Rich

Baby It's Cold Outside -- Don Cornell & Laura Leslie, and many many others

Or... ...via ouija board

Wait till the 3kg back panel turns up...

Totally outrageous. Someone at PMT needs a proper boIIocking.

These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra

The Ripper - Judas Priest

Cod Only Knows - Beach Boys

My old '90s Series 1 fiver. It was a very lovely thing and I wish I hadn't sold it really, but needs must. That quilted top was a mile deep under lights. I fitted the bridge monorails and new tuners myself after the original black bridge lost a couple of screws and started looking really scruffy. I thought the gold went really well with the woods. They called it "thru' neck" on the original blurb, but it wasn't -- the set neck only went as far as the neck pickup.

Tango in the Night - Meatwood Flak.

Wednesday Week - The Undertones

Amazon' Grace - hymn

Tees In The Sahara - The Police

How much more purple could it be? And the answer is none. None more purple.

Ah yes, some of their songs were 'My Woman From Toronto', 'Smoke On The Watercloset' and 'Child In TIM'.

Are they the band that had David Coverversion and Ian Gillian?

Not at all unrealistic. I could never be in a band with someone like your guitarist. It would drive.me.bonkers. Do the singer and guitarist want to gig? If so, Mr G needs to get his sheeite together unless he wants you to look like an under-rehearsed shambles. If they don't want to gig, you're wasting your time. A proper sit-down meeting is required for all of you, so you can work out what everyone actually wants from the band, before you go to all the effort of getting a new drummist on board.

In the case of the South West Bass Bash: You turn up with whatever basses, amps, FX, anything else you like, and then Mrs @scrumpymike and the Scrumpettes serve up their amazing smorgasbord and the rest of the day is lost. Basses? What basses?

In my big soul-ish band, the vocalists all use wireless mics and in-ears, and the guitarist and I are both wireless. One of the sax guys occasionally plays a bit of electric violin on one song, and he's got a wireless for that. So that's 8 or 9 lots of wireless on stage already -- god help us if the horns ever decide to go wireless...

+1 for surgical spirit. I also find that if you soak a pad of cotton wool or lint or whatever with the spirit and actually rub your fingertips with it rather than just soaking them, the hardening effect is even quicker.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what it's all about. When I stop doing this, it's the point at which I shall give it up.

Monkey Man - Toots & the Maytals

Gigs are like buses... Nothing for a while and then 3 in 4 days, including 2 yesterday. In the afternoon it was an hour at the Cider, Rum and Reggae festival in Trowbridge. Utterly brilliant, such a happy vibe and some great ciders flowing and some amazing food -- curry goat, jackfruit & ackee and a roti, oh god just thinking about it is making me drool. Superb PA sound with a maHOOsive wall of bass, we played really well and the crowd seemed to love us, some of them were up and dancing from the B of "Buster..." and by the end they all were. The evening was 2 hours at a private party thrown by a bandmate's friend, they also fed & watered us and everyone danced the night away. Probably helped by the copious amount of Red Stripe being consumed a brilliant day, but oh holy mother I am so broken today.

Yes! That's my go-to when my fingers aren't sufficiently work-hardened. Absolutely work a treat.

Likewise, my gen 1 fiver is a very early one.