Shambo

Arguing about which Fender is better than which has always struck me as being a bit like arguing about who's Ford Transit is the best. It's just a tool with a specific task and as long as it reliably gets you and stuff from A to B, it matters not where it was built or if it has electric windows and a nice stereo..

[quote name='GS1000' timestamp='1349381687' post='1825658'] One thing, popped the pickguard off to have a quick butcher's at the electrics and it's got CTS 250k pots and an orange drop cap in there. Is this standard on these or has it been upgraded? [/quote] That'll have been upgraded. Shameless plug... I've got a sonic blue one for sale ATM.

I don't think 'enjoy' is quite the word I'd use to describe reading your compression blog but I think you explained it pretty well. Good stuff.

Local type greetings to you.

I've had no notifications randomly too. Also the sales thread I created recently didn't appear in 'My Content', but then showed up after a few days.

Looking forward to it.

I've stopped loitering miserably in the shadows and taken to getting up and leaving after the first couple of songs, (you can usually tell after the first two songs), and trying a different pub. If you came to my local and started your set with a suitably raucous rendition of 'Line Up' I might stay for another pint.

I don't think some of you guys give the audience enough credit. I've lost track of the number of times I've heard pub band members say this or that overplayed song is 'what the punters want to hear'. You might well get a few pissed girls up in front of the singer dancing to 'sex on fire', or dads nodding their heads telling you they're always loved 'where the streets have no name', but you have to look past them to the bored looking people loitering away from the dancefloor. Those bored ones are the ones who go out regularly and have heard the same set list done to death, usually badly, by some middle aged men who live for those weekend moments when they convince themselves they're a rockstar. There's a miriad of interesting songs, that your average punter would recognise that don't get murdered in the pub every weekend. It doesn't have to be the obscure stuff your moody guitarist cryw***s himself to sleep to, and any new take on an old song would be most welcome too.