taunton-hobbit

Been watching the Nile Rogers production line - very slick.................

I smell the word 'Barefaced' lurking around here somewhere..... (yes I'm biased, I own two Dubsters)

My rule of thumb with non-English amp ratings......... Halve it (to bring it to rms, sort of) and halve again because they will be quoting peak music levels.............. so 1300watts becomes 325 real watts (across two boxes?)

I thought Craiglist was just for dodgy massage ads...........

"As a general rule, a display of goods at a fixed price in a shop window or on a shelf in a self-service store is an invitation to treat and not an offer. An offer may be made by a prospective buyer. At this stage, the retailer may accept or reject that offer. "Similar principles would seem to apply where a supplier of goods or services indicates their availability on a website: that is, the offer would seem to come from the customer (eg. when he clicks the appropriate button) and it is then open to the supplier to accept or reject that offer." (Extract from Chitty Rule of Conracts)

^^^^^^ Shop. Distance selling is covered by a different set of regulations, including the right to return simply unwanted stuff. Privately, Internet retailers admit that their customers are frequently a nightmare...........

I love the non-customers who try and bang stuff back for refund just because they've gone off the idea. I usually get treated to a load of rant and 'I know my rights' I always suggest that they chat to CAB who can put the thing up to Trading Standards if it's justified. Never had one come back at me yet........

A price in a shop is legally an 'invitation to treat' it is not a legal contract - most retailers will honour a price, but they don't have to. (I've been in retail management for over 20years). I note that the item in question is suddenly out of stock btw..........

I got my B/F kit a while back - steel grilles - I used to play some interesting gigs...steel don't rip.. spookily, I stopped gigging completely after i re-equipped..

I've got a Marshall 200 rackmount - amazingly silly fan noise - my amptech sorted it by installing three slower units - the difference is amazing.

Matamps have a thirty second 'warm-up' cycle, according to Jeff Lewis when I asked him about putting standby switches on my kit.

In my defence - the guest actually had died - it was lucky that there was a trained paramedic amongst the 'revellers' who managed to get him to restart.

In total desperation I played Hot Chocolate 'You Sexy Thing' to a New Years Eve party of the living dead. It worked - for about two minutes, until some ba8tard who had been boozing all day had a heart attack & killed the night for everyone - sad to say he survived (I'm all heart).

^ ^ ^ Great - I'll take it - money to the usual (Nigerian) post box?

Can you buy virgins armpit hair on E Bay?

Quack - thanks Tim - anniversaries can be worse - that subtle glow of lust wore off years back...........

Weddings are a total pain in the *rse - I've done a few over the years -

Yeah, but we had J.R. Hartley, Ford Zodiacs and dodgy politicians it was soooooooo much better then..........

I always thought that the Beatles were a pretty good business model........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRX1jhRao0 I knew there was a 1 + 2 cut somewhere..........(about an hour to find)

If you can find it, the part two (b side) of the Chuck Brooks single version of this is full of amazing menace (and musicianship).

You had WABC 'music radio' We had the Light programme (and Radio Luxembourg) The difference was amazing (listen to Dan Ingram sometime) I'm sure there's a link to the kulure stuff here.........

Back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I had a wonderful business relationship with Arthurs Press @ Stroud - now long gone.... they could turn round a 100 quad crown(40"x30") order in 24hours, with only a telephone call for confirmation...... (sighs & shuffles off, stage left)

Actually, after listening to that Snowman thing, Mustang Santa ain't that bad an idea..........

Sorry about post 21 - I misread the thread title - as 'terrible Christmas songs'..........