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Hopefully it's something easy to sort. Fingers crossed. Wishing you a swift recovery too.

Dodgy mains sockets ? Are the sockets they're plugged getting full juice ? (I appreciate any electricians in the audience are muttering "You stick to your books, mate.... )

Apart from changing from a pickup selector to jazz wiring, would this do the job ?

I am a Beatles fan and I think it's dire. I could get all lyrical about 'squeezing the last few dessicated, bitter fruit from a long-dead tree' but I'll quote George instead - he said it best. "..it's f××king rubbish."

Ha, that's nothing on The Proclaimers !

Sssssshhhhh ! I was trying to break @spongebob in gently!

Welcome....welcome indeed to a new and exciting world!

Is it ploughing on or carrying on working ? Depends on how you look at it, I guess.👍 If you're not ready to retire, and people want you to carry on working, why stop ?

I agree, it's the whole show as well, the whole bundle.... I was watching a few fairly recent Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry live videos recently, and yes...Mr. Ferry's voice ain't what it was, but it was a great show. People want to see him, so more power to him. Everyone seemed to be having a blast. All good. Now, I'd not go and see him, but saying nobody else should is a bit like saying, I dunno, I don't like dog shows, so they shouldn't hold them.

Good work! Particularly enjoyed Poker Face - nicely played.

Agreed - when you buy a replacement barrel socket, get a few if you can. They are indeed best viewed as consumables.

Very thorough @mahtar, and very well presented- thanks for posting this.

Hey, Slayer told you this....it really should be no surprise "There only one place to go...."

Looks a cracker, but that picture messes with my head... "Small bass, normal sofa...normal bass, tiny sofa....small bass, normal sofa....giant stand !!!!!" Arrgh!

You missed my point, but I can't be bothered.

I'm sure it stands as a suitable opposite to 'Take A Break !' I'm glad you don't find issue with my fourth example though - you're obviously a man of some taste

Beethoven Yes, and there's Solzhenitsyn and Dan Brown, Kubrick and Bay, The New Yorker and Take A Break!, Stargate SG-1 and Deep Space Nine, and so on... It's all art, it's all creative, you just need to know how to look at it.

Aha ! The first song that popped into my mind was also a bit of Hooky

It's odd...I've received very few compliments about my bass playing over the years, and those only from friends, so possibly not 100% unbiased opinion. I'm quite open about saying how much I enjoyed what someone's played or the part they've come up with...I know not everyone feels that relaxed doing that. When I read about folks here having old band members call them up to get new stuff together...also never happened to me... Maybe I'm not very good after all ! There are certainly days when I look at my bass collection and think 'who am I fooling?'.

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How long is a piece of double-ball end string ? I generally think I'm worse at almost anything that someone else can do, so maybe I'm really good. I doubt it though.

It'll be a U2 album

Nice work. I enjoyed that - it went well with my Saturday lunchtime sci-fi film 👍