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How did it go? Well, there was dancing and whooping and clapping, but what it sounded like is a mystery. The venue has its own PA and the management set the levels via a tablet (except the bass, which no one told me to turn up or down) and the PA was too loud for me, painful at times, even with earplugs and I had to strain to hear my rig, which was right behind me (very small performance area). Turning on the VTDI added some top end that helped but I didn’t want a driven signal for all the tunes. Once we stopped playing, the place emptied, so it’s nice to think they stayed for us. Usual incomprehensible conversations with well oiled punters before the last set, I nodded and smiled.

Spice Up Your Life - The Spice Girls

They Call Me The Breeze - J J Cale

Drift Away - Dobie Gray

Only 15 hours left to order one, for this run at least.

The Bread’s Too Big Without You - The Police

There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Pelvis - Kirsty MacColl

That was a great watch. He really is very articulate. Here’s the track he talked about at the start:

Can the Can - Suzy Q

Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting

In Haydn - Pearl Jam

Whole Lotta Loft - LZ

And increased diameter tuning pegs, making it easier to use long scale strings. The pickups look different from the original Roswells too.

My Mod band will be in Dundee this coming weekend.

Cold Sweat - James Brown

Part of the Union - The Strawbs

Trampled Underfoot -LZ

It’s surprising how much a couple of millimetres make. However, reaching the E string with your pinky might have as much to do with the body’s ergonomics than the neck width/hand size. Most short scales flare out too, especially those with 19mm spacing at the bridge, Hofners being an exception to this IIRC, so you still might find it an issue. I don’t have overly large hands (but not small) and there are fingerings that I struggle with up at the dusty end (Pino’s outro to Tear Your Playhouse Down, for instance), what I tend to is find a different fingering that negates some of the high frets on the E string.

Ah, but it will niggle you and it could hinder your performance. I had a Basic VM, it played great and although it sounded fine, there was something characterless about it and I eventually moved it on. Thinking back, a change of electronics was probably the correct way forward (I forget what I did next, it certainly didn’t stick). I be tempted to go Nordstrand, Carey’s products seem to have bags of character and tone.

Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel

When The Levee Breaks - LZ

American Idiot - Green Day