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  1. I have a theory about it, but perhaps I'll stick to my intuitions.
  2. There's no need to be unkind to others merely because you are an intellectual powerhouse of immeasurable capability.
  3. I think Dan's point is that how one feels about a situation is no substitute for what one actually does about a situation. Emotions can help or hinder actions, but they cannot make them happen as if by magic. This applies to most aspects of life, but certainly to situations where levels of performance feel like crucial assessments of your worth as a human being -- which, for the most part, they are not. In any case, good luck with any future jams, and try to remember that even Tom Verlaine could have an off night (I saw it and it was excruciating).
  4. Perhaps a Warwick Gnome and whatever suitable cabinet size (or sizes) might work for your particular requirements? I like @itu's suggestions about cabs and speakers, and it is easy to take something like a Gnome or an Elf along for a jaunty musical number in Technicolor testing good candidates.
  5. We are very interested in your expert analysis, and would like you to join our group of insightful opinion-formers from the Cas Vegas area as we take AI to the next level.
  6. You should open it to the public occasionally anyway, if only for the tax benefits. You won't get where you aren't today by leaving money on the table. Alternatively, I think what you are describing might be satisfactorily accomplished if you simply open a guitar shop. From what I remember of such places when I was a teenager, they were basically exhibition spaces for appealing objects that I could not possibly afford.
  7. There's a very small but pleasant notebook sketch by Constable for sale at the moment (ends tomorrow). Bidding is currently $5500, which won't even get you some new Les Pauls that Knofpler didn't own.
  8. That's good. They are doing rather well out of it, after all.
  9. Oh, I don't know if the world is any madder for doing this kind of thing. Some people have more money than others. Some have more talent and renown than others. In this case, the latter is being rewarded by the former, and a couple of charities get a decent chunk of the proceeds. Is that really such a terrible redistribution of values?
  10. I'd want to see the condition report first. If the neck has been repaired, that might diminish the value.
  11. A good auction is excellent entertainment. Going to an auction preview and then the auction itself is worth doing, and if you are not buying it is free. If you are buying, it is very much not free.
  12. There's a statement in the sale room notice. Knopfler intends to donate at least 25% of the total hammer price received to the British Red Cross Society and the Tusk Trust.
  13. I find all of this perplexing. As far as I can tell, it has never been so easy to buy well-built equipment for such a small outlay. Nor has it ever been so easy to assemble a high-quality gigging or recording setup for so little. There are obvious instances of drastic price increases, but generalising from those particulars distorts the picture beyond recognition. Even the prices of new, US-built Fender Strats are comparable with the deep discounts available in 1987, when sterling was more than 20% stronger against the dollar than it is today, and VAT was lower.
  14. The Jesus and Mary Chain bought them all.
  15. David Byrne, How Music Works.
  16. I completely agree with this. I used it once within a reference to Londoners born within the sound of Bow Bells, and it was somehow replaced with an asinine, infantile euphemism that any schoolchild would associate with an actual penis. This did rather alter the intended meaning. That is a good standard to aim for.
  17. I have a favour to ask of anyone who might have an Avid Eleven Rack. I used to own one but it died about four years ago. I now use Fractal units (Axe-FX III, FM3). I need to try to replicate the "Secret Journeys" patch from the Eleven Rack, so I would be very grateful if anyone could tell me what the signal chain is, which effects are involved, and what the settings are on those effects. Many thanks in advance to anyone who can provide information.
  18. My dear Tim, it’s like rain on your wedding day. That said, I am saddened by the lack of statistical evidence for your allegation of widespread misapprehension. Also, I was hoping for a revival of WD-37, which supposedly increases heft and is positively superb for metal but is dangerously volatile when mixed with tung oil.
  19. You are a constant in an ever-changing world, Tim. Happy Christmas, old son.
  20. Good one, Tim According to legend, Americans spend billions on funding sponsored research projects at major research universities. The British just use jokes. I very stupidly spend hundreds of dollars on the technology that I am using for this post. If I were a Russian troll, I would be able to do it with a pencil. That one is definitely true, Douglas. Ever since he did it, no one has been turned to stone. Pretty compelling evidence. I should probably stop inhaling WD-40.
  21. When it comes to playing the bass, I am all thumbs in so many ways.
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