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Also Nellie the Elephant. The original, not the Toy Dolls version, otherwise they'll finish up with tachycardia.

How much headroom do you need? 18V supply is overkill for instrument-level effects - it's a signal that's about 150mV peak to peak. Imagine someone standing next to Nelson's Column. That's how much headroom 9V gives you. Now imagine driving a double decker bus filled with Ashdown effects into an Olympic sized swimming pool. That's what Keith Moon would have done.

In my old ceilidh band, I'd play NS WAV-4 (42" scale length), Warwick Thumb fretless, and Ashbory Mk I (18" scale length). I just took all three to gigs and played whichever one took my fancy at any one time, swapping between them as I pleased (there's plenty of time to swap instruments in a ceilidh band as the caller explains the next dance).

Both my Sei 5s are 3.5kg.

Well, it was a P. Any damage to the amps or the stage?

You never know when they might come in handy, when you don't want to play the chromatic stuff.

No, that's something it can't do. Don't know if anything could, can't see it being an easy thing to do.

For self-indulgent 20 minute guitar solos, look no further than Led Zep.

Audacity - easy to use to lop bits off or extract bits. Will import and export WAV and MP3, nothing to pay. In fact, there's no such thing as a paid version of Audacity, you'll be pleased to hear.

1977 - Sex Pistols "Never mind the bollocks", Meat Loaf "Bat out of Hell". I only bought one of those two albums.

I saw that when it was shown - basically, it said that music and lyrics were both becoming less complex. Because, after all, nothing Adele's written can touch the lyrical and musical complexity of James Brown's "Sex machine". Oh sorry, that's wrong, the examples given were equally facile in the opposite direction, which was a shame, because cherry-picking examples slightly undermined the premise. I don't disagree with that premise though. Rock wasn't in an unhealthy state before punk, but it did provide new musical DNA which was incorporated into the mainstream.

Still doing his NYE 2016 gig, I imagine.

That's actually another of your 60th birthday gifts, discovering that breakfast is a foreign country.

That's going to confuse every GK owner in the world, isn't it? They've put the EQ the right way round.

Johnny Marr for guitar perhaps?

So the rhythm section get slightly fewer millions then. That's a burden I think I could live with. Mind you, as recently as 2016 Bono apparently thought that they split the money equally.

Didn't seem to do Mike Rutherford any harm.

I see, Fingers didn't start the action until 2016. I thought skank meant a properly long-running court action (cf. Bleak House) 😁

In this case (and probably most cases like this) it's an out-of-court settlement so we'll never find out. I imagine it'll be costs plus some payment (less than 50%) for past royalties plus writing credits and a share (might be more than 50%) of future royalties. IANAL though.

Drummer 2 should have been quietening down to accommodate you, rather than you getting louder to match him. It does seem that you have an embarrassment of riches all the same. I was going to suggest exactly what NFF has, go out for a drink with them individually and see how you all get on. Also, if you're getting them back for a second audition, dig out the songs with the biggest dynamic shifts in them to see how drummer 2 gets on.

U2's system of simply splitting it four ways has a lot to be said for it.

GAK have the Elf head plus 1x10 for £500, so presumably the 1x10 combo is going to be a similar price.

That's what gigging's for, isn't it?

After switching to 5-string almost exclusively 10 years ago, I've started playing 4-strings again in one band. I'm not finding any problems with it. Now I've just got to see how easy it will be to use a 6 with another of the bands...

Have just watched the guitar one. Mrs Zero (vocals) and I were in agreement that the bass one was the worst of the three. I thought there was a bit of an omission from the guitar one, as amplification wasn't covered at all other than a brief mention of big stacks, but the overdriven guitar amp was probably more significant than the fuzz box in creating the mid-60s on guitar sound. You'll always get omissions of quite significant things in a programme covering such a large topic in an hour, though.