Maude

Best use of a wah pedal in the history wah pedal usage... evaaar! Think About It - Fleetwood Mac

Sheep! 🤦‍♂️

One of the purple ones sold on eBay a couple of days ago. They look fantastic but I've got a sunburst one that I'll probably sell soon, so no point drooling over the purple ones.

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep - The Cure

Negative Creep - Nirvana

Wednesday Evening Blues - John Lee Hooker

Is Wilcock anything to do with Shergold/Hayman? There's a definite resemblance.

15 Years - The Levellers

You don't want to know the extortionate fee they were charging on the Wish tour then!? 😂

Yes, Smith uses a bass vi a lot for melodies while Simon Gallup plays the 'regular' bass lines.

Jesus Loves You... But I Don't - The Almighty

That doesn't look like the shops storage area. 😁

All You Ever Wanted - Rag 'n' Bone Man

Infected - The The

I remember their version of "I'd Rather Go Blind" on an old Peel sessions tape I had years ago. I had no idea it was Christine.

Babylon's Burning - The Ruts

It always makes me chuckle. Typical Justin Hawkins writing a song with the lyrics "bells end" and "ring in peace".

Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies

The Darkness' Christmas Time (don't let the bells end) seems to have become a Christmas fixture, released 2003. Holy holly berries Batman, is that really nearly 20 years old?!

That's a great picture. Good to see the Eastwood in action.

An absolute beauty of a 1200S has just been posted for sale on the facebook vintage BB group. In France, €1200. Again, nothing to do with me. I need to stop looking at Yamaha's. 😁 https://www.facebook.com/groups/219406111488370/permalink/5928190130609911/

True on both counts.

Not wanting to derail too much but that's the funny thing with saying "when a group gets to that size", and I'm not disagreeing with you. On the Wish tour they were possible at the very height of their career, just had their biggest album yet, Disintegration, and were touring the even bigger follow up album with the biggest hit Friday I'm In Love. So were they bigger then than now? They've certainly not had albums that sold like Disintegration and Wish since. But could they have filled arenas back then like now? Probably not. So why can they now? Or is it just that the way of doing things now seems to be more about five sell out arenas rather than thirty sell out smaller venues. Maybe it's just that going to a rock concert is more acceptable today, whereas years ago it was more rebellious. Who knows, I just know I long for big bands doing tours of lots of the small venues over a handful of arenas or stadiums. I shall now take my grumpy old man hat off. 😁

I guess Robert Smiths voice is still good because he's not straining it all the time. I know there's plenty of songs, and parts in songs, where he is pushing it but there's also a hell of of a lot of softly sung parts. I'd love to have seen them on this tour but a combination of travel, costs and arena shows meant I let it slide. I last saw them at the long gone Cornwall Coliseum on the Wish tour in 92. They played for hours (that's a good thing before anyone starts 😉), even doing two encores, which were long enough for some bands full set, seven songs. I'd love to be able to see them in a smaller venue again but I can't see it ever happening. I'm jealous of all those going.