Maude

I love him, I wish more people had his enthusiasm and sense of joy about things. Shaddacacca!

Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi

Last Dance - The Cure

That's a good analogy. The best you can do is be aware of the warning signs, but there will be exceptions, some good some bad. I'd imagine that horrible fraudster, Mick Mason looked totally genuine with no alarm bells, unless you really researched. On the other hand I have bought things where the only way I could do the deal was to pay through PayPal and send a courier, which now looks dodgy as hell, I'm not out to scam anyone, but the seller doesn't know that. The scammers make it difficult for genuine buyers who live in regional extremes of the country as well as buyers. My son is selling a phone on Facebook, because of lockdown a lot of people have asked him to post it but I've told him it's just not worth it. The buyers want to pay through PayPal goods to protect themselves but that leaves my son wide open to getting scammed, even though most of these buyers are probably genuine.

We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel

The Kentucky Sweetcorn Smugglers. Maybe they're Toyah fans. 🤔

The Joker - Ed Miller Band

All Tangled Up In You - The Mission

The Night - Frankie Valli Edit : I didn't turn the page, but it sort of fits. Meh.

Every Loser Wins - Nick Berry 🤟

It's when you do something like this, and just as you look at yourself and think, if I slipped this could hurt, you slip and find that yes, it does hurt. 😄

Not a problem at all. 🙂

Ann Peebles' album 'I can't stand the rain'. I don't know how this album has slipped me by. I've just had it on while I've been pottering and I'm now going to listen to it again while not pottering to pay it more attention. Beautiful voice and lovely playing from the 'Hi Records' house band, some of which were players for Stax as well. You can really hear that they also backed Al Green.

From my point of view the pins aren't vital if they're proving tricky. Obviously I can't speak for @Rich. Once again, thank you. 🙂👍

Divine Thing - The Soup Dragons

I'm like that when we're gigging every week. Someone will ask, "What songs do you do?" Um, er, one of them goes do da do, duh duh duh, oh what's it called. Oh, OK, bye then. 😄

We've got a new drummer who joined just before lockdown so we'll need to get him up to speed, which will be perfect for getting the rest of back in shape. Hence why I haven't really bothered playing our set.

Big Balls - AC/DC

Isn't there a Hohner headless in the classifieds? The one with the 'normal' body rather than cricket bat. Or have I dreamt it?

I haven't played any stuff from either bands setlist since our last gig last March. I'm hoping it'll come back me. Don't tell anyone but I've been playing more guitar than bass for the last year. Shhhhh.

"This is an Ibanez 1970's lawsuit bass. Stunning build quality, better than the Fenders at the time, hence their popularity and the lawsuit from Fender." Arrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhh!!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬

I actually love the smell of creosote, the real stuff mind. Takes me straight back to being 6 or 7 and helping my grandad do his fence. Funny how smells work.

'DO NOT USE THE TOILET WHILE THE TRAIN IS STANDING IN THE STATION' If you do make a bass from a railway sleeper, try and get one from the track in the station, they shouldn't be as "soaked in something nasty" as the others.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this. My wife thinks I've got problems as while she's watching telly, I'm sat staring at a bass. When doing a bass*, I lean it on the sofa opposite me in the evenings and ideas will emerge over time, or ideas I had will get scrapped as my little brain ticks over. *I'm not comparing my tarting up old tat to your creations you understand, merely the similarity in idea evolution. 😉

Yep, I've always had great service from him too. I needed a sheet of material over Christmas. His ebay ad had a 'seller on holiday' message over the top stating he's on Christmas holiday so any orders wouldn't be posted until Monday 4th Jan, fair enough and not a problem. I ordered on Boxing Day and expected to see it at the end of the first week, or second week of January. It turned up on the three days between Christmas and New Year. So he'd still dealt with my order even though he was taking a Christmas break. Excellent and unexpected.