Frank Blank

Oooohhhffffff. That, Sir, is a humdinger!

Damn *rushes to find a copy for early Human League, B.E.F., Heaven 17 completist issues* Ahhhh yes...

1. Do you prefer buying from a music shop or online shop? I always buy from a music shop if I am buying an instrument or an amp. Accessories, strings etc. online. 2. Do you prefer to try before you buy? If it’s an instrument or amp, yes. 3. In your experience what is missing from most music stores you have visited? Staff that don’t play some virtuosic riff before they give you the guitar to try thus making you feel inadequate. I find saying “OK, f****** sling yer hook Satriani” usually does the trick. Seriously, patronising musos spoil the music shop experience, not so in my local store which means they get all my hard earned. 4. How far would you travel to go to music shop If I want a particular item and it’s in a distant shop I go get it. I drove from Essex to Edinburgh once to try/buy a guitar. 5. What would attract you to a music shop ie range, price etc It not being staffed by patronising musos who Make me go all finger breaky.

No worries, click get-a-quote then each model.

The starting prices are between $1750 - $1900 according to the website.

I’d say this is bang on as a rule of thumb.

I have a couple of these... Electrician Aluminium Lockable Flight Case Tool Box Storage Plastic Handle New https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008JAOKB8/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_tai_VrsxAbJ9RP96H

I started playing in bands at 15 yrs of age and it took over twenty years to find a stable committed band and after that finished another ten years to settle into the duo I’m part of now. If my musical collaborator left now I’d pack it in. Actually, thinking about it, my current musical project began in 2004 and we did our first gig in late 2017, so I can’t really comment as I think we are mad. What I might suggest is that if you are good musicians doing covers you might be quicker at getting a set together than bands that are writing original material. Not saying one is superior to the other here btw.

I think it is extremely rare to find committed musicians prepared to work. They are either young and wanting disproportionate success to the amount of work they are prepared to put in or older and too jaded to put work in,it seems difficult to find a sweet spot, I have rarely found musicians who are willing to work in order to get a good set together, it’s either musos wanting a compliant platform from which they can flaunt their virtuosity or pedestrians who didn’t realise making good music is a difficult and arduous task. I think the answer is that you need more luck than anything else and don’t let go of that guitarist. Good luck.

This one?

Hooligans, I do love that word and they sure were, perfect nomenclature.

That was at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, a Birthday Party gig, MA wasn’t even onstage. Everyone was looking over the balcony above the stairs when he walked in, someone gobbled and everyone else just joined in, he was soaked, he turned around and left. I remember a similar situation when Orange Juice backed up Killing Joke at Hammersmith Palais, they were spat at so much it was even dripping off the drummer. I remember Edwin Collins leaving the stage with the wry observation of “You’ve got very adhesive spittle”.

They were gentlemen not to be trifled with.

That gig is actually legendary in KJ circles.

Killing Joke were a band you were risking trouble with if you spat at them, I’ve seen a few post gig dust ups. JJB was a major reason I picked up a bass. Just as a possible list of interest, these are people I have successfully spat at in a gig situation... Suggs Fad Gadget Ian Astbury Kim Gordon Nick Cave Marc Almond Doctor (from Doctor And The Medics) ...it’s not big nor clever but what the hell.

Thank you so much! That’s perfect.

Any chance you could post a pic of the back of the SWB Pro? I’ve just ordered one and I’m curious to see the back.

I wholly agree with this.

This...

Oh my God, Fragile... such a +1.

Jah Wobble on Metal Box, sublime. That’s the pinnacle for me, right there.

+1 twice.

See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! by Bow Wow Wow - Leigh Gorman, yes... Empires & Dance by Simple Minds - Derek Forbes, yes...

Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum by Japan... Mick Karn, what a dude.