TimR

I meant it would struggle to produce the volumes we are used to now at the very low end.

Sorry. You're quite right. That's bizarre. Guitar is written on Trebble cleff and I was sure bass was written on bass clef on octave above what it sounds. Wonder where I've got that idea from then.

I wouldn't be surprised if MAGA flock to buy them now Trump has announced he's going to buy one. I have no idea what to believe and what not to believe anymore.

It's also worth noting that the bottom E on a bass is 2 octaves below the bottom E on a guitar. It's also lower than a lot of brass instruments. The range of instruments across the arrangements was then already reasonably balanced. The average band's portable bass gear of the 60s and and 70s also didn't normally have the power to deliver huge bass. The gear I was regularly using in the mid 80s was 250W max but more often 100/125W combos.

The 60s and 70s tracks that were in Eb usually have basslines that use the A string 6th fret as the lowest Eb.

2022 - to pay for Twitter.

The Tesla share price is just correcting itself back to what it was before it was artificially hiked by speculators when Musk won the US election in November.

The Greenlanders had a poll. They still didn't get it. They live in a bubble and belive only what they want to believe. There's a lot of very good and well understood psychology around people's belief systems. It physically causes someone pain to change their long held beliefs. Most people will do anything to make sure that their entire world view that they've built up over years doesn't suddenly dissolve around them. Which would have to happen to a lot of people on this planet. Not just the US. It's why its impossible to leave a cult. If someone's views are based on belief rather than fact, new facts are not going to change their beliefs.

There is no 'waiting it out' in the US. You're homeless with no healthcare. No one is coming to rescue you. Especially not Musk and Trump.

A lot of it is male machismo. In particular if its not in reply to Trump, you'll have to reply to your voters who will see you as weak. Men eh? It's all very childish. Your voters will be expecting you to defend their businesses so anyone who exports the majority of their goods to the US is going to be in pain. As far as I can see Trump was putting blanket tarrifs on all imports. The US can't, contrary to their own belief, obtain, refine, and manufacture everything inside the US. That's the idea of free trade. In a global economy where people are used to buying anything from anywhere, it's going be like going back to the 1970s. The problem is, Pandora's box is open, people want Apple Watches, not LED Texas Instrument digital watches. It's the 2020s, the world has moved one. You can't wind back to when it was great. This is the ridiculousness of it all. The rest of the world is progressing towards 2030, carbon neutral, the AI age, gender neutral, inclusivity. For a very good reason. Old people really don't like that. Anyone late or post, GenX struggles with the new world. It will all fail horribly and they'll turn on him and the great Trump experiment will be over and hopefully not destroy the US and the rest of us in the process. I have every faith in the Chineese maintaining free trade with the rest of the world and taking over the US's role. I don't think they have political world domination on their minds. Trade and financial maybe, but history has shown empires can only extend so far.

Striking the balance between underselling and overselling is going to be hard. I'd be wary of basing future relationships with a new singer on past relationships with past singers or behaviours of members while things haven't been going well within the band. I'd be concentrating on where the band is heading and where you want to be, how you see the singer fitting in. What can the new singer bring to the band? To be honest, expecting a new member to just slot in and sing what they're told is going to be highly unrealistic. Look at it as a new start, a new opportunity, albeit with a bunch of ready to go, rehearsed songs. I'd say in six months' time, a bunch of those songs will probably have been replaced with ones that suit the new singer. The band all have to be on board with that. The important thing is the style and direction of the band. Be wary of someone who comes along and starts suggesting a bunch of songs they already know from previous bands that don't align with your style. You're looking for them to be suggesting new songs in keeping with your style that the new singer knows. And have a projected date for the first gig and state how often you initially want to rehearse to get to gig standard. Without that the new singer won't know how quickly you're expecting them to learn. Unless it's an originals band, in which case things will be a bit more complicated.

The international money can't go elsewhere. Huge amounts of it is debt repayments. That are not going to be cleared anytime soon. Trump realises all this debt is in the hands of private investors and banks and it's not personally available to him.

I'm sure it will have already been decided by RFK. 🤣 The problem is this nonsense spreads worldwide and risks us all. It's not a game.

I think the more extreme Trump and Vance become, the quicker the end will come. I still don't see thie lasting much into the Summer before there's a massive backlash. People love summer demonstrations.

Drive against wasting public money continues as CDC to study whether vaccines cause autism. 🤡 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/vaccines-autism-cdc-rfk-jr.html

Don't forget that they're all indoctrinated from an early age that the US is the best country in the world. The land of opportunity. If you're poor, you only have yourself to blame, work harder. Get ill. It's your fault for having a poor immune system. Get fat. It's your fault for eating too much. If the worst case happens, pray to God, and he'll sort it for you. If he doesn't, then it's your fault for doing something bad. And they've guilted themselves into believing everything. If you fall into one of those categories, you'd rather believe it's all your fault than change your entire life belief system. Or blame anyone (the left) who tells you it can be fixed by doing it a different way.

Never forget we have spies in Russia and China. I don't know if the US do, maybe they do and he isn't listening.

Yes. Because he is lying and just using threats. I like the way Canada has said they don't do threats and just gone ahead and shown him what will happen.

In the US homelessness is growing. They're often one paycheck from losing everything and a lot of them have just been sacked.

He is only after increasing his personal wealth. He'll have shares that will increase when the US companies get hold of all the minerals. Same with Greenland. My guess he'll also hold the Panama Canal traffic to ransom with tarrifs for using it.

The problem with Russia, China, India, EU, and the US, is that a single government overseeing hundreds of millions of people leaves hundreds of millions of people disenfranchised. You live in your small village and are subject to rules that you have no say over. Certain leaders want to be the people who say what everyone can and can't do. Let's call them dictators. Whether they're elected or not.

NATO is not Europe. It's the entire North Atlantic plus a load of others. Then add Austrailia. Probably also involve the Arab Oil states of OPEC+. Putin would back down very quickly. At the moment no one needs to get involved while the Ukraine is holding Russia at bay. The US want to remain neutral? - not for long...

Morrally? 🤣 It's Disater Politics. Although I'm not sure how much cash these billionaires have, or if that matters. Create policies that crash the economy, buy up everything on the cheap, farms, oil, power. Then try and undo the damage with new polices. Appear to be the saviours, whilst controlling and owning everything. Worst case scenario, escape to Russia.

Our left wingers tend to be very vocal. Republicans are seen as right wing and Democrats, not so right wing. They also tend to be very vocal when conservatives are in, and when Labour get in, the Conservative supporters just aren't so vocal. Except for Refrom voters who are just noisey all the time.

And probably Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. It's all a hangover of the start of last century.