Skinnyman

Now i call that good manners....

Ah, but that was tyres. Bloody expensive ones. Plus, as you say, I didn't want to meet you and have you mock my Rickenbacker. There are plenty who've heard me play it can do that....

Elegance, sophistication and a certain raffishness..... (Disclaimer: i drive a Jag and thus identify with many of it's fine qualities. I also expect to break down (literally and emotionally) by the side of a motorway any day now....)

When i were a lad we used to 'ave to wash up in't t'horse trough in't market Square. It were al reet unless it were't time for fhather's bath. 3rd o' June every yeer, rain or shine. Pots 'ad to be dun at' toe end. Sorry, Ricky. Had to be done....

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky..... You couldn't be more wrong. 😀 I hated beetroot as a kid and avoided it for years. Was then forced to have some and loved it! Beetroot is brilliant. As are Yes, Genesis, King Crimson and Gentle Giant (IMHO) Not so much ELP though - and i agree with the observations about Robert Fripp. New Standard Tuning my fat ar$e.....

As Premium Members would we get more TLRTs? What other privileges? Marketplace adverts, sure - but what else? Should Premium Members' opinions count double in some way? Or a nice badge? A gold one? I'm up for that

Not wishing to derail this but while we're on the subject, you've reminded me..... I recently got an email telling me my £18 was due. I'm not keen on clicking links in emails - but i can't find anywhere on the site that allows me to pay my dues . This is no doubt because I've very stupid but please help a confused old man and tell me how I pay my £18 😀

I think he's flogged that now and got a Corsa...

Just Saturdays, what with him not touring so much these days. It gets him out the house and keeping active.

And quite right too. Even if it’s not your fault this time, you’ll have got away with something somewhere else so it all just balances out if we blame you for everything. Stewblack’s electric shocks, Sam’s smutty innuendos, Ricky’s dress sense, my inability to pass a guitar shop without buying what Mrs S calls “another bloody bass”....All your fault. I could go on.... ...in fact, I think I will. Brexit. The 2008 financial crash. England’s inability to get close to the (men’s) football World Cup since 1966, that bloody awful Three Lions thing, the git that shoved a trolley down the side of my car yesterday, the fact that I couldn’t sleep last night. All of it the fault of That Teebs. Bad Teebs. You should be ashamed of yourself....

Only when worn with a nice, sensible cardigan.... Beige, preferably

What you on about? I want to be him. Or at least, be on whatever he's on....

On the table in the hall. Obvs. 😁

I was the one in the double denim. 😁

Thanks! Just spoke to my old mate who was with me and it was Lancaster! Not a festival at all. He did confirm that we went to Knebworth in 78 and 79 though. As someone just said, if you can remember it, you weren't there - turns out i definitely can't remember it 😃 Now, why did i come in here?

I just checked my old program and you're right. It wasn't 78. So where the hell did I see him then? Sometime between 1977 and 1979 at a festival in the UK (I know because i remember driving back from the gig in the Hillman Hunter I had between those dates, playing the Salmon Song on my very much aftermarket cassette player). Research needed, i think

I saw him in 1978 at Knebworth Festival (Genesis headlined) although i doubt he remembers me. I'm fairly sure I was wearing flares, not loons.

Given the number of rip-off merchants out there, I like to ask a couple of questions just to see if the seller really has the item for sale and that they know basic facts about it. But that's a world away from some of the idiot examples quoted here....

Greetings! Welcome to the forum 😁

"Performing every night on stage with a cast of 1,200". I wonder how many of the 1,200 others are performing for free? Oh, hang on.... They say that the tattoo is the preserve of military personel. My guess is that the military bods who perform just get their normal service wages, plus board and lodging - so the REMT are used to having performers who, as far as they're concerned, do it for "free". They're applying that same principal to this band, conveniently forgetting that anyone who signs up is not actually a paid employee of the Queen.

Welcome!

I think Archimedes may claim trademark on the screw.... 🤫

I'm so sorry to hear this. 6 weeks or 6 months - it's still not long enough to say goodbye. Thanks for sharing this at what must be a difficult and emotional time. That's a fine looking bass and it will be forever special - play it with pride 'cos the old man will be listening and tapping his feet.

And, as you say, Amazon are only taking advantage of the rules. They're not the only employers who follow these behaviours - the agencies who provide workers in the agriculture and food prep sectors are even worse - and it's all perfectly legal. Even worse, it's not just a Tory thing - Big Tony and Little Gordon played along too.