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Thanks, much appreciated. As I said to @Jackroadkill, I think that decision needs to be made, despite what it signifies. You are indeed right.

Nice work with the covers band 👍 I never wanted fame...just to make some music I'd enjoy playing with some nice people and make a decent fist of it. Something to say 'We did that, and it's good' about. You're right - it is a change I need...it may be why this band just hanging in the air irks me so much...I want to say "I'm done" and this stops me. And also why I've not yet done the obvious thing and left the band, as it means a certain finality has arrived.

We've both tried - I think that's why we've holding onto hope. Our age seems to be a stumbling block, for starters. Anyhow... ...thing is, and I think I said this earlier, I said to myself this was going to the last band I was going to join. Years of false starts and wasted time have just so sapped my enthusiasm that I can't see the point of it...am I just going through the motions ? Sometimes I feel like that apocryphal soldier, square-bashing on a tropical beach, the war is over, but I've not realised...so I just carry on drilling for the battle that will never come. What else is there to do ? Ack, it gets me down when I think about it.

They look so damn cool, nice stack !

Well, just to air my thoughts... The guitarist has had one jam with this drummer he's so hugely keen on that he's waited 3 months for the chap to be available whilst he works on his house. Is he any good ? No. No better than the original dummer we got rid of, and the guitarist thinks he's great.. A couple of quick chats with the singer shows he's as completely unmotivated as me and thinks it's all over bar the shouting. It's become very clear to me that, although a lovely chap and a good musician, the guitarist doesn't realise that we need a good drummer, not just someone he gets on with. So it's just hanging in the air at the moment. The guitarist is all full of vim and vigour for the new year, but this is dead in the water. It's 15 months (yes...I know !) since we first got together. It's over, if it ever even started. If I had something else lined up I'd just knock it on the head. If I even want something else, it all seems like one long hiding to nowhere. Thanks for reading, just a bit boring a moan, really.

I've got a Sabre with a jazz profile. It's a wonderful neck - but I find 42mm necks a bit fat for my little hands, so it suits me fine.

Yes.

Show me some happiness that isn't - Goth Ed.

Given what a stickler for accuracy Robert Fripp is, he seems to be bearing it with a smile

So ? Fingers or pick, it's still a toughie. Good work.

The Mayor of Simpleton by XTC - eluded me for ages, just so darn busy...all those 'pealing bells' runs ! I got it.....very eventually.

Agreed- I've played a few in covers bands and they're more challenging than they first appear.

I have a late 90s model and it sounds.. ...well, like what a bass should sound like !

Ah, so this is what those ramp gizmos are for 👍

Nope

I only listen to Spotify when I'm ironing, so I'm not a power user, and it rather seems that all I've listened to is Hatchie Kinda makes sense - dream pop is good ironing fare.

Pretty much the same here.

'Great music' to me is simply music I like a lot - I'd attempt no more definition than that.

Labellinq anything requires compromise, so it really is best not to get hung up on them. They're descriptions of similarity, not definitions.

Try it, it's no great shakes to get a 250k pot and switch later if you don't like it. Experiment !

I know this song I had to use it all the time, was quite good with it, but it always felt like it was a badly-designed tool. Hope you get on with the set list software - if it works for you, then job done.

For idiots, yes...sadly Musicians ∩ Idiots ≠ ∅

It's usually peak time only - they want to avoid buying energy when it's most in demand, so they reward customers who don't, for example, join the tea-time power spike.

This kind of scheme usually asks that you don't run anything high power things like tumble-dryers, heaters or experimental fusion reactors.

See, this is the attitude we like to see ! Head to toe...pure player