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Giving kids the opportunity would be a good thing, but like someone said above - many come to music after the school years - it tends to be in the teens when kids take to a particular band/style/genre and wish to get involved. Having been a teacher in some grim areas, I know well that if you give certain kids an instrument to take home, it will be on sale to fund beer and fags down at the local car boot sale come Sunday morning. Probably not the most popular notion, but that's life...

First heard him play years ago with the Fever Dream album. Great stuff! Then he joined Poison and I thought "Ugh!..." and lost interest, me being young and idealistic and all that crap. Then last year I heard Winery Dogs and thought Holy sh*t, the guy is massively talented, and now I gotta work back through his career and pick up what I missed.

*giggle*

I love Stingrays. I got 2 of them. It feels like you can really get hold of 'em and dig in. And they have that distinctive funky bit of chunk in the attack. Having said that, they're not necessarily suitable for everybody or every type of music. Just spent a year in a rock and roll band and I used my jazz predominantly for those gigs. Seemed more appropriate in sound and look. Horses for courses...

<<First gig slot with my new covers band The Badly Stuffed Bears>> What a great band name!!

Tywarnhayle Inn at Perranporth last night for my last official gig with the rock'n'roll band, although I have agreed to step in occasionally, as their prospective new dude is in other bands too... a good night!

Bloody good gig at Out Of The Blue in Porthleven. Good range of people, plenty of room, plus it is sufficiently far out of town that we could crank it til midnight with the doors open. Niiice!!

^^^^ Jesus.....

Damn good band, damn good album. More please!

Good gig at The Ship in Mevagissey. It's one of the few gigs I wear ear plugs because we pretty much play in a box there, and I'd be bloody deaf afterwards if I didn't. Another bonus is that I get to hear the tasty hi-hat moves that the drummer does, which I would normally miss in the confusion....

Crikey.... that's rather nice....

Cracking gig in the Swordfish in Newlyn. It wasn't the tightest gig we've played, and it was hotter than a Nagasaki bomb-dodger's sandal in there, but we went down a storm.

Played the Star Inn at Vogue last night. Good gig, made even better by a load of my mates turning up. Much good-natured heckling ensued and a great time was had by all.

hahaha!

About 65-70 I'd say. I was outside having a fag after the gig and this drunken woman is sort of leaning up against me, started running one of her hands over my chest, then down on to my abs, then...er... further south. Her husband was sat at the bar inside, too. Shameless hussy! I wonder if she was that frisky when she was younger - she looks like she'd have been a bit of a looker 30 years ago....

Played the Buff Club in Penzance last night - first gig in that place, so we were pleased that we went down well. Afterwards, some old dear grabbed my junk. I think I need counselling....

I love a bit of Twisted Sister. Fun rock'n'roll from a band that don't take themselves too seriously - something that is missing in a lot of bands.

The Rig of Death just got more awesome with the addition of a Genz Benz Streamliner 900. Oh yeahh....