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So, after a week or so of listening to their first three albums, I can summarise that the Stranglers make me feel quite........ Hopeful

I would have killed to be at that gig!

No, I get that. I doubt many here are surprised that the Police haven't dealt with his fraud very well, but it seems that the behaviours you mention - stalking, threats, and misrepresentation - are generally taken quite seriously these days?

It's pretty shocking that he's not inside all things considered

Ha ha, yes perhaps a stretch for the average BC punter!

Made my day Nik, great story, many thanks. Seems a million years ago doesn't it; no mobile phones, analogue recording, Columbus and Satellite basses (a Westone if you had rich parents or even a Fender if you had a recording deal), only three TV channels and the excitement of seeing a band like The Stranglers on one of them. If only I had a time machine*..... * although if I did go back to 1977 I'd probably come straight back to 2022

i'm completely missing that......

Still enjoying the Stranglers journey, some great songs. In fact it was interesting listening to the below having listened to RN, because a song that has always felt like a run-off-the-mill punk anthem sounds and feels very different now

I wonder if this is, in part, why he's still out there, he seems to possess a set of characteristics that probably make it difficult even for law enforcement to to get any traction

Which, sadly, is just another layer of addiction.....

I don't disagree, being a gambling addict doesn't disbar for one second you from membership of the Complete C**t Club, in fact it tends to help your application, but as is the case with other addictions, it can be the root cause of the other behaviours, the factor that if we wanted all of the other stuff to stop, would have to be addressed and resolved first

Well at the bottom of the cover there's IV....

I think....

RN was also known as IV

As it should be

Nothing does that, SLBs are good but not DBs

Nice sound 👍

Yep. One of the few apparently positive (but in real terms negative) aspects of gambling addiction compared to drug addiction is that it's not so obvious socially; plenty of addicted gamblers appear to live normal healthy lives even when in the midst of a serious long-term addiction, which is rarely the case with drugs; the signs of drug addiction are often quite clear to the naked eye. So yes, a thread on social media about your actions - which may or may not be the result of gambling of course but I'm assuming from the above might be - is indicative that its got very bad indeed

....and over time your brain circuitry and chemistry will change which means that you will come to think, feel and behave around gambling exactly the same way as a heroin or crack addict thinks, feels and behaves around drugs. Sadly however, you will run out of money even faster than does even the most addicted drug addict, from where you will find yourself lying to family and friends in order to borrow money (which you will never be able to repay), from where you will start to act with questionable ethics around money that comes your way via your employment, a process that might start with minor theft but which can quickly escalate to major fraud, from where you will start to borrow larger sums from dubious people, and from where you will finally progress to out-and-out criminality that, because unlike the worst drug addiction you can never have enough money to fuel a gambling addiction, will result in either your being arrested and likely imprisoned, or worse still as the people who you owe money to - either the gambling debt or the money you borrowed to gamble in the first place - catch up with you. I'd rather take my chances on drugs frankly

Sound on Sound link here https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/goran-grooves-handy-drums Look interesting for someone like me who pretty much just wants the virtual equivalent of a simple old school drum machine albeit with more authentic sounds?

Reminds me of a mate from Tyneside who had some ceramics installed to a very high standard in his kitchen by a tradesman who went by the name of The Bonny Tyler 👍

Thoughts are with you mate 👍

That it appears to be held in high regard guarantees I will give it another listen I assure you 👍

I suspect that in the final analysis our children are our harshest critics. It's easy to look at the way a person behaved at a point in time and think "I would never have done that". But of course, we were never that person in that situation, and none of us have the slightest idea what that felt like or more importantly, what the options might have been. Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes, and as is very clear from the film, his shoes were not easy to walk in, metaphorically or otherwise