Woodinblack

I think there is probably a bit of fear of winning it (not by the artists obviously) just because it has got so grand and presumably expensive these days, its moved on from a hall in morcome with a cardboard scoreboard to something that I think is probably watched more by lighting and set designers than anyone else!

Eurovision never had anything to do with the European continent, it is everything to do with the european broadcasting union, who right from the word go included north africa and parts of Asia (in fact included morocco and tunisia before it included germany).

Hmm.. seems this one has been dormant for a while Anyway, Saw tool at the O2. First gig I had been out to for a while (first big gig since the pandemic). Not generally a fan of stadium type places as the sound is often bad and there are too many people. Anyway, tool aren't going to be playing much longer so decided to go down there to London, stay overnight etc. BIt of a crazy journey, left, decided I should take a credit card in case things didn't all take apple pay, got back - keys still hanging out of the door.. oops. Got on the train, wife lost her ticket betweeen the gate and the train. Got to london, went to book into the hotel, seems the booking didn't complete! Anyway, the gig, Sat on the ground part (on the ice as my wife calls it, can tell where she is from!), thought it would be nice as I don't really like standing much at gigs these days, then they came on and everyone stood. Previous band were brass against, only saw the ending of their set but sounded very good. Take back what I said about the sound, it was as near perfect as you can expect it to be in a big place, really clear and not mushy at all, could hear individual strings of the guitar and bass, only really got messy during big heavy double bass drum parts - maybe due to the fact we were parallel with the sound desk! Anyway, great gig, sound and visuals, and even better as it had a well enforced 'no phones or cameras' rule, so even though everyone was standing so visibility was poor, at least you didn't have to contend with a wall of cameras, which is one of the things I really don't like about modern gigs (or frankly, understand), apart from the last song, when the phone rule was removed and million phones went up. I don't think you realise fully how annoying the phone thing is until it isn't there and then finally is on the last song.

I have seen the mission many times and they have always been good, apart from the last time, the mission and fields of the nephilim, and the mission were absolutely terrible, probably because they didn't even look like they were trying. Still, the Nephilim were much better than usual so I guess swings and roundabouts.

I see it, works fine, looks like a good crowd and thus a good night!

No, I think that is the majority.

I don't love the look of the Big Al, but I don't hate it either. It does bug me that the headstock is a stingray headstock rather than one designed to fit with the body (thinking more like the fender performer). The angular body with a roundy headstock just looks like an afterthought. But that sunburst - awful.

Well, I dislike both of them, but don't see it - there is no genius in the 3 chords and whining of oasis, simply reds songs had better instrumentation for however annoying they were. So I would say Simply Red were genius compared to oasis (which probably goes for most bands), however I would still rather not listen to them!

Middle. But the easiest way is to measure the middle of the end two strings and divide by the number of strings - 1

Bringing back my nightmares there - I used to spend a large part of my working day fixing a 4046 genlock circuit on an embedded computer. When it went wrong it was a nightmare to work with.

Never seen one of those, wasn't aware that one existed!

The event you are talking about is a group of musicians getting together for a jam to see if something worked, it happens all the time and it is perfectly reasonable and a waste of noones time, so not really relevant to what I was talking about. I also suspect that Blackmore and Paice, having already been in Deep Purple for some time were actually fairly good. I am referring to groups where you are there for 6-12 months getting excuse after excuse why they can't do such and such a gig before it becomes clear that it is never going to happen. I can't quite get your point here, you seem to be saying it is perfectly justifiable for a group that has no intention to gig to tell someone they do want to gig so they can stay with them, and it really isn't. I am not (and noone has) saying that it is wrong to have a group that has no intention of gigging, there are loads of those (in fact that thread is all about that), just at the point where someone says 'hey, do you want to be in our band' they should also add 'We have no real intention of gigging' so everyone is clear where they stand and are not wasting anyones time, and don't get me wrong, getting someone in your band who wants to gig is a waste of their time, they can become a better musician in a group that is going the way they want.

Sounds more like an indication of how much £360 was to you in 1980. I almost bought a gibson 'The Paul' in 1980 for £320, but I couldn't afford it or persuade my dad to lend me the money. But turned out alright, the guitarist in my band sold me a 78 'the paul' a couple of years ago for £400, so inflation not too bad. Didnt even have to ask my dad this time.

Both of those songs have lyrics

In the case you showed, they are external links to flickr photos that no longer exist. The top post is photobucket, which is there, and the bottom are flikr that obviously aren't. There was a big event with photo bucket a decade or so ago when they went from free to not free and half the photos of the internet went missing which caused a lot of problems on the internet. More recently we ran out of disk space so had to ask people to delete a lot of images unfortunately (now sorted), although this is just an account going away. Sadly any photo hosting service on the internet that starts of popular either dies because they don't make any money, or dies because they start charging too much money.

It is common, and yes, those people who bow out are the people who want to actually gig and finally realise that despite promises, it is not going to happen. They are not the better for it, they have pretty well wasted their time. Indeed. Check the intentions of the people you are joining a band with to ensure they align with yours. Clearly the two people (including myself) that I quoted. Me and Him / We.

I had one for a while, great sound, gigged it a bit, although not as much as I could as it was heavy. Easily loud enough for a cover band with a loud drummer, although obviously the louder you get the less clean you can have it.

What your describing is exactly the opposite of what we are saying here. If you join a band knowing they are not gigging, that is fine and would have no issues with that (and probably wouldn't join). This is referring to a group that you have joined after being told the intention is to gig, and then people always coming up with a reason you can't and putting it off. That IS soul destroying.

Almost certainly because the original pictures have been deleted, but without an example I couldn't say for sure.

You have a meter, check that all the metal parts conduct to each other, it could be trapped by anything

OK, in the first photo, the tone control, the wire up from the terminal at the edge that connects to the capacitor needs to connect to that wire that it is almost but not quite touching, or the tone won't work. Other than that I can't immediately see why you are not getting any sound. again, check with your meter across the terminals of the jack socket, With the volume fully one way it will be zero, with it fully the other way it should be many thousands

I can - I know a couple. They don't want to gig, but they want to get together and play, which is fine as long as when someone joins they know up front that that is the score. I joined a group once that just made excuses why they weren't ready all the time, and did virtually no gigs.

Assuming you just haven't connected the wire to the volume from the centre switch yet, as you haven't got round to it, looks like it should work. I can't tell because of the angle but there is a link between the tone control outside tag with the capacitor and the case is there?

If you click on the x in someones sig, you can choose to hide theirs or all sigs. I routinely hide any sig that is more than a couple of lines of text long, and pretty well anything with a photo (as it wrecks the flow of the text in a thread).

Not quite sure I understand what you mean there. Look at the 24th fret - as a fraction of the string it is 25% of the way from the bridge to the nut - it has to be, or it wouldn't play in tune, regardless of how long the string was. So that blue line is a continuation of the slope of the strings, so yes, that blue line is the same proportion of the scale of each string regardless of its length from the bridge (clearly the length from the bridge to the blue line is further in absolute distance the bigger string you go, but the same proportion).