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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The recording is basic and slightly distorted, but it has songs we never did again (old keyboard player sang) and one in particular where six musos did Billy Joels 'The Longest Time' acapella with myself doing lead (before my voice gave out on me). I'd never heard that played back before and it bought a tear to my eye, not least because one of the lady singers died of cancer a few short years later.
He is going to create CDs/MP3s etc. of this material for me. I am so happy to have it because in those days we gigged so often and never thought about recording gigs. I have later recordings of course but this is special to me.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Mike I can't say the quality of the recording is up to much, but as a personal momento it is priceless. i may upload it in the future when I get it.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
1) a nice clipped clean sound with slapback delay and vintage-sounding chorus
2) a low-gain crunchy Plexi rhythm sound, a la AC/DC, Badfinger etc
3) a boosted low-ish gain lead, ideal for the lead sounds of the above bands
4) a massive-sounding higher gain rhythm tone, a la Boston, Queen etc - complete with subtle chorus and tape delay
5) an accompanying lead sound, which could cause earthquakes
I are happy.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
As for the price... well, they paid £64 for it. Guess how much it originally cost?
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More than that.
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Yup. £1216.
The nice man at the garage looked at my 'deal' when I bought the car. 'Hang on sir, let me just check something.....'
5 mins later he returns. 'Sir, it appears your deal indicates that as part of the MOT part of the package, the part which caused the fail is not a 'consumable' which means I can get it replaced for free. I have taken the liberty of ordering the part and it will be with us in the morning. We will fit it free of charge and re-mot it for you. I have also sorted you out with a nice new courtesy car. We will call you in the morning but no rush really.'
I've decided to try and get up at the same time every day from now on, to work harder and be more productive and stronger-willed - I want to learn the art of delayed gratification, which is something I've never been very good at. All part of my drive to be fitter, happier, harder-working and better off.
I’ve had an old petrol brush cutter for several years that has never ran right. No matter what I did with the carb mixture screw, it was always a bastard to start and would frequently die. Last year, I bought a new carb for it, only £12, and that did help but it still ran rough.
Yesterday, after getting a blister from trying to start it, I decided to get the screwdrivers out to strip the carb as, the ‘eBay special’ fuel filter and pipe I bought last year had begun to dissolve in the fuel over the winter, leaving a gloopy sticky residue in the tank, I figured the new carb must have some of this crap in it.
So, I start removing bits, get the carb off and decide to check the inlet manifold. I take it off and immediately see the manifold-cylinder gasket is in bits. I scrape it all off and make myself two new gaskets from card (getting the proper ones for this would be impossible) as I decide to replace the carb-manifold gasket too.
45 minutes later it’s back together with my DIY gaskets.
It starts on the first pull and runs like a racing bike.
All these years I’ve struggled with it and now it’s like a new machine!
Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.