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They were certainly no better than any of them. For some reason in the US they liked the super bland rock that came along after grunge. I saw Bush supporting someone (possibly Pearl Jam?) back in the late 90's and I couldn't fault their playing or singing in any way, they were competent but boring.

I rarely follow through on my commitments

I've been guilty of the gig emissions. I'm not going to say I'm innocent. At Arctangent festival last month, I drank ale and ate jerk and then got in the pit for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Apologies to anyone behind me.

Surely at any gig you're almost guaranteed to end up stood behind the person with the worst wind in the audience.

Back door man - The Doors

I tried this using a Dutch oven. Now my strings smell bad and the tone stinks but I can hit the brown note now

Coming up next month on consecutive days Cult of Luna for an hour and a half wall of sound post metal with an epic live performance. The best band I've ever seen. Alcest for an evening of French shoe gaze metal. Another excellent live band.

San Quentin - Nickelback An absolutely terrible song about getting locked up in a maximum security prison for drink driving but it's OK because they did it all for rock and roll.

For whom the bell tolls - Metallica

Too much - Spice Girls This one's cleverer than you think

The drugs don't work - The Verve

Night nurse - Gregory Isaacs

Dixie Whiskey - eyehategod

In 1985 I was listening to my dad's old punk tapes (New York Dolls was my favourite). If it were 1985 now, I'd probably be listening to Raw Power by The Stooges and Masters Of Reality Black Sabbath

I play a 5 string and barely use the G string so I could get away with a 4 string tuned down to drop A and have used that set up but I've found a multi scale 5 string gives me better clarity on the lowest string. There are 4 string baritone basses designed specifically for my purposes but they're more expensive than a second hand Ibanez. Maybe I should just remove my G string (the one on my bass) since I don't use it.

Decades of breathing in rubber fumes from the Avon factory has had an effect on the locals. There's a great little recording studio in part of one of the old Avon factories, they're really good at using the natural reverb of the old concrete building

I have worked in Trowbridge, Calne, Devizes and Melksham. I'd never want to live in any of them. I don't really like the people's socialist democratic republic of Frome much either

They bought it from a bloke in a pub in Melksham who stole it from Bradford-On-Avon

It's Trowvegas, what do you expect? The hemorrhoid infested hole of Wiltshire.

I used to know several supercar and supersaloon owners. All of them deliberately kept their cars off their social media to avoid everyone asking to go for a ride and to avoid thieves knowing where there's a very expensive car.

Then you'll just forget to switch it back on. Would switching it to passive work?

A member of the group my friends went with was removed without a warning for checking a message between songs. That seems a bit much. There are medical devices now which use smart phones. We wouldn't risk a Tool gig because my wife has her blood sugar monitor linked to it so checks it quite regularly and sometimes it's more than just a quick look.

For the best hammer on action

Metallic paint obviously.

Same at Tool gigs. From what I've heard, they can be a bit over enthusiastic in enforcement.