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I'm going to play by very strict rules here and go for something my local shop shows as being in stock, so it will probably have to be the Ibanez TMB100M in mustard yellow https://matchettsmusic.com/collections/bass-guitars/products/ibanez-tmb100-mustard-yellow-1 Although I might be tempted by the Hofner Shorty, just for the fun of it.

My CD player died a few months ago, so I haven't really been listening to music in the house, other than on the radio, or via the Echo. I have an MP3 player with most of my albums on it and listen to it when I'm out (I can connect it in the car with an aux cable too). I've ordered a Positive Spark Go, which doubles as a Bluetooth speaker, so I'll be able to play the MP3 player through it too.

Things just never worked out. The singer and guitarist went to university. Other stuff happened.

16 or 17. I played bass and sang, but couldn't do both on some of the songs we covered eg "All Day and All of The Night". We also covered Peggy Sue and Sheena is a Punk Rocker. The next gig we did was a memorial concert for a guy in another band in the area, who has died in a car crash. By this point we were covering Joy Division's "Transmission" and "Isolation" (well, Therapy's cover of Isolation). That was the last gig I ever played and I loved every minute of both.

The Black Angel's Death song by Velvet Underground is my favourite for this sort of lyric. Myriad had choice of his fate Set themselves out upon a plate for him to choose What had he to lose? Not a ghost bloodied country all covered with sleep Where the Black Angel did weep not an old city street in the east Gone to choose And wandering's brother walked on through the night With his hair in his face on a long splintered cut from the knife Of GT The rally man's patter ran on through the dawn Until we said so long to his skull Shrill yell Shining brightly red-rimmed and redlined with the time Infused with the choice of the mind on ice skates scraping chunks From the bells Cut mouth bleeding razors Forgetting the pain Antiseptic remains cool, good buy So you fly To the cosy brown snow of the east Gonna choose, choose again

I can confirm that it is not good for metal.

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Anyone else think this thread was going to be about an embarrassing hygiene situation? 😬

That took me longer than it should have. I was looking for any mention of Level 42 on the graphic and even clicked it to see if it was a hyperlink. 😂🤦‍♂️

Understandable. It's a beauty 😄

I'm getting a strong smell of chopped pork and ham under a proprietary name from that account, Greg.

How on earth did you... no.

School days nickname, based on my surname. I'm sure you can work out my surname from that.

What about the pen? 😄

The younger ones all moved on from internet fora a long time ago. They moved to Facebook, then when their grannies and aunts started to follow them there, they moved to Instagram, then to Snapchat and Tik Tok.

I hated the Black album, because it was the one where they turned into Coldplay. I think their ubiquitousness is because of Stranger Things. Suddenly, kids everywhere were listening to and learn8ng to play Master of Puppets. There's even a guy with a Tik Tok account, who plays MoP on all sorts of things from bicycle wheel spokes to bananas.

Welcome James.

That's just a list of Bob Dylan songs.

I'm sorry to hear it. My condolences to Nigel's family.

I saw Lou Reed performing the "Berlin" album live. I was a bit apprehensive as he had a reputation for messing with the arrangements of his songs, but they played the whole thing straight. He even did "Satellite of Love" as an encore. It was probably the best concert I've ever been to.

I came here for this reply.

I don't mind much if a band changes some of their songs a bit, but stretching a four minute song to fifteen is just self-indulgence. I'm away for a pint at that point.

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