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Jason Newsted - Load and Reload. I thought that was his collection of Sadowsky's to be fair.

And that itself Is marketing spin that the papers lapped up. Iceland is struggling with debt: £550m of bonds to repay by 2025. They also admit they can’t afford to pay staff more than minimum wage, when many competitors have moved to the unofficial Real Living Wage. There’s no mention of how much they’ll save or how much of that they’ll pass on, and no mention of paying staff more. They could have done a cheap in-house video ad and blitzed social media with it instead.

Green Lung: Woodland Rites - on a recommendation. Really digging this: def got some good folky vibes with the stoner sludge beneath.

Had to laugh - that ridonculously expensive Alembic on Reverb has one comment about it playing like butter... I now know why supermarket Lurpak needed to be kept in plastic boxes with security tags on earlier in the year!

How long 'til DemonFX have a version out for £79...

I was in 6th form and a mate brought a nylon-string cheapy classical guitar to school; he was doing Music lessons (which were all classical and which I had no interest in.) This was about 1994 so we did some noodling learning some basic chords for popular music of the time like Alice in Chains, Nirvana, etc. My Dad had a small vinyl collection that included Dark Side of the Moon, that I listened to at home. A Lot. He also had some Shadows discs which I enjoyed. Sure enough, on my 18th Birthday, after following 18 clues (no one else do this?) I opened the loft hatch and there was a Jim Harley Strat in CAR, with budget amp. I played that thing 'til my fingers were short, and learned lots of basic bits of songs I liked. I was convinced it was a poor guitar and I couldn't play any faster than David Gilmour (my first guitar muse) - but at Uni my mate Jason, who was a shredder picked it up and widdled out some Bach-esque lines on it. First term of Uni - 1995, I met a chap at the D&D club (oh yes. unashamed nerd/geek/dweeb) - who was a few years older, and a massive Rush fan. He introduced them to me at his place by putting Hold Your Fire on. I heard the bass chords to Force Ten and suddenly guitar strings were too thin and puny for me. I bought a Yamaha 4-string, followed the next year by an RBX 5 string when another mate introduced me to Dream Theater - and that was that. TE Boxer Amp then became an SMX250 and I was away, printing bass tabs on the Uni dot matrix printers and Pentium PCs (wow, shiny fast new world of tech!), and playing along to my growing collection of Rush discs and other prog-titles as time went on. Was in a band of sorts at one rehearsal but it fell apart and since then it sort of just stayed as bedroom playing. Then I had kids and it's all away in corners of rooms now but I will get them out when room allows.

Superglue all his volume knobs in place.

He doesn’t have a basement yet, give him time!

ooh metal fingerboard for Bass. Makes me think of the tracks Tony Levin played on for the Yes/sort-of Yes/Nearly Yes album Union. It wasn't all Stick, I'm sure.

Yeah - I have no room for the book right now so audio is the way methinx. I have all of Neil's books on Audible, and they're great in that format. I have a few in print just for the photographs though.

Yeah - with current gas prices it's just a Deko Boiler...!

House upgrading is expensive. Actually everything is expensive thesedays (little bit of politics...) Still - look at the ducting on that: oof!! I see it's in a cosy outside cupboard with the meter? The house we're trying to buy has the boiler in an outhouse behind the garage, boxed in over the 1m lean-to between garage and house, and into the kitchen!

Yeah: someone save the message for posterity!

So now you have Printer GAS and new house with adjoining workshop GAS? Simples...

Yes, great bass lines and top tone too, I really like Mr Quinn’s playing.

I spent several (occasionally drunken) years at Uni listening to Dream Theater and Rush endlessly - so the odd time seeped into my head as I practiced noodling along. I'm reasonably good at spotting all the 'usual' odd times - it's just the random 13/8s and whatever Starless (King Crimson) is in (13/8 to 13/16) that hurts. I find it easier if the music is odd time but in a regular repeating riff format, like Prog Metal, as opposed to some Yes songs which just wander off into odd-time in a jazz-like 'we'll get to a chorus or something eventually' thing.

Dim question - is it not possible to very carefully and skilfully drill the 4 missing holes and save re-printing?

I actually find useful advice on mumsnet: job stuff, finances, politics chat, house moving etc. but there is a bit of a hardcore who respond to any post where someone is venting because their husband was a bit of a pillock this afternoon with a reflexive ‘LTB!’.

That's a really impressive Specs page - with clear images, labelling and esp. the diagrams for various connection options near the bottom. Crikey - there's some clever stuff in there: I do like the looper/playback bit too.

So - about those German-made Warwicks then.... Crikey - stuff is getting silly expensive now.

Agog. Simply agog. Wasted on the little blighters who will doubtless swing it about like extravagant troubadours, and then use it to surf down the stairs when they discover how awkward playing an F is.

Suede - Autofiction, their new album from last year: really really good. Mr Osman has some really good bass lines, even a bit of fuzz on some too.

It looks halfway between an MTD and the Ibanez BTB. Hmm - interesting, although not if it's heavy.

I remember him coming on here a few years ago to talk about things (Unless that was TB and I'm hallucinating). He accepts his idiosyncracy and over-opinionated views and has tried to mellow out in recent years (possibly because he fell out with too many people!) I've listened to most of his available output on Spotify and he is definitely brilliant. I like the noise he makes with the Cort, not sure I like the look of it - but it was built to his specs, so I guess there's always a Fender signature model if he doesn't float your boat.

Relentless - The Pretenders new album (not even 2 weeks old). It's really good: Chrissie still sounds distinctively amazing and the band are as usual, pretty good.