IanHenry

Interesting and true statement from Nile Rodgers about David Bowie and the state of the modern music industry: Nile Rodgers says David Bowie wouldn’t have made it in modern music industry | The Independent

Very nice and Happy Birthday.

As I'm 65 today, it will be 66 all being well 🙂

Contact Gibson support, and see if they can exchange the pickup.

Saves on washing up 😀

That's how you know it's real bread, the French buy new every day. When it starts to go stale, I either slice it or make breadcrumbs with it and freeze it, it can be very useful.

I think there was a story that he wasn't treated very well.

Sadly, Denny Laine formerly of the Moody Blues, Ginger Baker's Air Force and Wings passed away yesterday at the age of 79 Denny Laine Dies: Wings And Moody Blues Co-Founder Was 79 (msn.com) RIP Denny

No, he didn't mention what went into it but I was left with the impression that you don't want to know. The "freshly baked" bread that you get in supermarkets (to get that freshly baked smell) arrives as a chemical sludge that they just have to put into moulds and stick in an oven for a specified time, there's no skill in it. I would never eat supermarket sausages, the very cheapest ones are especially bad, it's just paste made from BITS meat (Brains, Intestines, T*ts, and Sh*t). I would only buy sausages from my local Butcher whom I know very well. I used to make Sausages, Bacon & cooked meats for a local Butcher as a Saturday job when I was at school but they were "proper" sausages. Incidentally, I'm quite fussy about where I get Bacon from, as most of those are full of nitrates, which are really bad news. Bread, I bake my own or buy from a local craft baker. I just hope I haven't put anyone off their lunch😀

I understand that the mass-produced bread sold in the UK would be illegal to sell as bread in France. I was told by a bloke who services ovens for mass-producing bread that if you saw what goes into it, you would never eat it again but that's probably true for a lot of things.

Magic

It's great news that your dad can come home, I hope he's happy and well done yourself for looking after him, I hope you have to do it for a long time 🙂

RIP. I wonder if he and Kirsty are singing that song now in a different place.

I'm going to have to agree with Sgt Pepper again, That Smell is my favourite Lynyrd Skynyrd track.

Very nice, congratulations 🙂

Well, you helped out 🙂

Interesting variation, I quite like it, but I have to agree with Sgt Pepper, Freebird (or at least the original) has become a little tiresome. If they enjoyed doing it, good luck to them.

Obviously never been to Paris 😄

Actually, I'm not just buying Whisky, I'm buying my great nephew and niece's fountain pens as they are aged between 12 and 19. The reason that I'm getting them fountain pens is that I was talking to one of them and she was bemoaning the fact that they never get to write in School, everything they do is on a tablet which even has spell check on it! Yet another case of dumbing down education I think!

Many thanks for all your suggestions, the Gibson one is looking favourite.

That looks quite good. I think in many respects a gigbag is better than a hard case.

Can anyone recommend any good quality, reasonably priced gig bags for Les Paul's I'm getting a little fed up with lugging a Les Paul, Amp and associated paraphernalia to band practice.

Yes, but people had principles in those days

Mark Knopfler is selling off some of his guitars Christies - The Mark Knopfler Guitar Collection

I think a lot of the manufacturing done in China may be in for a major upheaval in the not-too-distant future, it seems their "Tiger economy" has fallen off the edge of a cliff. I can't see that manufacturing returning to Western nations though because basically, we are too expensive but most nations price themselves out of the market eventually, I can remember when Japanese products were referred to as Jap crap here in the UK, not so now.