Skybone

Yes, Side 2, they're obviously good songs, but I just never thought they were quite up to the same standard as Side 1. I went off them a bit after Signals, then by Hold Your Fire I lost interest (still saw them on the HYF tour though). It wasn't until Vapour Trails that I thought they'd recaptured their spark, through to Clockwork Angels. Even in the synth years, their sound was commercial, but the lyrics were always thought provoking.

IMO, Permanent Waves is a far better album in the whole, than Moving Pictures, which has some utterly incredible songs, but also some "filler" songs, where PW, all the songs are great. A Farewell To Kings is another brilliant album. The R40 DVD is well worth a watch too, because of the "rolling back" through their career.

Isn't the red script reissue Mini Q a buffered foot switch? Think the purple script is when they switched to true bypass (and stopped putting those really cool control knobs on).

Two Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden

I miss my big box Small Stone & Small Clone. Wish I'd kept the Mini QTron I had for a short while (though "Mini" is a bit of a misnomer, it was a similar size to the Small Stone & Small Clone, which were anything but small).

So I joined the queue at position 188-odd thousand, waited for about an hour and a bit, only to find out that there were no tickets left. Hey ho.

The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats

Sultana of Swing - Drier Straits

Red Barchetta - Rush

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - Bobby Vee

Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites - Carcass

ACS Custom Pro 17's. Definitely worth the money. I put off getting some for years, but finally got some a couple of years ago. Well worth it.

Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin

The man is an artist. Lovely looking bass, enjoy.

My second bass was the Black/Red Raider, in about 1986, though I really wanted a Thunder II or III. Managed to get a Thunder 1A in the early 90's, and it really was a brilliant bass. Wish I'd never sold that one. After the Raider, I bought my first Aria, the bolt neck SB Special II.

Pre-order at Gear4Music: £59.00 Expected in August though.

Totally

My lad is desperate to go, so we'll have to see how much the tickets are. Thankfully, I did get to see the original line up play the NEC in 1997, was there the night they recorded the "Reunion" live album.

Give Ashdown a call.

Bizarrely, I'm more concerned about the prices of strings. We've seen the decent brand prices rise quite a bit over the last few years, expect it'll keep on going. Maybe it's time to get some flatwounds.

Been seeing loads of singer/songwriters (as well as some bands) coming through locally, and they appear to have quite a following, but to me, the songs come across as really formulaic, where they've put some chords under some poetic, meaningful words. Just don't get it.

Just start playing about in HX Edit. If it's anywhere as easy as the POD Go Edit, then it shouldn't take too long before you've got some nice patches up & running. Though I must say that you piqued my interest when you were talking about using the Ric-O-Sound a while back, I was wondering whether the HX FX would do what you were thinking about, so I started a thread: Line6 HX FX Queries Still contemplating between an HX FX or an HX Stomp XL, though the POD Go does everything I need it to and more than I will ever use.

Maybe you should forward it to the folks at CrackedAnkles Records (home of Evil Blizzard). It sounds right up their street to me.