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Someone in the YouTube comments says it's a Paul Reed Smith, but I wouldn't have a clue myself.

Pity about the bass sound farting out in this vid, but....

I have vivid and fond memories of watching my (South African) mate giving an excellent and very well received impromptu version of "We Will Rock You" on the highland pipes while dressed in full Scottish regalia, accompanied by a German oompah band, also wearing their traditional costumes, late at night at an open-air riverside café in Turku, Finland in the summer of 2017 during the Europeade (European folk dance) festival. Pick the cultural bones out of that one!

Good luck with your endeavours. If anyone, of whatever colour, tries to tell you that you shouldn't be playing a particular type of music because of your ethnic background, then they are being racist, and should be ignored, however much they may try to conceal their racism behind such fatuous pc terms as "cultural appropriation". It's no different from someone telling a black person that they shouldn't be performing opera or playing in a string quartet. Music is music, and has always benefitted from cross-cultural fertilization, without which much of the music we enjoy, and which has enriched our lives, simply would not exist. Enjoy!

I had completely forgotten until I started reading this thread, but I saw them somewhere in London (Hammersmith Odeon???) sometime in the late 80's. I know that "Green" was the latest album at the time. I know I enjoyed it, but I can't remember a damned thing about the gig itself now. Old age.....now, what did I come onto this site for?

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46383617 What exactly do they imagine they are protecting it from, I wonder? "Other cultural traditions which made the list included a Spanish riding school in Vienna, a Mongolian camel-coaxing ritual and Czech puppetry." - If I told them once, I told them a hundred times, put reggae music first, then the Czech puppet show.

Is it, though? Who's playing the bass from 2.30?

Ever noticed that the frets get closer together the further you go up the neck? There's a clue there.

Link or it didn't happen 😉 😄.

Well, if we're talking melodica, then this surely deserves inclusion:

One of them actually was crucified. Harsh but fair - nobody's ever late for rehearsals now.

And if said employer were to be, say, a financial software company, they may then, having paid you for it once, license its use to any number of clients, and rake in fees over and over again. Whether the fintech business may be classified as being part of the "real world", however, I will leave others to decide.

The lesser spotted squarnch (merpuria plobinata) is easily distinguished from its orvidious cousins by the prominent kraspules on its lower phlegnum.

Proof that the rebellious, devil-may-care, sticking-it-to-the-man spirit of rock'n'roll is indeed still alive and well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45667802

Would an ogran do?

band name!

I listen to, go to see, and also buy a lot of new music - almost all of it Nordic folk and folk-rock, which I only really discovered in the past decade or so. When it comes to rock, I stick almost entirely to the pre-punk stuff I grew up with. I never listen to music radio.

Do you have any datums to back that up?

I also knew Jim slightly in the early 90's, as I composed some music for his (then) wife(?) Alison Edgar's one-woman show about the Shakers. Lovely bloke, and I'm very sorry to hear about his accident. I remember embarrassing myself trying to play rounders on Clapham common with the two of them and a bunch of other people one weekend. Happy days. Hope his new show is a great success.

I believe the Q49 supports MIDI over USB. If that's right, you don't need an interface - just connect the keyboard to the laptop with a USB cable.

My "gateway drug" was Henry Cow. Discovered them when I was about 15, back in the seventies, and was totally blown away, although, to be honest, I enjoyed their written pieces more than the totally free-improv sections. Here is the last 7 or so minutes of the live version of Beautiful As The Moon; Terrible As An Army With Banners - the fabulous reprise of the main theme starts around 4 minutes in, after a version of Robert Wyatt's "Gloria Gloom" Here's their version of Robert Wyatt's "Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road", with Wyatt on vocals. Some sublime bass lines.