paul_5

I first heard Lala Hathaway on Marcus Miller’s ‘live and more’ album, where she delivers a jaw-dropping rendition of ‘Summertime’. I was listening to the album at a friend’s house (who is a singing teacher) and she spotted it first. Suffice to say she’s been on my playlist since! Devin Townsend is an amazing vocalist too, and I really rate Maynard James Keenan from Tool - he’s got quite a set of pipes on him too.

Moi aussi, it’s nice to feel like you’ve made someone’s reasonably priced dream come true.

Laminate body to give it the strength that it would have had if we hadn’t made that yawning chasm in it in the first place. Right.....

That diagram’s correct.

Me too. All (bar one) of mine are home-made! The one that isn’t is a Dave Hall, so I’m prepared to compromise there! 😄

Elvis is dead - Living Colour.

I really liked my VT2, and didn't find to noisy at all. As with any valve kit they're fussy about having a clean power supply (and healthy valves), but it looks like this one comes with the PSU that Dave used to supply, so that's probably not an issue. These can be retubed for about £20, and as they're only preamp tubes (12AX7) then they don't need biasing; just pull the old one out and push the new one in.

Here’s a few sound samples from my old VT2... https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ULEHHtChiP3rrBSs8

Crawl - Anthrax 🤘

2 channels of tubey thump? for my money I’d spring for the VT2 advertised here: I’ve used DHA stuff for years and always had a great tone.

That string spacing though - you’d have to get a cab between the A and D strings.

Jam - Michael Jackson

Nice Thunes-esque tone you got there too! Good work sir. ...are you going to do 'Cheepnis'?

S1 switch?

It's got 2 flipign sockets!!!

At the start of my gigging days I was given 2 very similar pieces of advice: "Don't play through t'rests, and don't play through t'bingo".

My hands aren’t too bad, it’s my eyes that are going; these days it’s reading glasses and a magnifying glass, and I’m not even doing SMC!!

If it’s just for a wire to a socket then you don’t really need a massively highly specced iron (but a temperature controlled iron is a joy to use), I use one of these: more for the magnifying glass than the clips, as I’m old and my legs are bent, my ears are grizzled and my eyes are knackered etc... the bonus of using the crocodile clips is that they are a useful heat sink, so it reduces the risk of burning stuff.

Thieves in the temple - Prince

Jason Newsted on Metallica's "...And Justice For All" - awesome!

Walk don’t walk - Prince

Best one yet.