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I fucking knew that would be misconstrued as I typed it. Thats on you. Wrong 'un.

@Gemmill it's pretty decent for what it is like. Made me actually want to play a bit more often too and reminded how much I prefer a bound neck, which I've never been able to explain and thought was all in my head, but it's definitely a thing. Also thankfully won't ever need any firmware updates, the catch is replacing hardware in a semi-hollow body guitar is probably more of a ballache.

Stock pickups in this sound good to my ears, if it turns out to be a keeper and I end up upgrading anything it'll be tuning pegs and the toggle switch. Early days but it's more than pleasantly surprised me for an off-brand entry-level axe.

Aye, I'd been eyeing up the Ibanez AM53 for a good while but the prices shot up recently. This came up locally for £100 and was basically unplayed. It's more than decent, I expected to either be a total donkey or need a lot of work but all it needed was a new set of strings and a quick setup. Even the nut is cut surprisingly well. Only slight concern is the wood effect on the back is pretty orange, so it's more than a bit green white and gold. Father in-law saw it and just said "up the ra".

First guitar purchase in well over 3 years. Taking my miserliness to new extremes I've picked up a basically brand new Harley Benton for less than half of what Thomann want for them.

Guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey, and orders a beer. As he's drinking it the monkey jumps up in the pool table, picks up the cue ball and swallows it whole. Barman is raging, shouts at the man "did you see what your monkey just did?" Man shakes his head. "He just swallowed the cueball from the pool table!" Man replies "that doesn't surprise me, he eats nearly everything he sees", quickly finishes his drink and leaves. A week later he comes back to the same bar with the monkey, this time the monkey jumps up on the bar, finds a peanut and proceed to stick the peanut up it's arse, pull it back out and eat it. Barman is disgusted, shouts at the man "did you see what your monkey just did?" The man sighs "no, what did he do this time?" "It just stuck a peanut up it's arse, took it back out and swallowed it!" Man replies "that doesn't surprise me. He eats nearly everything he sees, but ever since the cue-ball he measures everything first"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65318857 Fairly decent synopsis of the Bino's plight over the last 20 years. Wish it delved a bit

Aye man, mostly agree. In this case buying the Marlboro Gold (actually asked for Reds but the useless cunts thankfully didn't stock them) wasn't the wobble, it was few days into it. I'll doubt I'll ever miss it. Still walk past folk who are obviously heavy smokers and think "Jesus fuck, did I really smell like that? That's disgusting. I fucking love it".

My nerves have been shattered this week, if my missus hadn't mentioned the alert test yesterday it might have tipped me over the edge today as I genuinely wasn't aware of it otherwise. In somewhat related news, Im not even ashamed to admit I had a bit of a wobble and finally caved after three and a half months (not that I've been counting) off the fags and bought 20 on Tuesday. Ten smokes later all was well by Friday, which is quite decent since I was a 30-a-day guy until Jan.

What the actual fuck? I just put the telly on at 32 minutes in. 😂

Stag is offside, if it's a Hind it would onside. From what I believe this distinction is how Brora Rangers managed put Hearts out of the Scottish Cup.

Highland league was also an interesting one today. First and second in a decider, glad to see Brechin came out on top but equally glad there now no chance the Bino's will have to deal with lengthy delays in play when the ball get stuck in the legendary Brechin City Hedge next season.

It's a fucking strange town tbf. Half the cunts here will proudly boast about winning battles in 1297 and 1314 while flying massive Union Jacks in their garden. Fan owned club though, which was cool for a while but turned into the shitshow we all should've known it would be from the off.

What a glorious Saturday. Stirling Albion only needed a point today to seal promotion to the third tier but somehow managed to get 3 against the run of play. 'mon the Bino's! All that said, the smart money is already on us to get relegated next season btw. I'm already looking around for a price to ease the inevitable pain this time next year.

Look like right shred machines with that 14" radius. I'd look like a right twat playing one with my shit picking hand.

Me and the missus had a listen last night (actually might have been Saturday). First few songs didn't grab me and felt a bit Metallica-by-numbers but it really picked up pace wherever Lux Eterna was on the tracklisting. I fair enjoyed it tbh, Hetfield on form and some great riffs and choruses, even if a lot of was bit predictable. Only real complaints I can remember drunk me having were some of Kirk's leads sounded like he phoned them in and it all went a bit Annihilator without the self-awareness at points. I'll give it another listen through sometime but it felt like a bit of a marathon. Fuck me do they know how to drag out a riff. Bit gutted there's nothing on the album that ties in with bridge in Atlas Rise.

Dissapointed with the lack of chat here around Stirling Albion being 9 points clear in the Scottish 4th tier, Hibs winning the Edinburgh derby and Celtic having to play on an artificial pitch. It's almost like we're watching entirely different sports.

Nice one @Tom. Hope youse smash it and end up too big to play the 13th Note in September. Btw, if any of you were ever into that Freidman/Becker and Malmsteen-esque Neo-Classical shred thing, I'd recommend checking out Eduardo Taddei. Caught him last night and don't think I've ever seen cleaner or more precise sweep picking and legato runs. I'd normally write that kinda stuff off as "load of wank, clearly playing to a click track" bollocks but somethings different with this guy. He's only 23 but I'd already put him somewhere between Jeff Waters and Paul Gilbert on the virtuoso scale.

Oh ya beauty. Dumbarton dropped more points. Hate to say I told you so, but the Scottish 4th tier run-in is really looking box-office. Bino's inexplicably had 1500 turn up for the potential 6 pointer on Saturday but created nothing in open play and somehow got away with a point. Automatic promotion still on the cards for both. 'mon the Bino's.

Maybe nothings wrong with the Spanish national team and Steve Clarke and John Carver are true football geniuses. 😆 That said, Iago Aspas being the go-to sub for the Spain national team chasing a game at a raucous Hampden isnt a great look. No offense to him, he's clearly a far better player than he showed during his time in England but he doesn't strike me as a big game player that can handle the pressure of of being in a side that's expected to win. Mental Tuesday night. Think it's been 30 years since Scotland beat Spain and on paper we had no right to change that tonight. Clarkeball for the win. He's a football genius, our Steve.

Yeah I get it. Since I'm currently without a speaker cabinet I've found myself mostly just plugging into my laptop and using vst amps when I'm messing about. Pedalboard is only get used when I'm testing stuff I've built. On a sidenote, I just discovered how easy it to use an android device as a midi controller. Feel like an absolute moron to have only just thought about it now.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually exactly the same circuit just from looking at the controls. Just with smd components to get it to fit in the small enclosure.

@Tom £150 including shipping (from the other side of the world) for a Dr Robert clone if yer other guitar player is still looking at them. https://reverb.com/item/65865711?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=65865711

Sorry @Tom. Hate to admit it but some pedals might be worth £300 after all (ah fuck, I don't even recognise myself here). Not that I'm ever paying that like, I'm still being a miserly prick and dragging the arse out of looking for a new cab. The locally listed1912 has had no takers and the asking price has dropped but I'm still preferring the look of the HB V30. Only thing stopping me is the thought I could save £40 by holding off another week or so (there we go, Im back to myself again).

Aye, either he's played a really long epic troll with that Kemper thing or he's just woke up one morning and felt the overwhelming urge to fuck with the cork sniffing gear snobs that follow him. Either way, great patter. I'll need to confess when I first heard of JHS pedals I just assumed it was the John Hornby Skewes branding again, so my first impression of Josh was "who the fuck is this guy?". Really quite impressive how he's made such a success of his pedal company and channel while his main message has always basically been "you really don't need any of this. It's all in the hands. Practice more".