Bolo

In the old days radio would dictate what you should be listening to for 'free'. Spotify offers bands great and smol a platform to be heard, and is actively promoting shows in your area by the band's you're listening to. Also links to band merch and hardware are now on Spotify. Now if Spotify would distribute my monthly fee just between the artists I've played that month, that would be great. I suspect people who think rock is dead have lost touch. Give a quality performance in both music and show and people age 16 to 60 will appreciate!

Scratch plate, plectrum (plural plectra), lamps or tubes (never valve).

Add a squirt of cleaning alcohol too, leave no stripes.

The only things you will regret are when you were a Richard to someone.

Laminating woods is an old trick to make average wood good, or good wood great.

I reckon most of those tools are for launching at your bandmates to win an argument. They're not needed for the instrument, they're set and forget.

Slayer coverband 'Player'

Yes edit: same goes for jazz guys.

I play the bass and the mic, bass guitar and vocals? I am the bass player and the vocalist. Singer is a solo artist.

A bit like this?

https://goo.gl/images/3NmvKP If you check her Facebook you can see and read how she toured some South America with Jamiroquai. literally one minute google.

Did you get the strap though?

A tuner with a good display could help?

Nice! Until the singing started.

Juan Pablo Jorge & Gringo, Los Beatlos

What's this 'passive' nonsense?

Dr.Pepper's Homely Arts Club van.

We were last described as "blackened thrash metal"

Sounds lifeless to me, but I don't think that surprised anyone.

To hear the compressed track on a 20p piece of rapidly degrading plastic 😂 Who are you kidding mate? 🤣 Good is good, better is in your imagination.

I'm surprised that CDs haven't been replaced by USB sticks or micro SD cards! Cheap, reliable, plenty of storage space for digital artwork, take up no space, etc. etc. I still buy CDs, mainly from bands I like the live show of, or enjoy their music on Spotify or YouTube. The CD still sounds better than MP3 and/or Bluetooth and can sound as warm as you like with a little EQing. I like records, sentimental things aren't they? Clumsy old things but keep you busy. All tape should be molten into solar panels or somesuch. Unreliable crud.

Jerry, of racecar fame