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  2. spacecowboy started following Greetings from Sheffield (the UK variant)
  3. spacecowboy
    Hi! Or… should I say Praise The Sun! ☀️
  4. MacDaddy
    So, Nile Rodgers & Nile Rodgers?
  5. ossyrocks
    I got a message on Thursday asking if I could cover a gig tonight. I was away in the Western Lake District and only got home last night. First time playing with these people, and hadn't met two of them before today. All I had was message with a set list and keys, plus a bit of back and forth on whatsapp about which versions etc. The gig went down really well, nice place, nice people, and lots of positive feedback. Bluesy covers, but very few 12 bars, even a Christina Aguilera tune, which I never thought I'd be doing at the age of 60! Two singers, male and female, guitar, cajon, and me on bass Travelled light, BF One10, GK Legacy 800, '73 P bass. One trip load in. Oh, and I got paid in cash! Rob
  6. Happy Jack
    Yes, bit I eat padded nylon for breakfast. I really need something tougher.
  7. Mickeyboro
    The Reprise Years - his five 70s studio albums plus live at the Albert Hall and a disc of rarities. New, still sealed and unplayed, this is the definitive history of a major American songwriter. £35 posted UK - less than half retail price. NOW £30 posted
  8. Happy Jack
    Wow! £835 for a gigbag. 😮 How much do you want for yours, Chris? LOL
  9. Mickeyboro
    The review says it all: comprehensive, US published and hard to find. Price is UK posted, unread condition. Now £16. Times And Seasons - The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Zombies Robin Platts HoZac Books, $31.99 356 pages Classic British pop, expertly chronicled Few books on the Zombies exist, but theirs is a story worth telling. And it's predictable that, given their Stateside star status, this quintessentially English quintet of She's Not There and Tell He No fame should be chronicled on an American imprint. The band only hung up its touring shoes last year after leader/keyboardist Rod Argent's stroke, but the work he and singer Colin Blunstone created after their reunion in 2001 - the years since 1968 being silent, in a Zombies sense - are also covered in detail by author Platts. The band always had a youthful camaraderie, having come together at high school, and that comes over faithfully in this account of their heyday - plus a long tail that details their subsequent musical careers. While Blunstone went solo and Argent created an eponymous prog band (of God Gave Rock And Roll To You fame), guitarist Paul Atkinson went behind the scenes and signed Abba to CBS - a feather in anyone's cap. Detail is forensic without being stifling. If the layout is a trifle fanzine-y, the integration of illustrative material like press cuttings and photos with the text helps make this an easy read. And the urge to play the music, always the sign of a good book, is irresistible.
  10. Mickeyboro
    His latest posthumous release is a double CD and DVD presentation from the Swiss Baloise Festival in 2008. Highlight is Al Kooper’s I Love You More Than Youll Ever Know b Retails at over £20. This is sealed and unplayed, £12 posted UK seems reasonable.
  11. Clarky
    I think that was when I played the riff from Magnificent Seven by The Clash over and over while you fiddled with compression settings and it became progressively harder to play! Crikey, 15 years... trying to work out why I am actually a worse player than I was then, haha!
  12. Owen started following High Quality 3/4 DB Gigbag - suggestions? , Too loud, walked off and What gear have you bought or acquired, simply because you thought you ought to..?
  13. Owen
    SRV was mind bendingly loud. Just his backline. His rhythm section were having trouble making an impact through the FOH.
  14. Owen
    Most of it. If I was still playing that bass I bought in 1987, virtually no one would notice the difference.
  15. Owen
    Just been to look for them and it looks like they are no longer available. Sorry.
  16. Owen
    I bought a Reunion Blues bag 30 years ago (ish). I will never need to buy another.
  17. 6feet7
    If you want fuzz this will give it to you in spades. A few marks and some velcro on the back but otherwise it's in good condition. I'm having a clearout at the moment as I haven't been in a band for a few years now, otherwise I'd be keeping it. I'm afraid I can't find the box but it will be packed well when posted.
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  18. ColdFusion
    Thanks, any advice much appreciated! I'm a bit worried as I got a 7 string guitar after playing 6 strings all my life, but it never really clicked with me. Hopefully that won't happen with the bass!
  19. ColdFusion
    Oh please do! Our next local one is Feb 14th next year in Crookes.
  20. Terry M.
    Told myself I needed a posh "industry standard" pair of headphones for late night silent practice. In came the famous Beyer DT770 PROs. Out went the famous Beyer DT770s via E-Bay! They were no more effective (at that task in particular) than my less than half-the-price price AKGs from Richer Sounds.
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  22. kodiakblair started following Guyker bridge
  23. kodiakblair
    ARM Guitar Store, they've saw a fair bit of my money 🙂 They never had an eBay UK store front so I'd order through eBay's US site. Good folk, never had any problems getting replies to questions. Nice to see they're still in business 😎
  24. bigbottomend
    £500 now for one week.
  25. chris_b
    The CHIC band leader, CHIC songwriter, CHIC founder member, CHIC repertoire. . . . I think we can give him that. And Jerry Barnes is a monster player.
  26. mrtcat
    It's very rare that I really enjoy the playing side of it these days. Venues are getting harder to deal with, I've never liked the indie pop rock type covers that we play and brides / grooms / wedding guests annoy me more and more as time goes by. I do it because £400 for hanging out with my mates is better than sitting on the sofa. I have young kids so my wife and i wouldn't otherwise be going out on a Saturday night. The money pays for nice family holidays etc. I earn well enough away from music that I don't have to do it and im not playing in pubs which i have absolutelyno desire to do. I have other musical projects ongoing that I really love but thankfully they're not week in week out type things as there's no real money in it and I just want that to be for fun.
  27. Richard R
    The bridge is part of the vibrating structures of the instrument, tansmitting and receiving vibrations and resonances between the strings and the body which contribute to the overall sound which will be detected by the pickup. So it is in the path betwen the player's fingers and the listeners' ears and replacing a non-failing bridge on a bass ought to be a T1 fail. On a guitar it's T2 as is the whole instrument. Well that's my view anyway.
  28. Schnozzalee
    Thank you - I can't find a Bossa bass anywhere in the UK. I have another Bossa guitar that was Brian Monroney's (Tom Jones etc) and it's my #1 💛
  29. paul_5
    Thanks for this, I'd forgotten all about the Jaco exercises. I have the book (somewhere) and have only watched the video once; I just find it too sad to rewatch.
  30. Quatschmacher
    £450
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