malta, your opportunities to meet Basschat members are limited, and few people will trade with you ("sorry mate, UK only"). The net result of that is that people who live outside the UK will seldom have many Likes.

Okay, how transparent is this? If I decide that I want to Dislike my old opponent Dickweed70286995995, does he get to see I've Disliked him? Or does he just have an anonymous running total of people who hate him? Generally I don't like the idea of a rating system, because IMO it tends to freeze out the non-British members. If we have to have this, could it be arranged that the specific post which the Like or Dislike is set on is available to members generally to see? Or maybe some sort of reason should be required when posting a Like/Dislike; that would let people link to specific posts if they wanted (and we would quickly catch on if they didn't).

Okay, here it is, re-advertised. I emailed them, late May. I see it's not up as an Ibanez any more. http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/bass-guitar-5-string-and-amp-for-sale--250-together-ono-will-split/91154494

sweet

I'm in Poole, I'll keep my eyes open and warn my mates. [quote name='uke' timestamp='1320408093' post='1426393'] Hi this guy has had a fair bit of kit stolen, maybe keep our eyes open,could turn up anywhere! [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/stolen-musical-instruments-Washburn-bass-Alembic-bass-and-Amplifiers-etc-/300618922625?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item45fe48ba81#ht_811wt_922"]http://www.ebay.co.u...81#ht_811wt_922[/url] [/quote]

Human League, 'Being Boiled'. Snakefarm, 'St James'. (Yeah I know, trad arr.) Public Image Limited, 'Public Image'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOCIP54PIQ

Part of the difficulty with stuff that's not sung in English is that you're never sure whether you're listening to something like the Horst Wessel Song.

Also saw Steve Hillage in Sheffield, 1979 or '80, instead of going to see the Ruts who were on the same night. TBH I should have gone to see the Ruts... I went to sleep in the gig (completely without chemical enhancement, I should add... )

[quote name='LeftyBiskit' timestamp='1319839153' post='1419319'] Ali Baba,chicken and cheese......If your going to sneeze Opium for the people I Saw planet Gong mid 70's at the Bolton Institute of technology,on a school night too-happy days they all travelled around in that beat up single decker bus, Free admission to the gig -they just passed the hat round afterwards. [/quote] I saw them on that tour, 1978? In a deconsecrated church somewhere near Salisbury. They were excellent. IIRC the guy who drove us knew their bass player. Their road manager (?) was a bloke called Grant Showbiz, whose name pops up on other stuff every now and then.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1319844171' post='1419390'] I still love Godbluff and play it fairly often. Can't really pick a favourite track these days but as an impressionable tenager I think Scorched Earth was probably the one that stood out the most: [/quote] That's the standout for me, even now. (I always thought - and still think - it was about Richard Nixon, FWIW. 1975 album; it was probably easier to see then.)

Been a fan for a long time. It was the segue from "Undercover Man" into "Scorched Earth", on 'Godbluff', which first trapped me. Guy Evans, what a great drummer. And Peter Hammill's solo stuff is up there with the best of them. 'Sitting Targets' is a hugely underrated album. I always sort of thought VdGG were an interesting version of Genesis, who I found very bland and noodly.