😆 If I’d tried English, I meant “too many of my band have hands full with young kids. Wish I were gigging; good luck with yours”

but I never type straight 🙂 Also, I just modified your text a little, 601, just to keep the offence police off our back. I doubt if it would’ve bothered any of us regulars, but GS (last time I looked) tries to keep it F, C and S, free so’s the youngsters can look in. Hope you don’t mind me interfering like that.

Easyjet don’t do Liverpool-The Delta yet so I can’t be there, but have an excellent gig, 601 and tell us about it soon after. It’d be nice to hear about some gigs. All I do is sit and perlunk with the guitarist while the other guys in the band are busy breastfeeding 😥

My current guitarist does occasionally, 601, usually on a normal solid electric although he has a cheapish resonator (don’t think I’ve ever heard him use it 😯 ). We have a song we call “BeckWeiser” because of the slide over a repetitive, Beck-like bass line. My previous lead guitarist in sub rosa was fond of it (again, on a Strat) and used it to good effect combined with a Wah pedal.

Weirdest of all was this guitar playing poet barmyhead who got involved with some of our gigs. He’d borrow Jason’s Strat and (while he looked on nervously) played it with a butter knife handle and a screwdriver blade while spouting on about “Blandland Refugees”. Robb Stacey – that was the guy. He did that in the interval, then joined us for a last song so I held the tempo back while he did his thing then, after he finished, slowly wound it up (the drummer actually cottoned on, for once – or maybe drummers just naturally speed up anyway 🙂 ) to normal pace and we did our song.

Because the place was full of Art and Fashion students, it went down like a bomb. Very avante-guarde. It’s a pity the bottleneck isn’t tried out more often and in different settings.