New car for BG!!

Hey Molly!

This one's for you!

Picture taken from:
http://jakesgeneralstore.com/Carpages/68%20black%20Charger%20RT/68rta.jpg

First Moll, and now Bex....

..... prodding me to update my teeny weeny bit of blogland!! Well, I do have some news I suppose...


First of all, I handed in my notice on October 2nd, and I'm actually looking forward to leaving the company, but not all the friends I have worked with over the past 2 years. A shame, but hey, a job popped up that suits me better, and pays a helluva lot more money!! I will be (as of Monday 6th Nov) working for a large pharmaceutical company. (Next door to High Wycombe's John Lewis store Bex!! I'll keep an eye out for the lovely blonde-haired box-shaped-headed lady in a GTI!!!)

I am trying to persuade my parents to let me buy a new car, that's actually 36 years old!! I am looking at a 1970 Dodge Charger R/T with the 440 ci (cubic inches) V8 (7.2 litres for you Brits and Continental types!!) Only trouble is, it's 2 inches wider than our garage, and about 3 feet longer. Hmmm.... anyone fancy helping me with some banging and grinding to slip it inside?!
Delbut will probably shake his head in shame if he reads the previous sentence!!

Also finally looking to get some new amplifiers and cabinets for my bass. Ultimate rig would include the Bag End ELF (Extended Low Frequency) integrator - it produces freqs so low, you feel the bass rather than hear it!!! Co-incidentally, it was partly developed by Ron Wickersham, the guy who helped found Alembic Instruments, makers of John's Boris bass guitars. My amps will be either:
1 David Eden WT-800 stereo amp (400 Watts per side), with Eden 4x10" and 1x15" cabs.
2 Alembic F1-X mono pre-amp into a QSC PLX series amp, driving EA cabs.

Both seriously pricey, but good gear shows up crap techniques quicker than anything else!!!


Sad news in my world is my best friend at work losing her baby girl after 4 days of life. An undetected heart defect was found and operated on after birth, but she didn't make it through.

Happier news is the abdominalpain I've had for the last year has been diagnosed and treated, and won't require any medical probing from any direction to find the problem. Mighty relieved about that!!!

Happier still will be next week when I leave on the 2nd, I'm going to see Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings at Wycombe Swan, and will be out on the town the Friday evening (3rd).

Hope to see you friends and colleagues who peer in and don't comment out on the town with me 5:45 sharp in O'Neill's!!! of course, all bloggers are welcome to come along and join the show!!
I haven't touched the liquor since July; at least it saves me vocal chords from drying out, if I'm suddenly called upon to sing ' Jerusalem', 'Nessun Dorma' or 'Land of Hope and Glory'!! It's been a long time since I've sung opera, and I only did standard backing vocals with the band at univeristy.

Take care people, and hope to see some of you out on the tiles, supporting me home...


...well to the comfort of the bus shelter anyway!!!


Ben R