Rich

The Blackboard Of My Heart - Hank Thompson

I don't need to leave the house. Not familiar with all the tracks on it, but the ones I have heard I don't like. At all.

You have now.

Hunting High and Low - A-Ha

Can't think of a single Stones song that I like even a tiny bit. Ditto the Doors.

I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper - I'm really really sorry

I watched "All You Need Is Cash" again the other day. Brilliant.

IIRC, that EP was called 'Erasure-ish' and was released as a superb tongue-in-cheek response to Erasure's 'Abba-esque' EP..?

Jack Kilcoyne, one-time bassist with Mushroomhead, was a.k.a. "Pig Benis".

The Forty Eight in the Gulf colours.

Are You Hearing What I Hear? - Level 42

Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith

Enough already.

There was a time many, many years ago when I bought absolutely anything and everything associated with Level 42. Then it was It Bites, but they cured me of that by splitting up. These days there aren't many artists/bands I buy sight unseen/unheard, a couple are Frost* and Threshold.

Who Are You - The Who

There's a very VERY good all-girl Pistols (and punk in general) covers band called the Sex Píssed Dolls. We supported them at the Thekla a couple of years ago, they tore the roof off the boat.

The superb Norwich Baroque ensemble have a theorbo-ist (he's blind, but you wouldn't know to hear him play). It really is the most extraordinary instrument.

Ohm my god, that was dreadful.

According to your signature, you have a 12 string guitar. Why? 6 are plenty.

It might be from their Irøningbörd range?

It's looking a lot happier now after a good clean-up, an oiling of the fingerboard and a fresh set of D'Add nickels. I tried it on a strap for the first time... my god, the first fret is such a long way away! black tuners and string tree are in the post as we speak.

That doesn't need to be a barrier. When Mrs Rich v1.0 and I split up, she quickly reverted to her maiden name but the kids (at the time they were 7 and 5) retained my surname. Partly for administrative ease (school etc) but also because she didn't want appear to be trying to take them away from me.

Substantially less than £100

My latest guffing-about-with project thing, a Westfield 'Bird-shaped thing. Bought for next to nothing on my local Farcebook marktplatz. Was cheap because it's scruffy and was missing half its knobs and had really awful strings and is a Westfield, most of which is easily sorted. The fingerboard is filthy and cleaning it is the first thing on the list... well the 4th thing, having already 1) binned the old strings, 2) chucked some temporary knobs on, and 3) fitted a black bridge. Some black tuners will be in the pipeline too I think, probably a full electrics overhaul and maybe even new/different pups depending on what it sounds like. The action was surprisingly low and the neck felt really good to play in the quick blast I gave it. Inevitably there will be massive neck dive but I will cross that bridge when it comes along. I'm not expecting it to be any great shakes really, I only got it for the look... as deep as a puddle, me

That is a proper stunner. The GA has always been my favourite JD, and that headstock shape is to my mind far more attractive than the old 'peace sign' one.