Baxlin

My thoughts exactly. and the amount of ‘relic’ just makes it look like a very badly treated instrument - eg all the damage around the headstock - that’s not ‘wear’.

Can’t buy me love - JPG&R

5 4 3 2 1 - Manfred Mann

Our new (employed) worship leader has received a couple of comments from older folks that she doesn’t include enough older songs and hymns. She’s on holiday this week, so 3 out of the 4 songs for Sunday morning are from the 80s... On another subject, I was in the congregation yesterday, and it was really good to be able to sing again, albeit wearing a mask.

Brilliant! Ta muchly!

Another suitcase in another hall - Barbara Dickson

Tale against myself - we use MEI mixers with wired in-ears, and a couple of weeks ago when I was in the band, all had been fine throughout the service, until the last song, after the sermon, when I found I couldn’t hear myself. I could hear the rest of the band reasonably well. (We are on a ‘proper’ stage, with PA and bass sub out front) To cut a long story short, I’d of course omitted to plug my ear buds into the MEI. But the embarrassing part was that the livestream guy had noticed , and kept the camera on me for lengthy periods, meaning that everyone watching saw my antics on the YouTube stream - pulling buds out, putting them back in between verses, adjusting volumes, etc, trying to get some sound, before I realised what I’d (not) done... I suppose the upside though, was that for once, a bass player was in camera shot!! (Even if he did look daft)👍👍

From a Jack to a King - Ned Miller

I have Basschat’s ‘unread posts’ as one of my favourites in Google, and prior to the update, I was taken straight to the ‘orange line’ on each thread. Since the update though, it seems quite random. Occasionally, if there have been a lot of posts, it’s not even on the right page. Is there any way I can adjust this, please? Thanks in advance

Friends and neighbours - Max Bygraves

Fire - the crazy world of Arthur Brown

Sound again for me. The best tribute band I’ve seen in recent years is The Dung Beatles, a 5-piece, all of shall we say “mature” age group, and with no attempt whatsoever to be lookalikes. But brilliant Sound-a-likes.

Right said Fred - Bernard Cribbins

Hot love - Lard. Edit: oops, sorry, Trex Edit 2: sorry again, I meant T-Rex

Pop goes the weasel - Anthony Newley

Shine - Take That

Can the can - Suzi Quattro

Graceland - Paul Simon

Lemon tree - Peter Paul and Mary

We don’t have such a big team, maybe 20 or so plus the techies, so a rota works well for us. I enjoy playing with different folks each week. A few are multi-talented, but there are still some weeks with for instance no drummer, although we’ve just had another join the team, so that might help. But it was good to be reminded a few posts ago of why and for whom we are playing.

Holding out for a hero - Bonnie Tyler

My first bass was a pearl white Hondo P-bass. I was however recruited into the house band for an amateur musical, playing guitar, but the only guitar I owned was a 12-string acoustic, which admittedly had a pickup and controls, but wasn’t suitable for this gig. As I had another bass by this time, the Hondo went to a ‘Cash Converters’ type shop, in a straight swap for an Encore (these were hard times!) Strat copy. I still have the 12-string, and the Encore, the latter having, for me at least, an ideal action.

Hail to the Chief - US patriotic song

Happy talk -Captain Sensible

Tell me on a Sunday - Marti Webb