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Nothing so grand as a festival for The Rebbels, our first outing as a four piece at Christchurch Con Club, Saturday. We have had no rehearsals for 8 weeks, and so I am a tad nervous, but that is what makes it fun! The lead guitarist and I are having a get-together tomorrow to work on beginnings and endings and other fun stuff, so I may feel better or worse by tea time.

In reply to the OP, yup! 😁 I'm in the 'I buy 'em to play 'em' camp.

Bugger. I remember contacting him for advice on a potential BCR purchase years ago. He was the go to guy for BCR info, and couldn't have been more helpful. RIP Lorne 😟

Phew! Just made it in time. The playing and mix are a bit rough but it's kind of pop punk so I'm not too bothered. This is 'Aliens in the sky' by Jinky Fuzz. The bass is one of my daphne blue Fender JMJ mustang basses and there are two guitars - my Pelham blue Harley Benton DC-Junior FAT which has tone knob pulled out to put the single stacked P90 in humbucker mode, and my black Fender Telecaster custom switched to the wide-range humbucker pickup in the neck position. Both guitars were recorded from the usb output of my Fender GTX100 amp using a patch emulating a mesa/boogie II+ with a Boss DS-1. The organ is my Yamaha Reface YC. All the processing etc used logic's stock plugins.

Hmm. Needs vocals.

They missed out the shewee.....

Just been trying to have a little fun promoting our gig this Friday, loads of bands on plus festivals this weekend so we're not expecting a big crowd...but one can try as hard as one can 😁 The pub's called the Avon and it's right next to the river Avon so why not?

My Lovin' (You're never gonna get it) - En Vogue

Yeah, I did some looking around, I gather that the wedges are routinely replaced during a rehair and the tip facing is often installed using CA glue anyway, so it doesn’t look like I've butchered it in a way that would affect rehairing particularly. Bowspeed have some likely looking options if I was able to step up to £300 or so, and will send them out on approval. So what I may do is have the current bow rehaired for now and see about clearing out some bits and pieces for a bow fund. Then if I was to try couple on approval later in the year, I'd at least have the one I'm already familiar with in decent playing condition for comparison.

Neat idea, I'll try that.

Did my research degree in Liverpool so I know the place, or more accurately the replica. The original is gone, but the current is (/was, been many years since I was there) a decent music venue. I was more on the heavier rock and metal side back then ~2003-2006 and spent more time in the Crazy House (when it had three floors), the Swan, and many other decent rock leaning pubs.

Thank you very much 🙂

if you're happy with it get it rehaired. It's 10s of pounds not 100s. they'll replace the wooden wedges and who gives a monkeys that the tip is super glued on. still if you fancy an upgrade, nows an opportunity, but you won't get much improvement for under £200.

Cheers. Some good points to think about there from all. Thanks.

Take Me Back to Your House - Basement Jaxx

Has anyone used the ultimate ears UE5 pro? Or 6? my Acs ones have a weird issue and they haven’t managed to fix.

I’m good for everything except 19th - BrewDog piss up. Sorry AGM.

Oh crap the deadline's tonight innit? Might make it, might be a bit late!