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another vote for the Bootleg Beatles, seen them a few times over the years, last time at Stone Valley last year, absolutely superb, felt for the Boomtown Rats who had to follow them on. Total respect for Steve White, he relearnt how to play bass left handed to be like Paul.

I'm heading that way, although I don't deliberately play Beatles songs they occasionally get played on on my mp3 player, which is on shuffle, or on an oldies radio station I sometimes have on, I'm always enjoy them when they do

yep, both my Trace Elliot's are fanless, one is a 200 watt series 5 the other 250 watt SMX, you don't need any more volume than these put out and they only weigh 13Kg

There's plenty I've had GAS for that I've bought and I wish I hadn't, that's what I remind myself of when GAS comes a knocking

same here more or less, but I prefer the B1on, maybe I've just got used to it but the Sansamp clone sounds better to me

went to see a band last week, good bass player and fairly high in the mix, he played with both fingers and a pick, could you tell any difference? no, as my partner said "it's a bass!"

There is a website to do your own hearing test that sort off mimics the NHS one https://hearingtest.online/ You've probably lost some hearing around the 5k Hz range, most people do with age, go to your Doctor and get a referral to the NHS Audiology clinic, their hearing aids are free. I tried some private ones for a month on approval, yes they were better than my out of date NHS ones (I'm due to get some up to date ones in Feb) but not £3k better. They do take some getting used too, it took me a year and they still don't handle noisy environments well, but I would be without them

I'd be looking for a new drummer

being in a band that has their own material as well, I just say "If we want to do obscure songs we may as well do our own" that usually does the trick 😂

our problem is not what new songs to put in the set, but which ones to take out

used to use them, now switched to grey .60mm, less jarring of the (old)thumb joint, I've never dropped one either, they sometimes spin round so I'm playing with the wrong edge, a bit disconcerting but not a disaster

not sure what that's got to do with streaming tbh, more to do with the UK's recording industry being in a good place, mind you I've not heard any of them, must make the effort

anybody been tempted by one of these? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185714961468?hash=item2b3d796c3c:g:Kt8AAOSwp6Rjq~Ld&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsHYthLMhIAHUT%2BpxGMX%2FXkXGjXciPl0DqevxSBFQoH1ONFziTKKytHswNS8E9nFRiDXP%2FYHzDmknSpIXtbKVKLbiFOi4kxO%2Fq%2FWQSKBnqa8k2fvafq%2FG4%2BPsU%2FR%2BsW28uyrKQRIVkHHJaNK0d2R7nNRczgCLnVsNQnrWK4p7XUzfhdz%2BWTXNiz1SpKgHG%2Bzw742dC78sKYhBczVaf%2Byh%2BUHprHd6axhdxJpez2c9Gwo5|tkp%3ABk9SR_jLjf2vYQ

IBTL, I know shocking isn't it? that not all of the UK's many ills are down to Brexit

not caused by Brexit, but a shortage of lorry drivers according to this anyway, which is affecting all EU countries last time I heard https://www.water.org.uk/news-item/driver-shortage-statement/#:~:text=There is no shortage of,is solely one of distribution.”&text=What's the current situation%3F,small number of water companies

Northern Ireland water is still in public ownership, doesn't seem to work that well https://www.niwater.com/news-detail/11859/going-down-the-drain-lack-of-investment-is-sinking-ni-water/#:~:text=Chronic underfunding of NI Water,damage to the natural environment.

I know anecdotal evidence should be treated with scepticism, but, our old guitarist worked for the NHS in middle management, he thought all the different trust were a big waste of resources, caused lots of problems because they all had their own way of doing things

Ah, conspiracy theories, Labour have been banging on for years about the Tories privatising the NHS (remember Tony Blair's 7 days to save the NHS?) and because of this it's impossible to even discuss a different type of health cover without the 'US system' bogeyman being shouted from the rooftops, the NHS is just a bureaucratic money pit, it needs reform but everybody is too scared to do it because of the political fallout. It needs taking out of the political arena so sensible decisions can be made

why does it have to be a US style system, why not a French or German style system? on most measure they've got better health care than us

it has been covered before, I'm not proud, got some luminous tape of ebay, edit, and before someone tells me I've stuck them on the wrong side, yes, I am a lefty 😂

If the RM didn't deliver junk mail they'd be less profit and therefore less jobs, in fact it could mean the end of daily deliveries, Don't know about anybody else but I receive a lot less mail than I used too

Tutti Frutti with Robbie Coltrane is on the iplayer, episode 3 on BBC4 tonight, couple of new docs on sky arts tonight, Beach Boys and George Harrison

depends how much they are new, if they use parts that are available (i.e. ones they can get cheap) quality could be variable

there's a thread on here, sounds like try before you buy

I'm not sure what that has to do with the current problems unless it was kept as a monopoly. Opinions vary as to how it cheaply it was sold off by anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/18/royal-mail-sell-off-undervalued-firm-180-million