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the gambler - kenny rogers

To be fair not many people can afford to manufacture bespoke, hand tooled items in 2022. The world has changed.

The problem with scaling up any business is that it involves compromise. That may mean compromise on quality, culture, ethics or service. If I owned a small long running, successful business that was my passion I would try to keep it as close to my control as possible. Then again I am no Alan Sugar and that whole corporate world leaves me cold. Also once a business reaches a certain size it can become vulnerable and require risky loans to break out of that zone between being a bespoke relatively risk free operation that provides for a low number of people to a more risky business requiring significant cash injection to scale up and employ more people, buy premises etc etc. To survive this transition manufacturing often is offshored and this is when quality and service can nose dive.

lead me on - kelly joe phelps

Sophie Softly - Gruff Rhys

Travelling Man - Free

Bodyrock - Moby

Cherub rock - The Smashing Pumpkins

Im not sure Warmouth offer either of those but a luthier certainly would…

I don’t know the weight but a SD single coil P pickup cant be heavy? Someone on BC had recommended them so may know. Added to a swamp ash or basswood Warmouth dinky P with rear cavity and 2 light weight knobs and it must be pretty light?

the house carpenter - kelly joe phelps

in the jailhouse now - soggy bottom boys

great balls of fire / gerry lee lewis

friend of the devil - grateful dead

I think we will have to agree to disagree. Slash’s Snakepit being a good example. G&R members for the most part but didn’t have the same impact. it’s not about the name but the body of work produced by the artists involved at a certain period of their lives. Great vocalist or not Axl Rose brought a dynamic that worked perfectly for that band in that era. Edit: In the same way during MacGowans heavy alcoholic days I saw Jem Finer taking vocals (he sings better) but it wasn’t the Pogues. It was an average pub band.

jimmy - tool too late

I don’t see bands this way. The creative input and personality of the members lead to what music they produce. Without Axl Rose, Guns &Roses wouldn’t be the same band. Maybe they would have been a better band with better songs or maybe they would have gone nowhere. But they wouldn’t have been Guns & Roses.

I guess we could say the same about PiL, The Cure, The Pogues etc Alfie Boe has a lovely singing voice yet if he fronted any of the aforementioned bands they would have been cr@p.

fire and water / free

3AM Eternal - The KLF

learning to fly - pink floyd

hand in glove - the smiths

If I had to perform to 100 thousand plus people I would do-whatever made me feel confident. If it’s a load of mumbo jumbo about a vintage fender, a pick that I had always used since the age of 4 or even a lucky rabbits foot then that’s fine. I don’t think choices always have to stand up to scientific scrutiny to be valid and where classic cars and vintage instruments are involved all logic goes out of the window. It’s a lot about heart and mojo.

At the moment the purchasing power of cash is plummeting as inflation is starting to let rip. There are various thoughts around how long this will last but at the rate it is occurring combined with the huge debt levels in western society the blunt tool of (significant) interest rate rises is being delayed which IMO is a big mistake. The stock market is volatile, crypo is wildly unpredictable, property is wobbling even gold after some significant years of gains is looking uncertain. Against all this uncertainty physical assets whether art, wine, cars or guitars may well tempt those looking for a home for their cash. Nothing is certain but the safe havens of the past look very uncertain.

Very little information to confirm except for an amendment to his wikipedia page. How can someone so talented be so ignored.