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[rgmwa]

5 hours ago, willedoo said:

And one bad thing about the Gibson Les Paul guitar is that they are vulnerable to breaking the headstock off. That headstock is of the type that angles back from the guitar neck so that if they fall over backwards, there's a good chance of the head breaking off. It's a design flaw that Gibson have stuck with for some unknown reason. The problem is that the neck and head are a single carved piece of wood and is very thin in the region of the nut (the bone or plastic piece that raises the strings off the fretboard at the top end of the neck. It's a bad vulnerability considering the price of them.

 

 

I bought a Maton acoustic in 1982 and the paperwork that came with it said they used a `double cantilever' truss rod design that was unique to Maton. The rod had two kinks in it that was supposed to apply an internal upward pressure on the neck. I wrote to them, said I was a structural engineer and that their elaborate truss rod design was unnecessary and that the theory on which it was based was not optimum for what they wanted to achieve, going on to explain with diagrams how they could quite easily fix it. In due course I received a polite letter signed by Vera May herself, thanking me for my advice, but that they were happy with the design they had. She and her husband Bill established the firm. Vera died in 2022 aged 102.

 

[willedoo]

Patsy.

 

 

[ClintonB]

I didn’t film any of it, but I saw Belinda Carlisle last night.

she still can sing and move, but kiddies be warned use of hard drugs can steal your good looks in old age. 
 

[ClintonB]

Next week I am heading to Cold Chisel for the first time, hoping it is a good show. I have always enjoyed their records ( I have most on vinyl) cause it just sounds more authentic.

 

[ClintonB]

Chisel did not disappoint, excellent show and great atmosphere.

[Jerry_Atrick]

One of the greats

[onetrack]

Went and saw the Wailers play a bit of reggae on Sunday 17th November, in a local pub, the Rosemount (North Perth). They weren't too bad, but not a patch on Bob Marley and the original Wailers.

 

Then last Saturday, we went to the local Astor Theatre in Mt Lawley (built 1914, but renovated to classic Art Deco in 1939) to see Dancing in the Shadows of Motown, tribute show. Once again, not too bad, but only a shadow of the original Motown singers and bands. I was a bit disappointed that they only sang a handful of the leading classic Motown hits, and sang a lot of lesser hits.

 

In both shows, and especially at the Motown show, I was less than impressed by a lighting controller who insisted on constantly flashing the stage lights into the faces of the crowd - and not just old-style stage lights, but pulsating, dazzling LED lights. It was extremely annoying and I don't recall any shows where this happened previously.

 

SMWBO ended up feeling a little nauseated from all the dazzling and flashing, and had to get up and go outside to recover, about 20 mins before the show ended.

 

But the crowd (a good mix of young and old - and some really old people!) loved the show, and a whole heap of people got up and danced - mostly women and the girls, it seemed. The blokes must have all been too arthritic, or had two left feet.