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OK, I gotta ask - where did Mrs Mep get that from? I so want one...

+1 for The Goat. It was our local when we were living in Berko, and they put some great bands on. Jules and Jules were lovely landlords, too. I miss that pub.

Drop ten kilos and tone up amidships. Improve my sight-reading and ability to transcribe by ear. Should keep me busy for a while 😊

I bought my own. A set of IEMs, the score for The Wall and a day on my own today in a studio. Much better than enduring crap Christmas telly.

I think that's a little unfair. This musical... thing... is clearly the reference piece - the yardstick, if you like - by which any other track's suitability for inclusion on the next Now That's What I Call Music For Budget Hotel Bars album is to be assessed.

It is awesome! I had a play with it at LBGS, and it's a gorgeous instrument - very easy to play, reasonable in the weight drpartment, well finished, nice light action and a lovely tone, at least as far as I could tell. The stand opposite was swamped with a bunch of Spinal Tap wannabes and I eventually had to stop because I was flinching from the noise, even with cans on. But in spite of that, I'm pretty much sold on it!

Okaaayyy... I'm in, so I'd better get those IEMs ordered pronto. I thought I'd breeze it last time, and I've ended up with a new Hercules stand, two more pedals, a 118 cab, a couple of widgets for my Steinberger, a Vox Amplug and a Zoom H2N recorder. Oh, and a keyboard that was going free on the Meadows Share. I think that freebies are exempt, though? So I should be OK, unless we land a gig that needs me to add to my lighting rig, or I find that I can afford a Chowny NT5. Wish me luck...

Queen - Hammer to Fall. Loved that song ever since I first heard it.

My other half and I have been toying with mastering Canon Rock and trotting along to an open mic, just to do exactly that 😉

You won't be disappointed. There's some great stuff on show.

It's well worth a visit. I popped in on Thursday. But sheesh, did it make me feel ancient to see stuff that was throwaway tat back in the day being so lovingly cared for. Forty flippin' years since that album came out. And the merch prices were an eye-opener. Thirty-odd quid for a scrapbook, sixty-five for a repro tour jacket. Ouch.

Good thinking, but... not long after the stabbings at London Bridge yesterday, I had to get the train home. I had a wee wait at the Kross, carrying the Steinberger, and walked right past a group of eight coppers. None of them gave me a second glance. Having said that, if I'd been an Asian guy in his twenties instead of a white woman in her fifties, it might have been a different story.

I've been asked several times if my Steinberger gig bag has a gun in it. Not by Mr Plod though. Which made the bag searches at this year's LBGS all the more daft. I wandered in and out several times for a bit of air and to let my hearing recover. Every sodding time, they insisted on looking in my handbag which had just enough room for my vape, purse and phone, and my hippie rucksack which held a bottle of water, the show programme and a set of cans. Not once did they ask to look in the bag on my back which could easily have been concealing a self-loading rifle. Security theatre at its most tedious.

+100 for this. So far, my current band has had three rehearsals - maybe a total of five hours actual playing together - and I can honestly say I improved more in those five hours than I did in the preceding five months.

Superb idea. I've been looking through the lyrics of our eighties set and come up with a few possibles: Laughing Caroline (although it does sound a bit like a real ale) Silversplit Pigeons from Hell Flailing Fantasy The Kid's New Gear Hm... aye, the OP is right. This is harder than it looks.

And John Kettley is a weather man. S'OK, I'm going...

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I can still recall the awful 'WTF' feeling I had when I first saw a tab. Having said that, when the only thing you can find online is a tab, transcribing it into a stave deffo helps with learning the fretboard quickly.

Step this way and I'll show you. No, it's OK, no need to tell your mates where you're going. We're coming straight back.

And they say the youth of today have no manners... well done, that lassie.

Dead simple.

Thank you all very much, folks! It sounds like the H2N is the way to go, so I'll get one and see how we get on. Thanks to @SubsonicSimpleton for the heads-up about the adapter thread - I do have a camera tripod, so that takes care of mounting it. Have a great weekend, folks. 🤘

As ever, a very timely thread appears on Basschat 🙂 I'm looking for something to record our rehearsals that don't involve miles of electric string or wasting time faffing about with the studio PA. At present our lead guitarist is using his phone, but I'd like to capture a better quality sound if possible. As we all stand in a circle, ideally, I'd like to just stick it in the middle and hit Record. I appreciate that this might not give broadcast-quality audio or a properly balanced mix, but any improvement on a phone would be a step in the right direction. Would the Zoom H2N fit the bill or should I look for something else? Many thanks.

Have you been handling fibreglass at all? I used to get this occasionally in my model-making days when using a fibreglass pencil for burnishing surfaces to be soldered. A wee splinter can be horribly painful and very difficult to see, as it'll be transparent. I'd check with a strong magnifying class under a strong light against a dark background. Pull the skin taut and see if anything appears to be sticking out. If you do have a splinter, you'll need a good pair of tweezers to remove it.

5' 5" down from 5' 6" a while back. This Fender's bloody heavy.