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And here's Candida

http://www.e-chords.com/chords/tony-orl … wn/candida

Jerry

Awesome, can't wait for it to arrive!

Jerry

Hi Ian

It was released on Monday, Amazon and Waterstones are selling it at half price!

Jerry

Hi Pete

PM sent

Jerry

Pete my friend, you have my sympathies. If I were you I'd buy the Gibson because I know that I'd be sitting at home with anyting else thinking, "I should have bought the Gibson, why didn't I buy the Gibson?". Saying that I have a very understanding wife, who indulges me in my "toy" purchases, the last of which was an £8500 BMW motorcycle!

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to purchase a 72 Reissue Japanese Tele and I brought a friend along who was looking for a Strat. He had a £500 budget so was looking Mexican. After a couple of hours of playing different Strats he settled on a £1000 worth of US Standard. His explanation was that he'd be sitting at home playing and thinking, "it's great, but it's not American". Of course his 10 year old son who was with us had to be bribed into NEVER telling mummy how much this guitar cost with the promise of daddys old Cort. How happy is Jeff? Delirious.

Do it Pete, just buy the bloody thing, play the living daylights out of it and enjoy. It doesn't matter whether you're Clapton or Clapped out, if you open the case and it makes you smile it's worth it. You only live once my friend and owning a Gibson is a lifetime relationship. In years to come you'll be glad you did it and without meaning to be morbid it'll be a nice little investment to leave to your kids!

Jerry

Really? You think so? I suspect we've barely scratched the surface.

If you were to only take those 12 notes with no note repeated there are 8,916,100,448,256 possible permutations of those 12 notes, (calculation is 12 to the power of 12). That's just using each note once leaving none out, use each note twice in a 24 note sequence and its 12 to the power of 24!!!!! You do the math. Now, while I can't prove it and I have no idea how to calculate it, I suspect that there may be an infinite number of ways to arrange those 12 notes as theoretically a song doesn't have to end! Any mathemeticians available? That's of course assuming that we only use the notes available in standard notation and stay within a single octave and don't use any of the stuff used in Asian or Arabic music that has notes that fall in to the gaps between our tones!

As for whether the music produced these days is good or bad, I think there's plenty of rubbish but there's also plenty of good stuff too. Some of this is down to the fact that there's more accessible music about. Before the advent of the internet bands had to convince a record company to back them and that took talent and commitment. These days you chuck a few tracks onto Myspace and you have access to most of the planet and we have to work our way through the dirge to get to the good stuff. Like many earlier posters I'm a child of the 60's and I was weaned on Led, Deep Purple, Sabbath, Hendrix etc but there's plenty of newer stuff I like and I've found that as I've got older my musical tastes have broadened and now I'll listen to anything from rock, blues, jazz, classical, pop, country, I'll even admit to a liking for opera!
I certainly don't believe your tastes should be limited by generation and I don't believe that bands have got worse, however they may have moved a particular genre on. A good example of this is Muse who while many believe to be Queen resurrected, have move the genre on. Matt Bellamy is an exceptionally talented musician whichever way you dice it and I love they they've fused Chopin into the last album.

Saying that I do believe that whoever invented rap should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Jerry

Good post, excellent advice.

Jerry

Of course, most of you will know Newton Faulkner but this was in 2004 and he's playing with a mate of mine Pete Cranham. Check out Pete as he plays the drums AND the bass AT THE SAME TIME!!! Very talented man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-uBMXqV2Kk

Jerry

The Japanese Tokai's are particularly good and reasonably priced, and while I've never tried one Fenix guitars made by Korean masterbuilder Young Chang are supposed to be superb.

Jerry

I'd recommend going with Boss for effects. They're bullet proof and among the best in the business, I have an ME50 multi effects unit that I picked up off ebay for about £100. I think it's now been superceded by the ME70 but it's a great unit. Check out their website for the full specs.

Jerry

My love of books has been with me since childhood and began with Wind in the Willows which my father made me read during school summer holidays, (Mrs Buzzwagon refers to me as Toad!), and I'll read pretty much anything but:

I love anything by James Clavell but especially Tai Pan and Noble House.

Roddy Doyle has written some classic Irish comedies.

Like many, all the Hitchhikers books

Anything by Terry Pratchett

I love history books and I'm currently reading a book called "The Last of the Few" about those that fought in the Battle of Britain.

Up next, and delivered this morning by Amazon, "The Defence of the Realm. The Authorised History of MI5" by Christopher Andrew.

Jerry

Cam, can you see the sense in paying obsene amounts of money to footballers, basketball players, rock stars, investment bankers etc etc?

It is said the the monarch is chosen by God and the history of accession is not only ancient, but incredibly convoluted and really too complex to go into here, (lots of blood and gore, a civil war, several claimants etc etc, all the usual stuff really). However, amongst other things the monarch is also the head of the Church of England, (Defender of the Faith), and Head of the Commonwealth. The money that the Royals bring into the British economy as a result of tourism alone more than justifies the expense a fact that thankfully the majority of those fortunate enough to be born British, and therefore in a position to voice an opinion, recognise. In terms of attracting foreign investment their value is incalculable, Prince Andrew for example is a great ambassador for British business, it's a shame the same can't be said for Prince Philip who has an incredible history of committing faux pas but then he is Greek. Ok Edward is a bit of a waste of space but every family's got one and Princess Anne has more balls than all the boys put together, (not to mention an Olympic medal).

As for being broke, as an earlier poster has already said, if the Queen's broke I'll take some of that please!

The problem with giving the Government responsibility for the upkeep of some of the greatest buildings in Britain, (in fact for pretty much anything these days), would be that they would undoubtedly become run down and would eventually fall into complete disrepair as costs were slashed and slashed again to pay for more homes for the terminally afraid of work, more investment in the H and S executive and more money poured into the corrupt and seemingly wholly unaccountable banking system, not to mention of course our equally corrupt and unaccountable politicians.

As an Englishman and a Royalist to me the Queen is untouchable, like Winston Churchill, the 1966 football World Cup Winners, the 2003 rugby World Cup winners, real ale, the Spitfire, the Few, custard, roast beef and yorkshire pudding and the great British fry up.

Jerry