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[quote name='Len_derby' timestamp='1491893613' post='3276129'] I agree that giving your music away is the right thing in some circumstances but we've found that there is still a market for selling CDs. We're a folk-punk originals band and we recorded what's become a 4 track CD. We had a small run of 100 made and have sold 90 of them at gigs over three months. At £5 a throw we've covered our costs plus a bit more. [/quote] Absolutely. If I go a see an originals band I'm always happy to pay a few quid for a CD whereas I wouldn't bother downloading anything even if it was free. People I know who gig & have CDs made of their songs always seem to do OK selling them.

I've never found that a tube preamp makes that much difference to be honest. To me the sound of a good valve amp is made by what's happening with the power amp valves.

Pau Ferro is very similar to rosewood. Sadowsky has been using it for donkeys years.

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1491846727' post='3275845'] Interparcel. [/quote] Wot he says. Interparcel are easy to book a delivery with.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1491826755' post='3275620'] Pearl yellow! It was available but I've never seen one. [/quote] We had one in the shop I used to work in in Cardiff. Also had a Pearl Pink GA24 & a Pearl White Supernatural. Lovely finishes.

The first track on that clip is the first time I've heard him use a bass sound that doesn't sound like somebody sexually abusing a duck.

[quote name='Cuzzie' timestamp='1491838659' post='3275768'] Ha! Vikings are implicated amongst other things (link becoming more tenuous), but there is no way you are getting Lagertha as you shield maiden, she's all mine! Definitely a disease of the west though, you do not see it in East Asians Looks like you had a limited fasciectomy. Keep an eye on it, if you get it young it can be a sign that it could be more aggressive disease, hence earlier intervention [/quote] I do keep an eye on it, and have made a point of gently stretching my fingers since I was able to after the operation. I had it done at 27 & I'm 52 now. I've had no problems whatsoever since so I'm hoping things will stay that way. As I say, when they operated on it they really weren't sure it was Dupuytren's because of my age. It wasn't pulling my fingers at all but I did have a very pronounced lump in my palm. Before they operated they were fairly certain that it was an impaction dermoid. The doctor who thought it was Dupuytren's was very happy, he won the doctors diagnosis sweepstake.

Lisa Hannigan- At Swim

Here's a close up of the Dupuytrens in my left hand. The elongated S shaped scar to the left of it is from the surgery I had to remove the original one. [url="http://s86.photobucket.com/user/RhysP/media/IMG_0632_zpsrongucel.jpg.html"][/url] Medical advice these days seems to be leave it alone if it's not causing any problems. When I had mine removed they weren't actually sure what it was because I was supposedly too young to have a Dupuytrens Contracture. It was the surgery that confirmed it. I don't know if you've been told this but apparently having a Dupuytrens is a sign of having Viking ancestry. When I asked my GP about my latest one he said he'd write me a prescription for a helmet with horns on it.

Do the recording. If it comes out OK then fine, if it doesn't then bask in the smug feeling of "I told you so..." for years to come.

Yeah, it's a great album. I bought it on cassette when it first came out & I bought it on CD when it was reissued a few years ago & was surprised just how much I enjoyed it, it wasn't just a nostalgia thing. The live show was superb too.

I had an operation to remove a Dupuytren's Contracture from my left hand when I was 27. I have another one appeared on the same hand about ten years ago but it hasn't grown larger & has not caused any problems. I can still put my hand flat with no problems & I'm 52 now so I can't see it giving me any problems in the future.

Found a slightly better photo of my series 2 Supernatural, and a VERY young me! [URL=http://s86.photobucket.com/user/RhysP/media/IMG_0631_zpsc3mtckfb.jpg.html][IMG]http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k120/RhysP/IMG_0631_zpsc3mtckfb.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

You could try Picato, they're made in the UK & they do flats.

Newtone are great strings but I'm pretty sure they don't, as yet, make flatwounds.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1491663060' post='3274648'] The old adage of "Play stuff they can dance too, sell more beer; Happy landlady/lord" is sometimes too simple to be true. Over the years I have found that the personal taste of the venue owner has much to do with whether or not you are re-booked. [/quote] Absolutely. I have a friend who plays in a really good covers band in Cardiff who have been stopped from playing at a certain pub ever again because they wouldn't let the landlady's drunk, tone deaf daughter get up & sing with them, despite the fact that they always pull in a good crowd.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1491658143' post='3274614'] It looks to me like Scott has obviously taken some advice about his youtube channel. I wonder if he'll 'nest' in Brighton with the other youtubers, or even release a product range of toiletries in Boots? [/quote] He's got the perfect name for that - "Simply Devine Pour Homme"

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1491655058' post='3274600] They are talented, I'll give them that, but they do have an ego. [/quote] I think that's all part & parcel of the thing that drives them to excel.

That's a bit pricey for a copy.

If you don't mind mini keys it's worth having a look at some of the Arturia stuff.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1491643885' post='3274488'] Gwizdala: Taking divorce one day at a time (A video with much useful info about bass and music and a brief, sensitive discussion about the end of Janek's relationship - why did he give it this title?) [/quote] I would assume he gave it that title so that people searching for divorce advice would click on the link. A click is a click for advertising revenue purposes, doesn't matter if the video turns out to be about the subject you're looking for or not.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1491615754' post='3274368'] Ok, well if you're right, I can understand why you were banned​. Blue [/quote] Absolutely, the venue were 100% in the right.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1491606955' post='3274339'] Do you know why you got banned? Blue [/quote] I was never 100% sure but I think it had something to do with drugs being bought & sold by some pretty dodgy people that used to come to our gigs.

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1491471833' post='3273249'] Red Sparowes: At the Soundless Dawn album tracklist: "Alone and Unaware, the Landscape was Transformed in Front of Our Eyes" "Buildings Began to Stretch Wide Across the Sky, And the Air Filled with a Reddish Glow" "The Soundless Dawn Came Alive as Cities Began to Mark the Horizon" "Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through the City Walls and Everyone Reveled in Their Ignorance" "A Brief Moment of Clarity Broke Through the Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late" "Our Happiest Days Slowly Began to Turn into Dust" "The Sixth Extinction Crept Up Slowly, Like Sunlight Through the Shutters, as We Looked Back in Regret" and Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun album: "The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm, Suddenly and Furiously Blinding Our Senses." "We Stood Transfixed in Blank Devotion as Our Leader Spoke to Us, Looking Down on Our Mute Faces with a Great, Raging, and Unseeing Eye." "Like the Howling Glory of the Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous and the Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts and Clutching Our Innocent Awe." "A Message of Avarice Rained Down and Carried Us Away into False Dreams of Endless Riches." "'Annihilate the Sparrow, That Stealer of Seed, and Our Harvests Will Abound; We Will Watch Our Wealth Flood In.'" "And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent in Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, the Locusts Noisily Thanked Us and Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole." "Millions Starved and We Became Skinnier and Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter and Fatter." "Finally, as That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, Did We Know That True Enemy Was the Voice of Blind Idolatry; and Only Then Did We Begin to Think for Ourselves."s, as We Looked Back in Regret" [/quote] They are just like Yes lyrics. As I was reading them I could hear Jon Anderson singing them in my head.

Yeah, we actually got banned from ever playing at the venue again.