Dad3353

Hmm... Grandmothers sucking eggs comes to mind.

Does this at least partially explain the dog-awful racket many of them produce..?

Do I see a pattern here..?

Standing 2' away from almost any bass cab won't be an accurate representation of tone.

Just to be clear, there's a case to be made for the notion that Consumerism, and the buying of unnecessary 'stuff' (this includes basses, but much, much more...) is one of the factors determining the present state of the Planet. It's not all that long ago that frugality was the order of the day (often as there was no other option in the matter, of course...), and the Planet was in better shape. Mea Culpa; I'm not the Solution, as I'm part of the Problem, too, but as long as it's realised and admitted, it's for each of us (and everyone else...) to make their own choices. It's a bit too easy, though, to just absolve ourselves from the real consequences of our actions. There's no Moral to this; I'm just sayin'.

I'm now past 72, and never play Beatles stuff much at all. I remember distinctly, though, the effect they had at the time, and often hum, sing or think of their songs (just this morning, for example, singing in my head 'I'm looking through you'...). I don't need to play 'em to get that effect any more; in fact it may well spoil things. Memories and nostalgia are precious gifts, to be preserved. Wishing your Dad a long and healthy life.

The Other Side of This Life, version 'Bless Its Pointed Little Head' (Jefferson Airplane 'live' ...)

Soooooo... It's like the Scottish 'Loch', then..?

Liberace..?

Yes, we know.

No music at home when young, but classical music played at infant school (I still remember the Personnages à longues oreilles (Characters with Long Ears), although I can no longer hear the upward glissando high notes, which changes the whole piece..! There was also 'Listen With Mother' on the radio, with a 'Joyce Grenfell-style' 'Be a tree. Stand up, up with your arms to the sky and sway in the breeze...' Later, my Mum bought 'The Sound of Music' and 'South Pacific', and we had a radiogram/television, but I don't recall her ever actually playing the disks. My Dad would sometimes sing to himself 'Oh Mein Papa' when decorating and stuff, but does that count as Music..? Once my own revenue stream kicked in, it was Piper At The Gates of Dawn, Embryonic Journey, Anthem of the Sun, Fairport's First, Love and John Peel.

What is this 'maturity' of which you speak..?

It was delivered that way, and they haven't broken yet, soooooo...

Reported. Should be in the 'Marketplace' section. Mods, please move..?

Can be used to split the signal, too.

Are they Inti's feet..?

I'd go for lowering the p/u's a little, too. Easy to do, so easy to judge the outcome. Easy to put back if it doesn't please. Easy, me..? One would think so.

OK, you've had your laugh; now it's time for ...

Nutwood City Limits..?

So instead he wrote a song about nothing.

Except for the bollox about 'going up to the sky... when I die...' rubbish et al. He's in for quite some disappointment.

Nor the same as paradiddles on a snare drum (I'm a drummer...); what has that to do with the price of fish..? Some folk play 'fast' on whatever they're playing 'fast' on. Most folks never pay 'fast', ever. There's just no benchmark, nor science, behind any of this. The World has its flaws and foibles; live with it and celebrate the diversity. There are much more important and deeper proble... Ooo look, a bee..!