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When we toured the USA (well SXSW Austin plus the west coast) almost 10 years ago now!

Oh God now I'll never un-see it

Circles — Les Fleur De Lys

Carouselambra - Led Zep

Two spring to mind. Firstly, playing a club in Vienna with the Pretty Things. Phil May suffered from terrible stage fright. We do the gig and are in the dressing room. There's a knock on the door and a guy says Kirk Hammet and James Hedfield would like to come in and say hi. Without even looking up, Phil shouts 'tell them to f*ck off'. Second is rather less impressive. I'm playing the Tartan Heart festival near Inverness. I am driving and following the sat nav. We arrived at the site, and turned right into the ground. We played and eventually left, the sat nav taking me right out the ground. I waved cheerio to the security guy on the gate. 45 minutes later, after following the instructions, I was able to wave at him again as we headed back the way we had originally come. Still, Scotland's a beautiful country.

Good friend of mine knows a thing or two about Cirrus 5 strings. Gillian has 2 US neck through models and 2 US bolt on models. Made a detour on her drive up for a visit, collected a 'darkwood' Cirrus BXP 5'er; couple of hundred quid 😎 Had a passing knowledge of US Cirrus myself, a black teal, tiger eye custom, bubinga and a bubinga bolt on. Pair of us went over that BXP with a fine toothcomb, A/B'd it against the US models to hand. Verdict. Looked like a Cirrus, played like a Cirrus, sounded like a Cirrus and it felt like a Cirrus. Bloody hell, what a bass 😃 Was very disappointed with mine. Loaned it to Gillian to get her opinion, returned in short order with the words "nice looking bass Davie, pity it has no balls" 🤣 Heard similar descriptions from other Sarzo owners but fella I sold it to was chuffed to bits 🙂

I'd assumed the thread was about the ex-Shadows bass player - as it happens "Jet" was also what my old Physics teacher nicknamed me, with my surname being Whittle. Just how many "boutique" Fender clones are out there?

A mate of mine got four seated at London O2 for £105 each. Said seating on floor was £450 going down to £320 as you hit further away.

Apparently there is one more Manchester and one more London to be added.

Back in Edinburgh again at Stramash with SHOUT!. Really busy this time as was the town. Fast becoming our favourite venue/gig. There are acts on all day through to 2.30 in the morning. Our slot is 10 to 12 midnight! Crowd all well oiled and up for fun! Our songs are as old as the hills but I bet most of the crowd have never heard them before...sometimes I think some of the band have never heard them before! Anyway back there in a couple of months. Bass used...Squier Classic Vibe Precision with Fender Flatwound strings through Mark Bass house rig.. Shout! Stramash.mp4

Mmm…there is still more room for added dates! 🤔 just saying ..

Hmmmmm....

Don’t go changing 👍

That's pretty much the platonic ideal of a p bass right there. Is it an old one or a reissue?

do I win anything if I get seat R50?

Roundabout – yes

A couple from me. April 2025: Playing my Fender Japan 60's Precision with Andrew Maxwell Morris at The Bedford in Balham as a pre Glastonbury warm up gig. April 2025: Playing my fretless Fender Japan 62RI Jazz with the Tim Shez band 2025. Playing John Giblin's fretless Precision.

Thank you they were massively up for it from the start, I really enjoyed myself