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Beautiful solution to covering the truss rod adjustment hole?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyt8ZlTt8g Always like the bass line on this, but is this Trevor Horn playing?

Useless piece of information. My dad used to work with his dad.

Yes, the image showing the back of the body shows many cracks.

No, you're spot on! I remember a few years back listening to an interview with 'Stormzy', and even he couldn't explain 'Grime'. 'Emperors clothes?'

The break angle of that 'G' string over the bridge looks highly suspect? I get the 'rustic/hillbilly' look but it still has to play and work as an instrument?

24k haters?

Maybe it's been 'improved' by whatshisname?

Groan!

The pickup is held in by good luck alone? It's not that bloke again is it?

Neither buyers or sellers have any control over what the couriers do with a package. I don't think writing 'fragile', 'glass', 'do not bend' or 'do not crush' on a package makes any difference, or at least since the 1950s? They are 'scanned', nobody has the time or inclination to go through thousands of parcels reading them? Bearing in mind the volumes, i think its unrealistic to expect RM to deliver parcels individually on a velvet cushion.

This was the point i was trying to make.

I can't believe RM totally ignored the word 'fragile' on the box!!

Some people on here are touchy about being able to 'read' so I don't want to kick the metaphorical wasps nest. I'm guessing that being so hugely talented and being in such demand it's 'overlooked' or allowances are made, if you want Pino then that's how he rolls. Not that it matters in the great scheme of things, but I wonder why he never bothered to learn? Surely something to do on those long transatlantic flights to LA?

I'll be annoying the hell out of everyone for another few weeks with my Stevie Ray Vaughan kick! For some odd reason i much prefer his versions of 'voodoo child' and 'little wing'? Whoops, probably should have kept that to myself!

At the start of the video, what's written on the body of the guitar just above the controls?

I only got to 404?

So what came first, the 'music' or the notation?

When I read the title of this thread I thought it would have something to do with a hotel room?

Monkey dust?

Their songwriting was helped by being hugely competent musicians, and highly intelligent men. Punk for the middle class? (I remember the Rezillos bass player opting for his medical degree over a music career). Their aggression and reputation was a necessary part of the show. Having a keyboard player in a punk band also slipped under the radar? It's interesting to observe how their interviews are always very considered and 'managed'. It's also interesting to watch JJ subtly nudging Jet in my video above a few times. I should point out that I am a fan, probably more so now than back then. I am not criticising.

Yes, indeed. Personally, I don't think it matters what genre they belong to, it's about whether you like their music. But, 60yr old punks do seem to have claimed ownership of them?

Interestingly, The Stranglers didn't actually describe themselves as 'punk'. Skip to about 2:30 to Jet explaining

Not forgetting that as an ex 'lady friend' pointed out to me, 'Laindon' is NOT Basildon! And Hi Nathan, I'm not a million miles away from you

Yes, I totally understand that many guys don't like it. But it works for me.