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I always very much liked “don’t lose your head” for the bass part

Yes, some of them can even read and/or do simple sums (fingers allowed)

I am reminded of Blackadder 2 where Edmund attempts to teach baldrick maths

I’ve been to music stores in the US and it is not crazy expensive compared to here. Your dollar price is what we pay in pounds and then some more, a dollar gets you 80% of a pound right now

So that’s pretty much everyone on the planet made eligible

Not strictly a gig as such but I’m pleased with myself (at my low level of skill, small beer to some of you) as at an open mic night this week someone fired a song suggestion at me and I had to learn it there and then. I played it through with her when someone else was performing and she said I’ve got it down well enough for us to do it next time. My little one had called and asked if I could come back so took an early bath. I struggle to learn songs quickly due to getting zero practice time so quite pleased at the affirmation and not messing up with someone watching me closely

I love that your boots get the focus from you. However the meaty stuff is “what bass did you play?”,

Use less boiled-down rat, Stig varnish works better

No it’s a proto rickenbacker, the plough share is a dead giveaway as the inspiration for the bridge and pickup cover

You can just find them lying around, this is likely an 1864 vintage rickenbacker so proper vintage, look at the relic mojo

I still play my vintage (brand) stingray copy - it does it all

Ssshhh ! You’ll spoil the magic

So @Andy I’m a Java programmer and there is this thing called max_int and I think you may have bust it. When storing a variable in memory you always need to bear max_int in mind but since it is a mere 2147483647 you may wish to consider long in future

It’s probably shit I mean “unsuitable” then. But it works. What a dichotomy advertising has brought us to …

Ampeg ba108 gets my vote

I wasn’t questioning your taste, and I’d agree however its not easy to make tort that’s quite as nice these days was what was made years ago

Isn’t the top one “old tort” which contained horrendous chemicals and isn’t legal to make any more using those ingredients and methods? A somewhat unfair comparison I feel

@MartinB “ugly tort”? You have less taste than Donald trump. Tort is fabulous 👍

Unless it is tort, in which case it is innately magical and brilliant

Are you unaware of the 11th commandment? The fire writing on the tablets was a bit large and they couldn’t fit #11 on however it says “thou shalt hold St Leo holy and thou shalt not disrespect a Fender” so I’m forecasting fire, brimstone and hot pokers for you, mister”

Are you on a mission from God and likely to order dry white toast ? seriously, I didn’t have an old band as we lived at the outer edges of the back of what was some way farther away than Beyond, but I really wish that I had had one i know a drummer who described his teenage years as non stop gigging every night and I thought “you lucky b’stard”

Maybe the staff were riding horses and muttering “stand and deliver”? Possibly also a flintlock pistol in there somehow ?

Tv electronic bh250 gets my vote

… you forgot “and make sure that you listen to a lot of barely informed, most contradictory conjecture on basschat and try to distill a picogram of rational information out of it”. There you go 👍