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[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1396044622' post='2409505'] [nostalgia]If you are lucky enough to buy a ticket in your own right, you will get stung with a 'booking fee'. Sorry, what is that? A fee for the privilege of buying a ticket! Rarely can you simply buy the ticket at face value from the venue. Imagine getting to the till in Asda with your shopping, and they add on a £5 'shopping fee'. [/quote] Your shopping fee is wrapped up in the cost of food. Booking fee pays for the infrastructure of the website, databases, staff etc. I'd much rather pick my own seat through the booking website than posting off a cheque and crossing my fingers that in six months you'll get a grubby brown envelope with some badly-printed tickets for seats in the nosebleeds. Ticketmaster (etc) are up front these days about the cost of the ticket, the fees, the postage. What annoys me is being charged the same amount for postage or the print at home option. Huh?

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1395924140' post='2407949'] More to the point, how are you all getting tickets for KB before the official release date?! [/quote] There was a fan club/mailing list only presale on Wednesday morning. Only those who'd signed up to the list before March 1st got the presale code. Even so, the 15 nights sold out, and 7 more have been added

I got lucky with a pal who piped up "oh I've got a code shall we go?" sometime on Tuesday. We got tickets for the date we wanted (it was too hectic to browse for best seats) in the stalls, central but a bit further back than I'd have liked, but as you say the experience will be worth it.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1395844679' post='2407027'] Apart from the utterly atrocious acoustics, especially in the balcony. [/quote] Au contraire! At the recent Crimson Projekct gig we enjoyed great acoustics on the first floor balcony, while those sitting (yes sitting) downstairs complained of "overpowering bass frequencies for me, couldn't really hear anything other than bass and drums, and the pounding of the bass drum was physically unpleasant" It's going to vary from one gig to another intit, and one soundman to another, and one seating set to another. And probably whether levels 2 and 3 are open or not.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1395844198' post='2407010'] There are plenty of specialist websites for that sort of thing, no need to piss about going to the Jazz Cafe. [/quote] Aha, thanks for the expert tip. How many of them are influential new wave bass players though?

I got my Kate Bush tickets this morning, and am really looking forward to it. I go to big gigs small gigs some as big as yer 'ead. On the contrary side to your complaints - not arguing, just providing an alternative point of view - I got tickets to see Rush at the O2 Enormodome for Time Machine. I got lucky and was second row in front of Geddy, unbeleiveably good. Another time I saw Tom Tom Club at the Jazz Cafe, and excited to see an early "without whom" bassist I got there early and was front and centre, and spent the whole gig looking at 60-year old woman's knees. Win some, lose some.

How did the fan club mailing list folk get on with ticket buying this morning?

I missed the CA tour as well - but would be definitely up for this.

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1395486184' post='2402924'] Yep, ID to be shown by original purchaser prior to entry. [/quote] yep, like led Zeppelin. Cue loads of eBay sales to be a ticket-holders plus-one. (And -two, and -three)

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1395479515' post='2402835'] I subscribed to her website years ago, so all registered accounts got it. [/quote] Thought as much. Well done you! Any spare codes?

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1395431330' post='2402501'] I have my booking code for Wednesday's advanced ticket sale (coincidentally, it's also my birthday that day, so happy birthday to me!) and am hoping for four tickets [/quote] Cool! Where'd you get the code?

A black Geddy Lee Jazz bass scratchplate? http://www.wdmusic.com/pickguard_jbgl_300.html

My money's on Pino btw

More info here... [url="http://ticketnews.eventim.co.uk/kate-bush-the-iconic-star-is-set-to-return-to-hammersmith/#axzz2waIeEnFL"]http://ticketnews.eventim.co.uk/kate-bush-the-iconic-star-is-set-to-return-to-hammersmith/#axzz2waIeEnFL[/url]

I've got the Analogman BiComp that is two compressors in one box, and individually selectable so you can have neither/either/or/both, and they've both got their own sonic characteristics. I use one for general day to day compression, then add in the other if I need a boost, or switch to the other to use its particular sound. There's one going in the "Effects For Sale" forum. (not mine!)

Hah. I know what you mean. I'm listening now as well. It's *wavy handy* ok, bits of brilliance but gets a bit "here are some riffs I know", albeit faultlessly executed as they are. edit: So I guess that makes it ok that we're "borrowing" from it

Good tip, I'd forgotten about that. It's on Spotify as well, [url="http://open.spotify.com/album/4EVOMRb0Az4ArkiOgt9Q9p"]Jaco Pastorius – Honestly (Solo Live)[/url]

Yep, you've got a really good full sound on you video - well done. Can I ask what other songs are your set at the moment?

If it is Invitation, and Twins 1 & 2, then there's not much new here - and it's confirmed in article [url="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40566#.UyVn7_l_t8E"]http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40566#.UyVn7_l_t8E[/url] at All About Jazz, but which also says "the cherry of the box—other than the inclusion of a fanboy-enticing, toy-sized model of Pastorius' timeworn fretless bass, along with a miniature stand on which to to rest it—is the bonus sixth disc, The Jaco Solo Tracks: Live & Unreleased. Sixty-one minutes of mostly solo bass performances, culled from performances in Japan, England and the United States, recorded between 1978 and 1981, that reaffirm—as if it was necessary—Pastorius' inarguable position as [i]the[/i] electric bassist during his glory days" That's a lot of a wedge for one cherry.

What are discs 2 and 3 in the pile there?

Good stuff! Do you do any "old songs"? I've played with - I think - 4 Genesis tributes in times gone by, so huge props to anyone who has the balls to give it a go. A lot of it was difficult but fun to play, some of it just plain difficult. I've forgotten more than I remember now, but some of my favourites to play were One For The Vine, In That Quiet Earth, the Fountain of Salmacis, Return Of The Giant Hogweed, In The Cage.

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1394794596' post='2395267'] I recently jumped on this bandwagon myself. I really wanted to find a set of T3's but after looking for quite some time it seemed to be a dead end. So I ended up going for a set of PK6's and a Moog Slim Phatty. That's pretty devastating. I notice with interest there are a couple of clowns in Edinburgh are trying to sell the original Taurus pedals for more than £2500!! Jog on, pal. [/quote] There's a couple on eBay at the moment (one I suspect is the one you've seen), both in Edinburgh. £2.5k for one, £2.8k for the other. Thing is, they'll probably sell for this much, or not far under. Mine sold for about £2k a year or two ago (see ad qv in basschat - but it took a LOT of work to get them advertised to a standard they deserved, ie more so than an ebay listing saying "yeah they work fine")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tuvX_X7Rlw

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1394529325' post='2392153'] How about posting some more recent Ric tracks then? [/quote] From less than a decade ago, possibly, including badly-timed bass fail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMGgqXCLVw

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1394293428' post='2389978'] Funnily enough, I bought the Grolsch ones, but found them a bit plasticky, so bought some home-brew ones which are nice and rubbery. Mmmmmmmm....rubbery [/quote] Grolsch changed their recipe in recent years. The original ones were the more rubbery variety, and they changed to the more plastic sort. They may have a very slight extra fiddle factor, but it's no big faff really and I prefer not having to remove my original strap buttons and put them somewhere, probably forget then lose them.