Lezard’s Challenge……Humanity’s Challenge…..'Wild Orkney'.....
by Bernie Bell - 09:19 on 02 February 2025
“Lezard's Challenge
I’ve had a not unfruitful day, after a slow start.
First, I called one of my oldest pals on Earth, who happened to be staying in Spain. He helped me choose a bass for the hero of the Breaking Wave, Francis Wilson. Because Frank has been co-owner of a guitar shop in Brighton since 1982, I thought it would fun to give him a really cracking guitar. My pal talked me through why he’d play a Fender Jazz, rather than a Precision, gave me some key dates to look out for, and we came up with this, which would have set you back £50 new. Frank, I decided, paid £500 secondhand in 1983, and it’s worth, er, this much now.
Then I contacted top critic, man of letters and bon viveur, Nick Lezard, to see if I could virtually borrow his wonderful electric 12-string, which I remembered as a Vox, but turned out to be a Baldwin. Signed by Mr. Baldwin, it will look well around the imaginary neck of the Breaking Wave’s lead singer and second guitarist, Myles Deluxe, (as he was known in 1983).
As he handed it virtually over, Mr. Lezard told me that it was a fucker to tune, and I told him that, as I’m writing fiction, this wasn’t going to be a problem. But then it occurred to me that problematic 12-string tuning might offer a chance for some humorous business, which I told him might make a nice long footnote. Then he said, or a book. And I said, ‘yeah, one sentence long’,
And he dared me to have a go.
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IAN MARCHANT
Jan 29
Humanity’s Challenge….
https://earthlogs.org/2025/01/30/early-hominin-dispersal-in-eurasia/
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'Wild Orkney'…..
Raymond Besant In Orkney.com ……
https://www.orkney.com/news/wild-orkney-february-25
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