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I agree on the horns bit, definitely. I almost never use horns and the majority (if not all) of the people I like sonically, most of whom have very aggressive sounds, don’t use them either.

This sentence makes no sense in any universe I exist in. 😂

🙄 Radiohead’s 2017 Glastonbury spot is, IMO, probably the best televised gig I’ve ever seen.

That’s a shame, but also something of a relief for me as they’re two of my favourite bits and the thought I’d missed them due to the generator issue was rather annoying.

Really glad to hear you enjoyed them too. Did you get LE and the excerpt from The MB, as per the programme set list? We didn’t, but I assumed that was due to the timing issues caused by the failed generator.

Sunburst and NM for me. The NM had a nice all-round tone, a bit softer than the others but with nice growl. I liked the natural least.

Although I play mainly - although not exclusively - pick, I’m constantly fiddling with my tones, volumes, hand placement, type of attack, etc etc as I feel each part of the song requires. Do what the song requires would always be my advice.

This. He’s known for being the ultimate professional, the “workaholic’s workaholic”. I’m sure if he could have he would have. Sometimes, as I know all too well (and he’s in way, way worse condition than me) you simply can’t.

Well the room certainly was supportive. There were loads people shouting out “I/we love you Phil” all the way through. He also said “I have to do it this way”. Given his physical issues (and simply watching him) it’s obviously difficult for him to sing. Spinal problems affecting your singing, as I know all too well. They affect your breathing, full stop. Anyone who couldn’t give him a pass shouldn’t have bothered going IMO. I didn’t hear a single negative comment about Phil, even in the crowd on the way home, and it’s something I was concerned about. I heard comments about the set list, all sorts of stuff, but nothing negative about Phil.

No, that’s an easy mod to do. Everything else! I replaced the white scratch plate on mine with a black one but left the truss rod cover white and - whilst that’s not entirely uncommon and is an even easier mod - it just looks like mine. Not saying it is though, I’d have had to see it in real life. I do wonder where mine went. Serial number TC915, just in case. 😉

This. I wish I could afford him for my solo album!

I went to Manchester last night and loved it. It was incredibly moving; I wept at several points. The band have meant so, so much to me over the years. It was so sad to see Phil like that; he has always been one of my musical heroes, having first come to Genesis via And Then There Were Three. However he did his best with the singing given the circumstances and was very, very funny. He was like a Prog-pop Yoda! Unfortunately there was a delay at the start due to one of the generators failing, so they had to drop a couple of the older tunes due to timing issues which was disappointing, but I couldn’t fault the show, I thought it was fantastic. What was really nice was seeing the absolute love for the band - and Phil in particular, given his current circumstances - from the audience. Also, the amount of younger people singing and dancing along with even the oldest material and knowing all the words. It was doubly poignant for me given it’s a year this month since I lost my dad, who paid well over the odds to get me a ticket to see them locally in 1980 after the gig had sold out, because he knew they were my favourite band. And seeing the band in their autumn years, with my dad now gone, when that 1980 gig still seems like yesterday……😢

There were actually other Rics too but I bottled including them!

I always used to wonder if that was mine that was nicked around ‘86.

I guess that while your life is your life and there are no “alternate realities” (or are there?😉), your life is also not set in stone, it is a fluid thing that is affected by every event experienced, every decision made. So I personally feel that any event or experience potentially “changes” your life because it dictates the course of the rest of it. Again, semantics. 😁

This is true (and is also semantics😉), but as someone who has spent several years of his life in therapy, partly - although in no way exclusively - over “might have beens”, this isn’t really how I see things. 😉 😂

Just to clarify something that may be being lost in translation, whilst many people’s lives have been directionally changed by music (in my case directionally in that everything I’ve done on a day to day basis, short of the stuff to pay the bills or eating and sleeping, has been dictated by music), when I say my life has been changed by music - and I’m sure many others are the same - I mean emotionally. It has enriched my life, deepened my emotional understanding, expanded my consciousness, however you want to put it.

My parents had earlier - twice! - tried to interest me in picking up an instrument (as mentioned many times, my dad was a jazz musician) by buying me a clarinet, which I wasn’t at all interested in. 😂

Me, Pink Floyd’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond, aged about 14. Transfixed. Completely blew my mind, changed my perception of, well, pretty much everything.

I’m only semi-pro. But even if I made no money at all from music - as I have for much of my life - it would be the same, because of how it makes me feel. It’s not a casual enjoyment, a bit of fun, it is everything. Although I have other interests (art, film, books), without music I would be completely, utterly lost.

To be honest I’m extremely surprised that a musician would express difficulty in understanding why some people say “music changed my life”. If just put forward as a point of discussion then ok, I get that, but otherwise I just find it baffling. In my case, there are many ways in which music changed my life (not the least of which was becoming a musician, which has directed my life in more ways than I can count), but there are times in which it has actually saved it. I spent most of 2019 struggling with the desire to end my life. One of the main things that got me through - just - was Sandy Denny (ironic given her short and somewhat turbulent life and penchant for melancholy songs). Something about her music - possibly its apparent shared understanding of pain - gave me something to cling onto. I will never, ever forget that.

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Sounds like you’re not very passionate about anything. Some of us are. Music is by far the most important thing in my life (well, bar my cats) and has been for most of my life. This week I’ve listened to music I’ve never heard before that has caused me to break down sobbing, because of how moving it is. If I was told I could never listen to music again, or never write music again, I would end my life. Seriously. 😡

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