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Also saw Steve Hillage in Sheffield, 1979 or '80, instead of going to see the Ruts who were on the same night. TBH I should have gone to see the Ruts... I went to sleep in the gig (completely without chemical enhancement, I should add... )

[quote name='LeftyBiskit' timestamp='1319839153' post='1419319'] Ali Baba,chicken and cheese......If your going to sneeze Opium for the people I Saw planet Gong mid 70's at the Bolton Institute of technology,on a school night too-happy days they all travelled around in that beat up single decker bus, Free admission to the gig -they just passed the hat round afterwards. [/quote] I saw them on that tour, 1978? In a deconsecrated church somewhere near Salisbury. They were excellent. IIRC the guy who drove us knew their bass player. Their road manager (?) was a bloke called Grant Showbiz, whose name pops up on other stuff every now and then.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1319844171' post='1419390'] I still love Godbluff and play it fairly often. Can't really pick a favourite track these days but as an impressionable tenager I think Scorched Earth was probably the one that stood out the most: [/quote] That's the standout for me, even now. (I always thought - and still think - it was about Richard Nixon, FWIW. 1975 album; it was probably easier to see then.)

Been a fan for a long time. It was the segue from "Undercover Man" into "Scorched Earth", on 'Godbluff', which first trapped me. Guy Evans, what a great drummer. And Peter Hammill's solo stuff is up there with the best of them. 'Sitting Targets' is a hugely underrated album. I always sort of thought VdGG were an interesting version of Genesis, who I found very bland and noodly.

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1319813237' post='1418911'] It's where he puts his jack sockets: [/quote] Ahhh, lightbulb Thanks!

What's the cavity and cover on the back of the upper bout? N00b question, I expect, but if I don't ask...

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1319365471' post='1413031'] Pretty sure it's a righty... .... as well as a wrongy. [/quote] Sorry, should have looked a little more carefully

I recently got my cello back in working order after many years in bits. I have to tune it in fourths, I can't do fifths any more I have to say, it makes me wonder if taking up bass guitar was a good move.

Looks to be a lefty? That would make a [u]little[/u] more sense...

ficelles is a gentleman and a scholar. All my dealings with him have been excellent.

doesn't look like a lefty, somehow...