Newfoundfreedom

For me it's all about Ride the Lightning, Justice, and Black. I bought St Anger and it was so bad that I never listened to any new stuff at all after that.

Or a blender pedal

Absolutely! Hence why I couldn't remember the blokes name. He was probably part of the band for about a fortnight and been living on the glory ever since. But as a new band it was still quite intimidating at the time.

My previous covers band played at an outdoor, afternoon charity event. A nice walled off garden of a hotel complex on a sunny afternoon. What could go wrong. To get a bit of shade from the afternoon sun, we set up under a pergola full of vines, which seemed like a lovely spot at the time. We were really nervous as it was our first public gig. Then just to make matters worse, just before it was time to play, the owner came up and said, (insert name I can't remember) from The Drifters is in the audience. Sure enough. There was one of The Drifters front and centre, watching closely about 20 feet from where we were playing. Nothing worse for making an already nervous amateur band more nervous than knowing there's a professional watching. So we launched into our first set, and it was godawful! The vines soaked up all the sound, and as we'd never played anywhere than in a small room before, we didn't even own monitors. So myself and one guitarist at one side of the drums, couldn't hear the other two guitarists at the other side of the drums, and vice versa, and none of us could hear the bass drum at all, so we were playing at totally different times. The singer was in the middle and didn't know who to follow. It was dire! Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I realised the nice shady vines we'd set up under was home to thousands of mosquitos, right around the time one of them landed on my eyeball. They absolutely ate us alive for the whole gig. We struggled to the half time break, at which point, The Drifter got up and left. We were mortified! Then the owner came over when he saw us all deflated, and ensured us it didn't sound too bad from out front, and asked what the problem is. We said we couldn't stay in time because we couldn't hear the drums, at which point he said, "Well we've got another drummer in the crowd". Now as it turns out, what he meant was, the other drummer could sound check while we went out front to listen and adjust accordingly. However, he never got time to explain, as that was the point or drummer, believing she was being scapegoated for the bad timing, went into full meltdown mode and started packing her kit away. The drummer is married to one of the guitarists so obviously he was well on his way as well. After several minutes of trying to get everyone calm, the other guitarist, who is usually extremely quiet, well spoken, and never swears. Just bellowed "F#ck The Drifters!" and after about five seconds of silent shock, we all fell about in fits of laughter. We played the second set absolutely perfectly, despite the continuous mozzie onslaught, and from that day on, "F#ck The Drifters" became the bands mantra.

Precisely why anti-vaxers are so dangerous. It's rife here in Bulgaria, with only around 25% of the population vaccinated and a deeply engrained mistrust of the government (hardly surprising given the countrie's history.) Sadly, I've already lost two close friends / neighbors because they chose to listen to these nut jobs. It's easy to say, well they made their choice, or they get what they deserve, but it's actually really sad that people are needlessly losing their lives due to the spread of misinformation and a few people wanting their five minutes of fame.

I find Zoom stuff extremely counter intuitive when it comes to programming. I'm generally quite tech savvy and can figure most things out just by pressing buttons to see what they do. Didn't have a clue with my MS-60B. Like you I downloaded the manual, and spent some time with it. It's easy when you know how, but it's far from user friendly straight out of the box.

Bat Out Of Hell was definitely one of the soundtrack to my youth albums. I always wanted to see Meatloaf live, sadly I never got, and now never will get the chance.

Wow! Never heard of it, but I've got to admire that kind of stamina. I struggle to play for an hour.

Unless it's Jazz.

I used to think they were hideous, but they've grown on me to the point where I actually want one. Problem is most of them are ridiculously expensive.

Civic Sunday?

I've got some gravy mix with the same name. Don't know how percussive it is.

I honestly wouldn't have a clue whether it's genuine or not, having pretty much zero knowledge about, or interest in Fenders. But I'm sure the rest of you know what you're looking at. What about the Tele he's also selling? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/fender-squire-telecaster-/125105455366?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

One of my favourite band names ever, seen advertised in a pub in Doncaster. Dickie Heart and The Palpitations.

As did my Sh#tty Saturday. No accounting for taste I suppose.

Musically great. But the Blue Man Group are far more impressive on their own, without a backing band.

When every day is sh#t how do you mark one out as being more sh#t than the rest?

I'd personally go for 8ohm cabs. You're not going to hear at lot of difference in actual volume between an 8 and a 4, and it leaves you the flexibility to add a couple more cabs later should you feel the need.

Why not just go for a zoom ms-60b. One stomp box sized pedal with multiple effects. Take your pick from the reverbs and delays, and have everything else in the arsenal should you ever need it.

"Made from reclaimed pine". i.e cut out of an old kitchen table.