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I've no idea how loud a 30W Marshall gets, but I use a Roland Micro Cube, which sounds fine at bedroom volumes, and you get 20 hours of battery life if you need to go in the shed. It's got an aux in and headphones out as well.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1409832655' post='2543732'] I was vaguely thinking of suggesting Christmas Wrapping for our band to cover at the Xmas jam at our local pub. Largley because we have a female vocalist. I hadn't really listened to it properly though. Now I've listened to that tasty bass line, I don't think it's something I could manage! [/quote] It was transcribed in a seasonal edition of Bass Player magazine a couple of years ago. Let me know if you'd like a scan. It's a cool song to learn anyway!

Tracy Wormworth, maybe best known for "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I Also she cropped up in Sting's late 80s touring band - some rare and out-of-sync footage here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38lb5_sting-the-lazarus-heart_music - but now in the B52s... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW5Vj4ngdw

BV played with Tower Of Power when Rocco Prestia fell ill. Straight in to the gig with no rehearsals after the initial audition, according to his recent column in Bass Player magazine.

I put together my own wedding band for er, my own wedding. I paid for rehearsals and equipment hire, and got got my pals in on guitars and drums. Setlist was minimal, six songs + encore, but the novelty of me plus live band doing rockabilly/r&r versions of well-known wedding-appropriate themed songs was enough, and the DJ took over for the rest of the evening. Setlist included Be-Bop A Lula, All Shook Up, And Then I Kissed Her, Three Steps To Heaven, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a cover of an original by one of the guitarists' band, and a couple of others. Even with the bonus beer and curry night I treated the band to post-honeymoon, it worked out at least a grand cheaper than any wedding band.

Nice! My band has currently got this very near the top of the setlist additions queue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcAj3gZVqWo

Don't forget this little-known JF solo album number http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW8ekYsa7-4

UK tour just announced: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/artist/royal-blood-tickets/709593 I'm half way through listening to the album for the first time, and I've checked out a couple of clips on youtube. It's ok, but sorry to not jumping on the bandwagon, so far it's somewhere between White Stripes with a better drummer and an ok bassist, and Them Crooked Vultures with someone who's not John Paul Jones. Sure there's effects wizardry that's of some curiousity value, but if you didn't know that and just heard the songs, well it's just OK.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1409485180' post='2540051'] Love CCR, so many great songs. Worth checking out Jon Foghertys The Long Road Home, live CD, it`s excellent. [/quote] +several millions

I'm a happy 6180 user for all my gear as well, I'm not sure I understand why active instruments need a different impedance but perhaps a clever person can help me out here. Is it just like having a switchable pad on the input of your amp? According to the specs (links below) the passive version includes "a micro taper switch which provides the user two distinct volume swell rates", which isn't mentioned for the active equivalent. So there's a bonus. http://www.ernieball.com/products/pedals/1661/vp-jr-250k-for-passive-electronics http://www.ernieball.com/products/pedals/2044/vp-jr-25k-for-active-electronics

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1408803591' post='2533648'] Wow that will be great!! Wasn't John Giblin the original fretless player on the late 70s stuff? [/quote] He played on Never For Ever, The Sensual World, The Red Shoes, Aerial and 50 Words For Snow - so he should be familiar with some of the songs...

Two on top of whatever fuzz you're considering. I've already got both volume + ls-2 anyway, so perhaps it's an easier solution for me! Incidentally, this lets you build a blendable side-chain of whatever other effects you might want to do that with as well.

Boss LS-2 and a volume pedal? Pop the fuzz or whatever in the feedback loop and the volume pedal after it.

Just bought Shep's WMD Geiger Counter. Thumbs up all round for quick delivery, good packaging, and helpful advice. Thanks!

Already got my order in at Burning Shed https://www.burningshed.com/store/jazz/product/140/6022/

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1407776303' post='2523905'] Broken linky fixed: [url="http://notomguitars.com/pages/valuations"]http://notomguitars....ages/valuations[/url] Their £30 for a basic valuation seems reasonable under the circs. [/quote] Oops, thanks mister. I had a misplaced period. I think V&R were charging that much when I had my first valuation done many moons ago - but I took two guitars in and they charged me £50. Costs a tenner to take the typewriter out then. So, worth asking nicely if you've got more than one valuation to do.

Last time I did this, I went to Vintage And Rare on Denmark St. When it came to renewing the documents a few years later (valuations were valid at my insurer for 3 or 5 years), I took along the documents and they simply re-signed and -dated the same forms, as if to say "same value still applies". V&R have moved out of Denmark St now, the premises is now occupied by No Tom Guitars, http://notomguitars.com/ - and they have a valuations service, see http://notomguitars.com/pages/valuations. If you use them, let us know how you get on.

I saw a great band at a festival over the weekend, Woohoo Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xHMm_PhNXw Never heard of them before, and I've no idea who their bassist is, but she was brilliant as was the band.

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1407664434' post='2522641'] Carrie Melbourne. Played on a couple of Mike Oldfield tours, plays Chapman Stick. Awesome. Maybe not quite as good a sense of musicality as whatshername from the Pixies but she manages okay. Better than me any road [/quote] And Babylon Zoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB5zXlwte9M

[quote name='julietgreen' timestamp='1407417724' post='2520286'] Is anyone prepared to post a photo of their grolsch bottle washer straplocks in situ? [/quote] As long as you don't mind a bit of blur, these two were readily available on this pc... (First one was my wedding day, hence the point of focus)

You can get them on eBay, just search for grolsch bottle washers. My local still sells Grolsch by the bottle, trouble is the washers these days are kind of plasticky, not like (but not totally unlike) the good old rubbery feel of old. They still do the job though, I've got a couple on my day-to-day bass. Happy to go drinking some if you want some sent on.

I've listened to both Live Art and Quick over the weekend and while I love the Flecktones, arne't American audiences terribly impressed at the slightest thing? - Vic plays open E "OH YEAH." - Vic plays pentatonic lick "WOOOOO" - Vic plays bent harmonic *screaming and hollering* - Vic starts Amazing Grace groove, cafe fails to sell out of loaves and fishes

I've been asked to play a few tunes with the band at a relative's upcoming birthday party, and the list includes Sweet Child O' Mine and On The Road Again. Sadly, it's the Sheryl Crow version of Sweet Child and the Katie Melua version of On The Road Again

+1 for Live At The Quick, also get Live Art (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Art). Then when the nights are drawing in, get their Christmas album Jingle All The Way, featuring their take on "The Twelve Days Of Christmas", each "day" has its own instrument and the appropriate time signature, and there's a guest appearance from Mongolian throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DtRNRH6nP4

Good luck with it! I've played at Secret Garden Party and Bestival - one was brilliant, the other terrible, and this was largely dictated by the weather. Fingers crossed for sunshine.