Booked my first river cruise....can't go on a cruise-cruise because I have near terminal seasickness. Going to Vienna, Budapest and Salzburg. Over a year to wait though....booked early so we got a cabin each at no extra cost.
My mother in law did a river cruise in China and thoroughly enjoyed it.... you'll get some time in those beautiful cities too.
My friend and I would have loved the China cruise, but a trip that far is beyond me now. Never was a good traveller, but now impossible. It's Europe from now on.
I never saw the real full Floyd live sadly, so have had to "make do" with DG (I can't stand Waters so fall on the Gilmour side every time). That sounds like an incredible show though! Best thing about the above gig at the Albert Hall was Bowie coming on as a guest and doing Comfortanly Numb - I nearly fell off my seat!
You can judge for yourself Fats (in all honesty it's different more than good seeing Bowie do it.....but it's Bowie ffs....)
Glad he's ok, Roy - but it looks unbelievable. Frightening doesn't do it justice ........... It'll take a long time to get over this I imagine. I can't begin to think of the suffering there must still be there.
Wow. And that's for DG's part in it rather than Bowie's, which wasn't spectacular. Quite a coup to get him there though, as it was David Crosby and Graham Nash. I've heard that guitar solo played by all sorts of people, some of them very good, some terrible, but there's only one David Gilmour. Breathtaking.
Normally, I've never been one for these anthem style tunes, and it was a bit because of that that I went right right off Pink Floyd. I ended up preferring their earlier stuff much more simply because it was much rawer and experimental, and it had life to it. Floyd's later material can sound very dirge-like at times, if you're not in an accommodating mood. However, Dave Gilmour has undoubtedly always known how much to play the guitar. He hardly ever plays too many notes. And as they say, it's what you leave out that is the magic. I'd still take something like Granchester Meadows or The Narrow Way over any of that though. He's probably the guitar on those anyway.
Mains plugs are 230 volts but my car phone charger says 10 volts so maybe they're 10? I wonder how that works. I'll find out when I start college in Sept #maturestudent
Ha.! Was only in Screwfix this morning looking for a dimmer switch to fit during a job and flicked passed the USB equipped mains sockets. They obviously have little step down transformers and circuitry in them to take off the tiny voltage required. Cute. Wonder if one could send a network signal through them..!?!** **Hmm, never thought of that before. Something to consider.
Well he's not considered a fast fingers player, is he. There's quite a few guitarists, mainly American, who like to play that fast fingering way, and more often than not it bores the living daylights out of me because there's no tension or emotion in the music. It's just technique, and that palls very quickly.
