Newfoundfreedom

That doesn't even make sense. I meant scratch plate. Or is that the same thing? 😆

Only the tort ones.

They could have submitted a recording of a dog farting and they still would have won. Just goes to prove once again that Eurovision is an absolute joke which has nothing to do with talent, and everything to do with politics. A hollow victory at best, and a shame for any musicians that enter and think they have any kind of chance of winning.

Which brings me on to another gem. Sold as seen. Aka kn#ckered!

A good friend of mine is the drummer in a punk band (System of Hate) and he absolutely loves playing Rebellion. I've seen lots of pictures and videos he's posted over the years, and for a Punk festival it really does look rather civilised.

Pah! Physics. 🙄 Mi lugs tell me it's nonsense sithee. 😆

I lived in Lincolnshire for several years, and still occasionally see ads from over that way. One of their favourite phrases is "Need gone" Like that's some incentive to buy. Then they wonder why they get lowball offers. Strange folk in that part of the world. They also say brought when they mean bought which used to absolutely boil my p#ss! Anyway........ Deep breath........ Don't live there any more. 😆

Some people really aren't getting the rules of this are they? 😆

I've always thought the whole tone wood thing was a bit silly to be honest. Possibly justifiable in an acoustic instrument, but as far as I'm concerned makes absolutely no difference in fully electric instruments. It's all a bit emperor's new clothes.

It depends really. There's some logic to that, but if / when it comes to resale, an upgraded cheap bass will still be a cheap bass, whereas a high quality bass may eventually be worth even more than you paid for it. If it's just a tool for the job and you're not worried about value down the line, then upgrading a cheapy is a perfectly viable option as far as I'm concerned. Especially considering the quality of "budget" instruments these days by the likes of Harley Benton and co.

Pick playing definitely has it's place, but I find I can be much more articulate with finger playing. Some of the faster songs I totally like to angle my hand straight down towards the frets and dig in to get that nice clicky clacky sound that I absolutely love. But in some of the slower or more chilled songs, I can almost pluck the strings for that lovely smoothe deep full tone. I just can't get anything like that amount of control with a pick.

I'm not sure what the Ukraine entry is, but it should probably be this. They'd get my vote. https://youtu.be/lu8m5FA2nL8

At least they had a sunroof.

Reasonably safe bet I would imagine, given how political the voting has always been. The reason the Eurovision is such a joke is because it has absolutely nothing to do with talent. Kind of like a continent wide X Factor.

If Klingons played bass.......

(Goes off to Google Laurence Fox) Nope. No idea.

Even I'd have voted for it if I thought it would save the embarrassment of Eurovision. 😆

I'm not sure why the UK even bother to enter any more, considering the voting seems to be tactical and they're pretty much universally loathed by the rest of Europe. (Can't think why).

No need to hammer home the point.

Nice one. I play acoustic guitar (extremely badly) nowhere near the level where I feel like I could carry a gig. I always struggled with the bar chords. They're proper F ing B s. Open chords I'm fine with. I just can't change quickly enough to the claw shape. So my guitar journey kind of stalled there. I do occasionally still like to pick it up and have a strum though, and I write most of my songs on guitar, then give them to our proper guitarist for refinement. My wife is also a singer, so it's something I aspire to do one day.

Be extremely careful what you do next. Agreeing to disagree on a public chat board could conceivably break the internet. 😆

As with most music, Kate Bush totally passed me by at the time. I somehow got my hands on a greatest hits album round about 2000, and it totally blew me away. There's not many artists I would consider to be truly unique. I'd never heard anything like it.