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....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

Absolutely agree, sobering that I was the same age as she is now when RN was released, feels like yesterday, but great that we can enjoy the same music 🙏

Cheaper version? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304630232348?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=4SZQblGJQim&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=155UlNbXQGW&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Trust me mate, I was there (part of the problem)! It'll grow I'm sure, just a bit removed from what I've been listening to, thanks for the head's up 👍

Just went back to RN and it just feels better 👍 And playing it to my kids during supper, we got to Hanging Around and my 10 year old daughter said "I love this song Dad" "Wow, have you heard me playing it before? "No Dad, it's on TikTok" Not sure of that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's a thing

You Sir are in the wrong profession (unless you're a professional mind reader) 👍

With the exception of Duchess, The Raven isn't working for me at present, feels a little too like Stranglers-Light for me, everything a little too precise and, well nice. Couple of tracks a bit too early 80's generic pop, and a couple of moments of real Trevor Horne/Buggles/Propaganda that really pushed back at me. Will give it another listen but feels a long way emotionally from Rattus?

Actually, the J-PUP is why i like it, I'd almost certainly replace the mudbucker with something a little less, well muddy, but there's something deeply mongrel about this bass that makes me smile. I suspect it's going to need a play first however

Explorerbird has always appealed

My humble apologies Sir

That is the next album on my list today 👍

I think at the time the front cover was quite shocking and therefore in keeping with the band and the music. But yes, today the back seems so much better

And of course while front cover was good.... The back cover is one of the most iconic in rock history

Fenderbird has often appealed 👍

Fair point 👍

Funny isn't it, Gibson crap at basses* but great acoustics, Fender....... * Apologies to owner of Gibson basses but I've never found one I liked

I'm also discouraged by the fact that the only time I bought from their website in the past I received a very unapologetic (note the 'un') email the following day indicating that the bass had sold already, despite the fact that their website had been very happy to take my cash anyway!

Bloody dog's done another Motley on the drive.......

I like that. "Careful mate, you're only a guitarist and that's a heavy plectrum, you'll put your Fleetwood out if you're not careful"