Happy Jack

They only give you charts if you're not a reader ...

Oh do stop ...

The theme to Get Carter. Seriously.

I don't think that even rates a 'quirky'. It's more 'heart-stoppingly ugly'.

I'll certainly be far more careful in future about which kazoo I pick up ...

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Well that's a New Year's Resolution right there ...

https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/guitarist-drummer-bassiest-and-keyboardist-wanted-t1132426.html So he's looking for "Guitarist, Drummer, Bassiest and Keyboardist" which suggests that he's a singer. Then he adds, "If you have any microphones for gigs that is a plus." So I guess he doesn't have his own. But he follows that with "You must have your own gear." Which is nice. Probably best not ask if he has a PA.

Well he's chopped off roughly a quarter of the bass, but at least he's refrained from describing it as "quarter-sawn".

But also specify that you haven't broken your umbrella or walking stick.

Love it ... I bought two.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/the_t.racks_dbmeter.htm Seriously. It has no microphone (that I can see) so can only measure the strength of the signal passing through it ... on the way to the powered PA units with their own volume controls. Erm ...

Prices aren't outrageous (quite sensible for some) but I really don't get the 3-pickup thing.

It's a choice we all have to make ... eventually.

You need timing to go widdly-widdly-widdly-wheeeee! ?

You mean, did he pop his shuftie?

Looks like he used a fair number of genuine Ricky parts. Did you actually save a significant amount as opposed to a genuine Rick?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sonoros-8-String-Tapper-Ladder-Guitar/192766207149?hash=item2ce1c2e4ad:g:aq0AAOSwJ3RcHR8b

but the one that really gets me is the stringing at the tuners ... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-Bass-Guitar-2-string-fretless-upright-bass/173698896849?hash=item287142d3d1:g:4K0AAOSweRdcEReo

Incidentally, I do know how to construct a sentence that doesn't include the word "really". Really I do ...

The show starts on Wednesday 23rd January. If you've never done (i) a really big music show, (ii) Southern California, (iii) a mid-winter break to somewhere really warm & pleasant, then you really should consider doing this. Silvie and I had a really great time, saw some amazing stuff, met some lovely people, and came away with a bunch of memories that aren't going away any time soon. To get our money's worth out of the flights we started by doing a road-trip to Las Vegas before the show, and then another road trip up the coast to San Francisco afterwards. We were helped (a lot!) by the fact that my sister lives in Pasadena, but chances are we'd have done it anyway. The show can be bloody hard work, of course, but it's good work! It's fun and it's cool and you are in no way 'tied to the stand' for day after day ... there's plenty of time to roam the show and see what's there. Feedback = 5 stars

Actually, in truth the song that gets called the most often is, you know, that one, you must know it, it goes dum-dum-dum-di-dum, no wait a minute that's the keyboard bit, but anyway it's really famous, I thought everyone knew it.

For some reason I had always assumed that Sverdlovsk was the name of a city. Quite surprised to find that it's an administrative region instead.

Damn! I just knew that I'd paid over the odds for this ...