WalMan

Video for the radio version of the title track 'premiered' this evening on YouTube

https://youtu.be/27Dp_-YvxYI

Interested if I can move my Super12T. Must get it photographed & listed!!

For today's WFH session: Stan Getz then Bill Evans, followed by Kate Rusby, and currently 10CC 

21 hours ago, ezbass said:

Nik Kershaw in May. Best thing is that it’s a 10 minute walk from my front door.  

Seeing Nik in a small club near me in April. 15 minute drive. Looking forward to it 

3 hours ago, Angelus said:

I’ve got tickets for the Hollywood Vampires, 12th of July in Glasgow. Support is The Tubes and Rick Anderson, bass player, passed away. 😢

We're rather hoping that The Tubes might manage some smaller Tubes only shows while they're here. But so sad about Rick  

Los Pacaminos - 3 Feb

Wakeman & Wilson - 10 Feb

Both  at our favourite venue - Trading Boundaries 

Moron Police,  A.C.T and assorted other Scandi punky/proggy bands  

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

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

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.

7 hours ago, Paul S said:

Pointless reminiscence:  That was the first year that the current Mrs S and I were together, we'd just moved in to a small flat and Life was a huge adventure.  The night before we'd had a dodgy takeaway and we'd both been extremely ill all night - not eaten vegetable pakoras (the dish we shared) ever since.  Felt like crap all the next day so just collapsed in front of the tiny portable TV we had and watched the lot.

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.

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 

On 24/12/2022 at 19:59, Conan said:

Moron Police - A boat on the sea.

 

Great stuff 😎💜

Love Moron Police. Bonkers in places, but great stuff

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 

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 🤔

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?"

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 

Ah well...email from Darkglass

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Hey Alan,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us and we hope you are doing well.

 

Unfortunately, the amplifiers are only compatible with our footswitch designs and will not work with any other footswitch.

 

As for the footswitches, the component shortages are affecting most sectors of production and parts availability.  

 

We are expecting a production batch in January that will be distributed to our regional distributors.

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 

Thanks. I'll have to carry on the search then. Everywhere seems to be quoting 1-2 months for stock 

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

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

Watching...though the Super12T would have to go first

We did a short (but probably still too many) CD run for my main band's EP. They go in one's & two's at gigs and were probably more us (me) being an old f@rt that wanted to have a physical disk. Also sold for a set price on BandCamp and on streaming services through Distrokid. Had a few sales from d/l's and the princely sum of $8 gross for around 2000 streams in the first few months.

Cheesy Christmas single coming later this week 

By contrast for the prog project one of the guitarists & I just released went to Bandcamp as "name your price" and to streamers. No numbers for the latter but a few sale for the former.

I doubt I'll be retiring on either

Francis Dunnery's blues project Tombstone Dunnery @ Trading Boundaries on 19 Nov