tegs07

Arguably Henry Ford started it and allowed the masses to get their mitts on expensive luxury items. Generally quality goes up and prices come down. Occasionally there are mistakes and companies reputations can suffer if they aren’t rectified. There are obvious environmental issues as well as alienated and low wage workers as a result but that’s another issue. That said in 2022 an aspiring muso can head out with less than £200 in their pocket and pick up an instrument that with a basic setup would be good enough to record and gig with even at the highest level if no snobbery was involved. This is the legacy of Ford/Fender.

killing an arab - the cure

A real man would use a length of barbed wire

same old scene - roxy music

racing with the sun - chinese man

chocolate jesus - tom waits

nobody knows you when you’re down and out - bessie smith

cripple creek ferry - neil young

What a perfect combination…

ride a white swan - t.rex

bathroom skank - the upsetters

after midnight - jj cale

dreamtime - the cult

young man’s blues - mose allison (or check out kruder and dorfmeisters version)

dickie davies eyes - half man half biscuit

loaded - primal scream

I think i am getting old. Listening to far more Jazz these days. On at the moment. The Bad Plus. Lovely.

too much pressure - selector

whorehouse blues - motörhead

wasting my young years - london grammar

It’s to do with what you declare as your source of income. As mentioned previously a bunch of algorithms assess the associated risk based on that profession and pass the cost of insurance against that risk onto the price you pay for cover.

The insurance companies are basically implying you are a potential alcoholic and high risk. I had similar issues when working in a pub.

eggs and sausage (in a cadillac with susan micheldon) - tom waits

let’s go to bed - the cure