hiram.k.hackenbacker

Replied. Item now on hold pending.

I bought this strap for a particularly heavy bass which I no longer own. It did an excellent job of spreading the load across the shoulders.

It's never had strap locks on it, so the strap eyes are fine and it's in excellent condition, almost as new in fact.

I believe it was in the region of £70 and I should probably list it higher, but I would have to pay to list it and....well you know the score.

Feel free to collect in person from South Essex or I will post at cost.

P.S. I can't make my mind up if it's one of their four inch straps which is a bit on the wide side or a four and half inch which is a bit narrower than it should be. It's bang on four and a quarter at it's widest point.

Browsing around the web I happened across this vintage Fender Jazz owned by Dave Markee which is up for sale at [url="http://vintageandrareguitars.com/product/dave-markees-fender-jazz-bass/"]Vintage & Rare[/url]. It doesn't have a price on it, but that's besides the point.

Posted on the sale page are four videos, presumably shot at V&R, of Dave talking about the history of his bass.

There's some comedy gold in there, most of it unintentional.

Example: Criticising Joan Armatrading's bass player for not playing one of his songs correctly, then cocking it up himself when he tries to play it.

I could go on, but it's easier if you just watch them.

P.S. It's a re-fin with changed pick-up's and electronics anyway.

I should add that we are now a six piece having recruited a fantastic multi-instrumentalist for guitar, sax and vocal duties.

In this video there are in fact seven including the wonderful Natalie duetting on Under Pressure.

Natalie will be at Chinnery's debuting an additional five new songs for her.

http://youtu.be/PDyfXjPyPZM

Tickets are available now from me, Chinnery's or [url="http://www.seetickets.com/search?q=changestwobowie&search="]SeeTickets[/url].

Here is a video of a few songs from our visit to Club Riga, Southend recorded a year ago today!

http://youtu.be/gZvc1AprT_0

For those of you that don't know, the reason the crowd are going mental immediately after Jonathan King finishes waffling and during the extended bass drum intro to Back In N.Y.C. was that Peter Gabriel was "brought back from the dead" by being carried on a stage in a coffin which he then leapt out of and went straight into the song. Still gives me goosebumps listening to it.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1476253213' post='3152643']
The band have already plundered their archives for various boxed sets. I think the Lyceum shows from 1980 had 'enhanced' audio - good sound recordings spliced into them.
Maybe when Mike needs another polo pony or Phil has to settle another divorce we'll see the barrel scraped a bit more 😋
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Yes, your probably right. I still have my original VHS that I recorded the Lyceum show on when it was broadcast on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Have you seen the amalgam of both nights. I really enjoyed that.

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1476202930' post='3152286']
I hear rumours that Peter Gabriel has a film of it, but then again Mike Rutherford's said both "I'm glad it wasn't filmed, it was a bit ropey" and "We should have filmed it in hindsight" (paraphrasing both).
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I've heard the same rumours. I think it is, or a version of it, under lock and key at The Farm. I would be absolutely staggered if there wasn't some video of it somewhere. There appear to be no shortage of photo's from the day and it appears more than a few have the audio which has been "remastered" so many times I've lost count myself.

I think the band were unanimous that it wasn't perfect, but I don't think anyone expected it to be given the technical aspects of their work and the time frame they had to get it together.

Maybe one day.

Yes, it was that day in particular I was interested in.

As a result of the Talk Talk thread where I cited the above gig as being the first time I saw them, it got me thinking about the reason I was there in the first place i.e. to see Genesis.

Accepted that it was a few years ago and we weren't all walking about with iPhones, but I find it strange that there is no video anywhere, that I can find at least, of Genesis with Gabriel.

I know the band weren't keen on it seeing the light of day, but it's been nearly 35 years since the gig for goodness sake. Who is going to bothered now?

I used to be quite active in the Genesis live recording community and there were rumours that there was footage somewhere. I for one would love to see it. I have many differently mastered versions of the audio in various formats, but the video remains elusive.

Does anyone here have any information as to video existing or any other recollections of the day (other than it rained all day).

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1474903791' post='3141399']
I think we are too used to BC prices. He's got overheads etc.
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Yes, I really don't think we need to revisit that and it wasn't my intention by starting this thread. I'm not a Status expert and thought I may have missed something.

Having thought about it, I believe I can see what happened. There is a limited edition S2 also for sale @ BD for 5,250, which as I understand it is cheaper than its new price. I think someone probably copied that add, changed the photo/details and forgot to change the price maybe?

Am I missing something really obvious here?

http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Status_S2_5_Black.html

A 2015 Status S2 5'er with bolt-on neck in satin black with side & front LED's - £5,250!

[quote name='Stu-khag' timestamp='1472712355' post='3123443']
Clutch are doing a uk tour in December and playing Cardiff again. Cant wait!
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Just bought tickets for The Roundhouse on December 15th. It's not 100% clear whether Valient Thorr or Lionize (or both) will be supporting. All I can say is that Lionize were fantastic when I saw them a few years ago. I would urge anyone to check out their album Jetpack Soundtrack.

[quote name='Stu-khag' timestamp='1472712355' post='3123443']
I've not heard of this album before. I'm guessing you've seen it's streaming here?

[url="http://es.musicplayon.com/Clutch-The-Mob-Goes-Wild-Live-At-The-Corner-Hotel-Album-Music-Video-777957.html?mobile=N"]http://es.musicplayo...7.html?mobile=N[/url]

Clutch are doing a uk tour in December and playing Cardiff again. Cant wait!
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I've seen it supposedly streaming in a couple of places, but have yet to find a site that it works on. Having said that, I'm not sure I've tried the one you suggest, so I will give it a go. Thank you.

I did see this set for sale a while back, but dithered too long and it sold. I'm forever kicking myself about that.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1472683703' post='3123355']
I thought at first the clutch had gone on your van......

More haste, less speed when i read methinks.


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Ah yes, I see what you did there

Does anyone have in their possession a copy of Clutch's album Live At The Corner Hotel?

Ideally I would like to buy it, but I would settle for just being able to listen to it.

It's the one album of theirs I don't have.

Any help would be appreciated.

[quote name='luckydog' timestamp='1470129355' post='3103377']
I think it's good that you were initially mostly focussed on material from one era, that's better than spamming the decades IMO.

Have you thought of going further and doing the whole of Spiders, or Hunky Dory or Aladdin Sane? They each hang together so well and each makes pretty much a complete set ?

LD
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Our sets have been weighted more to earlier material, but as mentioned before, we do have something from almost every album now.

We have discussed doing a whole album, but Ziggy seems almost too obvious. We were thinking about doing Station To Station, but then Earl Slick went and did it earlier this year.

We've spoken about doing maybe Low or Heathen. We have a meeting coming up soon. Who knows what will come out of that!

[quote name='darkandrew' timestamp='1470100014' post='3103293']
Your could always add some of his collaborations to your set, just to mix things up a bit; how about "Under Pressure" or "Without You I'm Nothing"?
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We have done Under Pressure already and it will continue to be in the set for as long as we can convince the wonderful Natalie to come along and sing it with us....

https://www.facebook.com/tony.perry.351/posts/10153809579622157

Nothing else has been excluded thus far other than the previously mentioned The Laughing Gnome and African Night Flight.

Without You is a distinct possibility, but there are couple of standards and a few guilty pleasures that may have to be addressed first.

In an attempt to balance out the general negativity of the Bowie Proms thread, I thought I would update this one.

We played The Bassment, Chelmsford last Friday (29/7) which was incredibly only our fourth gig in almost two years; but what an atmosphere. I haven't enjoyed a gig so much in a long, long time. The ceilings are so low there that I couldn't wear my hat - and I'm not a tall guy! Sadly we didn't record the gig as we usually do, but our fans did capture a surprisingly large amount of the show on their mobiles.

Here is a little gem that I had forgotten we'd had back from final mixing of the April gig at Chinnery's, Southend on 2/4 this year. It's the opening track from the Reality album called [url="https://soundcloud.com/warren-byatt/new-killer-star-final-mix"]New Killer Star[/url]. It really is an absolute joy to play. Simple, effective and also gives me enough space to sit back and enjoy some of the wonderful sounds coming from our guitarists. I hope you enjoy.

Back on topic, the set is ever expanding and we have nearly covered every album by at least one track. I think the exceptions are Pin-Ups and Diamond Dogs. There may be one other album which escapes me at the moment. Our next gig is in November and we will be using the time from now to learn another 7-8 songs.

I thought I had created a topic for this, but it appears that I didn't!

It's gonna be a hot one.

SOLD.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1465828139' post='3071325']
As a covers band I think we'd be putting a stop to it right at the '200 mile round trip for 40 minute slot' point.
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Probably should have said there was a little more to it than that. As mentioned previously, initially it was an hour slot, before the headline, with a promise of a club gig the night before and we would be put up somewhere overnight for the Saturday gig. This was as a favour to one of the band members who's brother organises the festival. Unfortunately the Friday blew out as I couldn't get the time off work. The majority were keen to do it and who I am to argue. I'm the dep after all.

More apologies from the management have been received today. However they managed to get themselves into the situation, it's a little annoying that the band before us and the one after allegedly had to cut one song each and we had to lose three. It's a shame as our lead had the audience in the palm of his hand getting them to engage and sing along. What's done is done I guess, but it's always a pleasure playing to that sort of crowd, so who knows, we might be back :-)

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1465737866' post='3070605']
Yep - we had one a few weeks ago. A big do, and... no stage manager. Complete chaos, and it turned into a war of attrition between everyone involved. No fun.
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There was stage management there. Loads of them in fact. They just weren't doing a very good job.
Behind the scenes - brilliant. Up at pointy end - rubbish. Different people I think though.

So, a band that I dep for played the Witney Music Festival yesterday.
We were booked for an hour slot prior to the headliner in September last year.
As time went by, we were bounced down a slot and a month or so ago were informed that we now only had 40 minutes instead of an hour.
Given that it's a 200 mile plus round trip for us on the day, what enthusiasm there was had started to wane.

So, we all get there in very good time despite driving through intermittent rain showers all the way and it's overcast on arrival, but mainly dry.
Access, parking, gear storage, toilets, VIP area etc were all faultless.

Surprise surprise, the show is running late. We are supposed to go on at 1940hrs and we're now on at 2000hrs, but "Don't worry, you'll still have your 40 mins'. Yeah right.

So we start at 2000hrs and almost immediately we're told from the side that we need to drop one song. OK, so out goes one of the two new ones and we carry on.

20 minutes later, halfway through a song with another two to go, we're told we have five minutes left. So, we finish that song and start the next one thinking we'll stop, the crowd will ask for more and we will oblige as the bands before us had. No problem. Wrong. We start the penultimate song and the stage management kill the PA and tell us to get off. Our lead makes it quite clear what has occurred and the crowd boo the stage management. By this time the band have the right hump and there's no going back, so off we go.

To put this in some kind of context, the band before us were a really good outfit called [url="http://www.crowdcompanyfunk.com/photos-videos/"]Crowd Company[/url], but ironically the crowd did a bit of a disappearing act when they came on which was a real shame. I thought they were great. Nice Sadowsky by the way if you're on here my friend. Being an 80's covers band, it's fairly easy to whip the crowd up again in preparation for the last two acts of the night, which I think we succeeded in. The last thing you want is a negative moment for the crowd but the stage management delivered that spectacularly.

Once we were off stage we had 101 people tripping over themselves apologising to us to the extent that the organisers acknowledged the stage management had f***ed up big style.

How difficult is it to stick to a schedule? I've been in the middle of it time and time again and it very rarely happens how it should.

Anyone else had similar problems?

Anyhow, here was the view from my office mid-set yesterday, before it went all Pete Tong.