Beedster

You can wait, but Tom Waits for no man

I wish they'd block the FS sections here

And they’re probably registered for tax in Bermuda

Multiply the interest on your 500 by several million per week and you can see why they’ve done it. Doesn’t make it right, and plenty of folks will choose to opt out on that basis. I have

Wow

No, but you should...,,,

Good post, I get the impression that the OP might be swapping a few easy to resolve problems for a set of less easy to solve challenges! Personally I'd stick with Mac and try other DAWs before reverting to Windows. Having used Windows since the early 90s, I swapped to Mac in 2011 and couldn't believe what I'd been missing all those years, in terms of music everything just worked. Had to use a Windows machine for a few weeks last year and found it an absolute nightmare. Horses for course is bottom line however

The Band weren't alone in producing moments of utter musical genius and shambolic disarray within years of each other (Jaco springs to mind), it all too often went with the territory in the 70's. I prefer to remember The Band for what they did at the top of their game. And The Band at the top of their game were good enough to be cited by many of the major musicians of that era as THE Band

I can see how you get there, some of their studio stuff is pretty average. But some of their stuff is extraordinary, and live they were something else (never saw them, speaking about their live recordings). There is an extraordinary joy and passion for life in a lot of their songs, and especially in their performances of those songs live, despite that fact that at first impression, the songs themselves can appear quite MOTR.

I'm with WoT, I've read several of the relevant books, and each comes at the same scenes with a different bias. Robertson had an agenda from the early days and was driven by a high level of ambition; Helm simply didn't share them, or at least not to the same degree (and you can see where he was coming from, post Hawkins he had to start playing second fiddle to Robertson, then third fiddle behind Robertson and Dylan, and this started a creeping resentment that never really went away). And whilst the truth is always going to be hard to come by, long-term use of hard drugs played a major role in the demise of the band as both a musical entity and a group of friends. Amazing documentary though, worth watching for the footage of Danko's playing style as much as anything else.

It is, but introduces a little more empathy re Levon’s POV. Great footage, Danko’s presence and Manuel’s voice both notable. Real sense of the magic of a moment in time

Yep

Loving it

I do not like GB but if you do, why move away?

Good stuff. As per the above, getting a high power tube head checked by a tech, ideally before buying it, is a good shout. Glad it worked out OK

Likewise, email saying 'You are no longer allowed......." was quickly followed by emails offering me all sorts of benefits, zero selling fees etc, if I'd just take a few minutes to give them my bank details. eBay was such a great idea but has lost its way terribly and become just another cynical money machine. It's become a nightmare to use as a private seller, but I rarely use it even for buying these days as increasingly, at least in my experience, too many of the remaining private sellers there are either unable or unwilling to be honest about what they're selling. Despite the 'eBay always protects the buyer' mantra, it's creates a massive headaches to have to fight to get the type of refund that is automatic and immediate with, for example, Amazon.

EBMM Gamechanger. It wasn’t

Really, there are people who say that bass is rubbish? And they’re being fuelled by this guy? I had no idea the world was such a dangerous place

Been a lot warmer and more humid here recently, and quite suddenly, it can play havoc with instruments

Yep, it sure ain't like it used to be is it Lawrie

Yep, there are plenty on YouTube who are far less proficient who take it far more seriously