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Cool... definitely check it out. It's got the old-school tone circuit and everything.

Yeah, it's heavy going. Marvellous, though.

Yeah, true. He saved them for his first two solo albums, which are packed with absolute bangers. Oh, wait... 😄

Of course CN is a classic, but almost the entire four sides around it - musically, lyrically and conceptually - came from Roger's brain. I don't think you can blame him for not wanting to spend much time on democracy at that point. The same for Animals, the same for The Final Cut (which I like). Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge DG fan, but he just didn't seem to be writing around then (or much since, for that matter).

Roger was far and away the main writer, especially later in the 70s. I can understand why he wasn't interested in anything other than his way of doing things.

Yeah, I can get behind that. More examples... Rush: Moving Pictures > Signals Genesis: A Trick of the Tail > Wind & Wuthering Lindisfarne: Fog on the Tyne > Dingly Dell Neil Young: Harvest > On the Beach Eagles: Hotel California > Long Run Fleetwood Mac: Rumours > Tusk

Ah - that's the LPB colour I was aiming for (it's a real '66!). Mojo-wise, it has a while to go yet 🙂

FWIW the Green Valley Metallic they used for my Jake (the first one in that colour, I believe) is a Fiat colour 😄 The idea was to mimic the old tobacco-stained LPB.

Yeah, I'd like to see them review their colours. Some are a bit 'nearly but not quite'.

Does it have to be old? If not...

Here's a lockdown vid from another band wot I'm in.

It's kind-of another voice to the amp, I think. Leszek sent me this when I asked him about it a while ago:

I very rarely do, but I would reduce the mids by using the contour knob. Everything is nicely controlled.

Yep, if you're happy plugging straight in that'll work.

The ID4 only has one mic input, I think. The other is a jack input. I went with the EVO 4 in the end. I can't fault it performance-wise, but I do miss the form factor and build quality of the Focusrite stuff.

Sorry.

Smiling for the cameras, maybe?

Well, that's depressing. I really hope you get sorted eventually. And I hope Tommy's OK.

I suspect there would be legal reasons why he couldn't do that, and it doubt it would scratch his itch anyway.

You forgot about The Endless River...(!)

(Mind, he does it at his solo shows sometimes)

Ha ha. So says the mate of a bloke you know down the pub.

I think he's tried that route already. I can understand his frustrations, and why he feels like he has to howl at the moon. That's his style.

Post-Roger, Echoes has High Hopes on it which is up there with the greatest Floyd stuff (IMO). The rest of it is a bit meh. Keep Talking was OK.

Hmmm... I really can't equate either of the 3 post-Rog albums with anything before (not even The Final Cut). With a couple of exceptions, the songwriting just isn't there.