SpondonBassed

Welcome Kirstie. Which Ibby have you got?

Do you know any Quo?

GDAEB (1st string through to 5th). I usually find that the strings need less adjustment as I go on towards the B.

Was it a Tufted Shag? Great with chips and peas!

Welcome Strawbs. Nice of you to break cover, as it were. I used to enjoy a good old lurk myself but I was getting funny looks from passers-by. In hindsight, the nudist beach in Studland Bay was perhaps not the best place to do it.

As if I had any say in it. I'm certain that I bore many BC regulars. As I have been posting less in the last couple of months I have therefore been less boring. If I was actually interesting then I would have a Twitter account and I would tweet about every meal, drink, bowel movement and weewee as they occurred. It takes two to tango, as they say. If you spent more time practising for your audition the interesting topics of BC would be as trees in an uninhabited forest. No-one is there to here the sound of them falling and you aren't here to find stuff interesting. I hope this helps. Oh, and break a leg at the audition. Best wishes.

I was ten when that was played on TOTP. We'd just emigrated to Ireland and I was in a Christian Brothers' primary school listening to an alcoholic priest, who was our maths teacher, raving about how these Irish lads had "won" TOTP with a good ould Irish tune. The old boy must have been about sixty and had a fondness for yanking you out of your seat by the hair if you showed any disrespect. He can't have been all bad because he liked Thin Lizzy.

The white mock-up worked well.

No. Bugger off! Heeheehee. You may as well ask Mr Trump to stop twittering like an idiot.

He was one of my heroes until he started showing signs of cocaine abuse. Apparently, the father in law's catch-phrase of Come on down!, had little or no effect on his habit. Growing up in sixties Dublin as an adopted mixed race child must have played a large part in forming his personality and charisma. Such a pity he is not still with us. One of the coolest artists ever.

Are you including Nile Rodgers in that statement?

Of course, you could always ask @Jeff Berlin himself for pointers.

Nice job Jim! Re: the scratchplate. I also have a suggestion. I think the shape is fine but it could do with a contrasting outline, maybe a couple of mm or so, to define it better against the background of black stripes. As it is though; I'd say it's a looker.

How about a vacuum bag like @Christine used on the Dragon Triplets?

I hope he continues to do things like the Warwick Fuss on the Bus vid.

Fixed. I'm kidding. I owned a sunburst fretless J once and sent it back because of the dead spot on the neck. Nowt to do with the burst nor the huge headstock.

Welcome Phil.

It isn't the best idea to go to a fancy dress party dressed as Donald Duck. (Funny. I could only find the clip in Hungarian Language)

I believe there is an operation for that.

Nah... Scots' national dress. (To the left or to the right depending on preference.) These days you'd have to take into account that most famous of Donalds in world affairs today. If he turned up trooserless, in person, so to speak, it would not only be indecent but it would also be decorated with ginger pubes!

Aw cute. He must have been practising his hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Can anyone offer any first hand knowledge of a body or organisation that aims to help disabled musicians please?

Yes. Worse than that... I was living in Ireland at the time and the only channels available were RTE, UTV and Auntie Beeb. I seem to remember they ALL went Scots for the night. These days I think of it as Scotland aversion therapy.

I might be able to help. A sufficiently large gap is sometimes referred to as a chasm.