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Lulu was awarded an OBE in 2000. This was thanks in part to the inhabitants of Hawaii, who had mounted an extended campaign for her to be honoured. They even went to the extent of changing the name of their state capital to their campaign slogan.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1421792645' post='2665196'] Or Obi-Wan [/quote] Could be a bit of Elvis-style hip-swinging going on there too.

[quote name='Subfeeder' timestamp='1422286687' post='2670688'] Fingerstyle or with a pick? [/quote] Slap!

About 2/3 of the way through them... this is tough, I'm going to have to [url="http://www.viktoriamullova.com"]Viktoria[/url] them before I vote.

Shouldn't this be in the Recording forum? That's where they usually talk about plug-ins...

Great for those fast runs.

[quote name='Bikenbass' timestamp='1422032465' post='2668048'] Probably lends itself better to ah, soul music? [/quote] I tried one but all I got out of it was bum notes.

Those Okoume ones are mighty pretty.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1421999641' post='2667487'] I assumed this would be a thread about Ikea [/quote] Or Nick Clegg: http://www.itv.com/news/2015-01-22/nick-clegg-reveals-love-of-pret-swedish-meatball-wrap/

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1421929906' post='2666688'] I think the £3700 is for the 12 string guitar. [/quote] Those extra strings are ****ing expensive!

[quote name='mikebass84' timestamp='1421493193' post='2661886'] Umm.... What is it? Is it good for metal? [/quote] It IS metal... but does that make is GOOD for metal?

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1421856631' post='2665855'] Dual-bassist Stoubridge crusties [i]Ned's Atomic Dustbin[/i] have failed in their attempts to rerelease their back catalogue. They had to bow to public pressure regarding renewable energy sources. [/quote] It was all downhill after their driver said he could only pick them up once a fortnight.

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1421854089' post='2665819'] Peter Green sometimes found it not easy being Green. Listening to the space he left between his notes, it could not have been J*zz. [/quote] He was more into jazz in his state-funded student days, when he was known as "Grant" Green.

Remember that Microsoft are no longer supporting XP, so any newly-discovered security holes will stay open :-(

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1421850381' post='2665739'] Oolong ago was that..? [/quote] Ceylon time ago.

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1420389371' post='2648707'] For me, Power Windows is very nearly The Perfect Album. Not a single duff track, wall to wall fabulousness. [/quote] Curious... that's where they dropped off my list of "artists whose albums I will immediately buy unread". Time to go back for another listen, methinks...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1421849414' post='2665716'] As soon as I hear 'brew', I sit up (slightly...) straighter. Earl Grey, I trust..? [/quote] Earl Grey? Not for Lionel Ritchie before a video shoot. He preferred dancing on Darjeeling.

[quote name='sprocketflup' timestamp='1421830233' post='2665362'] yip. Have you not heard his rendition of Cone-caine? White room was written about a particularly harrowing episode when his Mr whippy machine exploded, splattering its contents just about everywhere [/quote] Strange Brew refers to experiments to drum up business with new flavours such as Ginger Flaker.

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1421766734' post='2664724'] While working on his album 'Lumpy Gravy', Frank Zappa was working nights as a trainee chef. In Typical Zappa fashion, the track 'Theme From Lumpy Gravy' appeared later on his Make A Jazz Noise Here recordings. [/quote] Continuing the jazz tangent, Zappa relocated to east Yorkshire to immerse himself in the ways of the then-new Synclavier. The results were performed at the 1985 Humberside Jazz Festival and edited highlights were released on the Jazz From Hull album.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1421710302' post='2664300'] There is actually no-one in 60's Popsters ManFred Mann called Fred. The band are however all men [/quote] Former members of Manfred Mann's Earth Band went on to join Man, Right Said Fred, the Mannic Street Preachers, Earth Wind & Fire and The Band.

[quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1421657893' post='2663560'] HMRC have issued a new flowchart to help determine whether you are affected or not. It's here [url="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/390300/VAT_MOSS_Flow_chart.pdf"]https://www.gov.uk/g..._Flow_chart.pdf[/url] [/quote] Nice, that's not looking so scary now, thanks for posting.

What if someone played right-handed but used a left-handed music stand?

Mmm, sparkly!

LOVE Gaucho (the album). I recall it wasn't big at the time - Aja was a tough act to follow. Don't the CD versions of the albums have amusing notes as to the "meanings" of the songs by Fagen & Becker? I recall this one as being about a gay love triangle...

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1421153158' post='2657672'] Yes, but they always knew what the temperature was! [/quote] And enjoyed some success under their new name of Nine Below Zero.