SpondonBassed

No. Bugger off! Heeheehee. You may as well ask Mr Trump to stop twittering like an idiot.

He was one of my heroes until he started showing signs of cocaine abuse. Apparently, the father in law's catch-phrase of Come on down!, had little or no effect on his habit. Growing up in sixties Dublin as an adopted mixed race child must have played a large part in forming his personality and charisma. Such a pity he is not still with us. One of the coolest artists ever.

Are you including Nile Rodgers in that statement?

Of course, you could always ask @Jeff Berlin himself for pointers.

Nice job Jim! Re: the scratchplate. I also have a suggestion. I think the shape is fine but it could do with a contrasting outline, maybe a couple of mm or so, to define it better against the background of black stripes. As it is though; I'd say it's a looker.

How about a vacuum bag like @Christine used on the Dragon Triplets?

I hope he continues to do things like the Warwick Fuss on the Bus vid.

Fixed. I'm kidding. I owned a sunburst fretless J once and sent it back because of the dead spot on the neck. Nowt to do with the burst nor the huge headstock.

Welcome Phil.

It isn't the best idea to go to a fancy dress party dressed as Donald Duck. (Funny. I could only find the clip in Hungarian Language)

I believe there is an operation for that.

Nah... Scots' national dress. (To the left or to the right depending on preference.) These days you'd have to take into account that most famous of Donalds in world affairs today. If he turned up trooserless, in person, so to speak, it would not only be indecent but it would also be decorated with ginger pubes!

Aw cute. He must have been practising his hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Can anyone offer any first hand knowledge of a body or organisation that aims to help disabled musicians please?

Yes. Worse than that... I was living in Ireland at the time and the only channels available were RTE, UTV and Auntie Beeb. I seem to remember they ALL went Scots for the night. These days I think of it as Scotland aversion therapy.

I might be able to help. A sufficiently large gap is sometimes referred to as a chasm.

Stop with the relentless enlightenment already.

It's one way of cutting down on finger callouses I suppose.

That's a bit of knowledge that I feel much better off knowing. Thank you for that.

Don't tempt me to search the dark web Silvia. I am quite sure that someone somewhere has mastered that technique already. Still and all, I take your point.

I'm just grateful that TV doesn't get taken over by the Scots on NYE any more. I mean, just because the English can't hold their drink and run a TV station, we had such weirdness when I was little. Although years had passed since the trauma, I was still afraid that Donald would turn up without troosers at any minute last night. Happy New Year to you all!

Angelique Kidjo maims it: Angelique Kidjo nails it:

Oh yes. Have you never bought one of those compilations that used to be commonplace where all of the songs were covers? They'd get the instrumentation, arrangement and overall delivery as the original but it would never quite work. They were playing to a score, I'm sure. They'd have to have heard the originals but they never seemed to actually get them. Maybe you are too young to remember all those cassette albums that claimed to be by original artists but weren't.

Sorry to pick up on this Marco but I have to ask @Christine; is that your fretting or plucking hand? I can't work out which or even if all four fingers in that image are from the same hand. It looks like the index and ring fingers from both hands to me. Thanks for the warning both.

Well said. You could say that musicians loosely fall into two categories; Those who have an inbuilt meter which allows them to play swings and roundabouts with an otherwise geometrically regular rhythm and those who adhere strictly to that rhythm because, after all, it is written there in black and white. Both sorts are employable. Both have their merits. Relatively few folk fall into both camps until they've gained many years experience but with personal growth, there is a convergence of the two schools of playing over time. That's just how it strikes me as an amateur. I've probably got it completely wrong.