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Good evening, how are you? Xmas request from my significant other: a deep blue pendant. She tends to go silver rather than gold. We're not into jewels, so I don't think she wants a sapphire. Can you help? (I used to follow you over at the bad place, loved your work there.)

Not one single bad word about Mani. Anywhere 🙏

Huge JM fan, by the way, met him a few times,drove him home once, not a bad word to say about him.

My grandfather alluded to it being Bonemian musical types (despite being a musician himself) so that close was never renovated until it caught fire in about 1986-7 or so? I'm assuming it was them. Not the fire, the reluctance to renovate.

Yes, they were in number 10, we were number 4. In the early 1980s there was a family in number 10 resisting the whole renovation, stone cleaning, windows, electrics plumbing thing.

One good thing I learned from you was that I used to live next door to John Martyn's dad. I knew I went to the same school as John Martyn (and Jerry Sadowitz, and Ian Brady), but yeah - every day is a school day!

I have not watched TV in 25 years. What is a #traitors? Also, I do not care. #FuckTV

I did not diss Jools, BTW. I pointed out his TV career trajectory, vs the pure music trajectory. Loyal to his friends to a fault, you have to give him that. R.I.P. Gilson Lavis #Gilson #Lavis #GilsonLavis #Squeeze #JoolsHollandRnBOrchestra #Drummer

Much like Ringo, Gilson did not showboat or drive the songs - he played the song, including the quiet bits where he would just shut up entirely. I learned from him, and in later years other musos noticed those lessons in me. He once told me off in a Facebook group, where he thought I dissed Jools.

The Pool Hall had a jukebox, but nobody used it because in the absence of paying customers it would just play Squeeze's Greatest Hits. Squeeze's Greatest Hits had nearly as profound an impact on this teenage drummer as the entire Led Zeppelin back catalogue did. Gilson was a genius drummer.

I launched this without any context or hash tags. Sorry, I was upset. I left school in 1985 with no SCE Highers because 1: I hated school, and 2: The Pool Hall existed (it is now #TheGladCafe).

Gilson Lavis, Classic Drummer for Squeeze, Dead at 74 Gilson Lavis, the classic drummer for Squeeze and later a member of Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, has died at the age of 74.

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She walks every day,
Through the streets of New Orleans,
She is innocent and sweet, From a family of means,
(Moon Over Bourbon Street, Sting, Dream Of The Blue Turtles, 1985)

The valves don't work without the heater, silly!

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

YouTube video by FrankZappaVEVO Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa - Valley Girl

Oh my GAAHHHDDD! youtu.be/R5Q1yVLSR3I?...

YouTube video by Dogsterr2111 John Martyn - Transatlantic Sessions - Solid Air

My musical hero has died. RIP Danny Thompson, the man who inspired me to pick up the double bass. Here he is with John Martyn who, it transpires, used to live up the next close to me in Glasgow. youtu.be/uvCU1U2rhB0?...

Just stopping by to wish everybody a happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day. To err is human, to "ARRRRRR!!!" is Pirate: talklikeapiratecom.wpcomstaging.com/sample-page/

Make a band singular:

One Maniac.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to call you a raving xenophobic twat.

Hello Reform! UK Drill is a distinctly British musical genre, and should therefore be considered part of British culture. I could ask them to discuss, critically analyse, compare and contrast, but at the end of the day they will probably just take their shirts off and throw plastic lawn chairs.

I wonder if she's out on licence? (Sorry if that's not the correct term in England, I am in Scotland.) Can you criticise your conviction when you are out on licence?

American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.

Tom Leherer has died. He was one of the finest songwriters known to Harvard (from where he graduated at 18). There may be better songwriters out there, but they haven't been discarvard. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Evening Marcus, there are a lot of people in your comments who just don't get it. I get it. We both come from a country where socialism worked for a little while. It wasn't perfect, but it kind-of worked. Moral purity doesn't work, but caring about other people does. Wish we could get back to that.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Found it.

Every once in a while all the EDM on 6 Music gets too much for me, so I switch over to a 'serious' radio station. Then I remember how un-serious Radio 4 has become. I'll tolerate the techno.

No, I'd give them a proper beer, and if they handled that I might share them into the blunt. #GenX

Tall baldy with a beard (me) in cargo pants, red fleece, converse, playing a double bass outdoors on decking, blue sky and clouds in the background. The bass is jacked up quite high on its endpin because I am tall.

Fair enough, not my style of bass anyway. And yes, my endpin is very high, I am 1.95m tall, and the nut is supposed to be level with my eyes.

Yeah, but it's a Music Man. If I could afford one, I'd be going "LOOK AT MY MUSIC MAN BASS!" too.