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A few Making Musics scanned here, along with other old music mags: http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags

Some great stuff posted. This is my era, I saw a lot of these bands in London back then. Here’s one of my favourites

I hardly ever use speakers at home. Most evenings I spend and hour or two playing through this

I like enjoying a pint or two while watching bands, so for me the most irritating thing is venues with a poor choice of overpriced beer. Smaller independent values are often pretty good these days, but the likes of the O2 are dreadful.

Can’t agree with this. Gimme Shelter is one of the Stones finest, and has one of the greatest intros ever

I’ve been enjoying guitarist Alex Skolnick’s podcast for a while and he has just posted a new episode with guest Percy Jones. Should be worth a listen: https://www.alexskolnick.net/podcast/2021/6/18/percy-jones

Interestingly StaffPad has been acquired by the owners of MuseScore, so we might see an affordable or even free version before long.

Notion has been around a while and is supposed to be good https://www.presonus.com/products/Notion-for-iOS

The Bootleg Beatles are the earliest tribute act I remember. Going since 1980 according to Wikipedia

This has been a fixture in my band's set for a while and always goes down well. I use an OC-2 for the verses. It doesn't sound quite like the original but it's close enough. Fun song to play, and some nice chords for the guitarists too.

Bowie’s Jean Genie. Trevor Bolder usually gets the blame for going to the first chorus too early, but if you count the bars it’s the rest of the band coming in too late.

Sounds like my Thunder 1A bass. Passive tone operates when the active circuit is off. "Equalizer tone" is the active tone control, treble boost one way, bass boost the other.

Yes, that's the fully landed cost. I would guess that UPS is sorting out the VAT and duties as the Vault is about selling direct. What happens if you need to make a warranty claim, I wonder?

What about the EHX Freeze? I'd never seen anything like it when my guitarist mate got one a few years ago.

Love both of those. Another favourite from 1985 is Husker Du’s Flip Your Wig

I don't believe Stingrays are made by a small tight-knit team of highly experienced craftsmen. Apart from the size, Fender's Corona plant and EBMM's SLO factory are surely pretty similar: semi-skilled, low paid factory workers building the same sort of products out of the same materials, using the same machinery and techniques.

Sandberg California TM4 Superlight, under 7lbs, great playability and sounds.

I’ve dipped into the Dead over the years. American Beauty and Workingmen’s Dead are the only great studio albums; most of the rest are a mixed bag. Overall I prefer the live stuff. The Cornell 77 concert is considered their best live show by many https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_5/8/77 One of my favourites is this 1990 concert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Up_to_Find_Out with Branford Marsalis sitting in. I also like this compilation of their songs by a bunch of more contemporary artists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead_(2016_album)

I play gigs with two bands and have always had one favourite bass that I use for everything. That favourite has changed every few years; a couple of Jazzes, a Precision and now a Sandberg. I enjoy the familiarity of playing one good instrument which I know really well, and the simplicity of just grabbing it for practising, rehearsals or gigs. I have a few others, such as a fretless, an 8-string and a cheap spare Jazz, but they just get played at home occasionally.

PM'd

This is still available

One of the hot topics when I looked in yesterday was “I put roundwounds back on my P and I’d forgotten how great they are”. Meltdown assured?

I like their website. It has decent info on the main model ranges, and the configurator does a great job of showing most of the options without being over complicated. They could make it clearer that extra choices are available, but I bet they find a lot of interest is coming from Facebook and Instagram these days, so the perhaps the website takes a back seat.

XTC’s psychedelic incarnation, the Dukes of Stratosphear

Sire should have something suitable, I would think?