Fish Out of Water is a good record; lots of strident orchestration with the bass guitar high in the mix. Mel Collins and Bill Bruford are nice additions to the backing band, and Squire’s lyrics are a pleasant change to Jon Anderson’s impenetrable writing.

Thanks for the heads up, 1batfastard. I’ve seen bits and pieces of the acoustic Yes material, but I tend to view it the same way as the orchestral Yes material. For me, the solid Yes albums are with Eddie Offord sitting behind the mixing desk.

Can’t say it would concern me overmuch if a few were wiped out by an out-of-control airframe (as long as the pilot was watching safely from his chute). It would upset me if a pilot ended up in the morgue because a safe force landing spot was thronged by people with better lenses.

I’m sure I read of such an incident, possibly involving a Spitfire. The pilot was surprised to see people milling around on the stretch of runway they had planned to land on.

Is it really such an issue ?

There were a good number of punters in the field Don Bullock crashed that A26 into at Biggin. If a similar scenario presented itself today and, heaven forbid, a spectator were to be struck or killed then you would see more draconian measures at airshows.

As per the comments about freeloader’s cars, a lot of their camera gear looks top dollar as well. The obvious irony being that if everybody freeloaded then aircraft would be displaying to an empty field with everybody squashed up against the perimeter fence, stepladders and telephoto lenses in tow.

I was very saddened to hear this. 67 seems much to young, especially for such a larger than life character. A consummate musician who gave the bass guitar an authoritative voice and moved it away from the dull secondary role typical of most ’60s music. Chris treated his Rickenbacker like a chamber instrument, and I cannot see how Yes will be able to continue without him.

I expect that all the many tens of thousands of forum supporters will join me in raising a glass in celebration to this custodian of right wing values.

Tens of thousands of forum supporters? :highly_amused: I count about ten. You, Lincoln and Charlie **** appear to have chased the rest away. :applause:

The worst men’s dress faux pas ? Formal suit and tie worn with colourful trainers ! Seen in London last week; not once, but several times.

I sometimes do this, but only when I’m out of the office and travelling too and from work. For one thing it keeps the wear down on my brogues and is a little more comfortable. Women do the same thing!

The image in the first post needs those balloons to ‘work’. My eyes were first drawn to the white cliffs themselves, but in the context of the War this is hardly the most interesting image. Without the balloons you have a stark image of the cliffs, some antenna and some haze/smoke. None of that tells us anything. The balloons add a sense of urgency to an otherwise ambiguous image.

I thought the Trade of being a Cobbler, went out years ago, I know or local one did, he stated it was cheaper to by new shoes these days, than to get a pair of shoes, Soled and heeled.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

There has been something of a revival in owning good shoes. I’ve stumbled upon a couple of new (surprisingly high-end) Cobblers online. One of them made several blog posts in which he brought a worn out set of brogues back from the brink of death. If the leather is in good condition then good shoes can keep going on and on. To counter this, the last pair of brogues I purchased from Clarks had heavily cracked leather and had been sprayed with lacquer rather than polished. They looked good for a week. I had to strip them with acetone, re-dye them and then apply coats of saddle oil to get them waterproof (they changed colour when it rained as the cracks took in water).

People like cheap stuff, but buying new shoes all the time can get boring.