Daz39

Now that’s what I call a hollow-bodied guitar!

I'm of the '76 vintage. Wonder what would be available that was decent from that year?

Top tune!

There was a huge thread on the Becos comps (in addition to the review thread above) - (think it started with the CompIQ and covered the mini and whatever the biggest version is called eventually). Very highly specced pieces of kit and seem to do the business.

Ooh - looks like a hill feature for a gaming table. Quick - someone roll for initiative.

Max Webster - The Party (basically a compilation of their 6 studio albums, live album and assorted extra tracks that span their recording career 1976-81.) They were on the Anthem label with Rush, opened for the former for many years on Canadian tours, and I suppose are what Rush might have been if Rutsey had stayed in the band. Quite enjoying some of this - so much music that makes it in one place and nowhere else (5 Gold and 1 Platinum album in Canada).

Yeah - I'm on your side here. I was trying to point out the reason that 'Made in the USA' is a bigger thing to your country than 'Made in *insert X nation*' is to many other countries - especially ours.

it's a (mis)perception of quality (in some cases - I'm not for a second doubting Mesa are quality-kit) - but mainly a statement of patriotism. The US is a very patriotic sort of place. The 'regular, down-to-earth' citizen stands for the Anthem before ball games at their kids' little league, and probably has a modest-sized US flag hanging from their porch. They don't have attacks of existential dread about St Georges Day and whether we ought to encourage or discourage patriotism (just not too much, and especially not at football matches). They can be embarrassed about all sorts of things their Nation has done in the past (or present) yet still remain proud to be American and the not be afraid to show it. We're just more reserved and think it's weird

My word!

Doesn’t need to be a ‘Business account’ just a named account. My Wife started with just using her current account with it, before opening one for the business and transferring the connection.

We use Sumups in my wife's business. One older machine that needs the phone app to connect, another one is Solo and can do that or uses it's own 4G to connect. I think they charge 1.69% fees. On a busy market you can have signal problems if everyone's hammering the nearest mast, and occasionally the actual app will go down, but from speaking to other traders who use all of the available products: Square, iZettle etc. they're all about as reliable as each other. We have so many customers who pay with card or phone contactless and don't carry cash - especially at festivals or fairs. More regular markets or events in town centres ted to be a mix of cash and card.

Agree - Aenima has some great songs, (although separately I am not a big fan of the general lyrical crudeness of their earlier work). Lateralus is mind-bendingly immense. If all their albums were like that I'd understand why they take so long between them!

Ooh

ooh you're a funky liquid. Dancing Juice!

He's a busy chap!

@GisserD does 3D printed smaller enclosures for the FI. (routine PSA)

They'd only done 3 albums by then - pretty much the same thing!

His fingers are pretty worn too...

Wait, not that I’m decreeing that anyone has to do such a thing, but Mark has a few bob and is a good sort, I just couldn’t see any info on that link, just a few rusty guitars and battered acoustics, meh…

It doesn’t say, but I guess some proceeds will go to good causes? Crikey there’s some expensively purchased Tele’s!!

I like their ambition, but it's too 'noisy' to listen to without 100% focus - I can't commute to it and know which song is currently playing, for instance. It doesn't help that the drummer seems to play fills 75% of the time. He is very good at it though.