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Playing catch-up a bit, just found this thread. I've got a TB-10, bought from Wunjo about this time last year. (In case you didn't see the thread I posted at the time, it's the one used by John Giblin on Kate Bush's "Before The Dawn" gig). Mine is used mostly for at-home practice, solo and with friends on acoustics. I can see it being used for acoustic jazz or country/americana gigs at some point, it's been tried in my electric jazz outfit but it didn't really fit. The only gripes I've had is that the pre-amp rattles a bit in its cubby hole, but it's only really audible when you're playing acoustically. I've used the end-pin for "upright" playing, but only when seated and positioning the bass like a cello. Standing, there's not enough body size to stop it rotating in place while playing.

Steven Wilson at Hammy O tonight, Nick Beggs on bass.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1453903523' post='2964019'] Crikey...those 2 rehearsal rooms will sound a bit live won't they? With all those breeze blocks Why do none of these studios publish their rates? [/quote] Premisis: http://www.premisesstudios.com/rates/ John Henrys have the rate on each studio page, as does The Joint This might be a bit out of date but see how you get on: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z201mRNiUCuI.kBQlk563mVdE&usp=sharing (I'm not saying they all have stages btw, but it's worth exploring)

Also, John Henrys http://www.johnhenrys.com/rehearsals/studios and Premises http://www.premisesstudios.com

The Joint? http://www.thejoint.org.uk

Here's the extended version of Tony Visconti dissecting Heroes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g18sx

Yep, even if it's old music that I've not heard before.

[quote name='sprocketflup' timestamp='1453590451' post='2960940'] Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Well, Trevor Horn [/quote] See also 90125, A Secret Wish and Lexicon Of Love. All brilliant albums done by Trev and some blokes/frauleins.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1453555607' post='2960498'] Just to give you an idea of how it might pan out, [url="http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/paul-simon-and-sting/2014/united-center-chicago-il-3c2b1d7.html"]here's a setlist from the last time Sting did this, with Paul Simon[/url]. [/quote] Were both Sting's band and Paul Simon's band there, or was there one uber-band for the whole lot?

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1453510968' post='2960294'] That'll be because they play for four hours in the US, not just the 90 minutes we get over here. [/quote] Oh I see. They who? Sting and Peter Gabriel, or everyone?

Sell it back for a profit. You know, to cover expenses.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1453325831' post='2958550'] Oh yessss. Worth having just for Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down. I keep meaning to get the DVD. [/quote] Think I've got it on tape somewhere. It's ok, but it makes you love Sting just a little bit less in all the "documentary" cuts between songs. Can't remember exactly why but you know, [i]Sting.[/i] I'm gonna add Consider Me Gone, Low Life, Driven to Tears, Moon Over Bourbon Street and especially Dream of the Blue Turtles/Demolition Man to your choice for top tracks from that album.

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If you're on the petergabriel.com newsletter mailing list, you'll have already seen the presale links. Front and centre seats are yours for $250 each. I'm not sure how this sits in the scheme of US gig ticket pricing, but that's £180 at today's exchange rate.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1453304506' post='2958268'] I wish I'd seen Sting on the Dream Of The Blue Turtles tour. What an incredible band he had alongside him. [/quote] Yeah, agreed. You've got live album Bring On The Night, right?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1453284287' post='2958005'] That was all a bit hand wringing & worthy though, wasn't it? The fact that Tracy Chapman was on the bill was a deal breaker for me too, I think she's bloody awful. [/quote] Nah, it was a good laugh. Went for beer during TC, PG did Games Without Frontiers and Family Snapshot. Sting was still on his Nothing Like The Sun tour so that was pretty jazzy (ie still quite good, no sigh of lutes). Springsteen's set was only 90 minutes or so, so just about bearable. And it was nearly 30 years ago so my memory is hazy.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1453243637' post='2957866'] If they'd done this in the 80s or 90s I would have gone. Neither of them has done anything remotely interesting (IMO) for donkeys years so I won't be bothering. [/quote] They did, kind of. At the Amnesty International Human Rights Now tour with a show at Wembley, 1998. Some bloke Bruce Something headlined. Pretty good!

Catch up with the other Jaco Movie thread here... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/250058-jaco-the-movie-pledgemusic/

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1453214687' post='2957470'] Go for a curry first, miss the support, then elbow your way to the front. Everyone else at gigs I go to seems to do it. [/quote] Watch the video. It's both of them, then one of them, then both again, then something else I forget.

I love PG (and Sting to a lesser extent when he's not faffing around with lutes ffs) but for heavens sake do some new material Pete.

Bass Player magazine featured the transcription of this a few years ago as the lead article, which doesn't happen very often. The text of the article is here: http://www.bassplayer.com/artists/1171/nathan-watts-on-stevie-wonder39s-39do-i-do39/26140 - I've got the magazine somewhere but you can probably find the transcription online somewhere.

and some bloke called Dizzy on the trumpet? Not bad.

This has just pipped Where Are We Now? as my favourite on The Next Day. Some lovely fretless from GAD, read a bit about her MTD bass here http://www.singingbassist.com/gail-ann-dorsey-singing-bassist/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1jYO64l0fM

[quote name='kusee pee' timestamp='1452580064' post='2951257'] Changed my mind whilst dreaming of Bowie songs last night. Thru These Architect's Eyes. A storming track. [/quote] Outside is a fantastic album. With some judicious editing it could be up there with his best. As well as Architect, I love Oxford Town, Heart's Filthy Lesson, Voyeur (already posted above).

More awesome. Look out for Garson, Gabrels and whoever the drummer is here. Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xup_RSisiWQ