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For at least two decades, the pros in Nashville played through Deluxe Reverbs and the pros on the West Coast played through Princetons. It h...

  The title speaks for the photos. One day I will take black-and-white photos in the rain under a dark grey sky and then I will be a real ph...

A history of art for non-professionals should be about the professional lives of the artists, what their works were, why we should be intere...

Hello little box, how are you? Do you want to go upstairs? Let's go into the Music Room. Here you are.  What's that inside? Oh ...

  The Met Office said it would be sunny with the odd cloud all day, but it turned out like this for most of the morning. However, the clouds...

I'm pretty sure that Mick Jagger was not setting out an approach to purchasing equipment when he wrote the immortal lines You can'...

(Edited 20/9/2025: In the original version, I was too focussed on device loss, and underplayed the necessity of conventional backups. The tw...