G L O S S A R Y 

Artistic makeover 
Financial disaster.

Axxe/Solina 
Synthesizers.  The Bottle Brothers used the ARP Axxe for bass, and the Solina String Machine for, er, strings.

Ballsetto 
All right, I admit I made this word up, but there is a male voice register out there that the SATB brigade missed, because the microphone had not been invented yet.  The high notes are VERY loud (because they are driven by steam!), so a microphone is needed to beef up the comparatively weaker, lower notes, cf. Frankie Valli, Graham Nash. And Chris Andrews, of course.

Catarrhing 
Seems to be Estuary English for playing electric guitar solos in chords, cf. Peggy Sue.

Dep 
Muso slang for a deputy, freelance, (or to use the generic term, cowboy) replacement musician. 

E & O E 
Errors and Omissions Excepted:  An expression I have borrowed from the retail industry to acknowledge that I can make mistakes, however hard I try not to.  The implication is that I will therefore be grateful, not hostile, if you point out an error or omission.  Hmmm.  Well, that's an 'error', for a start.

Karaoke 
Several people singing along with recorded backing tracks. 

Live Music 
One person singing along with recorded backing tracks.  If he is wearing a guitar, you know it's not Karaoke Night.  If he seems to be practising scales at four times the speed of thought, it's Jazz.  See Purists.

MD 
Musical Director.

NEXQQ4AF 
Any excuse for a party.

Purists 
derogatory term for live musicians who refuse to use pre-recorded backing tracks, laptops, drum machines, sequencers, etc, continued on p94.

Race 
A virtually meaningless classification system which can be used to persuade some of us that it is OK to fly planes into tall buildings, and others of us that it is OK to cause about eighty thousand civilian deaths in Iraq.

Rock & Whatever / Rock ‘n’ Whatever 
A mixture of Rock & Roll, Slow Rock, Blues, Folk Rock, Soul, Country Rock, Rock Ballads, Classic Rock, Seaside Rock, and … Whatever.

SATB 
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, as on hymn sheets/vocal scores.

Speeding fine 
Source of 'funding' for Tony B Liar and Alfred E Neuman to play cowboys and indians in Iraq, instead of conducting a war on terror.  Whitehall has to find the money by capping budgets of hospitals, local authorities, the police, etc, so they look like the bad guys when they make up the shortfall by taxing motorists.  Compare congestion zone tax, gas guzzler tax, bus lane tax, parking taxes (e.g. in hospital car parks), car tax, road tax, diesel at £6 a gallon, etc.

We 
Yes, I do use the royal 'we' occasionally to cover FAQs that can apply equally to Ed Furst as a solo act, or Ed Furst in combination with other musicians.

See also FAQ (on stage), or FAQ (off stage).
E & O E