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Or go there, having found it online and decided to check it out in person, and thought "kinell, that's gone up a lot since I looked at the website".

He moved to Tamworth (well, just down the road - Polesworth). At the time, Tamworth had quite a healthy local music scene, and he was kind enough to come and help judge the Battle of the Bands. Very nice chap. https://tamworthbands.co.uk/history/battleofthebands/1986.htm - I was in Caprice at the time.

Why do you think that those of us criticising that particular track are saying that she's crap? I think she was an excellent vocalist, but that her treatment of that particular song was putting technique over conveying the content of the song.

Presumably not Sunshine on a Rainy Day? Maybe Let It Rain?

Er, already there.

Streets and roads Where the streets have no name, Avenues and alleyways, Copper head road, Long and winding road, Penny Lane, Goodbye yellow brick road, Take me home country roads, On the road again, Highway to hell, Road to hell, King of the road, Hit the road Jack.

There wouldn't be a ticket price. If you can't/won't scan a QR code, you just ask an assistant who will be glad to, er, assist. Or, given the levels of service nowadays, be just as likely to say "f*ck off grandpa".

I suppose it's not occurred to anyone to put QR codes on the instruments instead of price tags. The QR codes would simply take you to the web page for the instrument in question.

The interval between sundown and dawn. Nights in white satin, All day and all of the night, Night fever, Dance the night away, One more night, A hard day's night, You shook me all night long, Black night, The night they drove old Dixie down, Saturday night's alright, Rhythm of the night, This flight tonight, All night long, Night boat to Cairo, Boogie nights. That's not to mention Gladys Night and the Pips, or the Barron Knights.

It would appear to be a 1984 reissue. TBH, the best option seems to me to be the one featured at the top of the page - https://walbasshistory.blogspot.com/2015/08/gallery-reissue-pro-bass.html

FTFY.

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"Since you been gone" by Rainbow is one I consider a great track, largely because of the guitar soloes where you feel every note has been carefully planned. While I won't deny Whitney Houston's vocal ability, ISTM that her version of IWALY is done more to showcase her melismatics than to convey the emotion of the lyrics (see also Alexandra Burke's "Hallelujah").

My actual needs dictate two basses, a fretted and fretless 5. But I have to keep my two 4-string Thumbs (fretted and fretless) for sentimental reasons, and the Antoniotsais because they're so unusual, and a couple of six-string basses (fretted and fretless) as my luxury items, and a 10-string for the odd occasions when I might need that sound, and a couple of showy ones for stage use. Oh, and acoustic fretted and fretless, and solid body and hollow body uke basses, and an EUB. And of course despite the fact that headstocks are the work of Stan*, there is a wider range of headed basses than headless ones, so where I can I have headless equivalents as well. * Stan Fender, the idiot son of Leo, who decided that a heavy lump of wood on the end of the neck would be ideal to put the word "Fender" on and designed it so badly that it needed a bodge to give the strings a decent break angle.

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A motorcycle crash in 2001 left me with broken ribs and a punctured lung. The lung and the ribs healed, but there was a fair amount of soft tissue damage as well, and standing for the full 45 minutes of a set left me feeling as if I'd had a hit dagger stuck in my back. I found that playing seated helped enormously. I think it's got better now but I can't be sure as lower back issues mean I've had to keep on playing seated. More recently, in February I suddenly experienced considerably reduced movement in my left shoulder - diagnosed as bursitis and I was told I'd be referred to orthopaedics but for some reason I wasn't. I could get down to the fourth or fifth fret, just about, aided by playing a headless and not a Warwick Thumb, and as I'm a five-string player and the band were still at the rehearsal stage at the time it didn't have too deleterious an effect. I have finally been referred and have had an X-ray and ultrasound - I've got a lot more movement in the shoulder but it's still not 100%, but it's recovered enough that I don't get any discomfort from playing.

The great thing about the Dymo 160 is that it uses a 9V centre negative power supply with a 5.5/2.1mm connector, ie an effects pedal power supply.

Or just a box with a flying lead to TRS so as to reduce the number of contacts the signal goes through.

Motorcycles. Bat out of Hell, Leader of the pack, Motorbikin', Bad motor scooter, Midnight rider, Wanted dead or alive, Ride the wind, Born free, Ballad of the Easy Rider, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, to name but a few.

Looking at it, there doesn't seem to be room, plus the TRS socket might be PCB mounted. If you wanted to rebox it, you should be able to do it.

My younger brother started playing classical guitar and I kept borrowing it, and eventually got an electric guitar of my own. I played in a big band at school (IIRC we just did the one gig). At uni, there were other musicians in the hall of residence I was in and we joined together. There was no bassist and I was the worst guitarist, so I decided to be the bassist. Playing basslines on the guitar wasn't really going to cut it - however, I was in London and the Fender Soundhouse had just had a fire, and Hayman had gone bust, and there was a load of Hayman parts being sold off cheap, so I assembled a Hayman 40/40. The band did a couple of gigs in the hall of residence; we got paid £100 for the main one at a time when beer was 20p a pint. What would 500 pints cost now? Then I dropped out and it was a while before I started playing again, after I moved to Tamworth.

Open mic night. I learnt (as my friend, a singer/guitarist announced it) that an old friend who had run the first open mic I dragged Mrs Zero to had died. He'd told me the song and the chords beforehand but I didn't know the reason until he said it on stage - cue a short interval of me saying "what?" and him saying "yes, John Benbow passed away on Sunday". Anyroadup, John had hosted this open mic night that had started Mrs Zero on her singing career (if that's the right term) and I had finished up as the bassist for the house band. So we played "You ain't going nowhere" as a tribute to him, as that was one of the songs that he played regularly.

It's got matching knobs now.