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I used to drink tap water, but now I only drink 'Peckham Spring' bottled water.

Careful with wearing contacts for longer than recommended. The cornea needs to absorb oxygen directly from the air. Some contacts let oxygen through and some don't if you wear the non-permeable ones for too long you'll mess up your eyes.

I've allways got a Bad Monkey on and a Tech 21 Bass Compactor. The Bass Compactor is widely derided as a noisy POS, but I like it :)

Same here. For strings it's standard Roto 77's. For picks it's best to try all different kinds and see what you like. That's harder to do with strings because they're too expensive to buy 10 different sets in one go, just to throw most of them away. I used to think you should use the...

It's an interesting subject. This interview with Ned Steinberger touches on it. http://www.nedsteinberger.com/inside-ns/interviews.php From what he says it seems there's an an inverse relationship for volume. Acoustic volume is energy being drawn from the string to produce the sound. You need...

Fender VI? Invalid Link Removed They're normally tuned E to E (Octave lower than guitar). Getting strings for lower tunings might be a problem, could be worth starting a thread asking If someone's tuning one of these B to C.

Fill and redrill is the best way. If you can't be bothered with that dip a couple of matchsticks in PVA wood glue and drop them in. Then screw the part in. You should end up with mashed up matchstick and glue setting to fill the gap. To repeat. It's probably best to just fill and drill. Can't...

You'll get much more useful responses if you tell us what you want to do with the amp. Are you going to be playing in bands with it, or is it for home practice use? What sort of music do you mostly play? If you're in a band what's the set up? i.e. 1 or 2 guitars etc.

And then you started building speaker cabs? :) I'm guessing shagging means something different in the states. In the UK that statement would mean that you'd spent the afternoon enjoying -- to the fullest extent -- the company of several lady friends :)

Where's your thumb when you're playing past the 12th fret? I have small hands, and my thumb is towards the top of the neck in the lower positions, and as I move up the neck it moves towards the middle of the neck and by the time I get to the 12th position it is actually sticking out quite far...

He'd been lead vocalist on a UK no. 3 single with Hawkwind. Were Hawkwind not big in the states?

You can't do ABRSM grades on electric bass (do you play double bass?) The Rockschool stuff counts for UCAS points [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] As does the Trinity College London stuff http://trinityrock.trinitycollege.co.uk/instruments/bass/grade8 They've got some Jaco in their syllabus...

The various copies of Brian May's 'Red Special' tend towards a wide nut width (around 45 mm) but I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much. It can vary a bit, my dad had an old vox teardrop with a very tight string spacing, but both Fender and Gibson (and their derivatives) have a reasonable...

All my current bands stuff is on here. I'm also slowly adding a load of old stuff, so at the minute the newest stuff is the oldest stuff http://soundcloud.com/gavinspoon

I don't disagree with any of that. Get fit, stay fit and everything's easier.