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Where in Aberdeen city centre am I best to purchase a bathroom basin?

A wash basin?  As in the plumbed in thing you wash your hands/face in?  Not had dealings with any of them so can't comment on who's best but

City Plumbing Supplies on Causewayend?

Bath Store on Hardgate just south of Great Southern Road?

1st Choice Kitchens and Bathrooms on South College Street (Arches)?

Alternatively I could give you a lift to B&Q/Homebase/whatever.  Can't imagine it being super light and easy to carry on foot.

Dear Thomann,

Please stop selling brand new Gibsons at second hand prices.

Yours,

My credit card.

Interparcel.  www.interparcel.com - Their Economy, Standard and Premium services are provided by UPS, I've sent at least 10 basses (many not in hard cases) and I have had no issues.

Avoid Parcelforce - no enhanced insurance for musical instruments (although they'll happily sell it to you at the post office)

Avoid Yodel like the plague - the only courier I've had issues with - they managed to bash the tweeter out of a 4x10 bass cab.  HOW?

Thomann take nice, GAS inducing photos, don't they?  The Gibson Midtown Standard bass.  Yup, can't say I'm not tempted.  Gits.

In mitigation, I would like to point out that I've sold 3 basses recently.

You can't go wrong with a Yamaha, especially as a eminently giggable first bass.  I'm a BB man rather than RBX, but I have had a few Yamahas on the inexpensive side of things (BB300, BB614, BB350F, BB450) - I still have my BB450 and am happy to gig it any time.

Haven't bumped this for a while, still keen to downsize my rig a bit.  Fantastic cab, great sound and really light for a 4x10.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.1488716,-2.0954947,3a,75y,311.21h,89.12t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sG2CgQJjBfF6fbop74r0iLQ!2e0

I think I've asked this before, but I just received my first ever tax rebate, so I'll maybe actually buy one this time: can anybody recommend a decent external hard-drive?

 

I'm avoiding WD as my last one of those spontaneously died not long after I got it whilst I was backing up once and not even Graham Knight himself could save it.

I have a couple of Freecom ones - a 300GB 3.5" one I've had for years and a 1TB 2.5" one I've had for a few months without incident.  Of course Freecom just make the enclosures.  The 1TB one I have uses a Samsung/Seagate hard drive, according to the Hardware ID.  So no WD content in there.

Ash - 1977.  Tie fighters!  Enthusiastic guitar playing!  Hidden tracks!  Jackie Chan!  Vomit!  I'm 21 again, woop woop!  Just the pick me up I needed after staying up most of this morning.  Just fucking great pop music that makes me want to sing along and it made household chores just disappear today.  Minus a star because it isn't Dark Side of the Moon or OK Computer.

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Daft question - it used to be when you installed a new program on your computer/laptop you had to restart it. I hardly ever see this now. Is there an interesting reason why?

It depends entirely upon the program and always did.  Specifically whether or not system files which are currently in use needed to be modified and hence done behind the operating system's back.  Some of the necessity for restarts I have found rather dubious - I've said Restart Later many times to then try the program and it works anyway.  But I think people are getting a bit smarter and realising that having to restart the computer irritates people and hence questioning more closely whether or not it is necessary.

This is SOLD now

Forgot to say, this sold a while ago.

If your asset projection is to increase any time in the next few weeks I'd be happy to hold on to this for you.

That's very kind of you, but I think it will be months rather than weeks before I even consider dipping my toe in the bassy waters again.  New car and home improvements are taking their toll at the moment.

Really?  When I'm downsizing/liquidating assets?  You cad!  Otherwise, I'd be sorely tempted to buy this back off you.

Members of the band Das McManus post here don't they? 

Yes.

 

Are Das McManus shite?

No.

I'm going to be G&L-less for a while, but when I come out the other side, I'd like to get a Tribute M-2000 GTS.

Ooft, dat binding.

Sorry man, I can't multitask.

Didn't like Nirvana until In Utero and worked backwards from there.  Didn't like Radiohead until OK Computer.  Along with several bands whose names escape me which I dismissed when young simply because of the type of people I knew listened to them (stupid reason I know, but I was young and stupid) and probably now like and enjoy.

Any wooden barn in particular?

Just mind and check the drawer is empty, or you'll end up like Paw Broon and breaking yer teeth on a toy car.

Ha, superb contribution from Larsson there, although I suspect the translation of those vocal melodies is "I hate guitars"

As far as the second one goes, my favourite bit was the really slow buildup of a sound from about a minute in until 2:40 - I don't know what it is but it reminded me a bit of the sound at the end of Radiohead's "Karma Police" (after the end of the last "for a minute there I lost myself"), but less scratchy, more muted and understated, a bit like what I'd imagine some rapid fire sonar pings might sound like.  The transition from the delicate to the quite loud then back to almost nothing again was pleasing.  The role reversal of certain things being clear and prominent (guitar melody, rapid fire sonar, xylophone (?)) in preference to the vocals makes it interesting for me, and the vocals, even if they are held back a bit and had a fair amount of effects applied to them I can make out most of it if I listen hard.

The fuck is this?

If your question is serious and requiring answering - Guild X-79.  If your question was simply an incredulous rhetorical one, then no, it's nae bonnie.

I really don't understand what all the fuss is about with regard to the "scene" stuff - I didn't find anything the band said offensive.  Some of it was BS, but don't we all talk bollocks sometimes?

What is a "scene" anyway?  The word seems so superficial to me, like a fad or a whim.  I wish it was a "community" to be honest and there are times when it feels that way too - in the way that The Moorings looks like a scary place from the outside but inside everyone who's there is by and large only interested in having a pleasant evening, or attending a Laika Come Home gig where it's plain to see that a lot of love and thought has gone into what's going on - charity donations, everything runs smooth (or appears to anyhow - and that doesn't happen by accident) and there's cake for goodness sake!  Other promoters/band nights are available BTW  Not that I feel particularly part of the "scene" anyway - I'm an interested bystander who doesn't know enough of the shadowy cabal at the upper echelons to be a face/name (that's my fault and my choice - but it does make getting gigs a lot harder in my experience).

I have digressed and rambled.

The comments about the aesthetic qualities of the lass who conducted the interview/wrote the article, however - they were pretty awful.  As a child/teenager I had my aesthetic and social qualities, shall we say, called into question more times than I wish to remember.  We were just kids but to see adults still at it is disheartening.  Has nothing changed?  Has no-one grown up?  It still hurts, you know.  Sticks, stones, words, they're all the same, they just cut and bruise in different ways.  It's not "just the Internet" - words can hurt regardless of the delivery medium and it's high time people who cowardly trade in this kind of bottom of the barrel "humour" got that through their thick, multi-personalitied skulls.