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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.
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!
Mate of mine has a small building firm and a few years ago like most firms in the trade a major company failed to pay a large invoice leaving him totally washed up. The generally followed path in that situation is to default on all your debts close the company then restart under another name leaving all the contractors below you to carry the losses. This chap didn’t want to leave people unable to provide for their families and paid every one of them losing his savings, pension, house and marriage in the process.
Shortly afterwards I asked him to install decking for us and build an outdoor wooden sink for my autistic son to play in. When he did the job he refused to take any money for all the wood as he said he ‘had it anyway’ and I had to force some money in his pocket for the labour.
Saw him in the pub last night and he has just won £500,000 on the lottery. Could not be happier for him!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
It's accompanied by the new that my #1 manager is leaving, so the next few months are going to be a bit nuts, but it's a well-timed opportunity to make myself look good. I already did 80% of her job while she was on maternity leave so should be all good in the long run.
Now just waiting to find out how much they want to pay for the the new role... Have bought a new watch to celebrate