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7 minutes ago, DJpullchord said:

No help for many of us.

Indeed. I didn’t get a penny and worked throughout but know colleagues and business owners that were kept afloat by it.

Ask 10 different people about Covid and get 10 different responses. They locked down too late, they shouldn’t have locked down, they protected the elderly at the expense of the young. They killed the elderly by moving them from hospital wards to care homes. They provided vaccines for all, they forced vaccines on everyone for a fake pandemic etc

Edit: One thing is for sure it cost a fortune, there were some massive c0ck ups and we will be paying for it for years.

Just now, NancyJohnson said:

 

Aah, to be old enough to remember when discussions about Fender's 70s QC always achieved consensus that a high percentage of their basses were dogs.  Not the dogs.  Now they're considered vintage.

 

 

Is it possible that the instruments that have survived 5 decades without being parted out, destroyed etc were the good ones? Fender churn out a massive number of instruments every year but there are not that many 50+ year old ones available.

28 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

It's also a little bit misleading t give a national average; many folk had no help or furlough money at all. Just sayine'. 

The link goes into some detailed critiques and further reading for those that are interested. The breakdown I gave is just a soundbite from the BBC.

10 hours ago, DJpullchord said:

It’ll take many of us years to recover from the financial problems Covid dished up. No furlough or any meaningful help from the government. Tories eh.

Don’t want to get political but £400 billion or around £6000 per head was spent by the government (including around £70 billion on furlough). There was colossal waste and mismanagement but to say that there was no help is a little misleading.

Covid-19: How much has it cost?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60924286

Lack of surplus income I would think. Borrowing is getting more expensive and harder to do and inflation is still not moving in the right direction. Political unrest is not helping matters. 

another week another ridiculous prices thread. these things don’t happen in a vacuum.

26 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

If they came to play in the field in front of our cottage, I would probably not even look out of the window. Not a fan; never have been. 

“Get orrff  my land” and take yer slapperty slap racket with you! 

😉

It’s a Bitsa, Stingray neck, home finished body, G&L bridge. Photos taken a while back before it was properly set up and a few finishing touches to be completed.

Edit: I can’t see many bridges being replaced on a genuine Stingray as:

1. They are decent bridges 

2. They frequently have the serial number on them.

3. There would be some ugly holes to cover up.

4. If you changed your mind s after getting rid of the original bridge you would have a hell of a job getting a replacement.

teenage riot - sonic youth 

big in japan - tom waits

suspect device - slf

3 minutes ago, Paolo85 said:

Interesting thought. I often wonder, given that not everybody gets their instrument setup after purchase, how much of an instrument's reputation is based on stuff like that.

I have only owned one but it was a decent instrument regardless of set up.

I could not get on with the width of the neck, but there was a quality and attention to detail that made the bass stand out from the cheaper Fenders and Squires.

Pickups had a genuine vintage tone that suited the instrument, threaded saddle bridge was nicely made, anodised pick guard and the paint work and colour selection was quality and had obviously been given some thought. 

Its a good bass and the second hand instruments are a bit of a bargain IMO. 

hard to handle - black crowes 

Most likely either:

The Cure / Head on the Door 

JAMC / Psychocandy 

or The Pogues /  Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.

Would have been original copies. If recorded by me whatever tape I could find cheapish in a multi pack from Woolworths.

questions - buffalo springfield

answer - its a play on the song lyrics 

empty cans - the streets 

4 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Idles?

Yep and Yola Carter 

11 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

 

Recently I overheard a builder singing the chorus of Cant Get You Out of My Head, which on that basis would put the writers behind one of Kylie's biggest hits among the greats

And I wouldn’t dispute that. A couple of decades at the top of the charts would suggest that Kylie her band and her songwriters are doing something right.

Just now, Rich said:

They're still humming the tunes because you can't get away from the bloody things  said band are still wheezing out the same songs in their 80s.

Ah well, at the end of the day it's all subjective. Some people like 'em. Me, I wish they'd never picked up a mic/guitar/comb & bog paper.

For me they wrote a bunch of truly great tunes in the 1960s and early 1970s apart from Charlie Watts (RIP) I don’t really care much about anything that they have done since. That said any pub band that could write Paint it Black, Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man, Satisfaction, Gimmie Shelter, Start me up, Wild Horses (Flying Burrito bros version is fantastic), Angie, You can’t always get what you want etc is not going to be playing in pubs for long.

20 minutes ago, Rich said:

The Stones. I've long said that they're not the Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band in the World, they're the Luckiest Pub Band in the World.

I once overhead a discussion where someone claimed that the measure of a great songwriter is whether the window cleaner, postie, builder will still be humming their tunes a couple of decades later. On that bases the luckiest pub band in the world are doing pretty well.

loverman - nick cave

punish me with kisses - the glove 

sweet talkin’ guy - the chiffons 

battle of the beanfield - levellers