Dad3353

It matters little to me, as I close my eyes when listening to Good Music, usually.

I was earning just under £6 a week back then, as a BEA avionics apprentice. Just sayin'.

You are @Leonard Smalls and I claim my £5.

Project Spare Parts ...

Bass - lead - amp (clip/on tuner...) because that's the sound we like from the bass. If it ain't busted, don't fix it; just a clean bass tone, s'all.

The ones that require a leap of faith..?

Thief steals guitar from shop ... ... and another ...

Tread carefully; you're addressing an ancien developer..! If one may only develop for next week's shiny gadget, one's product has a very short shelf-life. This, of course, makes sense for some folk (read 'industries'...), but some prefer keeping stuff going for a bit longer than the attention span of a ten-year old with too much pocket money. I always preferred stability over uber-powerful cutting edge, and had a healthy career in many IT roles. (It is, however, a crap 'tablet', I'll allow ; goodness knows with what delivery of mail-ordered slippers it came as a 'free gift', but I found it under a pile of old stuff carefully put aside by my late wife, many years ago. It turns on, and I found how to take a photo or video with it, then turned it off and put it away again. I wouldn't use it to handle the sound or lights to our cottage, let alone a concert. I have laptops for that, all PC OS stuff...).

I just listen to the music; I couldn't have helped the fellow then, and even less so now. Hejira is, of course, another gem from that stable.

Play closer to the bridge, adjusting volume levels as needed.

We tried that, once, but the audience walked out after five or six pages. My Southern drawl accent couldn't do it justice, maybe.

...which, as I mentioned, we have. I won't buy another one just for that, though; anything must work with stuff we already have, which is all Android-powered.

I had to buy a so-called 'smartphone' so as to be able to handle bank confirmation sms stuff, which my (perfectly adequate for everything else...) old 'phone couldn't reply to. OK, I bought one, and I use it whenever I need to reply to these security things. That's all. I also have (I don't know why, nor where it came from...) a 'tablet' thingy, which has a bigger screen. If we were to invest in a mixer of the sort described in this topic, it would have to be usable with these, and any other 'phone/tablet thingies that I or my band mates own. I know no-one with any Apple stuff at all. I looked at this Zoom desk, and it would fit the bill, including its cost, but I'll look no further at it if it can only be remote controlled by stuff we neither have nor want. Thanks for the warning; I might have been tempted into an expensive mistake without that.

And the winner is... @lurksalot..! Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ... BC_Chal_Cert_2023_07.pdf ... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...

I could have posted the whole series from these concerts (the 35 years anniversary, Trianon, DVDs...), with over eight hours of intense, passionate, playing. There are many more 'live' concert albums, plus the studio stuff. I chose only one extract, as a 'teaser', or 'taster'; there is very little Magma to be culled, as it's all extraordinary. One may note that there is not a music stand in sight; all is played and sung after rehearsals until perfectly ingrained. This, for 35 years of compositions, immensely detailed, to be executed perfectly, 'live' each time. Super-human, I say. I'll continue tomorrow with maybe something a bit lighter, but rest assured, there's more 'intense' stuff to come..!

There are probably over a hundred recorded versions of this song, originally an Irish folk ballad.

Yes, indeed, anyone can start their own topic of stuff they would like to share. Soooooo, just to keep the ball rolling along here, here's another of my 'top' selection...