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Is that Remco Hendrix? He’s a funky piece of something on a fretless. First saw his videos a few years ago. Almost made me give up!

Ooh fancy.

£124.99, zoiks!

Metallica - Helping Hands... Live & Acoustic. Woah, different. Some extra musicians giving it a country/folky twang - and Hetfield sounds really good when he's not always Barking or Yeahing. (Although he is good at that, to be fair)

Well, he is 57. Nerves aside, he was really good last year- both on NYE and at Glasto (he did lots of festivals too, as my facebook page keeps telling me), and released a new album. He's settled well into middle-aged muso: geetar, drums, singing, having fun with the band and the crowds, unafraid to take the mick out of himself. And he still has really decent hair (git, I started losing mine at 15). His band were all good. I watched some of the Hootenanny. Let me guess: was Rowland Rivron on again? Jo Brand perchance? Same old, same old for a lot of it - although some good acts do pop up. I thought the Sugababes phoned it in, was their some extra vocals underneath? I'm glad I missed Rod Stewart. Paul Jones sounded amazing for 80 something.

He made the judge’s houses on X Factor yonks ago.

Rick Astley on Beeb 1 is much better.

Only slightly more opaque than the Lakland model range!!

Hello from the south of the city!

Cor- times must be 'ard - you can't even afford new jeans!

Jason Newsted - Load and Reload. I thought that was his collection of Sadowsky's to be fair.

And that itself Is marketing spin that the papers lapped up. Iceland is struggling with debt: £550m of bonds to repay by 2025. They also admit they can’t afford to pay staff more than minimum wage, when many competitors have moved to the unofficial Real Living Wage. There’s no mention of how much they’ll save or how much of that they’ll pass on, and no mention of paying staff more. They could have done a cheap in-house video ad and blitzed social media with it instead.

Green Lung: Woodland Rites - on a recommendation. Really digging this: def got some good folky vibes with the stoner sludge beneath.

Had to laugh - that ridonculously expensive Alembic on Reverb has one comment about it playing like butter... I now know why supermarket Lurpak needed to be kept in plastic boxes with security tags on earlier in the year!

How long 'til DemonFX have a version out for £79...

I was in 6th form and a mate brought a nylon-string cheapy classical guitar to school; he was doing Music lessons (which were all classical and which I had no interest in.) This was about 1994 so we did some noodling learning some basic chords for popular music of the time like Alice in Chains, Nirvana, etc. My Dad had a small vinyl collection that included Dark Side of the Moon, that I listened to at home. A Lot. He also had some Shadows discs which I enjoyed. Sure enough, on my 18th Birthday, after following 18 clues (no one else do this?) I opened the loft hatch and there was a Jim Harley Strat in CAR, with budget amp. I played that thing 'til my fingers were short, and learned lots of basic bits of songs I liked. I was convinced it was a poor guitar and I couldn't play any faster than David Gilmour (my first guitar muse) - but at Uni my mate Jason, who was a shredder picked it up and widdled out some Bach-esque lines on it. First term of Uni - 1995, I met a chap at the D&D club (oh yes. unashamed nerd/geek/dweeb) - who was a few years older, and a massive Rush fan. He introduced them to me at his place by putting Hold Your Fire on. I heard the bass chords to Force Ten and suddenly guitar strings were too thin and puny for me. I bought a Yamaha 4-string, followed the next year by an RBX 5 string when another mate introduced me to Dream Theater - and that was that. TE Boxer Amp then became an SMX250 and I was away, printing bass tabs on the Uni dot matrix printers and Pentium PCs (wow, shiny fast new world of tech!), and playing along to my growing collection of Rush discs and other prog-titles as time went on. Was in a band of sorts at one rehearsal but it fell apart and since then it sort of just stayed as bedroom playing. Then I had kids and it's all away in corners of rooms now but I will get them out when room allows.

Superglue all his volume knobs in place.

He doesn’t have a basement yet, give him time!

ooh metal fingerboard for Bass. Makes me think of the tracks Tony Levin played on for the Yes/sort-of Yes/Nearly Yes album Union. It wasn't all Stick, I'm sure.

Yeah - I have no room for the book right now so audio is the way methinx. I have all of Neil's books on Audible, and they're great in that format. I have a few in print just for the photographs though.

Yeah - with current gas prices it's just a Deko Boiler...!

House upgrading is expensive. Actually everything is expensive thesedays (little bit of politics...) Still - look at the ducting on that: oof!! I see it's in a cosy outside cupboard with the meter? The house we're trying to buy has the boiler in an outhouse behind the garage, boxed in over the 1m lean-to between garage and house, and into the kitchen!

Yeah: someone save the message for posterity!

So now you have Printer GAS and new house with adjoining workshop GAS? Simples...