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Had the 1st rehearsal with the new 'Journey' tribute 'Raised On Journey' on Sunday. Played my new purple/blackburst Spector Euro CST through MY GK400RB into the studio's own TE410 with just my Chorus pedal (for when required). Boosted the mids on the GK for that Ross Valory bass tone and 'Bob was very definitely my Uncle'! Everyone had done their homework, including splitting the harmony vocals and I have to say that we sounded damn impressive for a 1st bash through! Looking forward to nailing the finer points and taking it all to the next level 😎

How VERY dare you?!? 🤣

I know what the World's Greatest Basslines are.... and I can guarantee they won't be on this programme.

Urgh...... philistines..... 😠🤮😉🤣

On Friday I went and saw the fantastic @sprocketflup (Dave) playing with his wonderful Kate Bush tribute show 'Cloudbusting' again, but this time with an Orchestra, at the massive Basingstoke Anvil Theatre! 😎 Such a wonderful performance, with the orchestra and arrangements bringing out the depths.... and the subtleties... of Kate's music like I've never heard before. Dave nailed it on bass, as always, and I was fascinated to hear from him afterwards that a couple of the basses he was using in the show had actually been owned/played extensively by the late Del Palmer 🤯 It always make me happy and proud to see my fellow basschatters involved in such wonderful projects and I can't wait to see these guys again as they never disappoint!

It landed today!! Plays great, lovely neck and sounds awesome. 😎👍 Here are a couple of bad 'artificial light'pics in my studio. Better 'outside' ones to follow when the cloud/rain lifts....

Once it's cleaned up and working, it may be worth seeing if Davey Rimmer (Uriah Heep) is interested. I can put you in touch when the time comes....

I'm saying "I'm taller than you, even without a cap on...."

The wonderful Kate Bush tribute 'Cloudbusting' tonight at Basingstoke Anvil, complete with Orchestra! Looking forward to seeing Dave do his thing on bass....

Yep, Big Horizon were fabulous. Great to see you there Trev..... Gotta say that Lee Pomeroy and Donavan Hepburn are a seriously tight rhythm section... wonderful to watch and listen to!

Expect it to be £1200 over here, as Grabbers were £999 at first.

The secret sauce of a Spector is the Haz preamp..... and that needs to be boosted to bring out the wonderful harmonic overtones....

Actually it has a Neve preamp, rather than the Darkglass..... and sounds much better as a result.

I was considering it, but too big a venue. If it was Hammy-O or Brixton Academy I'd consider it...

I'll also be seeing Lee Pomeroy..... but playing with the fabulous 'Big Horizon' (comprising ELO/Take That backing band members) at Holborn Pizza Express tomorrow night!

A Euro NSCR, Euro, Euro LX or CST is 'a proper Spector'. I love the US ones but, personally, I would never buy a new one as the Euro range are 95% there. As long as you have EMGS, add an LHZ preamp and noone would know the difference. The DG Legacy preamp is closer to the Haz in sound than the BTS or Tonepump imho....

Closest I got were the two Dingwall's I bought. An NG3 and a D-Roc. Loved the look of them and the neck/feel was lovely....... but as Chris Childs said at the SE BassBash, they had one great sound and 4 'meh' ones.... Sold/traded them within a couple of months of getting them....

I believe all 6 (3 x 4 string & 3 x 5 string) are all sold. Sorry! The cat will be pleased though... 😉🤣🐈‍⬛

And I bought the undrunk cans (burp!) and left over half a chocolate cake (Mmmmmm....) at half the cost price so it went back in the kitty/charity pot.

Big thanks to all for coming and making this year another great success. Always good to put faces to names/usernames! The venue worked, I think,..... especially considering how spoilt we'd been in the past with access to lots of rooms and a hall in a school! Thank you's from me to Paul @NancyJohnson and Paul @prowla in particular for doing a lot of the advance legwork and prep as I was unavailable. Also, of course to our guest speakers re: cab shooutout and pickups.... and to my old schoolmate @Mike Brooks and good friend Chris Childs for their insights and contributions. I think @stevie may have secured (or is about to!) a few orders as well so a great day all around!

Young Gun Silver Fox..... again! This time, tonight at Papillon in Southampton 🎶⛵️🎸👍😎

I have a 4 string NS Dimension. Looks and sounds great and plays really nicely!