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Leaving aside the fact that a man being attracted to men and one being attracted to boys is not the same, there's no solid evidence that Jackson was attracted to men so conflating homosexuality and paedophilia feeds very much into that trope.

Ah, the tired trope of gay = paedophile. I haven't seen any evidence that Jackson was gay but plenty that suggests he was a paedophile.

He's dead too, which is another reason.

This is why I'm potentially eyeing up a Sub Ray5 when I get a 5er so I can have both and they'll both do slightly different things.

This is what I don't understand about this kind of post. If you want opinions about it why not ask before you buy it, not afterwards. This seems to be a common theme in various FB bass groups but there it often seems to be a humble brag as the question is often asked about a high-end bass.

I had always (unfairly, and honestly I've no idea why) dismissed Ashdown amps as being Trace Elliot castoffs until I borrowed @Merton's ABM Evo when I joined the band and I was blown away at how good it was, and when it unfortunately decided to crap out on me an Evo IV was the obvious choice to replace it. I have to say everything I've ever read, seen and heard about the TE1200 has been nothing short of effusive praise, so in the event I ever decide to move on from Ashdown one of these will probably be high on the list to replace it.

Preach!

If you wanted to go a bit heavier then there are no solos on the whole of Metallica's St Anger album.

My 7yo introduced me to this this evening, and I think I might be addicted. Some potentially very useful stuff in here amongst the funny stuff. https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/

Sometimes I think it would be amazing to hear the classics again for the first time

I think Rhythm Stick is my great white whale, but more realistic party pieces I want to actually be able to play are Hysteria and Master Blaster.

It's interesting if you watch his episode of This Is Your Life when someone is on and talking about crowds of schoolgirls stalking his house and he looks very uncomfortable with this being mentioned (apologies for the Daily Heil link, I couldn't find it anywhere else).

If you were looking to be a bit more diverse and have more women in the list I'd have put in a bid for Karen Carpenter over Meg White.

This is the one I'd like to master, but I don't think I have enough years in me left to do so (I'm 45).

You mean there are singers where you don't want to?

Established bands have that too. Our last gig was NYE, next one is 11th May.

I thought it was the Ninjas that were green? I admit to no knowledge on the subject beyond my sister owning a Ninja many years ago

A cheap copy of a cheap copy of a cheap copy of the Precision bass. A very specific niche indeed, I'm excited to see how it plays out.

They can be more specific if they want to be though.

This inspires a lot of confidence in the quality...

In general it's the same for me, my only real gripe is that "new" Teams really hates meeting links created in "classic" Teams, to the extent that I've very nearly missed important meetings through being unable to get into them. Other than that it just does what it does.

The functionality isn't quite as good using the web apps though, otherwise I'd agree. The other main reason we keep Windows around is for my 7yo who is learning on computers at school. I'm sure there are Linux distros that are kid-centric but would be too basic for me, and I haven't had the time to go into researching how to set up locked-down child accounts on a regular one. The Microsoft Family Safety stuff is something I'd like to keep as well.

Honestly having Office 365 is one of the main reasons my home computer is still Windows, because if Microsoft developed a Linux version I'd happily move over completely; as it is I have a 21 year old laptop running Ubuntu out of curiosity more than anything. I imagine most applications where there isn't a Linux equivalent I could run in Wine or something though.

Usually I stand stage left, but I generally arrive to load in after our guitarist so end up standing on whichever side she isn't

Nice one! My first gig with the band was at Venue 23, we even got use of the plush headliner room at the back even though we were second from top of the bill 😂