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  1. WalMan
    First gig of the year for me and a great crowd to start us off, up dancing and singing along all night. Lots of positive feedback on sound and we only seemed to have a couple of alien abduction moments and pretty much caught them or worked our way out of them (not sure I’d want to listen back to a recording 🤣) Bonkers end to the evening with a load of (very whizzed) girls in front of me screaming “we love you, you’re the best” 😳 Seen later outside vomiting over a wall next to the venue possibly at the realisation of what they’d done 🤣 I know someone who’s going to have a very sore head in the morning and wonder at the new follows and likes they’ve added to their social media feeds.
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    Video for the radio version of the title track 'premiered' this evening on YouTube https://youtu.be/27Dp_-YvxYI
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    Interested if I can move my Super12T. Must get it photographed & listed!!
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    The UPS nightmare is over ... for now anyway.
    Returning an amp to Darkglass for repair and it's been doing the hokeycokey at Stanstead UPS/Customs warehouse for the last week. But after numerous phone calls it has made it back to Finland.
    Calls went along the lines of  
    UPS: You haven't included the Customs form
    Me: Yes I have it's with he address label, and I've emailed it to you.
    UPS: OK we've got it
    Tracking showed it cleared then back on hold with exceptions. FFS!!!

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    2. WalMan

      WalMan

      Darkglass arranged it, and we got there in the end, but for a week it was touch & go. I almost said to the Newhaven depot "hold on and I'll drive more copies down to you" as they are only a few miles along the coast.

       

      The classic with the call on Thursday was them saying they'd been emailing me since Monday to resolve it, so I asked the email address they'd used and it meant absolutely nothing to me. Gave them the right email and did get an update there, but they somehow managed to send it first to a gmail account I have, just for my private phone that I rarely use and don't monitor the email account (because I never use it) :dash1:

       

      My next worry will be when Darkglass ship it back and what sort of a mess we'll have getting it back through Customs - particularly as I got the amp in an auction that appeared to be a lot entered by UPS for an item they had had sat uncollected or paid for in customs since last April. It shouldn't be a problem this time as an out for, and back in after repair, but I shall be monitoring it like a hawk!

    3. TheGreek

      TheGreek

      I know a drummer who's a manager at UPS - he's reticent about the service we receive. I once had a bass stuck in their system and asked if he could help - he made it clear it was well out of his hands.

    4. WalMan

      WalMan

      They certainly made a meal of the outgoing trip. Fingers crossed for the return!!

  5. WalMan
    For today's WFH session: Stan Getz then Bill Evans, followed by Kate Rusby, and currently 10CC
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    Seeing Nik in a small club near me in April. 15 minute drive. Looking forward to it
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    We're rather hoping that The Tubes might manage some smaller Tubes only shows while they're here. But so sad about Rick
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    Los Pacaminos - 3 Feb Wakeman & Wilson - 10 Feb Both at our favourite venue - Trading Boundaries
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    Moron Police, A.C.T and assorted other Scandi punky/proggy bands
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    I am thinking of getting back to IEM's after many years. We used to have dedicated mixers on CAT5's to the digital stage box but it was a bit of a faff and more cables trailing. Sound guy now has a wifi router connected to the stage box so it would be easy to have a fold back sub on the box and do any tweaks with Mixing Station or X-Air on my phone connected to the router. EAD10 looks very interesting for the kit. I shall have to go back over this thread to find out more
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    Dep for me. Near home, and finished by 11:30. Now I just need to be paid as the pub uses one of the online payment systems ☹️ No rehearsal and some less well known songs from the 60’s onwards, so working with a selection of chord charts and iReal bits I’d found on my iPad on a stand with a Bluetooth page turner I’d had for a while but never used in anger. That plus keeping an ear out for what the guitarist was up to, as he went off piste at times and reading the nods for endings, but got through relatively unscathed. First night out with the Darkglass Microtubes 500 I won in an auction recently (with my trusty Streamliner in case there were any problems). Sounded good and no problems, which was nice. Now I just need to understand how the Intelligent footswitch works
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    Currently hoping that a smallish parcel of replacement parts from Zon make it to my friend who is in the US at the mo to bring back with him in the New Year rather than trust the vagaries of International post. Then I need to find funds to get them installed.
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    Further pointless reminiscence: This was 10 months after Mrs Walman and I married and we went back to Torquay and stayed a few nights at a nice B&B run by a youngish couple that we had found on our pot luck tour down through Devon & Cornwall for our honeymoon the year before. Lay by an outside pool listening on a portable radio in the day and then headed back to the B&B where we ended up sitting watching the show in the evening with the owners.
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    forgot this was premiering today and missed the start dammit 🤬 EDIT: so I went back and watched from the beginning, supposedly to where I came in but I’ve watched it all again 🤣 The bass is sounding great through my TV sound bar and sub. Great band. Prog/pop: choons, harmonies, funny time sigs, and guitar wig outs. What’s not to love 😁🤘Good live show without having every slip redone
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    Love Moron Police. Bonkers in places, but great stuff
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    Watching...though the Super12T would have to go first
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    Trondheim Audio SkarBassOne has been a constant on my pedalboard since it arrived. Probably my desert island pedal. Pricewise, the Darkglass Microtubes 500v2 I won in an auction a couple of weeks back…though it still needs a run out in anger to prove its mettle and no unknown problems. Sounded great fired up for a test though a BF One10 when it arrived
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    Dep at a pub 10 minutes from home 😁 Now I really should work through the set and get some cribs sorted. Maybe a chance to fire up the latest amp acquisition with a spare stacked in case 🤔
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    I had a bit of a Tubesfest yesterday including Remote Control & Live in London. Really reminded what a great player Rick was. Solid as, but some lovely stuff going on on "What Do You Want From Life?"
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    We always go to at least one show when they are over and I was hoping that they would get some smaller shows in when they were over supporting Hollywood Vampires in July. We used to end the set with WPOD some years back because we all loved The Tubes. Because of the influence there was a while when it started with a cop show medley, and we always ended it with a bit of Love's A Mystery that's repeated at the end of Telecide. Confused the hell out of the crowd to start with but I have a couple of live tapes where it went an absolute storm. Like I say they were a huge influence on my bandmates stage shows before that and we often worked up 'overture' medleys just because of that. Rick locked in with Prairie Prince and covering all the different styles in the set
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    Ah well...email from Darkglass
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    I might give it a go with my Boss pedal. If the amp is reacting to what it sees, and bearing in mind any guitar lead can be used to connect the footswitch, I may already have what is needed
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    Thanks. I'll have to carry on the search then. Everywhere seems to be quoting 1-2 months for stock
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    Saw a Facebook post at the weekend to say Rick died on Friday. Sad news as The Tubes were such an influence on my band back in the day
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    Stupid question of the day, but will any latching footswitch work with the M500v2? Just acquired one without a footswitch and they appear not to be in stock anywhere, so unless there is something proprietary in the Darkglass switch I have a spare Boss pedal I could use. (So why don't you just try it Alan!? 🤔) I can see what looks like three different 'lights?' apparently for Power On, Microbes, and Mute so wasn't sure
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