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I second that and raise a Neil Peart Drum Solo live. I'm not a drummer and I loved it. My best mate's Wife, who is a brass band musician, came to an R30 gig with us (she had a mild interest in Rush before then) and loved it so much she became a drummer.

@GisserD is a 3D maestro methinx, he does the Future Impact small enclosures.

I have D'addario halfwounds on my Peavey and they are lovely - smooth to play, but not totally thumpy. They last ages too. Edit: had a look to see which ones: ENR71 45-100. Crikey: £51 from D'addario website. I think I've had mine on 5+ years - they def. weren't that much! *grumble, cost of living, moan*

Cor you drink a lot of semi-skimmed. Mrs Andyjr1515 must keep you down there for ages!

Not Guilty - Paul Langlois band (guitarist from The Tragically Hip)

In 1997/8, in my 3rd year at Uni, I lived in a Council flat in Walker (it was cheap, ok!) about 1 mile east, and across the Tyne, from Gateshead Stadium. One night Tina Turner played a gig there. The wind was just right and I could hear everything. She was seriously good and energetic, the band were good, and she’d have been late 50s by then, still pumping out 2hr+ shows, dancing in heels. Some songs sound a bit meh on the radio (by any artist), but We Don’t Need Another Hero at stadium volume with crowd participation was spine-tingling. Much respect.

I refer the honourable bass player to the Telephobia thread…

Oh I hear you. my once blonde hair is now sort of brown, sort of not much there, and my stubble is more salt than pepper now. Anyway - @Dood is only prematurely aged from living in Eastern Angular.

Oh I hear you. my once blonde hair is now sort of brown, sort of not much there, and my stubble is more salt than pepper now. Anyway @Dood's not that old - he just lives in East Angular.

Auf der Maur (2004): eponymous release from Melissa, bass player with Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. It's quite good actually.

Or Just for Men!

That's the badger! Good job I don;t play guitar much - Origin do loads of pedals for that too... gah. so nice.

I had some actual spare time yesterday evening with the tv remote so I found the videos by erm that German? Danish? chap who reviews bass gear - it was a comparison and explanation of both the super vintage and the '64. The bass player he had demo'ing them got some really good noises out of them (what a good player too). Someone put me out of my misery and tell me the reviewer's channel/name?!

Now you see - if you did drink and smoke heavily at least you could worry about it less ;)! Where's the Heart or Care emoji! (def. asked this before)

I think, having seen other for sale posts here, Dood is really struggling and has resorted to a bit of a fire sale - and clearing out the accumulated bass gear he rarely uses isn't cutting it - hence the musing that he may seriously have to sell his pride and joy as it's not actually a bass he records/gigs with often enough. But it is obvs his most favouritest inanimate object. The life of a freelancer is a precarious one, especially in a hobby industry where consumers may cut their spending. And yes, his woes in no way lessen other people's. I'm choosing (hah, choosing!) to move house this summer, to a vastly more pricey area, and both my cars are indicating their terminal weariness. Life sucks vis a vis money for 99.5% of us.

Roger Taylor popping up in the interval show.

I do like a pedal with more than one type of knob/slider/toggle...

Lots of his other stuff is up for sale in various for sale sections; I presume in convo he has mentioned to the OP that the Shuker might need to go too* *cost of living crisis innit.

Steve Howe's the closest my interested ears have got to enjoying a rock/jazz* sort of thing - or is he just an aimless noodler on a jazz-style guitar with briliant taste? *I don't mean proper fusion. If there is such a thing. Al Di Meola can certainly noodle in a 3 minute context. Wunderbar

Add an interesting stat from logistics manager: "We ship out 272,000 jars a shift to 43 countries." Gregg Narrator Overdub: "That's enough jam to spread bread all the way to Brazil. AND BACK!"

"Cor, look at the size of that vat. It's Enormous! Stone me!" etc. in hairnet.

Wowsers - that's as mad as a bag of snakes.

That's a whole other forum in itself - it applies to everything people find to talk about. "Well, of course, I never saw any -ism at work, maybe you took it out of context." etc. I can cut them some slack with answering the phone - if one of them is with a customer who is noodling, and the other is in the office on the phone they may not notice it. If I was a customer in the shop and talking to the staff about something I'd be annoyed if they kept stopping to answer the phone. I am still patiently awaiting the new website - mainly because when looking at pics of shiny things on my phone it is clunky to navigate.

Yep - me too, phones, hate them for actual calls.