Rich

From little acorns, and all that. If they're going to dip a toe into the waters of stuff-other-than-cabs, better to start small. Jumping in feet first with an expensive tube amp, with all the R&D and prototyping costs involved, could have been financial suicide. I think it's a smart first move.

Thanks guys, you're making me feel young!

Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean

Cheap at Half the Price - Dr. Feelgood

Rock Bottom - Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran

Satellite - The Hooters EDIT: just had a listen to this on yootoob, I'd forgotten what a belting song it is.

I Wanna Be Straight - I.D. and the Blocks

Let's Have a Ding Dong - Winifred Atwell

Gimme Gimme Gimme - Abba abba abba

One Fine Day - Gerry Goffin and Carole King

A Day In The Life - those nobodies again

Don Quixote - Nik Kershaw Donkey Hotey... yeah, tenuous I know but WTF

In A Big Country - Big Country

That's disgraceful. Minor finish flaws are one thing, sending it out with a boIIocksed neck is quite another. There's no excuse for that at any price point.

The Holly and the Ivy - trad

Friday on my Mind - Easybeats

Excellent piece on the development of the Oxford ChAdOx1-nCov19 vaccine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55041371

Time (Clock of the Heart) - Vulture Club

The First Cut Is the Deepest - Cat Stevens

It's a 4003 with a Carl Thompson neck...

Once Around The World - It Bites

Tie A Yellow Ribbon - Dawn

Terms and Conditions - Chet Faker

I don't care if it's a quote from Mary Poppins or Debbie Does Dallas he's dead right.

I saw this on Farcebook yesterday, it makes for interesting reading. And yes, this chap really is a real doctor (google him, I did) and yes, he said this. Dr Mark Toshner, consultant physician and lecturer in clinical medicine (Royal Papworth Hospital Cambridge, and Cambridge University respectively) speaking out on social media about the coronavirus vaccine. "More on vaccines. I'm going to get boring and geeky on this (no apologies) on the 10 year thing. Vaccines 'normally take 10 years'. This is being used as a reason to be fearful (i.e. rushed job). I'm a clinical trials doc. I can tell you most of that time is spent doing nothing. It's spent submitting funding requests, then resubmitting them, then waiting, then submitting them somewhere else, then getting the money but the company changes it's mind or focus, then renegotiating then submitting ethics, then waiting for regulators... Then having problems with recruitment and having to open other sites, then dealing with more regulatory issues, then finally when you eventually get to the end of all of this you might have a therapy, or not. At this point it may not be deemed profitable or any number of other obstacles. However we have collectively now shown that with money no object, some clever and highly motivated people, an unlimited pool of altruistic volunteers and sensible regulators that we can do amazing things (necessity being the mother etc). These trials have been nothing short of miraculous, revolutionary but in the context perhaps it is not surprising given our ability to innovate when we REALLY need to and we really needed to. Safety hasn't been compromised. Hundreds of thousands of great people volunteered for experimental vaccines. The world watched closely. The press reported every serious adverse event. I am confident that when regulators and scientists pour [sic] over the safety data (and we will because we are a bit that way inclined) that vaccines will only be used if we are confident that the risk is definitively outweighed by the benefit. This should give you confidence too."'