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Some people, me being one of them, had basses ordered that were never fulfilled... 🤬 I ended up ordering a Jaydee because he flipped me around so much. I heard that he did a runner because he owed a lot of people a lot of money. Don't know if it's true or not, but going by my dealings with him in the 80s it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. Also heard that he ended up working for Gibson.

It was Belew's involvement, along with Roger Powell (Todd Rundgren's Utopia) & Simon House (Hawkwind), that made me check out the "Stage" album.

That band is just awesome.

I saw them in Cardiff. Big Country & The Screaming Blue Messiahs were superb. Bowie was very much a triumph of style over content IMO. I saw Peter Gabriel in Birmingham a week later & that gig was everything that the Bowie one wasn't.

I only really like a few of his albums & that tends to be largely because of Eno's involvement. Saw him live on the Glass Spider tour & it's one of the worst gigs I've ever been to.

I don't gig anymore, but I never carried spare strings when I did. In 40+ years of playing I've yet to break a string.

This.

Oops. Double post.

I wouldn't class myself as a Bowie "fan" but you really should listen to George Murrays playing on the "Stage" album. Him & Dennis Davis are one of my favourite rhythm sections of all time. The version of "Stay" on that album is jaw-droppingly good. The whole band on that album is just incredible, one of the best ever assembled IMO.

Is the Styx album good then? Not had a chance to hear it yet. I thought "The Mission" was pretty good.

Can't choose just one, but my favourite albums of 2021 so far are: Becky Becky - Maraca The Anchoress - The Art of Losing Gojira - Fortitude Jean Michel Jarre - Amazonia Adrian Smith & Richie Kotzen - Smith/Kotzen

I like the albums Dio did with Sabbath but I can't stand him singing the Ozzy era stuff, just doesn't work for me.

It's actually "Treating people just like pawns in chess"...

Happens a lot around here. Lots of people cream their pants over the latest "must have", buy it & then sell it a few days/weeks/months later to fund their next wet dream purchase.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1495884025' post='3307315'] Interesting bass that Sheryl Crow was playing last night, some kind of short-scale Guild. Anybody know what it was? [/quote] I think it was some kind of short-scale Guild.

The 80s were easily my favourite decade.