WalMan

Next up is Big Big Train in Southampton, well near anyway 😁

Should have posted this before Thursday, but we spent the last two nights at Trading Boundaries to see both nights of Barock Project supported by Aaron & Ethan Emerson. Great venue and a great & very talented young(ish now) prog band from Italy. The venue is not huge (probably 150 max dining with room for a few more with standing tickets) but good sound and lights and puts on a good selection of originals & tributes in a marvellous atmosphere. It's in an old Georgian house, that also houses quirky sales rooms , a Roger Dean Art Gallery, and has recently opened a small boutique hotel that might be nice for future events It's the only venue that Barock Project have played in the UK, mainly because the owners love the band so much they fly them over and put them up for the gig - and I lay some claim to that having lent the drummer in the prog band I play with a couple of their albums years ago, he's mates with the venue owners and said to him "you've got to hear this band..." and so it came to pass. Back in October for Tigermoth Tails & Magenta

Hello

For the uninitiated I just found this from 10 years ago in LA (Lil'Ampton mate)... The Anatomy of a Bass Bash

1. MacDaddy - Custom Shukers / Rob Allen Mouse / Peavey Vypyr VIP III 2. Binky Bass - Binky 10 string, USA Conklin 8 string, ACG 9 string, 3 x ACG 6 strings, Reiver 7 string (geeeetar), GR Bass Dual 1400 & GR Bass AT410+, Helix LT, Pinegrove straps, Richter straps etc. 3. Cetera - Spector (USA NS2 & NS2X, Euro Classic, Euro LX (w/Haz),Euro 'Rachel Bolan', Pulse II ) Wal Mk1 'Geddy Lee', Fender FSR PJ with East pre, Hamer Impact, Pedulla Buzz 4 fretless and maybe Jackson TBird, GK400RB, GK Legacy 800 & Tech21 VT500 Heads, Genz Benz Neox212 cab. 4. Frank Blank - Jabba short scale fretted, ACG SS Recurve, Ibanez SRC6, QSC K12.2, HX Stomp. 5. Merton - various ACGs, Zoots, Conway Instruments basses, Glockenklang Blue Rock, Barefaced Two10/One10 6. Eude - ACG Finn SC Classic 6 string, ACG RetroB 5, ACG TKO Modern 4, ACG ChubstRR Mikro 6 string, 2 X ACG Mule 4 strings (on loan from ACG), GK Legacy 500, 1 or 2 Barefaced One10 Cabs, Dod 250(r) modded with @Sibob 7. Stingray5 - MusicMan Stingray5, Tune TWB6, Tune SWV4-BB, Boss GT-6B, Eden EC15 combo OR Trace Elliot GP12SMX combo. 8. NancyJohnson - NS Design NXT5a EUB, Lull JAXT4, Darkglass A/O900, Darkglass 112 cab, Tech 21 dUg. 9. prowla: Obligatory Rickenbackers, a Warwick or two, maybe a Kramer aluminium necked bass, some pedals, Ampeg & Tech 21 preamps (subject to change), maybe the Minitaur & MIDI bass pedals. 10. Lozz196: US Precision, Ashdown ABM600 & Ashdown ABM PRO NEO 210s x2 Ampeg SCR-DI, Sansamp BDDI v2 11. Silverfoxnik: G&L SB1, BC Rich Eagle, Godin Shifter Classic 5, Sprackenbacker Ricky copy, Mesa Walkabout 15 combo, or Handbox R400 + Vanderkley 1156 MT. 12. Happy Jack: an assortment of weird 5h1t that I can guarantee nobody else will bring 13. WalMan (hopefully!): Wal, Status S1 & S2 & Zon Legacy Elite. One of the rigs (probably Mesa D800 & BF One10 or BBII as there's already One10's on the list) or Helix & Headrush. SkarBassOne pedal. May have an old case & 2U rack to sell/raffle 14. 15.

Don't do it!!! Save yourself (and your wallet)😂 I had one bass and one rig when I went to my first Bash. Current count 6 basses, and 4 separate rigs 🙄

Yup was a fun day. I probably have the photo's still somewhere in the house ... @Merton squashed in the back of my car under three lots of bass gear 😂

Looks like I'll be running late, but should still make it. Tickets for Trading Boundaries the night before for wifey's birthday, which'll be a lateish one once I've driven home. If nothing else I need to be there in the hope of delivering @hen barn's 2019 raffle prize that we never managed to arrange to meet up to exchange!! Found it in the garage in a box of pedals when I was looking for something else this afternoon

Two 5 strings here. FPPR S1 & white/cream S2. I'll post pics when I manage a couple of decent ones 🙂

Probably wouldn't be considering that as an option if I were ever to consider selling my Wal - which before you ask will never happen 🤣

Last night was a late one. We don't follow football, so the final didn't cross our minds until we arrived to set up at 7 to find the pub full & waiting for kick off, and told "Oh yes you'll be going on after the football". So we set up and settled in for a long night... and then that was delayed so we ended up going on. Eventually went on sometime after 10:30 and played through til midnight using the two sets as a guide and swapping stuff as we went. Fair few stayed, but it certainly thinned out after the game ended as it did. Slightly harder work for me as we were a guitarist down, and I was in charge of the PA on my iPad - though that was pretty much a set and go affair. It has been quite funny seeing a couple a FB posts today from people who came to the pub for a band and were whizzed off that they got football 🤣 Previous week was a blast with another outing with my first ever band from 44 years ago reliving our selection of punky power pop choons. Hells bells we used to play stuff fast. Seemed to go well generally, if confusing the heck out of some of the regulars of the venue more used to the more usual cover band fare

That depends. Someone I know well and trust not to be a Richard, then quite possibly, especially if I were at the gig, otherwise they might get the offer of the beaten up FPPR S1 (plays well, sounds great, looks like a piece of ****), otherwise it's unlikely. I have offered gear loan to an Italian prog band, but though I don't know the bass player personally I would be at the gig(s), have seen them before and trust him not to go mad with it. That said it's only a rig that'll probably be require as all my basses are active and (bar the Wal) 5 strings, and he prefers a Jazz type 4. More inclined in this instance as they're travelling light (fly in, gig, fly out) and I'm pretty sure the logistics of bringing in instruments post Brexit would be the straw that broke the camel's back

...make sure you're prepared for the new member introductory lecture 😉 and the raffle to end all raffles 🤣

Day after wifey's birthday, and was planning to do the gig @ Trading Boundaries on 22/10 so it'll be a late night, but should be doable. Now what to bring 'cos it won't all fit in the car!! 🤔

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Ahem 🙄

Indeed, I regretted p/xing with Nik for the Big Block 750 almost immediately, and then was on holiday & not quick enough when he later sold it on Fired up the replacement this morning, put everything at 12 o'clock, no limiter or brite and it sounded great. Arrived in a functional 2u flight case, but I have got a better one kicking around somewhere & must dig that out. As for which cab...all of them? 🤣 Actually more likely the Super12t or Big Baby (unless I ever get round to selling the S12t to fund another BB2)

In a while. SWMBO is back and I probably shouldn't have 🤣 Will have to find a quiet moment 🙄

I regretted selling/swapping the Hartke LH500 I had a couple of years back. This week I ’fell’ and today a replacement arrived 😁 Nice simple amp for this simple bass player, and sounds great (IMO anyway) I toyed with going for the LH1000 for bridge/biamp options, but I think It would be overkill for majority of my gigs.

The Alibi YouTube channel , which in the last couple of years has gone from live clips to Lockdown videos

CD's have now arrived, so for those that still do it's on Bandcamp - https://thealibi2.bandcamp.com