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Met him at the London Bass Show back in 2014 or so. He was there showing off his new-at-the-time Cort basses. Had a short conversation with him, but didn’t want to bring up any of his controversial stuff, about practicing with metronomes and so on. I also met Lee Sklar there, who was far nicer, more approachable and happy to talk to anyone who came up to him.

Face In The Sand - Iron Maiden

We played a 1.5 hour acoustic set. Probably 125 in attendance. We we're strictly background music. I get it, but nobody even looked in our direction. Good pay, so I won't complain. No pics. I left my phone at home. Daryl

It's one finger per 'fret' on the Ibanez, on the Stagg there's currently a lot of moving the whole hand.

And me, though my memory played tricks on me and I thought it was Spinal Tap.

He and Geddy Lee my biggest influences by far.XTC, a totally unique , eccentric band that sounded like no other. Amazing stuff.

Colin Moulding is an unbelievably excellent player. XTC were fantastic at times. Some of their music is quite polarising, but at their best they were untouchable. Much missed.

I’ve not had my Sandberg tweaked since I got it in January so a set up for it would be great. I’ll bring some new strings for it. @NancyJohnson also happy for it to go in the blind shoot out.

what a prat

I'm really tempted to buy a blue one as a mod platform. I'm thinking about swapping the pickup to something I have in my box, and boy, do I have stuff in there. Either: APB-2 Lightnin' Rod (since there's room for lots of stuff under the bonnet and I want to remove it from my Fender P anyway) Ibanez Blazer split coil (essentially a DiMarzio) old Ibanez EB-3 copy bridge pickup, much mojo Artec SideWinder copy Your WillPower mod makes me lean towards the last option, and then going wild with a stacked V+T and a rotary switch for Series/Parallel/Out-of-Phase tonality, a thing I wanted to build out of a Squier Jag H that got discontinued and is only available in Boring Black these days. I'd swap all of the hardware to Guyker, too.

My Bugera SVT CL clone is still going strong (at home) and keeps me convinced tube power has a certain something special. Unfortunately, unless I play a gig in my own back garden, I doubt it'll be used in anger (in my lifetime!).

have used a double 4 in a music shop and was nice yea

i'm still using a gigantic bassman big bassman for big BASS ACTION, however it is a real pain in the backside to lug around, have to take the front seat out of the car to even fit it and it breaks my spine every time I carry it 20 yards

everything i've heard is solid 👍👍👍👍👍 👍👍👍

big up hugh

Years ago, my wife was listening some music and this song cought my attention . We liked it but eventually lost track of it then we noticed Pete Josef was playing a local gig, we decided to go, even though our decision was based solely on a brief, years-old acquaintance with just one song. Getting out is a rare treat for us since we have children, so we took the chance. The concert was phenomenal. Every member of the band was a brilliant musician: the drummer was great, the bass/double bass player top-notch( AND IF YOU ARE A MEMBER HERE GIVE US A SHOUT), and the singer/pianist and guitarist were absolutely impressive. Their performance was a vibrant fusion of jazz, Latin, soul, and dance. While listening to the album didn't move me much, their live performance was truly unbelievable. I highly recommend them! If you are in London on October 26th and free, go see them—they'll make you want to dance , best gig we have been in a while . Btw I'm not on commission for ticket sales but if you go and really enjoy them dm me and I'll send you my PayPal 😂

People who rap all seem to call themselves artists. Great self belief always helps I suppose...

I reckon I've covered the vast majority of my pedals over the last 30 or so years... Aguilar Octamiser Aguilar Tone Hammer Behringer BDI 21 Behringer BSY600 Behringer ADI21 Boss CE2B Boss CE3B Boss LMB3 Boss OC2 BOSS SYB5 DHA VT 2 Di eq DHA VT 1 Di eq DHA VT2 Custom DOD FX25 DOD FX25B EBS Chorus EHX black big muff EHX bass big muff EHX NYC big muff EHX octave multiplexer EHX Pulsar EHX Q tron mini EHX Q tron + EHX small clone Line 6 M5 MXR Bass DI MXR bass blowtorch MXR El Grande bass fuzz NUX Mod core NUX Roctary Sansamp BDDI Sansamp Paradriver Sansamp VT Bass TC Spectracomp Trace Elliot SMX Compressor pedal Zoom B3 Zoom B4 ZOOM 3000B ZOOM 607B Zoom MS60B 3 Leaf Groove Regulator Nowadays only a couple of these are still with me, and I'm rocking a board made from home-mades.