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He ruined his name all on his own.

Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper

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I’m going Nate Watts too, but not 100% sure TBH, because - As said, he does look uncharacteristically slimmer than Nate was around that time. Nate was using Hartke stuff then IIRC, and it looks like an SWR rig back there? He favoured mainly 5 strings then. Rarely seen without a hat! Of course all the above could be easily explained away, so I’d still go for it being Nate. Watching the clip brought a tear to my eyes too, Stevie and Aretha being two of my favourite performers ever and that band and backing singers - wonderful.

If you want a cover on the cheap, buy a sheet of coreflute aka real estate sign board, cut to size and duct tape together. Ten quid.

You're a broken man 😂

Played an open mic last night in Sutton Coldfield. Just the five tunes but we were given the "feature band" slot. Felt like less of an open mic at times and more of a "battle of the bands" situation given the quality of all of the bands on. Was really fun though. Bass was my modded Squier Bronco, and that was plugged (via fancy wireless) into an Aguilar Tone Hammer 700 head and 2 112 cabs underneath (as house amps go, that was the best I've ever used for sure). Footwear was Puma Suedes.

Whipped Cream - Herb Alpert & his Tijuana Brass

Try watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom again! I lasted about 20 minutes. Shocking.

There are now some player produced videos and audio clips of the amp, some really good ones actually. They are on TalkBass (amps & cabs, new boogie release thread, pages 17-19-ish), I can't link them here unfortunately. I would like to hear what you can do here once they start getting into your hands, please post your videos and clips.

I have actually designed some Subway multi-driver cabinets but there wasn't much interest even though a couple of the designs were really quite good (articulate while retaining some flavor). Oh well, the customers drive this ship, not enough customer interest equals "pull the plug". It's unlikely to see the old Boogie badge on the bass cabinets, The Mesa Engineering was selected starting about 25 years ago. We do have some Boogie badges on our factory store website so that you could customize your own cabinets however.

There's another much bigger surprise bassists thresd, needs merging.

Temuera Morrison. Yes, I remember noticing that at the time!

Whip It - Devo

Lucky MrPerpetual showed his stripes early on!

Discipline - King Crimson

I saw a young guy in St Austell in 2019 - not a local, and he got moved on fairly quickly which was a real shame. He had a bass in conventional position and a guitar on his lap, and he was tapping on the guitar with his right hand and on the bass with his left. I got a few seconds of video of him before he was stopped though.

More exciting than most - jam night with the band I've been most recently recruited to as hosts, as one of the guitarists had a hissy fit and quit. Plus my new second-hand GK combo seems to have expired (I think the speaker has fallen apart). But we had fun.

Well, that was, er, exciting. Jam night with the band I've been most recently recruited to. We've played two jam nights and one rehearsal together. Lineup - guitar/vox, guitar/vox, keyboards/vox, drums, bass (possibly vox). One of the guitarists was perpetually soloing over the top. The other guitarist suggested that he listen to the rest of the band and drop in with us. Perpetual soloist then went on a rant at the other, going on about his ego (rather ironic) and said he was quitting, and packed up his stuff. Then he said "I'm not going, I'm going to stay and enjoy listening to the jam". The keyboard player tried a bit of mediating which didn't bear much fruit, we played a few songs, and then the keyboard player had another attempt at mediation. The two guitarists went into the hallway, with us able to see them through the windows in the doors. After a couple of minutes, perpetual soloist shoved the other guitarist to the floor. Keyboard player and I set off for them but they came back into the room and perpetual soloist grabbed his gear and went, to a certain amount of abuse from the audience. TBH I think it's a relief, I suspect he wouldn't fit in terribly well in any band. The rest of us are continuing. It does mean that one of the two monthly jam nights is now off the calendar, as it was organised by perpetual soloist (we're going to see if we can replace it by another one in the same venue as this one).

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Why have a missed this thread, I love talking about my band 😁 I'm in an original rock band called Felis Leo, we're a bit old skool 70s and 80s influenced with a heavy dose of AC/DC in the DNA. The three original members started the band 40 years ago in school but went their separate ways and came back together in 2017 at the start of their mid life crisis (none of them can afford Porsches so a band is the next best thing). They recorded an album, Life By Misadventure and a 4 track EP, Porn At Work before I joined. I left a function band in the summer of '22 and was asked to join FL around November time. Loved the music but wasn't interested in getting back on the bass horse at that time. The 2nd time they asked was a few months later but this time there was a caveat, they were playing a mutual friend's wedding and they were desperate 😄 When I started rehearsing they had lost their drummer too! This has become a running theme, since I joined there have been 4.5 drummers 😂 (and we used to rehearse near the full size Stonehenge). My first gig was the wedding. Driving away from the gig on a hot August night I stopped as something caught my eye, I wound down the window and watched two UFOs fly silently above me. I followed them for a while on my home and thought "you don't see this in covers bands". We do about half a dozen gigs a year and we've just played our first gig in Southampton. Since I joined I've been allowed to join in with the recording process as the previous bassist didn't 🤷🏻‍♂️. Since '23 we've only released the Butterflies EP and a Christmas single, Cold Turkey. There's a couple of new tunes that require recording, one of them is about Lydia Shears who was a local witch and great, great, great Auntie to our guitarist Paul. He hasn't inherited any of her shapeshifting qualities. Here's the last EP