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I don't think I've ever been ready to give up, but I did have a fairly long period when I was in the depths of depression when I just couldn't look at my instruments. I wanted to, and wanted to pick them up and play them, but I just couldn't get up the enthusiasm to do it. Joining a band last year has definitely given me a fresh reason to keep going, albeit we don't get together to rehearse and gig all that often. Perhaps I need a second band...

One wouldn't be in a position to care though, tbf, and it's a very rock & roll way to go

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave

I've watched a few live versions to get a feel for how to play it, and it's always impressive to see the whole crowd bouncing. I'm not sure the working men's clubs of West Yorkshire will have the same sort of reaction, but it would be interesting to see if they did 🤣

My mum used to work as a bank cashier many years ago, and when I started working in retail jobs she said one of the main things to look out for was whether the Bank of England text was embossed or not.

The debate is raging as to where in the set it should go. Opening second set? Closing the first?

Yeah, I wish!

I managed to find a little hack where I finagled the pick into the bend of the first joint of my index finger, which makes it a much more solid anchor so I can focus on the speed rather than if my pick is going to go flying somewhere. That and simplifying the bass line from what's on the recording.

I play it like this

Aren't £50 notes plastic now? Or is it just £20 and below?

That may well be more to do with how many Elfs have been bought new compared to the others, rather than a disproportionately large proportion of Elfs being moved on.

I stand to be corrected but doesn't the in-built compression in the Elf increase as you increase the gain not the volume? I believe that's what TE claim anyway. I've never pushed mine hard enough to notice so am happy to be educated on this front.

Holy moly!

Not too bad a rehearsal yesterday. Ran through two new songs completely, one of which will be in our set next weekend. I was the only one who had done the homework for the third song, the notorious Club Foot, but we worked out we could simplify the drum track significantly after realising that even Kasabian don't play it live like the album version, so hopefully we can have that one wrapped up for our NYE gig. We spent a good chunk of the session working out how to get our guitarist's Boss Katana combo into a mixing desk, and have realised that we're going to have to rely on the organisers having a long enough jack-jack lead so she can go through the phones out socket. I'm lucky that I'll be going through a communal bass rig that's provided, with either a Markbass or Darkglass head and a Barefaced Four10 - I think I can deal with that, and at least saves me having to lug a load of gear around with just my basses and pedals required.

Nice one! Still gutted I'm going to miss you guys in Sheffield. Just the wrong end of the month for such things alas.

Nice! I never managed to get to Hall for Cornwall when I lived down that way but it looks great from the stage.

Would it be amiss for me to indicate that there is at least one for sale here?

If you want a fancy one you could try an Alperious pickguard.

Before I bought my trusty Trace Elliot Boxer I bought a Laney combo that pretty much from day one I never got on with. I don't even remember how I disposed of it, with how little an impression it left on me.

On the Huffington Post? Surely not!

Can confirm, I've been told to turn down my Elf run through a 4 ohm 2x10 (albeit my 2x10 isn't a low budget one when bought new!), and they definitely sound fantastic.

Waiting for an AI-generated song called "It Was Only An 'opeless Fancy"...

Yep, that most definitely does not in any way sound like a money laundering front.