Maude

Great initiative, and I hate to be this person, but how long before someone starts shouting "discrimination"?

Police Car - The Members

I love a slab body.

Plywood = Heavy Heavy = Heft Heft = Good Good = End of thread. Job done 😄

I've said this before but I have an old Kay (yep, the ones we all threw away) with a ply neck and body which I've done some work to. Out of about 25 I own the Kay has the longest, brightest sustain, acoustically so no electrickery. I can only put this down to the ply being harder and more rigid than 'normal' wood. It's still not a great bass but not because it's ply. I also have an old Hohner Arbor P bass which is ply and is great bass.

That's cool. I'm the same, visuals have the final say, I don't care how good it sounds if it looks bad. I'm so shallow a snake couldn't even wash his balls in me. 🙂

I'm not sure it is, I can't find any writers listed other the Pistols. 🤔 Similarly, I never realised Police Car by The Members was a cover. It just sounds so 'them'.

A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash

Dr. Avalanche

Warman have become my default place for pickups lately. Well made, sound great, good range of styles and mostly an absolute bargain. Warman

Lady M and I had this discussion with the other day after watching a program on the 80s. In terms of general popular music, each decade from 50s to 90s had massive changes from one end to the other, then from 2000 onwards things have just run out of steam. There's stuff going on if you hunt for it but I'm talking about the run of the mill stuff, and I do hate saying it because it just makes me an old fart longing for the past but I don't feel that's how I am.

Exactly. I'm no fan of this song, but if I was in a band that played all the usual suspects, which is what most pub goers want, then I'd be adding it to the set. It really does sound like Rag'n'Bone Man singing along to Kings Of Leon though I think. As to whether this latest direction is an improvement, I don't know. But if it's going to be a big seller/streamer/sing a long at festivals, which it probably will be then I can't say I wouldn't do the same, given the chance.

I've just heard the new song by 'Rag'n'bone Man' and it might just be the new 'Sex On Fire', well it might have been if anyone was gigging. We do/did 'Human' by him in our acoustic band which always goes down well and this sounds like it would be a crowd pleaser in a rock covers band.

Jesus Built my Hotrod - Ministry

Isn't there a full version and a radio edit?

That is true.

The middle bit in My Sharona always feels a bit shoved in there, especially when it changes back to the main riff.

Isn't Bohemian Rhapsody a collection of mediocre ditties clumsily gaffer taped together?

Sister Ray - Velvet Underground

The Banana Splits - The Dickies

Miserable sod alert! Most specialist guitar polishes are a way of squeezing a teeny bit of standard polish used in the automotive or furniture trades into little containers and charging double the price. Still it gives advertising people an outlet to save them getting constipated with their shite. 🙂

Ha ha, that's the closest I've got to steels as well. I also have a pack of Hi Beams in the cupboard waiting.

While the lack of gigs is obviously not good, the rest of your post I look at in a positive light. To have instruments as assets is far preferable to having that money in the bank. Both can be exchanged for necessary goods if the situation arises, but instruments are far more fulfilling until that day comes, and fingers crossed it won't. 🙂

Greetings From Shitsville - The Wildhearts

Hanging Around - The Stranglers