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Whilst not being a fan of @ClassicVibes overly confrontational style, he does have a point, there's little purpose in advertising gigs in the USA on here

yes I've noticed a lot of finger players rest their thumb on the E string

I hook my thumb over the neck apart from when I'm playing the E string, deadens it when I accidentally hit it with my pick, which happens quite a lot 😄

the way I see it is they want to stop unofficial gatherings where regulations, like social distancing and tracing details, cannot be enforced

played an indoor gig yesterday afternoon, again I had to play electro acoustic instead of Bass, for some reason the venues think it'll be quieter, it's not, we've still got a loud drummer and the PA is just as loud. Went well though, the landlord rebooked us It was well run, everybody seated and full waitress service, a decent model for indoor gigs

as with most subjects at school it depends on the teacher, and that's down to luck, as with most things in life

got 2 gigs over the weekend, but, they're 'acoustic' i.e. no bass and me on electro acoustic guitar, we'll still be fairly loud but the venues seem happier than having a full band. My recent experience of gigs post Covid is that as soon as alcohol is involved social distancing and no standing goes out of the window, and venues don't enforce it either, I'm quite relaxed about it but my partner less so

the trouble with music lessons at school was that we did songs that I had no interest in at all on an instrument (the recorder) that I had no interest in, now if we'd been learning Beatles songs it could have been different

forgive my ignorance but what does BBOT stand for? presumable not baked beans on toast 😂

I thought SMX referred to the preamp not the power amp, my SMX AH200 has a heatsink

yes it's a cracking song but looking into it further I don't think it's the Only Ones, I think it's a band called The Songs (crap name eh?) and the title is Us, the Only Ones, can't find any info on them at all apart from this guy has posted some other stuff by them, none of it as good as that one though https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClHoSwApI5_nC3yvafbUylQ I've got about 6000 songs some are obscure good ones, but not as obscure as that 😄

heat sink models don't suck all the dust and fluff into the amp

of course it's obvious now, cheers, John Peel announced it as the Song Us, the only ones I completely misunderstood it doh!

I was trying to edit it, here it is again, I've got it as us, the only ones the band name being Songs, but that doesn't seem right Not sure how to upload it so it plays from the post Songs - Us, The Only Ones.mp3

came across this song on some recordings of radio programmes I've got, love it, but the title and the band name doesn't seem right, anybody help me out? Songs - Us, The Only Ones.mp3

not sure it's complaining, more of a discussion about personnel preferences really, fan noise has never bothered me, it's got to be bloody loud before it can be heard while I'm playing, but there is a chance the fan could stop during a gig and then the amp will overheat

which is why I'm ok with the singer leaving setting up/ tearing down the PA to me and the drummer while he handles the 'networking' , he loves it though, like all good frontmen he likes all the attention

I don't think my Fender Rumble 500 had a fan, if it did it was noiseless

I've got a couple of Trace Elliot's both with heat sinks, some models have fans, prefer the heat sinks, no noise and less to go wrong, and bizarrely, they seem to weigh less

I think you were probably comparing apples and oranges, if you'd compared Clapton to McCartney then fair enough

I may have answered that in the previous post

you ought to do a cover of (insert name of a song here)

with loads of bands the sum of the parts is far more then the value of the individual members, I agree that Macca has achieved very little since the 70's and Lennon and Harrison's solo work was patchy at best ( Ringo has done ok for someone who couldn't really sing or write songs 😊), in that respect they are like Clapton

the Beatles aren't like Clapton at all, they broke up at the end of the 60's, who knows what they would have achieved if they'd stayed together?

I've had enough of Silly Love Songs, just a shame he doesn't follow his own advice