Andy Finney

Worth knowing, thanks.

… but his eyebrows!!!

Yeah … we’re due to fly into Frankfurt at the end of April. Her indoors might use her Irish passport 😏.

We flew into Geneva from Bournemouth a couple of weeks ago and got through quite quickly. I’m only just realising how lucky we were.

Ah. Didn’t know they’d stopped. My V15 is about 40 years old … and the stylus about 20 🤔.

Stantons were designed to tolerate cueing, which is a bit niche unless you’re a DJ. Also, never try and cue with an elliptical stylus!

The disc cutting channel at the BBC where I worked used a Shure N95 for check playback. I have a V15-IV currently so I would always recommend Shure.

I think Capt WE Johns SF novels are unjustly forgotten. They’re true juveniles but they (with Dan Dare) were important in my grounding in SF.

Pastiche does bother me. Should it be humorous? Is it true to say “paying homage … rather than mockingly parodying”? But then how is parody different?

Leader of the Pack?

Bournemouth has a dearth of pubs because it’s not an old enough community. It would be madness to close one.

Karen had a voice that melted my socks!

I always remember Mick, their drummer, who never got a namecheck.

Two things I remember about the London concert doing this:

Jim Steinman playing piano in gloves

Meat’s cartwheel across the stage

Yes, kitchen fire I think. I was there yesterday.

See also the Axe and Compasses in Arkesden near Saffron Walden. Burned down and now rebuilt perfectly … beams and all.

Roy Trenneman says “Have you turned it off and on again” in a bored Irish voice.

I’d forgotten Dave Evans. An amazing style … fingers just floating over the frets!

YouTube video by GtrWorkShp Dave Evans "Stagefright"

#Reverberations
#MusicChallenge
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Day 2

Stagefright
Dave Evans - Sad Pig Dance (1974)

Supernatural-level fingerstyle guitar

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Oh no! That’s opened up an earworm I thought I had forgotten!!!

I think it was the review in Variety. (If you can believe what you read on social media.)

🤪

Absolutely … and Never Twice Same Colour of course.

Not … System Essentially Contrary to the American Method

That’s the one.

Now I do remember an early colour test card with a woman in the centre, but I think it was someone like Sylvia Peters and not Her Maj.

Personally, this morning I am dragging my anchor ⚓️ (feels like it anyway).

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Never seen that. Sounds like fun.

I think they were 405 line tests. When I ran a bit of 405 VT (of the Beatles) in TC in the mid 80s everyone was surprised by how good and sharp it looked.

When you've been searching high and low for something and still can't find it, go back to the very first place you tried and it's usually right there. You just didn't collapse the wave function properly the first time.