Count Bassy

That's cheating. Only one allowed! (i.e. I wish I'd thought of sneaking further choices in under the radar)

I guess it would have to be Norman Watt-Roy. Why? Here's a clue.

Threaten a small claims court. Do not delay. Not a commission sale but, when I was self-employed I had a customer go bust on me. I gave them way too many chances, culminating with a cheque that bounced (it was some time ago), and after that a letter from the reciever. Second example was a commision sale of an old Leica camera where the bloke (Peter Walnes - be warned, he's a scum bag) sold the camera, gave us excuses, and then went bust owing us around £750. Don't delay, go straight for the Jugular.

One has to suffer for one's art, Dad.

Personally I disagree with this. A gently plucked string highly amplified does not sound the same as a "dug in" string.

Roger Daltry + band at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, last night. Absolutely brilliant show, and the sound was absolutely perfect. Daltrey's definitely still got the voice, and comes over as a really nice and modest bloke. I was never a die hard Who fan, but some spare tickets were available so, happily, decided to give it a go. Brilliant. The only thing that irritated me was that the woman on the "Non-kit" percussion seemed to think she had to be playing something all the time and was constantly jumping around from one thing to the other.

Phantom Isle ate the Roadmender (Northampton)

My apologies all. It is a righty. In that case no reason at all why it shouldn't slap. Must be your technique then.

Actually "Bollocks" is allowed.

Please not again. We've just had another relatively civilsed thread shut down by the B word.

Well, it's obviously a lefty, which is never going to slap properly.

Almost an hour to impart 5 minutes worth of info. What an appalling presentation.

Don't want to derail the thread but, what ever the subject, that old argument is bollocks, and you know it. You can't allocate non-voters to either side of a vote.

It was a comment on Fleabag's spelling, not your thread!

or even "ridiculous"

We had a drummer in a folk dance band who did a similar thing kept saying that he was going to quit. What he really wanted was fro the rest of of us to say "Please don't quit". Eventually he mentioned a date - "I'm not doing anymore after Christmas", so we stopped asking him. Apparenly he was then moaning that!. He was good drummer (in the folk dance idiom) but was a bugger to work with - always turning up to gigs "Just in time", or just too late!

F me that makes me feel old. Only recognise about haf a dozen names, and the only one I'd get out of bed for is Richard Thompson.

Thanks Dad, I knew that, but I was querying how FRS stood for Fender Special Run (FSR).

FRS ?

Went as a gang to see Gary Glitter at a club in Leicester around 1977, after our second year exams at uni (Lufbra). Brilliant show.

Apologies, but whenever this subject comes up I have to post this:

And then there was Focus of course.

Purrfect. ... well someone had to start the terrible puns.

Fascinating video although I think I need to listen to it via headphones. Much more fun that reading a book!

Aprt from the playing in a function band bit (I never have), you summarise my position better than I could. Live performance (in a rock band at least) should have a bit of spark to it.