EssentialTension

Usually referred to as silk, it's a way of protecting the windings as they get smaller for the tuning post or bridge. It's not essential and some strings don't have any silk. There are many different colours.

[quote name='DBerriff' timestamp='1455791880' post='2982413'] Liverpool is the only city I know where the girls go shopping in Tesco with curlers in their hair (before the big night out?). [/quote] Yes, but also seen it in Brighton on hen weekends.

Salt Dogs was good.

Possibly the wrong Grapes!!!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1455559926' post='2980237'] bit sad I know, but my favourite bit of my Liverpool trip was having a pint in the Grapes at the same table as the Beatles had [/quote] I am in The Grapes ...

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1455718608' post='2981784'] Well I got it, anyway. [/quote] Me too, it was funny.

I am in Liverpool and it's raining. http://youtu.be/jTxlDC93mXs

Nicely put.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1455641436' post='2981018'] [/quote] I like that.

A visit to Charles Darwin's home, Down House, in Downe in Kent is a nice day out ...

[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1455657290' post='2981291'] To be fair, the only things in Plymouth that aren't called 'The Drake [something]' are called 'The armada [something]'. Except for the things that are called 'The mayflower [something]'. And i come from Thetford in norfolk originally, where everything is called 'The Thomas Payne [something]'... And only people from thetford, or the USA, remember who he was... [/quote] And the people of Lewes in East Sussex, and me, and wasn't Paine's father a manufacturer of women's underwear?

Well, I'm off to Liverpool tomorrow ... wish me luck.

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1455655497' post='2981273'] The chocolate is expensive there. The wife somehow lost her sandals there as well, so if anyone finds them, you know who to contact [/quote] My mother used to work there ... not Cadbury World, but Cadbury's .. very cheap or even free chocolate. My son lost a sandal far underground in a cave with neolithic paintings in France. They had to get a ladder to retrieve the sandal. It's a small world.

[url="https://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/"]https://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/[/url] For anyone who'd prefer a visit to Birmingham.

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1455620243' post='2980686'] ... I guess Blue is right that you had to be there ... [/quote] That's exactly what he's wrong about.

With my fretless Takamine B10 (with La Bella 760FS strings) I use the factory fitted Takamine Palathetic pickup and a built-in Takamine CT4B preamp. I have a Headway EDB-1 but only use it on upright. Amplification is either Phil Jones Bass Briefcase (100watt, 2x5") or Mesa Walkabout Scout (300watt, 1x12"). This has always worked fine for me in band with acoustic guitar, tenor guitar, ukulele, mandolin, electric piano, percussion.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1455570489' post='2980389'] Can't remember the exact year but I think it was possibly on the back of Wings' success around 1977/78(??) that the entire Beatles 7" catalogue was re-released in batches, in pseudo reproduction pic covers. Many of them hit high in the charts, I remember buying "Get Back" and one other, I forget which. They did little for me but my brother was hooked (too young to remember any of it 1st time around) and went on to become a Beatles expert, with links to some of the members. [/quote] 1978/79 I believe, but your point is correct. It was before Lennon's death.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455563916' post='2980279'] It's official; BC is really convincing me the whole Beatle thing has always been bigger and more important to us baby boomer yanks than the English. With all the negativity I can't help but wonder if The Beatles did something to the English I don't know about? Blue [/quote] I think maybe you don't understand the English ... which means you don't understand The Beatles. Listen to Lennon: God is a Concept by which we measure our pain I'll say it again God is a Concept by which we measure our pain I don't believe in magic I don't believe in I-ching I don't believe in Bible I don't believe in Tarot I don't believe in Hitler I don't believe in Jesus I don't believe in Kennedy I don't believe in Buddha I don't believe in Mantra I don't believe in Gita I don't believe in Yoga I don't believe in Kings I don't believe in Elvis I don't believe in Zimmerman [b]I don't believe in Beatles[/b] I just believe in me, Yoko and me, and that's reality The dream is over What can I say? The dream is over Yesterday I was the dreamweaver But now I'm reborn I was the walrus But now I'm John And so, dear friends, You'll just have to carry on The dream is over

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455558621' post='2980219'] 4 string, it's not narrow, it's huge and diverse. [/quote] Blue, if it's so huge and diverse why do you keep accusing people of not getting it and at the same time claim that only certain people who were there can get it? It makes no sense. [quote name='blue' timestamp='1455558621' post='2980219'] My Beatles ideology is a recipe for pushing the envelop and unlimited expansion not stagnation. [/quote] The Beatles did push the envelope and, although not unlimited, did expand popular music but doing that today would require avoiding the stagnation of pushing 'rock and roll' for fifty plus years.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1455556445' post='2980186'] We disowned her when she f***ed off to Switzerland. [/quote] Did she go 'cos of the Shakin' thing?

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1455556182' post='2980182'] Mike Barrat (Shakin' Stevens) used to gig at mine in North London for forty-five quid (that was the whole band, driving down from Wales) Good show, not a big pull back in the day....how times change......... [/quote] And were the band called the Sunsets?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1455555865' post='2980178'] Cardiff is the same with the whole multi-million pound Shakin' Stevens tourist industry. [/quote] With that kind of spending it should be Shirley Bassey.

It's Basschat, it's mostly predictable but never boring.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1455550764' post='2980099'] ............ one top football team ....... [/quote] I did have a feeling that something would be said ... maybe even no top football teams anymore.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1455532861' post='2979843'] Any other arbiters of taste and fashion like to chip in? I'd like to make sure I'm not breaking any rules with my clothing and I need your approval to survive [/quote] We're all arbiters of taste whether we say 'do' or 'don't'.