Twigman

My mate had a band which has now disbanded I think which had a great name for a bunch of codgers getting together to play: 'Old Country Union' That name always tickled me.

Plectrum generally gives sharper attack. There are some songs in my set that I recorded with a plectrum but, since suffering a neck injury that has caused a permanent numbness in my right hand and arm I find I no longer have the grip strength to hold a plectrum. Many of the ding-diggadigga-ding rhythms that lend themselves so well to pick playing can be tricky to play with fingers, not so much for the speed (although once you get to 140ish bpm ding-diggadigga-ding gets tricky) but the attack. Getting such a short sharp attack with fingers is nigh on impossible.

Either you've got a time machine or you're posting from a different dimension or I've been in a coma for the last 2 years. Which is it?

CDs last - they're plastic aren't they? thousands of years to degrade isn't it? All my 80s CDs still play fine.

You limit yourself to major record labels? Hpw sad

That very much depends on the music you're buying. Not all CDs are licensed to Rip through Amazon

Get the funk out of here

robin

Could one tune a cello in 4ths ? say C F Bb Eb or D G C F ?

My current tuner isn't a Boss

Absolutely - but in that sense it is the ONLY pedal that will ALWAYS have a place on my board..... Wasn't that the question?

My tuner - I don't have perfect pitch so it's an essential

I'll go for skin cancer

I would normally get someone else to move it. I find keeping one's distance of any incriminating evidence is the best approach.

French Horn chat I've got the French horn

Minotaur - their wide padded leather thing

I don't particularly enjoy going to gigs unless I'm on stage.

Played a few times in Paris....Rex Club.....New Morning Club....FNAC department store Make sure you've always got your ID on you and do not loiter...we were frisked by the police while hanging around waiting for our tour manager

I think my measure of how great a gig is is how hot the groupie in my bed the next morning is and how long she stays.

Children's parties and bar mitzvahs

not an 8 track cartridge player? Your scrapped car must've been a bit modern for the scappy

I still CD everything. I had to fight to get my band to commit to releasing our soon to be released new album on CD as well as vinyl and the download formats though, despite many of our 'fans' having got upset that last years's 12" vinyl EP hadn't been available on CD.

Apart from being tuned CGDA? so 7 frets apart rather than 5 ? Seems totally alien to me Edit: I'd get my intervals all wrong