Nail Soup

Looks good... I'll download it after broadcast. Just need to remember 😟. Good that it's presented by an actual bass player too.

The picture made me think of tranquility and solitude. So I decided to go for a kind of 'solo' thing - a single performance into a single mic, with minimal number of takes. So just a guitar tuned to open D and vocal. Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar tuned open D (DADF#AD). Performed into a Zoom H1 recorder with inbuilt stereo mic. Then transferred the WAV to Studio One DAW to add a touch of reverb, EQ and compression. Kind-of first take... one take for mic placement and another to decide the number of verses - the final was the first take after that. Lyrics in spoiler

As said before I don’t drink before a gig as it would have a negative effect on my playing. However I’m pretty sure it would improve the between-song banter!

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Not calling it “snoo snoo” probably helps too.

Very true, I'd forgotten about that one! Also applies to the banjo!

Thanks…. I’ll have a look after work.

I remember going to a UK Subs gig nearly 40 years ago, and the audience were chanting "Charlie Harper is an old age pensioner" So it's good to see him still at it and in good form.

No, I bottled it I’m afraid. Still a bit outside my comfort zone…..

I normally use the "Pincer" type shown above, plus a nail file. On 9 fingers, the issue is to keep the nail short enough. On one finger, the issue is to stop the nail wearing away - it gets worn by down-strums on acoustic guitar or 'clawhammer' strokes on the banjo. Recently I've taken to having an acrylic nail on that finger (local nail bar)... helping so far, but is even really hard to cut when it starts to grow out.

Should be easy to design a simple doohickey with a light sensitive resistor on the led which has a small circuit attached which controls a stepper motor to move a small flag into an up or down position. Or just make a shade like suggested above.

I went a couple of times: 85-ish and 93-ish. Had a great time, but even then the headline acts were too mainstream for me. But lots of good stuff in the smaller areas. I think Glasto is now a bit of a vanity project for the really big names.... something for the bucket list for the performer (and the punter too). And a lot of the attendees are not hardcore music fans, they just want to have fun.

Typing ‘you’ instead of ‘your’ is a common typo amongst native English speakers in my experience. Don’t know why just one of those quirky things.

Sorry for your loss, our thoughts are with you. Not many members here go by their real name.... I did a search of members with name "Kinsey", but only got yourself. As others have said if you share details like possible user name, what bands he was in then someone may recognise Peter.

Just for reference:

Gigs - sober. Casual public performance like a folk session or fun open mic - couple of drinks but not drunk. Home playing and recording- sober.

Yeah, it’s more of a modelling decision wether to go plane, solid, go to fibre-level and so on.

Sounds like a good approach. Good luck with the channel.

Looks like Elvis is OK to criticise others though: ( OK Rod’s performance was not great!)

Whether we model the sock as a planar surface or as a 3D object, the initial point remains correct even the doughnut comparison does not. The bit you push your foot through is not a hole.

I presume the story was told by Carol herself 😉

In my last band, if we never said the whole rule out loud. If we had a bad practice, we'd say "Bad Practice , Good Gig". If we had a good practice we'd all say a few words tantamount to "Good Practice, Good Gig". As we never said the whole rule out loud we didn't have to admit to any contradiction therein.

If you are mind-numbingly pedantic and tedious, you are not alone. It was my immediate thought when I read the sock/hole post. I saw your post before I had decided whether to succumb to the temptation to post a comment similar (but less eloquent) comment.

Time to pull out my topology joke: Q: Why did the topology student get fired from the cafe? A: kept mixing up the coffee cups and doughnuts.

Mini folk-roots festival at a (800 year old) local church. Nice venue to hear some good music. Real ale and wine was served in addition to tea, coffee and snacks. Interesting to see pint glasses etc on the pew shelves.