Baxlin

Tea for two (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra/Frank Sinatra/etc)

My guy (Mary Wells)

Don’t (Elvis Presley) If that doesn’t show my age, nothing will..😁

It’s Over (the big O)

Boom boom

You can’t hurry love (the Supremes) or is that cheating?🤫🤫🤫

All I’m listening to right now is the gale-like wind through the trees outside my house......

The power of love (Huey Lewis and the News, Celine Dion, Jennifer Rush, to name but a few....)

Billy don’t be a hero (Paper Lace)

Uptown Girl (Billy Joel)

I’m down - (successors to the Quarrymen)

Summertime (from Porgy and Bess?)

Haven’t been paid to play music in living memory, and as I’m retired, all that’s happened is that I’ve spent less. I even received £25 per car from Admiral in their ‘fewer claims so we refunded a bit’ offer. We have been helping our two daughters a bit, not because they lost jobs or were furloughed, but just because we could.

So, going from Armed and Ready... People get Ready (the Impressions)

Not gigging as such, but playing together live: I’m playing in a much stripped back church band (keys, bass, drum box, vocals) in our two services on Sunday morning, one with very few congregation, the band being socially distanced from each other and behind plastic screens, the second with no congregation, but streamed live online, all within the latest Covid rules. It’s very much a First for me, the live streaming at least. Apart from virtual at home recordings during lockdown, I’ve never seen video of my bass playing before!

Mr Blue Sky (ELO)

I agree to some extent with the OP on this, and if I’m going to ask a particular question which can’t be answered by rtfm, I’ll usually read/search first, before posting, as in the ‘read before posting’ thread. That’s OK when coming in ‘cold’, but if while reading a thread, if it prompts you to ask or comment, which, while being appropriate and related, might be a tad away from the core thread subject, then on this forum it doesn’t always work, for me at least. This is because I have my Favourites listing to default to Unread posts, and if I leave the thread to search the forum, when I come back to it, it’s no longer ‘Unread’, so it has disappeared, and has to be searched for again. On other forums, such as the Volvo OC, back means literally going back through the pages last visited, ie back to where you were. Having rambled through all that, it’s not really life changing either way: the way this forum is built has advantages others don’t, so I just take the rough with the smooth.

Can’t get it out of my head (ELO)

Thanks CtB, as you see from my avatar pic, I’m into kit cars, but at the other end of the scale to the Cobra, mine’s a 3 wheeler tribute to the sporting 3 wheeler of the 1930s, powered by a Honda CX500 V-twin bike engine, and designed by John Ziemba at JZR in Lancs, UK. (sorry for the mini hijack of thread)

Love the workmanship, but is that a flame coming out of the neck in the 5th picture? Also, did you build what I assume is a fake snake? (Apologies if it’s the real thing!!)

Steal away (trad. Gospel)

Dirty old town (The Pogues/Dubliners)

How/where on earth did you find that? I was web searching for ages this morning, all I could find was that it was one or the other of them. Had it been a few years earlier, when he did some Stax sessions, I would have guessed at Duck Dunn.....

My parents bought me my first drum kit (very much secondhand, but decent, previously owned by a ‘proper, professional’ drummer) for Christmas 1961. They allowed my ‘group’, as bands were called in those days, to practice in our front room, Dad even ferrying me to and from bookings (gigs) in his Ford Anglia until I was able to drive in 1964. And I was able to buy my 12-string guitar with their 21st present money a few years later. So I suppose yes, they did encourage me.......

I like to use all of mine while at home practising, but thinking about it the one I seem to turn to most is an old Marlin Sidewinder. Its body/neck orientation gives it a comfortable balance. TBH, it doesn’t sound too bad, either, but I prefer my EB3 when it really matters.