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But where that falls down is that Gilmour's black Strat looks pretty much the same as a Squier Affinity. The collectors are buying more than decorations, they're buying the associations too. I rather hope a few of them are bought by talented guitarists who will use them at least occasionally, and others by institutions like the Hard Rock Cafe which will display them for the public. It's a bit sad to think of them disappearing into vaults, never to be seen again until whichever auction the new owner decides to sell them at.

3-2-0-0 4-1-2-0 (I've known the 1 about 15 years, the others a couple of months) 4-0-3-0 (should be 5-x-x-x but we still haven't got a singer and I've only done 3 rehearsals with them) I think I've actively disliked one former bandmate, about 30 years ago (she was the band leader and she eventually sacked me). But there's been a few I haven't actually disliked but would describe as being self-abusers.

To quote Sir Paul of Macca: Sei, Sei, Sei. 😁

It's very lovely but rather expensive. And here's another £3500 second-hand Warwick: http://andybaxterbass.com/details.php?id=1443 (a 1986 Thumb 5) - I can live with much less slanty pickups, a 2-piece bridge, and broken battery box lid for less than half the price.

Have you had a look in the adverts section?

So it's rather like murder, because you've got to prove intent as well? 😁

Isn't that the very definition of A Dorian?

When I help out with Mrs Zero's duo, I always ask the guitarist what the next things are to bring out. I try to tell the other members of my band too, but not always successfully - if things get chaotic, I just wait till they've brought everything out and then load up. We always do a final sweep to make sure nothing's been left behind, which almost always works. I've managed to leave my amp at home. It lives in a silver case, very similar to a silver case that Mrs Zero was using for a vocal effect pedal, and I grabbed the wrong one. Still, I had my spare amp with me. And no speaker cable as it was in the silver case. It was only about an hour round trip to get my amp...

So, who did that crazy dance move first, Jay Osmond or Cliff Richard?

Bassy McBassFace?

He was on BBC Breakfast this morning talking about it, and the Strat he was going to use for Live Aid didn't work so his guitar tech passed him the red one.

I bought a Warwick Thumb 5 from someone in Italy, who used Skynet to send it to me. That finished up with DPD at this end. Originally DPD said delivery would be on the 24th, and I'd be given a one hour delivery slot when it was loaded onto the van, by about 11:00. 11:00 on the 24th came and went, no sign of a delivery slot, and then the status changed to delivery on 25th, allegedly at my request. 11:00 on the 25th came and went, and no sign of a delivery slot, so I contacted DPD. The artificial stupidity bot had a pretty limited repertoire, so I spoke to a human instead. Gave him parcel number, name, first line of address, and postcode, and he said "no, that's not the postcode". What seemed to have happened was that the address was correct, including the postcode, but there are separate postal town and postcode fields, and although the postal town was correctly set to Tamworth, the postcode was B77 1AA which looks like a generic Tamworth postcode rather than my actual postcode. So he changed the postcode field and then it was supposed to be delivered on Monday 28th. You know what's coming, don't you? So on Monday early afternoon I rang up, and was told it had been misplaced. Cue horrible sinking feeling. The very helpful customer service chap said he'd open a complaint and get a depot search started. Checking the parcel status yesterday morning, it had been scanned in the early hours, so it wasn't lost, and was being delivered later, and I'd be notified of a delivery slot by about 11:00. Can anybody guess what happened at 11:00? If you guessed "bugger all", award yourself a sweetie. Then the status changed to delivery today. So I opted to collect it from the depot, as it became increasingly obvious that they were utterly incapable of loading it onto a van to get it to me, and today at about 10:30 I collected it, fortunately intact. I was half expecting DPD to ask me for rent, it had been there for so long. I'm not going to go into a stupid rant about how nobody should ever use DPD, because they're normally reliable. However, it would appear that if one little bit of grit gets into the machine, everything goes titsup. In future, with any courier, if there's an inexplicable change of delivery date, I shall be straight on to them rather than hope that things will turn out. The situation could have been even worse - as I'm now out of work, I can sit around waiting for parcels.

Triplets:

After a traumatic few days while DPD c0cked up the delivery, I picked it up from the depot today, the culmination of its journey from Italy. The photo is of it in its arrived state - since then, the frets have been cleaned, fretboard lemon-oiled, neck and body waxed with genuine Warwick surface finisher (more lemony goodness), strings changed, and set-up done. I'm surprised at the tonal change from moving the blend between the pickups, as they're very closer together.

Newly arrived 1988 5-string, added to the family.

He was just on BBC Breakfast. Don't think he's giving up music, just selling most of his collection. I think he'd like them to be played but he recognised that they'd probably finish up in glass cases.

There is probably no response to that which would not attract the well-earned approbation of #metoo. That was not an easy sentence to compose after large quantities of Scotch.

Ah, got it now. I was indeed looking at the Forte. So, an extra 300W that I wouldn't use and three times as heavy and as bulky as my Puma 900 - not one for me, but we're all different. Mostly.

Dave Gilmour is flogging 120 guitars. For those of us with partners and a pluraility of basses, this is a chance to say "imagine how many he's still got if he's flogging 120". For all of us, it's a chance to say "HFM?" or "why are those estimates the same?". The latter question is what entered my head when I started reading https://www.guitarworld.com/news/david-gilmour-to-auction-more-than-120-guitars-through-christies - the first item in the article is his black 1969 Strat, used on numerous albums for 15 years, and Live 8, and certainly significant, estimate $100k-$150k). But the second item has the same estimate, and is not only the 1954 Strat used on "Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 2 & 3)" and on stage, it's also Strat #1. You'd think the first ever Strat would get some extra value from that fact. And "a rare Gretsch White Penguin" ("incredibly rare" according to Christies, and indeed there's only 12 on Ebay) gets the same valuation - surely not as rare as the first ever Strat. More from Christies at https://www.christies.com/features/David-Gilmour-legendary-Black-Strat-comes-to-auction-9637-3.aspx

My cat must think he has several names, including "Don't just lick the gravy off". Basses - the thing that makes it unique (so the Dean 10-string is referred to as "the 10-string" but the Warwick fretless is "the Warwick fretless"). Bikes - the model name, except that my Triumph Tiger 800XRx is called Tigger sometimes.

I remember what the other thing I was thinking of was - ask each of them which three songs would they suggest to add to the set list.

I think the Led Zeppelin negativity is aimed at Jimmy Page live (mine is, anyway), with a little bit at Bonham for 20 minute drum solos. See if you can stay awake all the way through the film "Song remains the same".

He's got a picture in his attic, you know.

Memories.

Looking at the Forte, isn't it basically a B|Amp without the bits that made the B|Amp unique, ie. another lightweight bass amp that doesn't manage to be as light or as small as its competitors? The WD800 looks rather more interesting, but not £1300 more interesting. The most interesting thing to me were the multieffects which appear to be heading into Helix territory at considerably sub-Helix prices, although the Mooer might not be at that low a price point. The Hotone will be interesting - so far superior to the Zoom B3n to be worth double the price, or so far inferior to the Helix not to be worth a third of it?