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Which reminds me that I was at Bad Company's first London gig after their first album came out. 'Twas at The Rainbow and - as we all realised later - they had the 40 minutes of material that was on the album and f***-all else. They kicked off with Can't Get Enough. Then they played the rest of the album, including Can't Get Enough. Their encore was an extended 20-minute jam of Can't Get Enough. All through the gig there were hundreds of people screaming for them to play something, anything, by Free. They didn't.

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One of the early monster gigs at Knebworth with a line-up to die for ... so good that 40 years later I don't remember anything about the gig except the point when the DJ between bands put on Jilted John. When we got to the appropriate moment, about 40,000 people all yelled "Gordon is a moron" in unison.

In 1981 I was living in a derelict Council block in Roffey Street on the Isle of Dogs. Things had slightly ... erm ... gone to 5h1t for various reasons and this place was like a communal Halfway House for people connected to a certain bunch of wannabe musicians & rockstars who never got anywhere. I had a mattress on the floor in what was once a large bedroom so, when Bruce Bruce (singer for local pub-rockers Samson) needed somewhere to crash for a while he threw another mattress alongside mine and we shared the room for a few months. One day he never came home. Didn't come back for his record collection or his clothes, just vanished. Until he re-surfaced a week later as the new singer for Iron Maiden.

In 1979 I went with a friend to The Nashville Rooms in West Kensington to score some dope. William & I were hanging around the main bar, which was rapidly filling up with a bizarre assortments of mods, rockers, punks and new romantics ... these were people you never saw in one place unless something was kicking off between them. Will had the self-preservation instincts of a lemming and flagged down a passing skinhead to ask what was going on. "It's a great new band called Madness" he shouted. Will and I looked at each other, said "nope, me neither", and we went off to find our dealer.

In the late 70s my local was The John Bull in Gunnersbury and I was trying to make it into the pub's pool team. Some Saturday nights I'd be in the back room playing pool while some pub rockers called Streetband played the main room, and the singer would chat up my girlfriend (Isabelle) between sets. He was Paul Young.

And in all fairness some covers are better than the originals.

Well personally, I reckon that the forests will echo with laughter.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/led-zeppelin-win-stairway-to-heaven-copyright-court-case/ar-BB10XI1M?ocid=spartanntp&fbclid=IwAR1GHcQMdRjGlDnGBsV6vwJTTf3umOw6_1diP0g0r8hN0XEa1wFY2XhD7Mk That's all very well, but ... why?

... he's still The King.

At least he's OPEN TO TRADES. Now where's that unwanted Wal of mine?

Guns don't kill people, Guns make YouTube videos ...

I'm pretty much with Hooky on this, but I also note that you seem to be assuming that we all want to see the wood. Quite frankly I don't give much of a toss what wood a bass is made of, and most of my high-end basses (Fender, Mike Lull, Mosrite, Rickenbacker) have solid finishes which means they could be MDF for all I know. If your focus is solely on basses with a natural finish, then I'd suggest that the range of stains, varnishes and coatings out there is so immense that any piece of plywood can be transformed into something more interesting to look at.

Well if they put the Home Counties on lockdown they'd affect about the same number of people as in Northern Italy, which would mean that ... erm ... most people who live & work in and around London would carry on as usual, because most people who live & work in and around London spend most of their time doing that, rather than on travelling around the country/world spreading viruses. The virus is going to spread & we know that. People will die & we know that. Is it the end of civilisation as we know it? Nope.

Gosh, you're all so negative. Don't trample on his dreams. If you want something badly enough then it's bound to happen - I've seen it in loads of Hollywood documentaries. If you build it, they will come. They may fall about laughing, but at least they'll come. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! By the way, has he got the Lego Pirate Ship set?

Reading Basschat. Next question, please ...

CORONAVIRUS FEAR GRIPS WEST LONDON SCENES OF DEVASTATION IN CHISWICK PUNTERS HUDDLE IN DREAD AT HOME Or maybe not ...

When your gig becomes the past, I hope you'll let us all know how it worked out on the night.

Run your drum mics through a mini-mixer of some sort, get the mix right there, then just bring in a stereo pair to the XR18.

Try plugging an acoustic guitar or a double bass through the Hi-Z input ... you'll be very pleasantly surprised.

Incidentally, WFT is a bit like WTF, only with added typos.

This was SO what we crashed into when we first tried to use the XR18. "Oh look!" we said, "They've already got the perfect configuration for vocalists - let's start with that!". So we held a technical rehearsal in a village hall to test everything. Cue an appalling evening of howls, wails and shrieks from the system while @Silvia Bluejay tore her hair out (I haven't any to tear) and we tried to work out WFT was going on. System reset, start all over ... greatly improved by keeping everything 'vanilla' until we had a clue what we were doing. In our defence, I will repeat Silvie's earlier point about the manual being the most hopeless piece of 5h1t I've ever seen.