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On 31/10/2018 at 00:13, lemmywinks said:

Imagine how much of a tit you'd look displaying that in a glass case in your office.

 

"You're guitar looks a bit knackered"
"It's actually authentic wear done to replicate someone else's music career and playing style"

"Riiiiiiiiiiight........"

Next to a model of a Bell Jet ranger?

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.

29 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I see that yesterday it looks like the body is split , not the paint 

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

22 hours ago, PaulWarning said:

...................... it's either Rap or ballads these days it seems, tried watching a BBC4 program about Grime last night, they went on about the evolution of the Rap genre but it seemed pretty much the same to me apart from the words seemed even more incomprehensible and I had the subtitles switched on, but then, stuff you don't like does sound the same.

I starting to sound like my Dad 

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?'

14 minutes ago, Muzz said:

On purpose? Pffft. That's just poor workmanship - there's no reason those holes couldn't have been drilled with a little more care, even if they were done 'by hand'. Would have taken ten seconds to line them up properly.

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?

3 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

I thought that she was the most hated person on the planet....how does she have 24k subscribers?

24k haters?

8 hours ago, Beedster said:

...and the neck is visibly at an angle to the body, more-so than the strong alignment with the neck would suggest (?), which in turn suggests that the whole thing is somewhat badly put together, which is not usually the case with anything MIJ?

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. 

2 hours ago, ambient said:

I’m not defending them, merely pointing out that a fragile sticker won’t protect the item, that’s entirely down to the packaging.

This was the point i was trying to make.

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

On 18/09/2018 at 18:05, bubinga5 said:

............. No music reading which is interesting for such a prolific bass player and session man.

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!

20 hours ago, bubinga5 said:

Good vid too. No music reading which is interesting for such a prolific bass player and session man. 

 

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

5 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

502 errors? I haven't even been counting ...

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?

On 17 August 2018 at 22:08, Hellzero said:

Same guy again. "He who shall not be named" must have been sniffing too much glue. 

Monkey dust?

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

Were The Stranglers punk, weren`t they punk, difficult to tell. They certainly had the aggression in their music associated with punk, but when you look at the first wave of punk bands they all sounded very different so it`s difficult to pinpoint it. I`d say that a lot of punks liked The Stranglers, and that a good few did not. I belong in the former camp.

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.

12 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

Aah, hindsight and reinvention is wonderful thing.

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?

30 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

I never really got The Stranglers...being a child of the 60s and mid-teens when punk kicked off, The Stranglers just seemed to have notched up the aggression and been carried along in the wake of the Sex Pistols and The Clash (amongst others), but ultimately they always seemed pub-rocky and a bit old. 

If JB is indeed 80, then he was pushing 40 when he was tub-thumping at the height of punk.

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

On 21/08/2018 at 22:03, fleabag said:

Hi Nathan

Another Essex boy here. Been many moons since i lived there though.

95% of my family are still there.... around Basildon, Laindon,  Purfleet, Chadwell St Mary, Feering

 

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