Rudi

19th Nervous Breakdown - Rolling Stones

Wake up little Suzie – Everly Bros

plastick? wossat then? I wouldnt mind a go at this meself. In 3 rooms of the house, I can turn the lights on & off using my toes. While brushing my teeth, I can put on my socks, boxers, trousers, shirt & shoes without pause.

Gomorrah - JG Band

Ah ha! Got a train set have you Steve?

Catfood - King Crimson

When Im Cleaning Windows - George Fornby

"The Dam Busters March" by Eric Coates

January Man – Bert Jansch

King Harvest Has Surely Come – The Band

Happy - Rolling Stones (Roy O's 'In Dreams' is great )

Throwing Stones – Grateful Dead

Lovely. It held me all the way through til the last line. For me though, it falls at the finish line. nothing wrong with the sentiment or idea of line 14, just the word 'quite' jars with me somehow. `Quite the dancer' seems out of kilter with the rest of the sonnet. With that exception, it is beautiful.

Sweet Black Angel – Rolling Stones

Sounds like a Floyd Rose system. Even if you replace with the same gauge strings you are quite likely to lose the set-up because the bridge needs to remain in the same position as the strings are changed. In future, change one string at a time and tune it immediately so that all strings are at the correct tension. Do this for all 6 strings. ONE AT A TIME. Never remove or detune all the strings at once. The buzzing on the low E & D strings: I had a similar problem on a Charvette I used to have. I used steel shims to build up the height of the nut at selected positions under the strings . Shims are thin sheet steel cut to size & shape with tin-snips. I used thin slivers directly under the troublesome strings at the nut. This is more expediant than changing or modifying the nut. If you have no access to sheet steel (it comes in .002" , .004" etc up to ,020" - these are thousanths of an inch. The same as string gauges are), I would suggest tightly coiling up your old guitar strings & cutting them to size for the same purpose. I have not tried this, its just an idea. I would try to coil the strings around the tip of long nosed pliers. It may prove tricky because the coils will want to move when you dont want them too. Shim can be had at milling & turning machine shops (industrial). Maybe a local college or evening class group would be a source. Ask for a small piece of .002". ,004" & .008". It shouldnt cost much. You can build up the layers to the required height with these; ie: use ,002" & ,004" together to make .006" thick spacers. Dont leave too much hanging out or you may cut your fingers. If you dont use the trem much, remove the back plate from the back of guitar body & you can cut a block of wood to fit snugly between the floating bridge & the forward (closert the neck) section of the guitar body. Even if you use the trem, you can use this when you change strings to stop the bridge losing its position. Your heavier gauge strings will increase the string tension markedley, bending the bridge forward towards the neck slightly more. You will find these strings more resistant to string bends too. Let us know how you get on. Good Luck.

A Day in the Life 6.00am: Rise with the untitled tune in D minor running through head. Briefly wonder why bathroom mirror light is on. Recall that the toothbrush is plugged in there because I left shaving adaptor at beloveds. Shave. Brush teeth while loading carrots into briefcase. Climb onto scales. Only ½ lb lost this week. Dress & run mental checklist before leaving house. Phone, wallet, ID badge, briefcase, keys. 6.30am: It’s still dark. Leave house, get car out of garage, head for work. Listen to 'The Wasps' Incidental Music by Vaughan Williams. At the end of Swivleton Lane (a farm road) discover flashing blue lights at the T-junction. There’s a cherry picker, ambulance & other sundry vehicles & the road is blocked. Do 9 point turn in road, and take detour. 7.00am: Arrive at work dead on time. Complain to colleagues. Put kettle on. Read e-mails. Wake up. Consume breakfast bar with tea. 8.00am: Meeting. It’s a familiar litany. Project leader: `What’s the engineering status for the Isolator?’ and we all solemnly intone “material…”. 9.00am: Look for WIP material. 9.40am: Fail to find WIP material. Make phone calls. Follow up with e-mails. 9.45am: Receive text from beloved. Reply. Make cup of tea. 10.08am: Phone St. James Hospital to check how mum is this morning. She slept well and has managed breakfast without choking. 10.20am: Look for WIP material 11.15am: Fail to find WIP material Check pedometer. I have walked 3334 steps & covered 1.57 miles. 11.20am: Return to office. Answer E-mails. Make phone calls. 12.00pm: Lunch time: Leave site and walk along the beach for 30 minutes. 3024 further steps done. 12.30pm: Lunch: carrots, tomatoes, radishes, multi-grain crispbread with marmite. Apple, passion fruit. 12.45pm: Assist machine shop 3.00pm: Return to office. Put kettle on. Drink decaf tea. 4.30pm: Clock out. Drive home. Listen to more Vaughan Williams. Swivleton Lane now clear. 4.55pm: Garage car. Check for post; none. 5.00pm: Prepare food for dinner. Open bottle of wine. 5.25pm: Dine on grilled pork, spinach, asparagus, jalapenos & noodles. 6.00pm: Put kettle on. Wash dishes. 6.00pm: Turn on TV. Watch news. Drink decaf coffee. 6.50pm: Phone: Report in to beloved. Turn off TV. 7.20pm: Play Spanish guitar: Improvise in D harmonic minor & Dorian mode (in 2/4 as Vaughan Williams Wasps) Play through ‘Flamingo’ x 3, ‘The Entertainer’. Play around with untitled tune in D minor. Improvise cross key in 11/12 Try to play theme to ‘Whose Line is it Anyway’. Got about 30% wrong 8.30pm: Turn on TV, catch the end of ‘Top Gear’. Play major scales only as James May conducts a road test. 9.00pm: Put guitar away in case. Go for walk on the foreshore. 9.25pm: Return home. Check pedometer. Total of 8459 steps done today. Text beloved. 9.30pm: Pour glass of wine. Put on DVD: Michael Woods In Search of Myths & Heros - ‘the Queen Of Sheba’. 9.40pm: Take medication. 10.30pm: Stopper wine (one glass left). Turn off TV & DVD. Relax & think 11.20pm: Retire to bed. Fall asleep with untitled D minor tune in head.

Get Happy - Ella Fitzgerald

Louisianna - Randy Newman.

Hello from Portsmouth UK Jay.

Half Step Mississippi Uptown Toodleoo - Grateful Dead

Oh Atlanta - Little Feat

This is news to me. Never heard of it. Our band regularly plays charity gigs, but pay the venue manager? My response to that is another biblical quote: "Go forth & Multiply".

Redneck - Randy Newman

'You Aint Seen Nothin Yet' - Bachman Turner Overdrive (Millers & Turners = machinists)

Heres a Bass I am working on.