KingBollock

That ply actually looks quite nice like that. I have made a few bits and bobs, like photo frames and stuff, out of ply, and left natural, because I think it looks quite pretty. Obviously it depends on the ply. The trouble is, even though yours looks nice, there is a stigma attached to guitars made from it, it would be a brave thing to not paint it.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1356118001' post='1907198'] Haha, why would you play some random guys guitar when you have a 20 year old LP sitting right there? anybody with a guitar that has any value will not be bringing to along to the pub and asking somebody else to play it. [/quote] He was in Tamworth, that's enough to know. I used to hate going into Tamworth, they are the rudest people I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. Obviously there are exceptions (he says, covering his arse because there is at least one person on here from there, who seems relatively normal as far as I can tell) but I have personally never met a single likeable person from there. It was a bloke from Tamworth that stole my old Shure microphone. "I'll sing in your band", says he. "Can I borrow a microphone?" He asks. "Sure", says I. "Where did he go?" I wonder.

Get some kind of malware killer, I use [i]Spybot - Search & Destroy[/i]. Run it. Then restart your PC in Safe Mode and run it again. Then restart normally. If you use Firefox then get the addon [url="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/"]NoScript[/url]. There may be other versions for whatever browser you use. I used to run both Spybot and AdAware but newer versions started clashing with each other and as I preferred AdAware I started running that on its own. Unfortunately it is now bundled with a dodgy Virus Guard so I now just run Spybot.

Status Quo - Roll Over Lay Down - 1975 There are other really good songs from that year, such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Stand By Your Man, but the Quo track is my favourite to play along to, even if it is rather simple, or maybe because it's simple.

[quote name='Tuono' timestamp='1356033019' post='1906113'] I am not very good and just play in a pub band but at least I have more sense than to pester people in a good band. [/quote] It's not always a bad thing. When I was a kid working in a guitar shop, the chaps at work finally convinced me I was good enough to join a proper band. They said I was much better than the Bassist in my favourite local band who I was banging on about because I had gone to see them the week before. One day I saw the lead Guitarist and said to him that I play Bass, would he be interested in me? He said he already had a Bassist so I just said that if he ever found himself in need of one, let me know. They rehearsed in a place about 100 yards from where I lived so, a couple of weeks later I decided to go have a listen through the window, something my brother and I often did there when rock bands were rehearsing. I was just knocking around outside the building when the Guitarist saw me. They had sacked the Bassist and he told me to go grab my stuff. They liked me and I got into my first proper band! But then, I was rather more subtle than the twerp in the OP.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1356023178' post='1905928'] Well yes, hopefully we can all agree that both Vinyl and CDs go round in circles! Waiting for some to contradict that now..... [/quote] Some of Big Red X's vinyl used to have a more elliptical orbit I believe.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1356022948' post='1905922'] Vinyl......CD....Hmmmm [/quote] For the side of CDs:

There used to be a recording on Anne Rice's website that used to play automatically. It was a very, very old recording from the late 1800's I think. It took me a long time but I found out who it was singing and what the song was, it may have been a hymn, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was now. At the time I searched desperately for similar recordings but found nothing. It was hissy and spitty, crackly and poppy but it had amazing presence, proper heart swelling stuff that left me with wet eyes. About as far from hifi as you can get but it was lovely to me.

The way I saw the argument was that Billybob* says they prefer A to B, but as B can technically be better than A, it might be that the reason for preferring A is erroneous and with a little more insight, from Trevor*, into why, Billybob might come out of it with a better listening experience than when he went in. Now then, Billybob doesn't care what Trevor has to say, as far as he's concerned he's right and adamant about it and would rather that Trevor just shut up. But Trevor feels as though he has more advice and perhaps someone will learn something and so is kindly trying to educate anyone interested. But Billybob thinks that Trevor just wants the final word and is determined to have the final word for himself by constantly popping up and accusing Trevor of trying to have the final word. Then it all goes in circles. [i](Names changed to protect the guilty)[/i]

Anyone know anything about the Alesis 3632 Dual Channel Compressor/Limiter/Gate? [url="http://www.alesis.com/3632compressor"]http://www.alesis.com/3632compressor[/url] It's £99 and a 1u rack unit. I was thinking about it for Bass but also to hook up to my mixer for recording and PA. Is it any good? Would I be better off going for one dedicated to Bass?

Many, many years ago I was given a Guyatone Distortion/Chorus pedal that didn't work. I was told that I could keep it if I got it to work, chuck it out if not. I had a look but couldn't figure it out, proper stumped me. The light would come on and it seemed to do everything it was supposed to but make a sound. Every couple of years I would stumble across it and have another look. This year I finally decided that it was its last chance, if I couldn't fix it I was going to cannibalise it for its parts. It turned out that the long tab inside the input jack socket was ever so slightly bent so that it shorted out across the input jack. I stuck a screwdriver in there and bent it back all of half a millimetre, an lo it was fixed! It's quite a nice little pedal too.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1355883386' post='1904080'] Why doesn't this hilarious sh*t ever happen to me? [/quote] Does it happen to your other band members? Perhaps it's you someone wants to replace...?

I can sort of see why people think the OP was bigging his band up and showing off, but it looked to me like he was just setting the scene, saying "We've done a lot of good stuff, we get one well together, I respect their skills and others' obviously do too, else we wouldn't have been able to do the stuff we have.". Otherwise, it's possible to believe that the tosser with an attitude, slagging off the guitarists purely to get himself into the band, might have had a valid opinion. Where as if everything is taken at face value, and there's no reason not to, then it wasn't truly his opinion, just a malicious attack to, somehow, make the band want him over one of their current guitarists. If it had been me, I'd have just stuck it in the Daily Annoyances thread rather than start a fresh thread about something many others would have experienced, but I can imagine getting in after a night with that goon and wanting to let off a bit of steam. And it's not exactly the OPs fault that it went on for so many pages.

Instead of having a new email address for every site you sign up to, you can use the name of the site as your sign-in name. So say you're registering at a site called fluffybunnies.com, you'd register with your real name as fluffybunnies. Then if you got spam generated from the email address you used for that site, it'd come addressed to fluffybunnies and you'd know where it came from. Though that probably wouldn't work on a site where you have to use your username as your register info. An old email address of mine was hacked once because I allowed my browser to remember its password so that I didn't have to type it in every time. It spammed everyone in my list with stuff about iPods, something I have never owned. It even sent one to my Dad who thought I was trying to get back in touch after a couple of years of not talking to him, that was annoying. Not had the Newtown spam myself.

I remember desperately searching for a VHS copy of the film Holiday Inn for my wife, for Christmas, back in the mid 90s (before we had internet), took weeks for it to arrive and cost about £20. Bought it on DVD about 5 years ago and it took just 2 days and was about £5 Bing Crosby's White Christmas is in the film, that's what made me think of it.

Wish I'd ordered one now, just to see if they're as good as mine...! I actually find myself using them quite a lot, I don't think people will be disappointed with them.

The last band I was in, the drummer had a 22" riveted China cymbal that used to stand right next to be. It was the loudest cymbal I have ever heard and those rivets kept it sizzling for ages.

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1355747803' post='1902047'] What I do is pinch my finger and thumb together and use the finger tip/nail as a kind of pseudo plectrum. Very useful for playing songs where the lack of pick attack is a bit conspicuous e.g. the beginning of slither. I'm pretty shure I saw JPJ doing this on the zep reunion concert. [/quote] If I recall correctly, Rudy Sarzo did something similar in his Hot Licks video. He held the tip of his index finger between his thumb and ring finger, then used his index finger like a pick.

Other than Johnny Mathis, the only other part of Christmas I like is the decorations. I love me some tinsel! Lots of glittery paper and twinkly lights and I'm a happy man. I don't mind getting presents but I loathe having to open them infront of people, I'd rather get nothing at all. And you can keep family, too. I'd be just fine with just my wife and me, and lots of colourful, glittery stuff, twinkly lights and spicy smelling candles, of course.

Love the Pogues Christmas track, but then I love the Pogues anyway, so I can understand why others wouldn't. For me there are two album that bring Christmas alive: Bjork - Debut, especially with the scent of White Musk Joss Sticks. The other is Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born compilation album. 1. When A Child Is Born 2. Winter Wonderland 3. Jingle Bells Rock 4. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 5. Sleigh Ride 6. Silver Bells 7. The Christmas Song 8. White Christmas 9. Little Drummer Boy 10. O Holy Night 11. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 12. What Child Is This? 13. The First Noel 14. Carol Of The Bells 15. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear 16. Silent Night Bit Christiany for me, but it sounds amazing.

Best of both worlds: This is how I use them when playing Banjo. There's also these:

I can't afford expensive hifi equipment and I certainly can't justify altering a room specifically for listening to music. In fact our main stereo is in the conservatory, so it's surrounded by glass. When I really want to listen to a piece of music, as opposed to having it on in the background, I get the headphones out. My headphones aren't expensive ones either, but they allow me to get swallowed up in the music, for it to be everything, to make my spine tingle and my heart melt. [i]That[/i] matters to me.

I would love to have a crack at making my own 3mm Big Stubby out of aluminium. Just need to get some aluminium the right thickness. I have a feeling that if I could get the shape and size bang on, they would be my ideal pick. One of my picks I made out of a steel washer. It actually sounds really smooth because I spent a long time getting the edge just right, don't want to go chopping my strings up. It has the hole in the right place to hold, which makes to really easy to hold. Unfortunately, at 1mm, it's a bit too thin for my tastes. When I first started playing with a pick my very favourite one was a black Dunlop that I had stuck a rubber disc to, which had been the foot to a TV.

The part I miss the most is when the stage lighting first goes on, the hiss of the smoke machine and the smell of coconut from it, and the beams from the lights start to show in the smoke. It's a Zen like moment for me.

For over 15 years I used the Dunlop, Lexan (material) 3mm Stubbies. I recently switched to the new Nylon 3mm Stubbies. They don't wear as quick and they are easier to hold. I use the for both Bass and Guitar, the shape of the tip makes them massively versatile. After a recent thread I covered one of my old Lexan Stubbies with thin, dense felt and it sounds amazing. I do have a ton of different thickness picks made from different materials, including steel, and I do use them, but I mostly use the Stubbies.