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Since You've Bean Gone - Rainbow

I seem to remember from fitting an SD in a Strat many years ago, that the colour coding for the hot wire on an SD is the reverse of what others use. Things may have changed.

I’ve saw Roscoe with Robben at the Jazz Café in Camden. I was upstairs in the restaurant part and he was eating his pre gig meal a couple of tables away. If I hasn’t been with Lady Ez, I may well have had to be the total fanboy and bothered him for a chat (I’m glad I didn’t). Roscoe’s CV is obviously far beyond just jazz tinged blues, but that’s where I discovered him in The Blue Line and then with another of my guitar heroes - Eric Johnson. Roscoe’s instructional video is still one of the best all round bass resources I’ve seen. Tommy is the king of the shuffle and what impresses me most is his (and Chris Layton’s) ability to be just behind the beat, giving that lazy/dirty feel, even during extended fills, Pride & Joy being a prime example.

There he is! Nice to hear from you and that things are moving along in a positive manner.

I think looking at the style of particular players is a good way to go. My two favourite, blues centric bass players (at least they have been in the past) are Roscoe Beck and Tommy Shannon. Roscoe’s work with Robben Ford and Tommy’s with SRV are worth a look.

Rocket Cathedrals - Be Bop Deluxe

Empty Rooms - Gary Moore

White Queen (As It Began) - Queen

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

To be fair, if there are flames everywhere, wondering whether or not there is a server room to consider, doesn’t enter the thinking, especially as using a gaseous retardant externally is an exercise in futility. If the building that contains the server room is on fire, it’s going to cook eventually.

Plenty of room, pull up a chair (socially distanced of course).

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

Carly Simon rhyming apricot with gavotte in Your So Vain. Just don’t.

Ice In The Sun - Status Quo

And the overly long Serengeti afterwards. In fact that whole, stanza is a mess.

Glad that worked, been there shorted that. 😆 Looks great, BTW.

Cough is the rhyme crime in Don’t Stand, as Nabokov wrote Lolita, which pertains to the main theme of the song - jailbait. Still clunky as F, though.

Sounds like you may have a short with the copper tape, unless a wire has come adrift of course.

If they could make the L for Leith or Linlithgow, etc, I’d be there.

Spirit of Radio was first exposure to Rush, always liked it, so many changes of pace and style in one song, almost the epitome of prog. But like @BigRedX that voice was so Marmite and SoR remained the only track I could listen to. However, move forward a couple of decades or so and I started listening to Planet Rock and I was more and more exposed on Rush’s canon, particularly their ‘80s output. Then something just clicked, it wasn’t the bass playing, the drums or the fine guitar playing. Somehow, I managed to get past the high tenor and it all made sense, then Geddy’s voice seemed just right, especially as his ranged had dropped from the ‘70s. Of course now his voice has gone the way of most ageing singers, which is sad, but he just needs to adjust, with songs like The Temples Of Syrinx being left behind, or at least the original delivery.

Hot For Teacher - Van Halen

The Professor certainly triggered a number of things from one of those pad thingies.

If I wasn’t an hour and a half’s drive away, I’d be right there with you (I used to be just 20 mins from the Epsom store), still might be, although Edinburgh is probably easier to get to.

The very definition of multi tasking. I’m a late comer to Rush, Geddy’s voice always putting me off previously. Nowadays, having come to terms with Dirk’s vocal delivery, my day is always so much better when Rush are played on the radio. The era from Permanent Waves to Counterparts contains my favourite work (I’m odd for really liking Presto and Bones). All three of them are musical geniuses IMO, Neil Peart was just amazing and Lerxt is one of the finest rhythm guitarists in the World, even before you get to his lead work.

It even looks better with the Sadowsky knob array. I remember playing a Blade donkey’s years ago, IIRC it was very nice and as a Sad preamp tone lover, I can only imagine this being the dog’s dangly bits.