Big_Stu

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1355325179' post='1896949'] The cheapest way to do it would be Wordpress. I don't like Wordpress, at all, but it's a cheap way to do it.[/quote] The free WP templates are yuk but easy, the paid ones are better but not stunning. I went for a freebie one just to get something up there without being asked via email repeatedly......... and because I'm cheap.

[quote name='afterimage' timestamp='1355326706' post='1896970'] Neilyoung has anew. Systemcalled. Pono saw him do a interview about it. Google it. Like. Analogue better. A I have avalve hi first setup. [/quote] Is this a new kind of morse code, or predictive text gone a bit hairy?

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1355326108' post='1896963'] The Voice Of Sanity [/quote] No it's not!!! This is ............... [quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1355258760' post='1896144'] ..............allow me to get swallowed up in the music, for it to be everything, to make my spine tingle and my heart melt. [i]That[/i] matters to me.[/quote]

It was Jimmy Lea who originally had me thinking "I'd love to make that sound", but it's still the case that if he ever needs his boots lacing I hope he doesn't ask me.

[quote name='bob_pickard' timestamp='1355149369' post='1894607'] Hugely underrated band and a very underrated vocalist Mr Holder is too. I had tickets to see them at Hammersmith Odeon in 1985 or so but they sadly cancelled at the last minute and then Noddy left.[/quote] I was in my last year at art college then & had managed to convince the promoters & management that I could do the job of doing their tour literature. I was gutted when it was cancelled, though Nod now insists he never sanctioned that tour (which I find puzzling since I spoke with him about it at the time) Edinburgh & Glasgow were almost sold out three months in advance - it could well have been their most successful tour for years.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355307073' post='1896566'] Is that Sweet with Andy Scott and a yank singer ? If so , that was the last support slot I did - down the bill to them and Slade at a glam festival. All great blokes , doing their gig. [/quote] Andy's Sweet' singer is Pete Lincoln, he's not a yank, Geordie I think but he doesn't sound like it; before him it was Tony O'Hora who is now on keys & 2nd guitar & before him it was Mal McNulty who is now on vox with Slade. They should get revolving doors in them nostalgia bands these days! I've been going to Sweet gigs for about 8 years + & this is the best line-up I've heard. Steve Priest, the original bassist has his own Sweet in the USA but it seems to be more of a heavy rock band doing Sweet covers with some bloke on bass wearing a cape - I don't rate them.

The Slade crowd owe a huge debt to one Dave Graham who worked for years at great personal expense to have old film retrieved, redubbed & cleaned up in some cases. This was one film (in 4 parts) which he worked hard on............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3zkzouW8E&list=UU4tDjme0mqR9xB3XwDL6odg&index=138 If you like this his uploaded YT vids are well worth spending time on. Any live Slade footage worth watching will be here, in varying qualities. Rarest audio I got off him was 6 tracks from Heligoland & Holland from their skinhead pre-hits days.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355251806' post='1895999'] Mine was an almost life size poster of Nod complete with black tele - and to the side of the door was a black tele copy with an 'I've been Slayed' sticker on it.[/quote] I had that poster I think, if he was wearing round yellow specs in it? I've been seriously considering having some of those copied; a short run would sell OK among the few fans left. I'd try a mock-up on this for size.......

[quote name='lowdowner' timestamp='1355257811' post='1896115'] I'm an ardbeg or lagavulin fan personally since the re-build of the bruichladdie distillery[/quote] Wasn't aware of that, though they have just completely renovated the old Port Charlotte distillery & got it working again if you meant that? It's one of theirs that I've just finished *sob*.

[quote name='hollywoodrox' timestamp='1355237867' post='1895772'] Any votes for Brian cox as a replacement ( not that he can be replaced but you know what I mean)[/quote] Anything to stop him doing the enigmatic, philosophical gazing over the horizon shots that he overworks - and was started by Neil Oliver along with striding across wildernesses with a pulling out helicopter shot. Brian Cox was talking about such images recently and said he was asked by a kid once what he was looking for.

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1355250293' post='1895973'] I've been enjoying Bruichladdich PC7 as well...[/quote] They do free samples if you visit .............. 8 day stay & 8 distilleries, what a bind!

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1355244816' post='1895877'] Yep good Doctor, your diagnosis is correct. It is on Slade Alive vol 2. The version I have on disc is called Slade Alive on the Salvo label (cat no: salvo dcd 201 if anyone is intrested)[/quote] It's confusing because they put "Slade Alive" & "Slade Alive Vol II" on the same CD, with the tracks numbered consecutively. The second CD has "Slade On Stage" and the Reading tracks on it. The original album has also been re-released on heavy-weight vinyl - I didn't get it, I've already got enough versions of that album now. In my teens it was my fave album of all time. This door stayed as it was until I was in my late 30's, my Dad tried to take the panel off to send to me & it shattered in front of him, Mum says he cried when he saw what he'd done.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1355242396' post='1895842'] Well I'll just have to drown my sorrows in a wee glass of Ardbeg 10yr old tonight then - I shall raise the glass in your direction though sir [/quote] If I had a pound for every time I've been told Ardbeg smells like TCP I'd be able to nip out and buy a bottle. My other half's dad is a member of the Scotch Whisky Society & gets mystery bottles from them. The idea being that you're supposed to be able to recognise it & tell other members what you think it is. He gave me a bottle of 18 year old (65.1%) a couple of months ago for services rendered; I reckon it's a Speyside but apparently there's no way of finding out for sure. Bugger! I'll just have to "analyse it" a bit more!

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1355233952' post='1895693'] head in hands wondering when Big_Stu is going to pass the bottle so we can both drown our sorrows....[/quote] But it's empty! ................. it was very good though if that's any consolation. mp3's do have their place after all............. I've just made the Happy Birthday Dear Jesus from Full Metal Jacket into a festive ringtone for my phone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdytWbl9sh8

Personally I'd go for the Rega, but I've never used, heard or owned a Project. I've heard many say they're excellent, and very few against them. I've yet to hear anyone speak against any Rega kit but it could happen. SevenOaks sell the Rega, you could ask about doing an audition with some of your own vinyl. A good shop will let you have kit on an audition loan in your own home for a few days.

Thanks, good news is that the local wine merchant stocks it, but it won't have the nostalgia atmosphere to it......... just plenty of peat, smoke etc. Tough call, that or replace my Springbank 10 year old, which is about finished too. Bugger is that I keep being bought bottles of Jack Daniels every birthday & Xmas because I used to drink it by the vatful at one time but gone off it.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1355230764' post='1895608'] [color=#800000][size=4]******* [font=arial, sans-serif]has posted the following wanted ad which may interest you:[/font][/size][/color] [color=#800000][size=4][font=arial, sans-serif]Double bass & string quartet wanted: fusion e,[/font] [font=arial, sans-serif]I'm a drummer composer not looking to join an existing band but to co-form a new post-jazz based group as a side project that will ostensibly be a fusion based acoustic symphonic / chamber music ensemble with double bass and strings. ,[/font][/size][/color] In truth, I'm not at all sure what post-jazz is (Bilbo, can you help?) but this is probably not ... erm ... me. [/quote] I'm told that WH Smith stock a fair few jazz mags, you could start your research there?

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355228274' post='1895557'] That was on Slave Alive Vol 2 , I believe. [i]information that is not posted to be pedantic but because I can't bare to see this Slade thread drop off the front page just yet !!!!!!!!!!![/i] [/quote] It was indeed. Playing it even as I type, much of it was taken from their '75 Flame tour which was going to be released but wasn't, their '77 return home tour & the odd track from '76 in the USA. if anyone's got a spare tenner to indulge on an Xmas pressy for themselves they could do far worse than the "Slade Alive" repackage which is still out there in HMV. It's every official live track by Slade that's ever been released, including a good portion from Reading 1980. S.A.Vol II especially has been well remixed by Tim Turan (???) after Jimmy Lea did a bit of a "I can do better than that" (and failed) job on the original CD release of it.

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1355228004' post='1895551'] I would have thought if I'd gone all the way to Islay, my first task would be to pay each distillery on the island to take it in turns to deliver a bottle to me once a week. Possibly twice a week, I hear it gets cold up there... [/quote] I finished my last bottle of Islay malt souvenirs last night; a Bruicladdich 8 year old Port Charlotte. Black! black, is the day, heavy is my heart.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1355225740' post='1895499']If I had a lottery win I would be stacking a set of PMCs against some B&W diamond series to see which was my preference [/quote] If i had a lottery win I'd be upping sticks to Islay, buying a wrecked croft & doing it up & spending ridiculous amounts of ££'s on a system that would be souind-proofed from the sheep, eagles & hee'land coos outside by two foot thick walls...... with no neighbours to winge about it either.

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1355219225' post='1895401'] Shell, the cotton bud trick. Francis totally destroyed his septum through drug abuse, and will has been known to poke a cotton bud up on nostril and remove it from the other...to groans from onlookers usually lol[/quote] That's the one!

My post, which I stand by, was based on many people visiting the various homes that my hi-fi has been in and receiving comments along the lines of "wish I could have something that sounds as good as that". My usual response is always "What have you got now?", usually the answer to that means that they're not going to get what they ask for cheaply, which usually means it's not going to happen soon in the same way as all GAS is. I've then always proffered any one or all of my 3 suggestions. Never once have I had anyone say that they didn't think the small outlay wasn't worth the difference they heard. (I gave them credit as intelligent people that it wasn't always, in every case, psychosomatic). You views may vary which is fair enough, but I speak from my own personal experience. As I've said many times; I take all posts on this or any other forum as having an unseen but constantly there "IMHO" enclosed within each post - unless it's a quote of sorts.

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1355182540' post='1895251'] Real world? £3500 worth of hifi, and here I am trying to help you get you to make it sound that much better than it does now without an investment in the tens of thousands.[/quote] You've missed a few points, which I tried to make obvious but failed. It was £3.5k way back when, it would be a fraction of that now, time marches on with all technology but is vinyl, now that it's available in super-heavyweight, now counted as technology - or is it still & always will be "old"? Is it worth the outlay to keep up with the Joneses, the [i]experts[/i] or the sales pitches? Nor do I have any intention of investing "tens of thousands" or even one thousand in making it "sound better". There is much to be valued in being happy with what you have, being aware of it's flaws but having overall satisfaction. I don't let it possess me or more valuably, compromise the appearance of our home. A mate of mine has a full Linn & Naim system that at full whack could have cost as much as a small house; but he still has it in his living room, with a wife, three kids & a dog. Damn him all the way to hell but he also has soft-furnishing AND a three piece suite in the SAME room! Like him I listen to music for enjoyment, not to get a slide-rule out to find it's flaws.

I used to wonder what the fuss was about & what my ears weren't picking up; then I saw Liam's copying every single mannerism of Ian Brown's and realised that I wasn't missing anything. After the first split I remember seeing an j'view with Bonehead who said he wasn't allowed to play more than basic chords with the band at any time.