Me and Parvati

If you don't know how to do it safely, and the implication is that you don't if you're asking on a music forum, I would recommend not fucking around with 240 volts a.c. In the wrong place, it can ruin your day very effectively. The only sure way to fix thecable is to shorten it as suggested, or replace it. If you're not sure even how to wire the plug up, I would suggest forking out for some professional help. Or a new mower, which may be cheaper! Jim.

Just how I like my heroes - complex, brilliant, flawed, always challenging, but at the same time, I prefer them alive, I'm with Alan on this - too young.

With Alan on this one; Tullynessle, Alford, Aberdeenshire, etc. etc. (This written on the covers of jotters with juvenile smugness, of course)

Did naeb'dy play the chime bar? (I wint the C, it's on a' the time...) Then the recorder. Doonhill since that.

Eerins for Grunny, messages for Mam. That's nae ethnic is it?

I only come here for the crack.

None in Turriff yet, but here's hoping - apparently they've had a good breeding season in Europe, so they've eaten everything there and migrated early to scoff all our berries. Lovely birds, though, and cracking photos too.

Always liked 'Tonto's Expanding Headband' and 'Wigwam'

Good to see as many of us as possible there - I've got no excuse, only live about a mile and a half down the road - completely forgot about the December gig!

The puns seem to have stalled; thought it might have gone farrier, bit they seem to have been reined in - it's a cinch that Alan whinny be able to restrain himself from saddling us with mare. (sorry for the repeats..)

Quit stallion, ye're makin' that up on the hoof - shoerly ye've got some mare? Sorry.

Nah, it's nae Friday.

You speak truth, friend; and so my next project was an electric with a blockboard body shaped like an edging spade, homebrew pickups, 12 W amp from an old radiogram with a 2.5mV input valve preamp built from a tape recorder circuit, RRROOOOOCKKK! o_O (Tended to feed back a little....)

True; but thirty-five years ago I did exactly this to a guitar, and turned an admittedly average, but still useable, musical instrument into kindlers....

If it's a playable guitar, leave it alone and play it, or give it to someone who might want to learn to play, then buy an electric guitar. Hacking lumps out of it to fit pickups will merely bollocks it up. If you have to amplify it, try a piezo pickup. Duct tape? Strike me pink. o_O

Yep, let the cheque clear. Sounds a bit iffy to me - urgent need, sends cheque, hopes to get gear before cheque goes kaboiiing! across the room.

Ah, Happy Trails! More clogs than a sensible person could ever use (try running for a 25 bus in them!) and I think I bought 'Hey, Bo Diddley!' from there around 1973. As a sideline, I sold them the eponymous QSM album around 1979. Great Thing, that was a tedious record! Guitar noodling ad nauseaum. When I had hair and flares....

I think the clue is in the name Denburn.

Damn and blast, that means I'll have to work up a new act.

Na, na, ye canna fool me - there's nae a Sandi claws.. (Thank you, Mr Marx.)

Seems pretty grounded and sensible woman to me. Not a great fan of her music, but she probably wouldn't like mine.

Maybe if we all toad RFScott's line, the council would listen and we could spawn a whole new generation of McPuddock and Spike lovers. If we involved all the kids from Eastern Europe who're newt to the area, maybe the dad Poles would join in as well.

I think you'll find that they had played a few live gigs before they started recording as the Beatles, and the noise from the lassies screaming sort of knackered the chance of a live record being any good. Personally, I have a theory that these days Beatles records are never played loud enough. Turn them up as though they were either live, or on a fuck-off jukebox in the chipper - class!

Like everyone else, this is for the moment... And Your Bird Can Sing You're Going To Lose That Girl Tomorrow Never Knows Nowhere Man Things We Said Today And that'll change by bedtime.

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with royalties being collected and paid to the artists. It seems however that the PRS has come up with a peculiar definition of a 'public performance' in that if someone is listening to music that others can overhear, deliberately or not, then that is a 'public performance'. Now if I was playing music in order to increase trade or to entertain my customers, I can see that they would have a clear case. Someone listening to his own radio at his work for his own pleasure does not to me constitute a 'peformance'. What if I buy a new cd, and have a few mates back to the house and say 'listen to this, it's great' - do I need a PRS licence? 300 a year so that we can listen to free-to-air radio at work? I think not, so there are no radios on the premise.