Grimalkin

I can't think of anything recent, but then I can't think of anything that would beat Swift's observations of almost three hundred years ago, he could have written it yesterday afternoon: "His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: “My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom. As for yourself,” continued the king, “who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726.

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” Edgar Allan Poe.

I'm sorry you don't understand.

Playing Mustang Sally in the first five frets on blank board, doesn't make you the equivalent of Jaco...

"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle.

Compared to Willis or Lagrene? Do you think he could cope with that?

It's pointless, you think a blank board looks cooler and I won't change your mind.

His intonation isn't brilliant by a long stretch. As far as I can see, he rarely plays over the twelfth.

You have no idea of what you are talking about.

I'll stick with the guys who have a name on that instrument, nearly all but one have lines, and they all spend a lot of time looking at the board.

Just look how much time there is for individual note adjustment, claiming playing an unlined is just like playing a fretted, is for the birds...

"But blank boards look cooler..." And that is the thing isn't it. It's not about music...

You get hardly any time for pitch adjustment if at all above a certain tempo, and that tempo is quite low. The tracks by Willis and Lagrene above, I'd love to hear all that done without lines. Or maybe in a darkened room even...

Special deliveries are not guaranteed for certain times and dates regarding strike action. RM have the info on their site.

A couple of days late, but still RM are planning on shedding 10,000 workers...

Difficult with just a bass for reference, London keeps her own internal key.

Sinatra had mob connections, they probably made an offer that couldn't be refused.

Nothing comes for nothing.

Get lines. You'll get a lot closer.