Beedster

This has been my experience, if I needed to buy a Fender blind, I'd happily buy and MIJ/CIJ, less so a MIA, even less so an MIM, and infinitely less so a Custom Shop given the price:risk ratio

If you buy a car, a TV, or a washing machine, the more you pay the better the features, at least within a brand. It's simply not the case with Fender, where you can find a Squier that blows a Custom Shop out of the water. A good example for me is my Classic Vibe '51 Precision which plays, feels, and sounds as good, if not better, than my old Custom Shop relic 51 that retailed for almost 10 times more. There is variability in wood for sure, but far too much of all of this is smoke and mirrors; Fender would love you to think that a Custom Shop instrument is infinitely better than a Squier, but they know damn well the differences are often random, and that the purchase of a FCS instrument is often as much about bragging rights as about quality

100% not bought by anyone’s grandad in the 1970’s unless they had a time machine and very poor judgement in terms of exploiting that tech. Cheap recent copy

Well at least they can't be accused of having changed 👍

We're doing Doolittle by Pixies next, but Rattus is on the list of possibilities 👍

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He made a lovely little gesture after one of his songs, made him seem one of the audience rather than the star 👍

Exactly, we did it this year without watching any of the presenters, just used iPlayer to watch the bands, as live as we could

The irony being that it was in fact a quasi religious experience until the BBC got their hands on it, certainly was when I first went in the 80's

I'm not so sure the media and the 'unmoderated social media junk' are as easily discriminated from each other as you might think, with many - prime among them the the BBC FFS - actually reporting the latter as if it's news, thereby not only regurgitating it but all too often reinforcing, or at least polarising.

And it worked 👍

Didn’t see Smith coming, was expecting Sheeran 😁

End of Noah Kahan’s set is glorious 👍

Rod betrayed his then extraordinary voice 40-years ago

Seems a decent geezer 👍

Must tell y’all my Nile Rodgers story one day, suffice to say a 100% gent 👍

Security getting down 👍

Thank god for Ronnie 🙏

Countryfile is probably not going to help a whole lot mate 🙂

Awesome band, the real deal 👍

I wonder how the auditions went: can you play some Paganini and some bluegrass. Yes. Now can you try on this tight red dress?

Jeez, Rod just got the lines wrong in Maggie May! Good on him for still doing what he does, I just don’t like what he does, Glasto feeling a bit naff 😕