Frank Blank

Music...

Yes, obviously, but that’s a subjective matter... obviously.

Paul Gardiner was a bass player who played great song serving lines in my humble opinion, personally I don’t think there’s a bigger compliment than what you played served the song.

Hate is a strong word but in this case it applies... 😁

Having spent a week or two trying to get to grips with the atonal insanity of Stan Kenton’s City of Glass... ...I was happy to hear the iPod re-establish a modicum of straight-up sense by randomly selecting Back in Black, what a killer track...

A list... Three words currently being woefully misused... a) Iconic b) Literally c) Decimated I also abhor High Rising Terminal, obviously. One more thing that really grinds my gears is the current trend of beginning an answer to a question with a drawn out “So...” or, particularly prevalent at the moment amongst politicians (I think I remember Tony Blair starting this) starting the answer to a question with “Look...”, a confrontational beginning to an answer that invariably avoids the initial question.

This I need to hear.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s a technical punk band?

Is that The Wimpy? What did you expect..? 😁

I just purchased (this morning) a Petersen Stroboclip HD. So far pretty impressed.

Ha! They are great! Thanks for this, so refreshing.

Surely we can get this to £600 at least!

Sounds like a reasonable Saturday night, no?

I’m on it (like a Jane Austen bonnet).

I was grinning ear to ear.

This is exactly where I went next...

Thanks Sir, these might be the answer, I thought they only did the side dots! Cheers.

I was about to be disparaging about Rush but that’s because I was disparaging about Rush when I was a teenager. Three things about that... a) I could be a bit of a tnuc, especially about music, when I was a teen and, far more importantly... b) I have never listened to a Rush album or even a Rush track in my life. ...then I was going to say everyone I knew who liked Rush back when I was young was a silly billy but, on reflection, it turns out that... c) everyone I knew who liked Rush were thoroughly decent folk and, actually, I was the silly billy. ...food for thought, there.

I use an iPad during rehearsals and have a specific clamp for it so no fear of it falling.

Chris Squire’s Rickenbacker sound was a major influence on me, unfortunately by the time I was first involved in bands that influence had been obscured by punk and dub a little later I realised Chris Squire’s position had been usurped by JJ Burnel.

Are Luminlays the dots only?

This is art.

I recently purchased a Rob Allen fretless and the fret lines are really hard to see from the top. Initially I used some Starglow fret-finders from Glotec but they were a bit too clunky and mucky once removed. In the end I purchased some Alphabet Peel off Stickers from Amazon and the 'i' stickers do the job nicely. My luthier says he can extend the top edge of the fret markers to make them more visible but just the thought of a saw being taken to a Rob Allen bass makes me queasy, they are works of art... works of art I've now covered with stickers.

Totally missed it.

That's just my teenage boredom threshold, I haven't attempted to listen to that album in it's entirety since 1979, must give it a go now, I've only got those first five songs on my iPod, shocking.