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Runaway train - Soul Asylum

That was Greg Carroll who was Bono's mic-lead runner, band roadie and close friend. He was sadly killed exactly a year after Live Aid in Dublin riding a motorbike doing a courier run for the band. The U2 song, One Tree Hill is written about him as well as Victor Jara. When U2 were touring in NZ in 1984, Bono met Greg Carroll and took him to One Tree Hill. Greg then became the bands roadie. After his funeral in NZ, Bono was thinking about the funeral and the time be spent with Greg at One Tree Hill which inspired him to write the lyrics to the song.

There is nothing 'disappointing' about the Fullerton reissues. Some of their features are not historically accurate when compared to the originals but they're great instruments in their own right.

GRBASS will do custom tolex as well. It's either free or cheap (the cabs aren't ! )

There has never been a Fullerton 58 P reissue.

Can't Stop Me Now - Rod Stewart

No hootenanny button? Other than that and two extra screws it shows how faithful to this era the AVII 1960 P is.

End Of The Road - Boyz II Men

Barefaced do cloth grilles and custom tolex jobs. Trace Elliot green 210 with Elf on top?

Bought a G&L SB 2 Tribute from Matt. Great guy and a very smooth process. I’m very happy to recommend Matt to all Basschatters 👍

This was before the disaster at Donnington '88. Everything changed then. It was amateurish. The PA was supplied by Malcolm Hill, who made all the equipment. https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/inside-the-live-sound-of-live-aid-part-1-london Howard Jones was told that the keys on the piano were sticking so he had to give them a good bash to free them up first. The flooring was mainly plastic, with some reinforcement where vehicles would drive. Crowd control would have been non-existent.

Dead End Street - The Kinks

3 of my 5 bass guitars are fretted ( counting the acoustic one) but it's one of the two fretless basses ( and my double bass ) that get 90%+ of the playing time. Took my fretted 5 to a jam session last week and found I'd forgotten how to play it.

Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads

Never seen the point. Ebony works fine for me.

Got through 2 ½ hours of rehearsal with the originals band tonight. Finalised arrangements for three songs and started tidying up a fourth. Quite chuffed as two of the songs I'm using a plectrum and my technique is starting to tidy up - the P sounds awesome through my gigging rig. For one song in Bb I use my tuner as a capo on the E string... Have tried to apply a bit of music theory to my basslines and it's starting to pay off with some non-obvious melodic lines on the quieter songs. Have confidence I can survive gigging this weekend.

This one even has built-in phantom power. Thanks for sharing this. Mark

But it's a toy you said? No validation for studio volumes? Something with a marvellous tone that can be micced on stage? Anyway, Hevos used to have some colour options. Laney has the lx15 in red, Phil Jones has some too. Tolexing in itself isn't that hard to do, or expensive.

Now I'm confused. My Les Paul is passive and has independent volume and tone per pickup. What am I missing?

And... it's started working normally again...

I owned a JV Squire Jazz back when they first came out. It was a very nice bass. Not sure I would pay what they are going for nowadays for one, though. I've never played a Fullerton reissue from that era. I just recounting what was written about them at the time to the best of my recollection. With bass guitars as with most other things in life, people, myself included, can get nostalgic about anything.

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