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Geek99

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  1. Perhaps because some of us have a budget, small children to feed and clothe, and limited practice time that makes amazing strings likely to lose their sparkle before they get used much ?
  2. What about these from same vendor ? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FLATWOUND-Bass-Guitar-Strings-Gauge-45-Power-Swing-Set-Light-Medium-Olympia-/332486029353?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
  3. No, they were just different kinds of “contemporary perfect”. should have used some emotes …doh …
  4. Outside, right now! No one is allowed to say that about Saint Leo
  5. They’re a fad, never last…blah blah emperors new clothes … rounds were good enough for my great granddad whilst he was holding out against the boers at mafeking… they’re in Shakespeare- he used them on his lute… probably … etc
  6. @TheGreek now you’ve got him really upset - he’ll come round to your house and relic a Stratocaster on your finest China dogs. ** **assuming he was wearing gloves so as not to make actual skin contact with a weedy stringed monstrosity
  7. Adagio on eBay are not super-expensive at around £14 to dip your toe in the water
  8. Well that’s fighting talk 🤭 the man said he needed a kick up the backside, not to be called a worthless egotistical lazy guitard
  9. I have two
  10. EBay “blues tribute” is what I use @Stub Mandreltried it as did @petecarlton
  11. I think of the O in offside as being like the steering wheel so it’s easy
  12. Is Hank Marvin playing a gold hardware strat ? i like b/b/ maple but didn’t know they came with gold
  13. Your English is absolutely fine, I’ve met native born speakers of English who would not get a vocabulary or command of grammar anywhere like yours even if they lived to be 1000. English is complicated, really complicated, as I am learning whilst teaching my children
  14. Not without molegrips
  15. You can use copper tape to hold it down
  16. I recall a feature on U2 in “making music” mag c. 1990 where edge says AC “uses a little compression and nothing else” (then)
  17. And they’ll make you wear silly clothes
  18. Guess that’s why 12 bars are popular …
  19. I was referring to monty python holy grail - “lady in the lake her arm clad in shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur…” if LZ can drag Gollum in I don’t see why prog mightn’t go a bit myths and legends
  20. Is someone waiting in there to throw a sword at him? Make him king … that kind of thing ?
  21. The extended version is much better. His battered precision was my model for my own relic P - I find him quite inspirational still as I once did think “I can do that” do agree they’ve run a bit dry recently
  22. Hello and welcome back nice sunburst finish perhaps ?
  23. I’m hugely fond of the baseline to “please” very funky
  24. I thought his name was Ken …
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