For the benefit of the readers of this forum in the United Kingdom, would someone mind explaining the 'safety' phenomenon? Thanks.

Saab 9000, very reliable, lots of room, cheap.

I disable HTML rendering in my email client because i hate it. If you can't say it in plain text don't bother as far as I'm concerned.

Of course, miserable bastards like me are probably not your target audience.

Stewart Copeland, you dicks. Without him a lot of drummers would sound very different. In a bad way.

As subject, anyone here use/used a Neve Capricorn desk? Just got some non-technical usability questions on how you worked day-to-day on it. Any other pointers for somewhere else to ask would be gratefully received!

Does anyone know if SA's answers on this kind of question are from memory, or does he have organised session notes/track sheets to hand?

Beat me to it! I was going to suggest the big chunky Neutrik locking jack too.. If you really love the guitar screw one of those beasts in, and the problem is permanently solved. I use those dimarzio 'cliplok' straps for the same reason.

I really love AC/DC. I love that all of the songs are in A or D, mostly 4/4, and each album is exactly the same as the one before it.

I dislike almost all dance music.

I can't justify the above, and am very comfortable with not wanting to devote the time to do so.

I have an old SM57, and I think it sounds great right up against a guitar cab, slightly off-axis, and about 1/3rd of the way in from the edge of the cone. It takes a fair bit of moving about to find the sweet spot, but I really like the sound.

Having said that that, I'm going more and more for ...