Waddo Soqable

I always liked John Cooper Clarke, not difficult of understanding or anything tho.. one of my favourites contains

The man upstairs he grips my arm, says "don't I know your dad"? 

All I could hear were fire alarms the day my pad went mad.... 

As a addition to my questions about making a neck from oak, I'm wondering what any of you "build from scratch" guys would recommend for a Truss rod? 

Obvs there's double acting or one way, no doubt there's decently made and rubbish quality in both types, truss rods seem to not be overly expensive from what I've seen, but any to definitely avoid? 

I'd need to get a TR before going much further with the neck build idea, particularly as I'm intending to avoid routing by laminating a neck and using the centre strip glued in 'lower down' to leave a ready made channel for it to sit in.. don't know if this would suggest a particular type of TR? 

Any suggestions most welcome 👍

Start hunting around for another old Rick (obviously with a bit more dosh on top) 

Lost in France, Bonnie Tyler

I suspect jazz ciggies were involved... 

I did wonder about.. 

Flat Foot Floogie With a Floy Floy, Floy Doy, Floy Doy, Floy Doy... ?? 

Love is a Many Splendored Thing,  F Sinatra, A Williams, etc.. 

3 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I do actually usually have a pretty good idea of what I am actually writing when writing lyrics, but must admit I did write a fair share of nonsense for the lyrics of the songs I produced with the psychedelic electronic duo "Electro Jar" that I had together with a friend a few years back.

 

Here are the lyrics I wrote for the 3 songs on our "Divinorum" EP:

 

 

Divinorum

 

Black and white silhouette ruins shooting up past the last winding corner of a glimpse of an eyes wide shut future hope of illusions scanning the horizon of the vast sea of time an infinite ocean in our mind breaking waves off a breathless surfer revealed as a corpse on the shore that is present before us as he struggles to breath just to drown counting one thousand waves down before we arrived to dive in free fall past the cliffs in our watery grave to survive to tell the cautionary tale of our lives spreading like drops as we hit the surface recycled infinitely through the weather system and further out beyond the Universe and concept of time and space as such.

 

 

Spacefuzz 2016

 

Comets fill the sky

satellites are drifting by

a star is born another die

a roaring silent cry

 

And I'm gone...

 

Alien and lonely

moondogs howl along

the Univers' a song

spacing out of orbit

nowhere to belong

 

And I'm gone....

 

Winding wormholes

withered molehills

Saturn, Sirius

semi circle fish gills

 

And I'm gone...

 

Flesh wounds

dread looms

Mars, Pluto,

fools and dead prunes

 

And I'm gone...

 

 

Somewhere Over the Ocean (a song dictated in a dream)

 

A broken sea of liquid electricity

held in the palm of my hand

a mountain view of waves

inside my tiny eye of solitude,

and deep down the Ocean shelf lies books of unbound wisdom,

in liquid form as it comes,

flowing with the water.

 

Dive! Dive! Dive!

 

And somewhere over the Ocean,

beyond the tress,

lies the dreams

 

Somewhere over the Ocean,

somewhere beneath a tree,

somewhere someone is sleeping,

somewhere someone is dreaming,

a song dictated in a dream

 

Somewhere over the Ocean,

we sail the memory sea

 

Sail the broken sea

sail the burning sea

sail the lonely sea

 

.. & I bet they sound bangin' in Danish.... 😁

7 hours ago, lonestar said:

Cocteau Twins 

Lovely stuff, but even if you could decipher the words... I have no idea.

In fairness she always said she used the words for the sounds rather than any meaning. 

1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Anyone up for interpreting this one I just wrote off the top of my head?_ 

 

The Ballad of Baloney Balderdash

 

James Diddle had a mighty doh

Dee do the Humpty Dumpty routine on a whim

And everyone fall down, oh no

I know my skittles

Memory like scrambled eggs

Yo, ho!

And here we go again, like nothing

Empty pockets, no way home

Floating in my shuttle

Shut the door, forgot my keys

No way home

I'm floating, dry

Hope I'll die before I live

My love is purple, so is like desert sand

And prunes in May, the hurdled hum of hundred men

Oh, man!

I left the oven on

Deserted cherry pie on random shuffle

Deeds are done by no command 

No water left in my spirit bottle

At ends suddenly out of rhythm

without a rhyme

and non the wiser

Yo ho!

I knew it!

Here we go again...

 

 

 

33 minutes ago, oldslapper said:

- “the plastic is still on the scratch-plate/rear plate/truss rod cover”

 

As it happens I got a Squier PJ that all the plastic fillum was still on, even on the machine heads.. I've been just playing it like that and still haven't stripped any of it off yet.

tho I did peel the "get your free online lessons" (or whatever it is) sticker off 😁

2 hours ago, TheGreek said:

IIRC the laminated neck on my Silk bass contains Oak. 

 

 

The main strip down the middle by the looks of it, if I can find another piece I'll do a middle section as mentioned earlier to avoid truss routing... Of course I'll have to get a Truss rod unit too, the double acting ones seem to be favoured at the mo, I'll have to run that past @Andyjr1515 and see what the expert view is... 

Independence Day, Comsat Angels

I don't even want one, but... If he was in London I'd likely bite his hand off at that price.... 

14 minutes ago, squire5 said:

I didn't even know he could play bass,never mind have people want to play like him...

As Paul Hogan once said.. "Strewth, there's a fella without any strides on"...... 

31 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Yes, bought my electronic piano from a seller who was a smoker, it took over 5 years before I could play it across the full range without some sudden smell of smoke.

Obviously that was the ghost of Uncle Sidney... I bet it was on the notes that make   "My Old Man Said Follow the Van"..... 

On some of those paranormal investigation things it seems they will often check the area for electrical / EMP effects and the like, as it's widely held that these give false impressions of activity, that's in fact explainable as above.. 

Interesting stuff..

It's not like they'd ever use this shlt as a weapon or anything... 

9 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Big plus one IMO. 
 

Smokers stink. 

That's mainly prob an issue with something with "soft furnishings" like a case, I had a Saxophone case once that was more than a bit whiffy.. 

It's the other 45% you need to worry about

I'd suggest that the preponderance of "retro" and "rehash" everywhere is down to the total lack of any real proper "new ideas" that work and go somewhere.. particularly in music, but also TV, film, whatever.. 

25 minutes ago, Nicko said:

Most Greek food has its roots in Turkish and middle eastern cuisine.  If you go to an Iraqi restaurant the names might be different but the dishes are similar.

 

Greek tzatziki is Cacik in Turkish for instance, Greek soutzokakia is pretty much the same as Turkish kofta but in some cases even the names are similar such as Greek dolmades and Turkish dolma.

σουβλάκι ή γύρος

 

Kebab normally refers to something you don't see in kebab shops in the UK - minced meat on a skewer somewhere between a doner and a souvlaki(shish).

We often used to get a lamb shish on the basis it at least appeared to be solid lumps of meat, rather than the dodgy laminated ply thing the doner comes off... 

This is making me hungry now 😁

Centuries ago we had a song called "Robbery with Violence" and one line went..

".. put the money in the bag.. when it comes to armed blaggin' we are the Slaags.." 🤣

Just now, meterman said:

I’m sorry Lozz, I admit I had totally forgotten about flares. Need to dig out my old Sweeney DVDs and get back up to speed with the patter 👍

 

 

You'll be calling everyone a "Slag" then..... 

44 minutes ago, Crusoe said:

School days nickname, based on my surname. I'm sure you can work out my surname from that.

You're Danny Defoe aren't you..? 😁