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Beedster

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  1. Mmm, very good suggestion, Song From Under The Floorboards is one of my all-time faves to play ๐Ÿ‘
  2. This has been my experience, if I needed to buy a Fender blind, I'd happily buy and MIJ/CIJ, less so a MIA, even less so an MIM, and infinitely less so a Custom Shop given the price:risk ratio
  3. If you buy a car, a TV, or a washing machine, the more you pay the better the features, at least within a brand. It's simply not the case with Fender, where you can find a Squier that blows a Custom Shop out of the water. A good example for me is my Classic Vibe '51 Precision which plays, feels, and sounds as good, if not better, than my old Custom Shop relic 51 that retailed for almost 10 times more. There is variability in wood for sure, but far too much of all of this is smoke and mirrors; Fender would love you to think that a Custom Shop instrument is infinitely better than a Squier, but they know damn well the differences are often random, and that the purchase of a FCS instrument is often as much about bragging rights as about quality
  4. Yep, no way to sell a ยฃ4k bass, sorry
  5. 100% not bought by anyoneโ€™s grandad in the 1970โ€™s unless they had a time machine and very poor judgement in terms of exploiting that tech. Cheap recent copy
  6. Well at least they can't be accused of having changed ๐Ÿ‘
  7. We're doing Doolittle by Pixies next, but Rattus is on the list of possibilities ๐Ÿ‘
  8. Buy it and give it to me thereby saving yourself marital grief while retaining the pleasure of the purchase itself ๐Ÿ‘
  9. He made a lovely little gesture after one of his songs, made him seem one of the audience rather than the star ๐Ÿ‘
  10. Exactly, we did it this year without watching any of the presenters, just used iPlayer to watch the bands, as live as we could
  11. The irony being that it was in fact a quasi religious experience until the BBC got their hands on it, certainly was when I first went in the 80's
  12. I'm not so sure the media and the 'unmoderated social media junk' are as easily discriminated from each other as you might think, with many - prime among them the the BBC FFS - actually reporting the latter as if it's news, thereby not only regurgitating it but all too often reinforcing, or at least polarising.
  13. And it worked ๐Ÿ‘
  14. Didnโ€™t see Smith coming, was expecting Sheeran ๐Ÿ˜
  15. End of Noah Kahanโ€™s set is glorious ๐Ÿ‘
  16. Rod betrayed his then extraordinary voice 40-years ago
  17. Seems a decent geezer ๐Ÿ‘
  18. Must tell yโ€™all my Nile Rodgers story one day, suffice to say a 100% gent ๐Ÿ‘
  19. Security getting down ๐Ÿ‘
  20. Thank god for Ronnie ๐Ÿ™
  21. Countryfile is probably not going to help a whole lot mate ๐Ÿ™‚
  22. Awesome band, the real deal ๐Ÿ‘
  23. I wonder how the auditions went: can you play some Paganini and some bluegrass. Yes. Now can you try on this tight red dress?
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