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Another of my heroes right there, Dave Edmunds! We do a couple of his tunes, Worn Out Suits (With Brand New Pockets), and Standing at the Crossroads Again.

I had the privilege of meeting and photographing this guy in Sydney about three years ago. He's not into all of the histrionics and pyrotechnics that so many guitar heroes are into, but maybe that's why Albert Lee has always been one of my favourite guitarists (Steve Morse and Vince Gill aren't too shabby either); he just plays the thing...

Lewis was talking about Kossie Pickett, not Farmer.

Saw him at Bluesfest a few years ago... he’s fantastic. My band sometimes covers his song China Doll. If you watch the movie ‘Chef’, he appears playing in an outdoor area surrounded in food trucks, in, I think, Austin, Texas.

Can’t help but think that this may be partially the reason Trump is refusing to attend the inauguration.

Nostradamus supposedly also had a history of getting things right... unfortunately the number of 'correct' predictions paled into insignificance against those he got wrong.

The first band that I was ever in in 1972, got to open for BT & the Aztecs at the Werribee Civic Centre (or whatever it was called) and the bastards wouldn’t let us use their PA system, so we had to hire a little Strauss system that could barely be heard 20 metres from the stage. We’d done another gig there a few weeks before that, opening for Daddy Cool and they let us go through their system and gave us a really nice mix. I have to say I wasn’t much of an Aztecs fan after that experience.

I don't think I could ever separate at least 10 Stones songs to pick one that is the best. Gimme Shelter, Factory Girl, Sweet Virginia, Sympathy For the Devil, Can't Always Get What You Want, Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, Spider & the Fly, Ruby Tuesday, Paint it Black etc etc... so many brilliant songs.

In the post above where you respond to P2J, you’re actually quoting TeamPlayedFine39’s post.

Devine intervention?

That's like watching a train wreck on an infinite loop!

I doubt that very much... as I understand it, he is relatively new to the game and was taken due to his natural athletic prowess. In some ways he is a project player, so I'd be a little surprised to see him get a game at all this year.

Can I point out that it is Bda, the correct acronym for Better days ahead. You're welcome and don't mention it. ?

Foreshortened image... Kossie is probably a few metres ahead of Farmer.

Yes OD, I’m not confident we’ll get to see safe live football in 2021, but I try to be optimistic regardless. I’m certainly not going to be putting myself at risk by attending games before I’m vaccinated.

Thanks.

Funnily enough, I'm quite confident that we will make finals (and possibly top 4) this year. Still not quite so confident that we'll get to attend many games that involve regular sized crowds; I doubt we'll see normality return until a vaccine has been distributed to the 70% or 80% (I think it is) of the population (I think that is the point at which the risk is supposedly mitigated).

Thanks mate... I'm pretty certain it's something, just what it is, I'm not yet sure. In the words of a former coach, "it is what it is". ?

Yes OD, I'm expecting that is what will happen, but if I live another 30 years on one, I've just about hit the ton, so I'm not sure I want it to be quite that effective ?

Great stuff... I see these guys (North Mississippi Allstars) at Byron Bay Bluesfest a few years ago... another brilliant, yet largely unknown, band.

Absolutely LOVE this... it's like Folsom Prison Blues (melody) on steroids! Your son's a [censored] good guitarist as well!! PS. Nothing wrong with shameless self-promotion... it's the best way to get things out there.

When you thought it couldn't get any ****tier than fires, floods and pestilence, 2020's final gift to me mid December, was a kidney stone. As it turned out, that was a backhanded blessing, as the CT scans detected a growth on the kidney, so my 2021 will begin with a biopsy and then who knows what! I'm with Diamond Jim... can we just skip forward to 2022.

Indeed it is.

Happy New Year and let's hope 2021 has a little less drama... an appropriate tune for the times:

Yet more shameless self promotion... Last Sunday (20th Dec) we (The Branch Covidians) played in an event called COGIG19, which is an online streaming festival running over a period of 19 days and aiming to set a new world record for online acts performing out of one location as a festival; achieved by the middle of the first week. It featured artists from all over the planet. This link is to a YouTube playlist of a half dozen songs, I cut from our stream and edited; hope you enjoy if you feel inclined to check them out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaAej3xGM_ZUSe8n8A5L8GXdEZaJp9KwJ