taunton-hobbit

I did some gigs with Freddie Mac and the Boss Sound.....his band used the gap between numbers to play the riff from 'sock it to 'em JB' - Freddie used the riff to intro the next song - this was non-stop for an hour - simply the best band I ever worked with (and I've worked with a few).

I used to do a lot of sound (dj)...always put a rough pile of stuff together before the show, which could be juggled, depending on the audience. Personally, I think that anyone who just 'throws' stuff at punters deserves all they get - including no rebooks...............

I saw the thread title and thought 'oh dear, another one gone'.............

I'm fairly sure that the police (any country) would be unable to assist - you need proof-positive that a crime (ie theft) has been committed..... at the moment, this is simply a 'missing' parcel........

Face it, it probably got nicked en route. These packages all have barcode tracking, so it shouldn't take longer than a minute or two for the courier company to know roughly where it went astray. There seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors going on with the couriers, but knowing how they operate, I'm not overly surprised. Time to politely suggest to the vendor that you are considering legal action against him?

Had Jethro Tull on a gig that I promoted - I had to go elsewhere, and Ian Anderson spent the band break trying to sort the house pa in my absence - total respect !

I took a professional test after a car smash - the audiologist reckoned the on-line stuff was not to be trusted.....

Large holdall - speaker leads rolled on plastic drums (usually four) All my speaker leads are 10m, so no confusion... sound connection stuff in Bag for Life inside above mic ditto. Mains leads either inside amp hard-case, or yet another Bag for Life. Small tools, spare jacks etc in a little ali hard case from B&Q. Did this for years, the key (imo) is 'separation' (& making sure you repack properly).

I wish anyone well who is at the receiving end of DPD 'service' I'm in retail, and have had to tell two suppliers that if they ever put anything of mine in the 'care' of this bunch of tw*ts again, I'll find new suppliers............

I used to work in an industry where it was the usual form to ask 'x' if I might have contact with 'y'. 'x' would phone 'y' and they would (usually) phone me or give 'x; consent to part with the contact detail. There was the very rare occasion where 'y' said no, and 'x' would polity inform me of that outcome. That was in the early 1980's....seemed to work fairly well without ruffled feathers....... '

Wot no Barefaced input? ....for shame.....

I get this stuff all the time, fortunately most of it seems to land automatically in 'spam' - which I always delete. If they really want me, they can write, they've got the address.........

I knew the promoter at Dunstable Civic - in 1970 he was sweating on taking the one thousand pounds for a one-hour set from the Who. That was 45 years ago - you do the math, I don't think the 300k is wrong......

At 300k for 45minutes, it's interesting the slagging off that this band gets (not just on here, before anyone gets touchy) - they must have been doing something right for the last three decades or so......

It's twins! have a bowl of sausages and custard on me! - oh, sorry

Quo have got to be one of the best pub bands ever. They have now had so many farewell tours that I've lost count (or p'raps it just seems that way) They are simply an iconic band, even as they get older (along with the rest of us).

B&Q sell cheap ali padded cases............

I said earlier that I'm running KT120s, but I've two all Partridge Matamps and one Sowter heavy prototype chassis. The 120s draw more power, and it may be that some amps struggle with this, which might cause the 'unreliable' tag? Certainly mine seem very good so far, one set is twelve months down the line, and all is well. For 'modern' amplifiers, KT88s would probably be about as high as I would go........

---just write 'deceased' on the envelope & repost - works with Saga.............

....Which brings me on to Horn wattage....a long time back I bought two Vitavox 3cell horns (direct from the factory) and a couple of S2 pressure drivers (you can still buy them, currently around 3k a driver) - the man told me that the drivers would take about 45watts, which worried me, because I was using 200 Ormats....he grinned and assured me that through the Vitavox crossovers, the horns would last forever....twenty years later, I sold them on............. Before I forget - the 'approved' factory muting was a pair of rolled-up socks placed in the unwanted cell aperture......I only ever had the centre cells unmuted..........

Issue 2 is 9.99 future issues are 14.99 I may be wrong, but I'm guessing that these are digitally remastered, so I can't see the point? As somebody already said, cd is probably better quality............

I'm probably off-beam on this, but club djs were buying heavy duty pressings to maximise their quality? Now Tesco & magazines are punching vynil out....Embassy & Golden Guinea back with us?

Could this be a polite way of saying 'we can't ruddy hear you' ?

I used to take a kids 'etch a sketch' - ideal for noting requests & easy to rub 'em out when you decide 'nah, ain't goin' there'.......

It took the Beeb years to start to get it almost right. When it first started it was a rehash of the Light programme with insufficient needle time (no-one had considered this...!), programming running twinned with the 'new' radio 2, and generally abysmal. I was sure that the whole thing was thrown together at the behest of Harold Wilson (PM) who was frightened witless by the prospect of a yoof uprising in protest at the outlawing of the (far more professional) Pirates....