Paul S

Worth keeping an eye on eBay Japan for 32" scale Precisions, I bought two a couple of years ago and even with shipping, duty etc. they were not expensive. Another one not mentioned, unless I missed it, is the Aria Pro II Cardinal Series - they were medium scale. I had one of the top end of the range models - the CSB 450 Black N Gold - for a while and it was total class. Not quite a precision tone, mind you.

Convergence.

Chant #1 (don't need this pressure on) by Spandau Ballet.

Bought a speakon-speakon lead from Muzz in the simplest of transactions. A pleasure doing business!

Of course!

[quote name='inthedoghouse' timestamp='1490464662' post='3265337'] Bonnie Raitt for me [/quote] Live, yup, can't disagree. Next best for me - live - is Peter Cox. I've been seeing Go West live for best part of 30 years and I swear his voice gets better. My favourite track of theirs, not HD but his voice comes across well. http://youtu.be/Y6kMGaQda8g Of course there are a shed load of singers that I have never seen live but, for me, it is live music that earns the respect so I judge accordingly.

Mrs S comes along to as many gigs of my small band as she can. She loves the music and reckons we are brilliant. I can't argue with that! As far as the new Bon Jovi tribute is concerned she went to our first small gig but doesn't really like Bon Jovi so probably won't come to many unless they are at big venues and local!

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1488641156' post='3250705'] We are having a conversation... [/quote] Bingo - Danny bought a Yamaha BB5000 for me today, looks like a corker. I am impatient already! Thanks for flagging this up folks!

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1490476058' post='3265454'] it comes down to the word subjective. i don't want to sound arty farty, but the word always has resonance in music and the arts. [/quote] Indeed. I didn't particularly like Nik Kershaw back in the day - dismissing him as a pretty boy with little talent - but seeing him recently has completely overturned that opinion. Perhaps it is the context of a guitar and keys band now, rather than the big synth sound. He is actually a very accomplished guitar player.

That is fantastic to hear. Such a great bass deserves to be played. I actually bought it and collected it from a man in Holland, so I guess it has almost gone full circle.

Nik Kershaw also tours a lot with Go West - I've seen them three times together now. Mr Kershaw is one of those charismatic individuals it is hard to ignore - massive stage presence. Incredibly funny to see them doing the same arm movements at one point - Nik and Peter Cox are, how can we say, very different altitudinally - very obviously done on purpose for comic effect. At one gig they both did a cover of one of each other's songs - Nik rearranged 'Missing Persons' and it was stunning.

I use Teamup for one band too. And you can export entries into Google, which is useful.