Rick_B

4 hours ago, Eric Cuntman said:

It was a tad more entertaining in the old days when you could observe the queen mum and Margaret getting progressively worse for wear after an afternoon of 'trooping the gin'.

13 hours ago, Albert Ross said:

I think he's a very competent presenter. So what about his parents' (and his) beliefs and origin? Also Ms Minchin is a very competent presenter and very attractive.

I agree.

Maybe it's my imagination, but I suspect he fancies the pants off Louise Minchin.

4 hours ago, White van man said:

They don't need to attract viewers like other channels do. Their moneys guaranteed (theft tax). That's why they can have ugly cunts presenting. Would anyone watch Countdown if it wasn't for Rachel Riley?

On the other hand BBC breakfast TV has been consistently more successful than ITV,  despite ITV throwing a lot of money at high profile presenters.

Trying to look rock an d roll street cred isn't easy when your real name is Brian.

Turns out she doesn't even have a car herself.

He is easily the most influential British guitarist ever, inspiring loads of bands including the Beatles. When you listen to his early 60s stuff the purity of his guitar tone ,especially considering the basic technology back then, is astounding.

9 hours ago, Punkape said:

So you’re saying it’s ok to be a depraved pervert because there are awful people on the Jeremy Kyle show.

Did I use the term depraved pervert? I would have if that's what I thought of them, but I didn't because I don't.

It's wrong, simple as that.

So what are you saying? That a child who has two same sex parents who actually care for him/her would be better off with the kind of dysfunctional monsters who populate The Jeremy Kyle show,  just because they are opposite sex and therefore that's automatically better and "normal"?

Not seen them for ages, can you still get them?

Just now, camberwell gypsy said:

As ever Rick, yet another fascinating post. Can't you post more often? 

Less is more.

18 hours ago, Eric Cuntman said:

Absolutely, his guitar playing, combined with an on form Lynott vocal was a recipe for sublime greatness. Was the out of phase Les Paul a result of 1 or 2 pickups being mistakenly replaced upside down?

There has been a lot of speculation about this guitar. Clearly the neck pickup is the wrong way round, but that wouldn't cause the out of phase effect, but wiring it backwards would. I've simulated this with a second-hand Vintage V100 Les Paul copy I bought off eBay. The positioning of the volume controls is very important, bridge on about 8. neck on about 7 works for me. People who saw Peter in the early days said he would often make small adjustments to the volume controls during solos, bringing the out of phase sound in and out.

Most probably what happened with his guitar is that the magnet was replaced upside down so it's magnetically out of phase with the bridge pickup. He insists he didn't modify the guitar at all though,  it was like that when he bought it.

1 hour ago, Eric Cuntman said:

Gary Moore. One of the greats that's always been overlooked. Would you agree?

Absolutely, I saw him play live a couple of times and that guy could make a guitar talk. He also managed to channel Peter Green at his finest, in fact he almost became obsessed with Peter and bought the famous "out of phase" Les Paul guitar.

He's alright, his distinctive sound is very much part of U2. I'm not sure he qualifies as "guitar genius" though. I've never tried a  Bond Electraglide, but here's a clip of a "Great Female Guitarist" playing one. She's OK, but I'm not sure about great. What I do know is that it's a guitar sound I would never ever want to use.

I'm cynical about carbon fibre/plastic/metal alloy etc guitars. I played with a bass player who used a Vigier carbon fibre bass. Now it was an extremely well made instrument, as it should have been for the price, but it had very little depth, it just sort of went donk donk donk. I hated the sound of the bloody thing.

3 hours ago, Wolfie said:

It pains me to award you a 'like' for this, Arsehole, but I can't disagree with the crux of your argument. Rather like Price's also-vapid ex-partner Andre, people who use their kids to attract attention for the purpose of notoriety leading to income are beneath contempt. As you say (albeit similarly to an angry teenager), if those in the public eye wish to protect their children, don't parade them in front of the media.

I agree. Nevertheless I don't think a disabled 15 year old child is a suitable subject for online abuse or ridicule.

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Nice reference, 'we are going to win this'

A longer sentence yes but not comparable to that of a white bloke driving into a crowd of defenceless muslims would have received.

Not really sure how you come to that conclusion, it's just speculation.

Apart from the real hardcase Hell's Angels, bikers were never really that scary. For years we had a "biker's pub" in town and although some of them may have looked a bit hard it was one of the safest pub to be in, especially at the weekend. 

I'm not happy about Warboys being released so early either. Nevertheless I'm also not happy about someone remaining in prison because of a tabloid paper mounting a campaign. However important newspapers think they are, and part of their job is to expose injustice, trial by tabloid should not be something we tolerate.

Sorry, I think they're funny.

Sorry, I find them funny.

On 1/25/2018 at 8:02 PM, Albert Ross said:

Have you met him?

I don't think many people have described him as a nice bloke, but that's not the point. I imagine that after a couple of lines and a few shandies he was the person sat in the corner of the bar that your mates warned you to stay well clear of.

9 hours ago, Wolfie said:

They were a good band but something tells me you'd walk around with a bush stuck up your arse if it was in vogue, Rick.

I'm not really sure that The Fall are or were ever "in vogue". They are just The Fall and a bit like Marmite you either love them or hate them.

He was a one off was Mark E Smith. He reportedly hired and fired around 60 members of The Fall. In reality he was The Fall, in fact he's on record as saying if it's me and your granny on bongos, it's The Fall. This is Totally Wired, enjoy.

Boris is an idiot. People who take the bollox he spouts seriously are even bigger idiots. It's just self-promotion. He knows that The Maybot hasn't got the balls to sack him because she shot herself in the foot and allowed Corbyn's Labour Party to take her majority because the opinion polls were predicting a Tory landslide.

23 hours ago, Cuntybaws said:

"In four billion years, the Sun will collapse but Voyager will still be travelling."

And you still wont be able to get a seat on the nasty rattly little plastic units.