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The most reliable rechargeable battery I've found would be a Sanyo Eneloop.  I've used them in all sorts of things and never had a problem with them.

2 hours ago, ezbass said:

I’ve tried to like The Smiths time and time again, I really have (Marr & Rourke were just wonderful together) but I just can’t get past Mozza’s vocals and this is from a bloke who learnt to like Geddy Lee’s voice. However, Mr Astley seems to have solved my dilemma.

Same for me.  I loved the band but as soon as Morrisey started whining that was it for me.  The Rick Astley set was a revelation - The Blossoms were impressive as well. 

I was rather impressed with Rick Astley and the Blossoms covering the Smiths numbers.  Now there's a sentence I never thought would be said...

On 28/04/2023 at 20:13, Dan Dare said:

 

Oh yes. "I'm Julian and this is my friend, Sandy". "Ooh, hallo, Mr 'Orne". I'm 70 this year and was (and am) a fan of classic radio comedy.

 

I read somewhere that a lot of Beeb commissioning editors in the early post-war years were ex-forces officers (I think it was Spike Milligan who referred to them as "bomber pilots"), who, fortunately, didn't understand the argot.

Bona to vada your dolly old eek...

They're rerunning some episodes of Round the Horne on Radio 4 Extra (and some other old classics as well) 😊

I was 13 or 14, playing trumpet and at the Royal Festival Hall (I played Mozart's Alleluia as soloist).  This was a Newham Academy of Music thing and one of a series of annual concerts called "Newham Goes to Town".  I remember being very nervous before the solo, but as soon as I started playing I was fine and the music took over.  What an experience!

Son of my father

Molded, I was folded, I was preform-packed

Son of my father

Commanded, I was branded in a plastic vac

Surrounded and confounded by statistic facts

6 hours ago, Graham56 said:

A Flower!???

If you go down to Willow Farm...

It's a Shergold modulator.  The tone/volume module was an interchangeable unit - quite an advanced concept for the time.  A mate of mine had one in the 70s.

Crimson.

https://www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/guitar-maintenance-tools?page=1

https://www.crimsonguitars.com/collections/fretting

Very high quality and UK manufactured.  Not the cheapest but buy cheap, buy twice. 

10 hours ago, Wonky2 said:

Some one once asked me if jimi Hendrix was gay…..

i asked why, because of his flamboyant sense of dressing? 
 

“No” came the response, “because of that line in purple haze, scuse me, while is kiss this guy”…….

 

 

Song ruined, you can now never not hear this.

That one was used in Iain Banks' Crow Road.  

55 minutes ago, lowdown said:

Bowie and Jagger's official version of 'Dancing in the Street' is terrible. The A cappella version pi*ses all over it...

 

 

 

 

It's just embarrassing.

39 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

If you read through the thread you'll find I did 😏

I know, and quite rightly so.  I was using it as an example of something really dreadful

1 hour ago, Grimalkin said:

 

 How much money did Paul Simon make from permission? He could hardly say it was rubbish could he. It's well OTT, bombastic.

Actually, returning to this, they didn't need permission to cover the song.  All they had to do was to pass on any publishing it generated.  Simon wasn't aware they were covering it until they performed it on TV.  His response was spontaneous rather than planned.

13 minutes ago, Grimalkin said:

 

 How much money did Paul Simon make from permission? He could hardly say it was rubbish could he. It's well OTT, bombastic.

Erm, he would have been paid anyway.  Try again. 

17 minutes ago, Grimalkin said:

 

Overblown:

 

Overdone or excessive

 

Of unusually large size or proportions: a majestic, overblown figure.

 

Overinflated; turgid; bombastic; pretentious.

 

Sounds about right.

And yet the highly talented and successful songwriter and performer Paul Simon, reacted this way:

"Simon sent Draiman an e-mail praising the cover. “Really powerful performance on Conan the other day,” Simon wrote. “First time I’d seen you do it live. Nice, Thanks.”

He also posted this on Facebook:

“In case you missed it, Disturbed did a wonderful rendition of The Sound of Silence on Conan this week. The S&G cover also appears on Disturbed’s latest album, Immortalized.”

Everyone's entitled to their opinion of course but I think I'll take Simon's over yours any day.

On 04/10/2022 at 19:21, Nail Soup said:

Gotta be this:

 

I  can't agree with this at all.  This is one of those rare covers that is as good as the original - Draiman's vocal range and performance is sublime. Paul Simon himself gave it his seal of approval. 

Now if you'd chosen Alexandra Burke's ghastly mangling of Allelujah...

O' Keeffe's for maintenance - use it regularly during the day and use it even when your hands are fine.  You can repair cracks and splits with superglue after cleaning them with antiseptic and drying thoroughly.  It was developed as a wound closure adhesive and works really well. 

Here's another beauty for you:

Featherstonehaugh pronounced Fanshaw.  😄

And while we're on about old characters, another use of the yogh:

Culzean (as in Culzean castle) pronounced Kul AYN

10 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

I think there is a similar explanation for ‘Ye’ as in Ye Olde Tea Shoppe. It was never pronounced with a Y ….. there just used to be a symbol (thorn?) for a TH sound and it looked like a cross between a Y and T. Sometimes printers would just use Y assuming that everyone would get it. Or maybe some later people read the thorn(?) as a Y.

Yep, thats a thorn and it's still in use in Icelandic.  The modern version looks a bit like a capital D with the upright extended above and below the semicircle - sometimes there's a small horizontal line that intersects the semicircle halfway down.  The (Ye?) old English version looks like a Y with a slightly shallower 'v' and a forward hooked tail, hence the mix up.  Fascinating stuff isn't it?

10 hours ago, ezbass said:

It still confounds me how Magdalen is pronounced maudlin, or how we get mingies from Menzies.  

The Z in Menzies is a corruption of the Yogh character which is derived from G.  Scots printers often used a tailed Z when they didn't have Yogh and the mixup remains.

32 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

Let's ask an expert. Renwick. 'Rennick' or 'Wren Wick'?

 

The Duke of Marlborough resides at Blenheim Castle.

 

Renwick is in 'Marlbrah', up the road from 'Blennim'.

Try Trottiscliffe, pronounced Trozlee

Or one from Orkney:

Rothiesholm, pronounced Rowshum (the first syllable is row as in argument).

Beauchamp pronounced Beecham, Belvoir pronounced Beever...

2 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

As a geologist myself I can confirm that places like Iceland don't bear any real scrutiny as a comparison to the lunar landscape. An entirely differnet mechanism behind the vulcanism at each.

 

The biggest blow to the lunar landing conspiracists seems to be that the trails of the astronauts footprints are visible from lunar orbit, and the US, India and the japanese have photographed these trails from lunar orbit.  The Chinese will also have been in a position to view them with multiple unmanned craft, although they have not specifically stated that they have done so.

Not to mention that the whole thing was tracked internationally with independent observatories working to help NASA maintain communications and monitoring (Parkes in Australia springs to mind), and by some radio amateurs as well.  It would have been impossible to keep a lid on any shenanigans.  Most notably, at the time the biggest propaganda coup that the USSR could have had would have been to show the world that the moonshots they were tracking were faked.  None of this happened simply because they weren't.  

Conspiracy theorists, as annoying as they are, can be thought of as brainwashed members of a cult.  

27 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

You know I meant clangers. I'm not that old!

If you know about clangers then I'm afraid you are...

There have been successful experiments with heating on the inner wrist to keep hands warm.  You can buy small handwarmers that would work if taped/strapped in place and would be a cheap way of finding out whether it would work for you. 

Don't have a meltdown folks