Rich

I call a comb 'no longer needed'

Back in the 18th century when he and I were first getting to grips with our relative instruments, a guitarist mate of mine initially referred to them as 'plectrons'. Which I think is a far better name than either pick or plectrum. It has a sci-fi/nerd quality which appeals to my inner geek.

'base guitar' is another search I often do.

I only meant shape really. My photoshop skills stop short of adding the Babicz bridge, Dimarzio pickups and ACG filter circuit

Not at all. Give it five strings and it'd be great

That's a whole big truckload of nope.

Now that's a nice 'un. Easy to see where Zon got the Legacy body shape from Seems to be the groundswell of opinion is heading towards a, shall we say, warmer and more vintage-y sounding instrument. Fair enough but not my personal cuppa char.

I'm not 100% positive, but I think that could well be the single ugliest thing of any sort that I have ever seen. And I'm including Jacob Rees-Smugg, Hereford town centre and the SsangYong Rodius in that, so it's up against some pretty tough competition.

So a violinist is really a violin player, a flautist is a flute player? A drummer is a drum player? A vocalist is a git voice user? etc etc etc.

'Jean Luc Scratchplate' would have sounded really stupid though.

I believe it's the beautiful pointy one, yes. How I miss seeing that shape in the sky.

"The nurse would love to know how on earth you got that neat row of puncture wounds in the palm of your hand?"

Quite I thought the whole point of a 'burst-type finish was that it was supposed to be a gradual fade? The colour change on that one is so pronounced, it's almost a line. This is about a million times better:

+1 for the POS acoustic dog. Mine is an Eko Ranger 6, bought from a pawn shop (where else?) for £20 about 20 years ago. Loud, ugly, and about as subtle as being shot in the face in a deserted warehouse but it does the trick. I like the adjustable bridge saddle height, makes it easy to get the action down without having to fart about with files and stuff. No stickers on mine, although it could do with some to cover up the cracks and dents.

This. I blew the thick end of a grand on my current mattress and ohhhhhhhh god it is wwwwwwwwwonderful.

Through a marvellous episode of serendipity, I discovered the band when I was bored at work one day and googled my name, as you do... he came up in the results. Superb band, but a shame they parted ways with Damian. I prefer his voice to Glynn's. One of my other google results was the real name of Mr.C from The Shamen. Not so superb

Yes, I was there too I'm also lurking on Level 42's 'Physical Presence' live album.

Feel free to use this'un if you want. One of my favourite photos of me ever, mainly because you can't see my ugly mug

My 1980 Wal Pro 2E has been my most treasured possession since 1986. The only thing I would even momentarily consider swapping/selling it for would be another Wal, a five-string fretted one.

My motto is 'Procrastinate Tomorrow'.

Remember it? Still have it It's a Höfner Artist 2, a ‘65 I believe, which I bought off my school’s metalwork teacher in 1982 for £20. It's as tatty as feck and the pickups are fairly shot so it's worthless and unusable, but it's full of fun memories and is consequently a permanent fixture here at Casa dell Rich.

Aww yes, I still have the group photo here on my desk. The best of times. Remember when he was in the office playing Doodle and the rest of us were out in the workshop? There was this cry of anguish from the office and we went in to see what was up, he looked at us & wailed "IT'S GOT SO MANY STRINGS!"