MrCrane

Just to add my 0.02 dollars worth. I generally preferred the new venue. The volume levels were high at times, but I felt they were less than what I've experienced at Olympia . The one caveat to this would be the somewhat bizarre placement of the 'Tone zone' in the main hall. I tried to sit in on some of these sessions, but I couldn't follow them at all. Conditions in the workshop rooms were somewhat claustrophobic at times, but not as bad as the 'black hole of SBL' that we had at Olympia over the last couple of years. The main thing I did notice was the significantly larger number of kids at the show. (Quick thanks to 'Jean-Luc' on the Chowny stand and the guys on the Wilcock stand who were only to happy to let my 11 year old daughter try out a number of the instruments (at a low volume or over headphones I hasten to add 🙂).

Sweet or salted? 🙂

End of the Rainbow - Richard Thompson? No, maybe not. (Not bass driven). 😀 Congratulations

In the past, it's just been a gig/jam at the local pub, so probably just a walk in job.

Teacher's Pet or Stick It To The Man - School of Rock

Are Bears Catholic? 😀

+1 for the Ibanez Mikro. My daughter got one when she was 8. (Now just turned 11). Didn't really take to it for a year, but is now going for her Grade 4 exams and auditioning for School of Rock the Musical. The difficult part is finding a decent strap that's small enough. I'd definitely recommend finding a decent teacher, the parent/child dynamic doesn't always make for the best learning experience. 🙁

I'm just trying not to think of a 'guy' with a 40" waist wearing loons.😬

Funny, I don't remember seeing you. 😊

Take a look in here http://www.calyx-canterbury.fr/bands/chrono/hillage.html Possibly Reading - August '78?

I don't recall him playing at Knebworth in '78. (Or did you just mean that you bumped into him?)

Haven't seen him since '77 at the Rainbow (no loons though). Just booked for the Islington show. Thanks for the heads up.

A couple of Ernie Ball plectra from c. 1978 which I still muck about with from time to time and in the loft there's collection of Hohner Marine Band and Blues Harp harmonicas from the late 70s that have probably developed a rich and vibrant culture by now.

Says it all

I'd add Brian Wroten to the list https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtnZ4IcxbLcdlvk-Q-0bCg

I gave up worrying about that a long time ago.

Napoleon's UNCLE, surely?

To be fair, Danny's been on so many people's work that the odds are somewhat skewed. 😎 I'd nominate Jack Casady

He looked into my eyes just as an airplane roared above Said something about football But he never mentioned love. or There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis Just like you swore to me that you'd be true There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you.

With a geranium behind each ear and his face painted with gay cabalistic symbols, 6-foot-8, 17-stone Police Sergeant Geoff Bull looked jolly convincing as he sweated and grunted through a vigorous twist routine at the Frug-A-Go-Go Bierkeller. His hot serge trousers flapped wildly over his enormous plastic sandals as he jumped and jumped and gyrated towards a long-haired man. "Er, excuse me, man, I have reason to believe you can turn me on", he leered suggestively. As if by magic dozens of truncheons appeared and mercilessly thrashed him. Poor Geoff, what a turn-up for the books

Can somebody explain the modes to me?

Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson

Shocked by... John Lennon and Kirsty McColl Saddened by untimely death... Most of those already mentioned plus Robert Calvert Alan Hull

Kenny Gradney, Richie Hayward and Sam Clayton of Little Feat