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Flat Al

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  1. If you are laying a cable for electricity, why not just put some cat6 cable in the hole at the same time? Opps I should really read all the replies before posting.
  2. Isn't Liam up to "Taken 3" already?
  3. The bass player, Alan Longmuir was a plumber, and fitted a new kitchen sink in my parent's house just before they made it big. Funnily enough my first girlfriend (and now wife) was a fan, had the tartan trimmed trousers and saw them play at least half-a-dozen times.
  4. What can say about Thomas Lang! I'm not a drummer, (I'm hardly a bass player) but his foot dexterity just blew my mind - why are drummers the butt end of musician jokes when they can do that? Thanks to Dad3353 for providing this link because it has cheered me up in a very positive way after a bit of a tricky day.
  5. Novice bass player here, but can someone quantify what "playing behind the beat" means in terms of time. i.e. are we talking a tenth of a second, a hundredth of a second, or something even smaller? I'm guessing that is done by "feel" (i.e. you can't count it) and not being a sensitive soul, I'm just not feeling it. Either that or it is blind performance panic on my behalf because the few very times that I have played with a drummer (and he was good drummer) he kept on telling me to slow down. That must put me in the leader category ;^)
  6. You might want to consider the Edinburgh Blues Academy who meet on Wednesday evenings at the St Brides Centre just of Dalry Road. https://www.edinburghjazzfestival.com/learning/edinburgh-blues-academy.html And as it happens I believe Jed Potts is going to be the guest tutor tomorrow night (4-March-2020)
  7. Alan Longmuir was a plumber by trade and fitted the kitchen sink in my Mum and Dad's old house just before the Bay City Rollers made it big.
  8. I think Sylvia was almost a hit for Focus too.
  9. Off-topic response to ahpook: many years ago I attended many BSI meetings and was once told that the BSI had a "British Standard Turd". It was essentially a fluffy ball/pompom thing on a string. It was used to test whether or not WC/cistern combinations passed the current BS for toilets. The string was necessary to retrieve the "turd" after the flush test was over.
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