Frank Blank

Oh that’s because I’m one of those people who would start turning the screw and the neck would fall off, then as I tried to catch the neck before it clattered to the floor I’d stab myself in the eye with said screwdriver, miss catching the neck as the strings pinged off one by one trapping the cat in a ball of sharp strings, then the toilet pedestal would crack and flood the loo. Sirens would be heard approaching the house heralding the arrival of armed police prior to my unexpected shooting, a tragic case of mistaken identity, chance in a million.

I’m quite tempted to take it back up to @skelf a) for a check up b) to see the workshop where it was built and c) to see friends. I could bump seeing friends down to d) (you know, Bass first innit) and slip installing strap locks in at c).

Little did I think Grolsch would be beating Dunlop and Schaller!

As a usually seated player I am a recent convert to a strap which, I have to admit, has made a shed load of positive difference. Having said that I’m already noticing the holes that secure the s strap to the bass are very gradually becoming wider and looser. What are your thoughts on strap locks? Ant favourite brands? Any problems? I’m a little weary of putting them on the ACG, I’d never undertake anything like that, obviously it would go to a luthier.

Hello.

I remember listening to this as a child and for years just thinking of it as a children’s song but as I got older I realised what a brilliant commentary on life it is, it just paints a picture of a simple scene and yet you can hear the machinations of a sinister system ticking behind. I remember having a discussion with a member of Crass about this song, how it was a benchmark and how Seeger manages, in such an almost nursery rhyme way, to covey an actually very bleak view of late 50s early 60s America. Brilliant and absolutely still relevant.

The actual nature of the human condition right there.

Have to = could Need to = might

Which is why I’m going to hell in a handcart.

Do what son?

Hello!

Hey, not at all, I very much think this thread needs a thoughtful voice of reason in juxtaposition to our reactions. It’s easy to tip beer over everyone’s head and burn your bridges but harder to be the more reasonable person. However, I am, by all accounts, unreasonable so I must express that in my responses.

Musicians..? With an ego problem..? Unheard of 😀

All your base are belong to us.

Hello!

Same way a dog uses a lamp post.

I far prefer yours.

Yes, yes you’re right... *throws it under oncoming milk float*

Dude, seriously, let me turn up in your place and do the gig for you, oh my lord.

Oh lord, lord above. What I’d give to be in your position, Sir, go full mayhem, make the accounts look like scenes from Apocalypse Now!

děkuji, na kolečkových bruslích.

Fixed.