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Pete Goodall, by any chance?

I used to abuse a 1 x 15 Sessionette 100 very badly in the late 1980s - extended bass feedback with my Horner Verithin at close quarters produced something gorgeous noises that were probably not very healthy for the speaker cone. I’m constantly amazed it carried on working and somehow it kept up with a loud drummer and two Peavey Backstages cranked up full.

Alternatively, time to Shake You Donkey Up 🙂

But only if he uses his green Telecaster 🙂

I don’t do FB, but thanks for the info

Oh, my Sabre is my daily driver

I concur, that is pretty sweet

Looking forward to it Welcome to the ‘79 Sabre club anyhow 👍 (mine’s a natural blonde that I’ve had for 26 years)

A different beast, I know, but I cannot say my 1967 Verithin has a particularly high action

Gardening at Night - REM Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC English Garden - Roddy Frame Eric The Gardener - Divine Comedy In the Garden - Van Morrison In Bloom - Nirvana

I will confess that I never have been much of a Rush fan and never took much notice of them, so I was surprised to be told by a few people that I looked like Geddy Lee toward the back end of the 90s - this pic was taken in 2002. The weirdest bit - after I had learned who he was and a couple of years after this, I was visiting Land's End in Cornwall on holiday and I will swear Geddy walked right past me - my wife did a double take, too!

Plug for my favourite French band from the late 70s and early 80s, Téléphone

Likewise. I have a pair of Whirlwind cables I must have bought in 1988 that have been gigged ever since and still get regular use. I only just replaced a GK 2x10 cab that has done sterling service since 1993 with a Barefaced One10 about a month and a half ago. The item I've had the longest, though, is a Marshall guitar amp I've had since 1982, but but I hardly ever play guitar these days so that lives in the loft. Edit: I told a lie! I have a Stylophone that I got probably for a birthday or Xmas circa 1975.

This sounds like the British Invasion of the USA in the 1960s, but we are on the receiving end this time 🙂

I have an OLP MM3 that I bought new about 15 years ago to see how I would get on with a 5 string. It was a cheap impulse purchase from a local music shop and I still have it. For the money and of its time, it's a decent enough instrument (I gigged with it). It's really not the same as a real Stingray, though - the big difference is that the OLPs are passive. The exception is the Tony Levin signature model which does have a preamp. Everything else is different enough that it won't give you much of an idea what an SR is like. My point of comparison is a 2015 Stingray 5 fretless, so I would have to acknowledge that's hardly the same beast either However, I played enough fretted ones before I settling on that. I'm not sure what the decade between buying the OLP and actually getting a 'proper' 5 string says about it...

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1510180452' post='3404559'][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If anyone has any tid bits on The Rattles or Cliff Bennett please share.[/font][/color][/quote] I don't think they much of an impact on your side of the pond, but about ten years later, Chas Hodges, Dave Peacock and [font=sans-serif]Mick Burt[/font] of [i]Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers[/i] went on to be[i] Chas 'n' Dave[/i] together Rabbit, rabbit...

It must be noted that Macari’s closed their shop on Denmark Street a few weeks ago and are now only on Charing Cross Road.

Count me firmly in the 'love it' camp. [quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1503122510' post='3355807']I've not followed Fagen specifically but I liked Steely Dan.[/quote] [i]The Nightfly[/i] came out when I was fifteen, so I kind of came into Steely Dan backwards by discovering them through this album by Fagen. Ever since, it's been one of my reference albums when checking out new audio gear (along with [i]Pirates[/i] by Rickie Lee Jones, with which it shares Donald Fagen, Dean Parks, Chuck Rainey and Randy Brecker in the credits). It gets a lot of listens.

Well, the page on Reidys' blog linked to in the OP on this thread been removed entirely. Google cache shows there was a note added before it was taken down https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YwWZfKd-CeQJ:https://www.reidys.com/blog/rosewood-no-more-fender-cites-1901/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari [quote=Reidys]DISCLAIMER: Yesterday, we posted this article based on information received from Fender EMEA stating that they would not be using rosewood as an option for 'necks' (fingerboards) on future models. However, this morning, it has been clarified by Fender that this will only be the case on selected models, and not the entire range. More updates to follow...[/quote] Make of all that what you will.

[quote name='Luulox' timestamp='1481137460' post='3190006'] Kate Bush is to blame apparently. Something about a live album. [/quote] [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1481157788' post='3190195'] I'd say it more demonstrates the wholesale shift to streaming music than downloading it. [/quote] A combination of the two accounts for it pretty well. Digital download volumes are 30% lower than their peak in 2012 and Kate's relatively expensive triple album was at the top of the chart.

[quote name='overdriver' timestamp='1480817844' post='3187344'] I bought it from Pete Briquette, who played it onstage at Live Aid in 85 There're pics somewhere, [/quote] http://liveaid.free.fr/rewind/abc/pages/006boomtownrats.html

Unless you're after a completely different song that I've never heard of, it's Woody and Dutch, not Wendy and Dutch HTH

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1475493988' post='3146303']What might make a significant difference is which half of your brain a run or tune comes from when you are composing on guitar, bass or otherwise. One half of the brain is said to be creative or "romantic" the other is said to be logical or "classical". If you consider that notes are formed largely with the fretting hand on a guitar more than with the plucking hand, it might have a subtle influence on how a tune goes. I suppose you could say similarly that the rhythmic part of a tune comes a bit more from the plucking hand. Because the opposite side of the brain is responsible for each side of the body it does my head in thinking about it so I try not to. It's probably a lot of rubbish anyway. [/quote] Indeed it is. The 'Left brain/right brain' myth of cognitive style took hold in the 70s and has proven very difficult to eradicate. As a metaphor for different ways of thinking, it may be useful. It has been proven to be scientific bunkum, however.

Omar was behind me in the queue at the till of Currys in Croydon last month. He was buying a vacuum cleaner. Edit: Not seen Stevie Wonder in there yet, though

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1471036858' post='3110213'] Don't know how many of you remember Chris Bryant Music, the big shop on the corner of Charing X Rd with the orange signs? Those signs now read "Wunjos" and the shop is being refurbed right now ... [/quote] Yes, after Bryant's moved out it was latterly [i]Tom's Drums[/i]. They closed at the end of May. Wunjo did a lot of work at the beginning of July making it all orange and it's been quiet since. From my conversations with the owner Brian last year, it looks like the guitar shop will be moving in when their current home at No. 20 comes to being refurbished.