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Henry’s currently doing XSLF, with Jim Reilly (drummer on Nobody’s Heroes album) and Avi on bass. Current SLF drummer is Steve Grantley, been with them for over 20 years now, Ian McCallum completing the line up on rhythm guitar.

Yes that’s right, Ali is back in the fold now.

Great looking bass Nick, & great history with it.

Many years ago, in a Motley Crue originals type band our bassist got us to play his works Xmas do. Started soundcheck and this guy came running in from the other bar shouting at us to be quiet. So in accordance I quietly told him if he spoke to me like that again my guitar would meet the top of his head. So not a good start. And it continued. We were just not the right band to play to regular office types ranging from the young girls to the old guys, none of whom it seemed had ever witnessed an 80s style glam band with questionable lyrics to match. The only applause & dancing was when we did Twist & Shout. Still the bassist didn’t get fired from his job so they couldn’t have hated us that much.

Stiff Little Fingers & The Professionals at The Roundhouse, March 26th, rescheduled from March 2020.

My Sharona by The Knack, but check out the awesome version by Phil X & The Drills to hear how good it really is on bass & drums.

A true classic

I bought one of these last year to try and organise my spare - as in read junk - room. Worked a treat. Has sliding doors, comes from Instrument Furniture, it`s part of their CLEO range, they delivered and assembled, pain free all round, would def recommend both the company and the product.

I’d reckon so, probably ideal for reggae

QPs are pretty high powered, usually emphasis is on both top & bottom end so sound modern/scooped/bigger sounding than stock Fenders. If the bass is a good ‘un and priced well I’d go for it, see if you get on with them - if not get a set of the stock ones, you’ll easily move on the QPs.

Paul bought some pickups from me, swift payment, good comms including letting me know when they arrived.

Bought a pedal board power supply from Andy, great comms, swift delivery, great transaction.

Good rig, and imo a good pairing with a Precision, work well together.

My one of each would be Precision Jazz Stingray Thunderbird Rickenbacker Semi-acoustic (not knowledge enough to name one) As we can see I’m more for the ‘classics’ than modern.

Should be fine, nice low action there

Def worth a look, they`re great amps

Short sleeves for me, in previous band it was Fred Perrys, in current band a short sleeved Ben Sherman undone, over a tee shirt for the American blue collar look.

Fender Precision with fresh Warwick Red Label steel rounds, into a Tech21 Para Driver, into an Ashdown ABM600, connected to an Ashdown ABM410. All eq was from the Para Driver, eq switched off on the ABM600, but the Valve Drive engaged and at noon. Two feeds, one taken from the DI on the Para Driver, one from a mic on the 410, then blended, was about 60/40 DI/Mic. Sounded like this:

Indeed a classic look

I’d probably have been a rhythm guitarist, I’m pretty good at that but not too hot on that lead malarkey.

I had one, with the matching NY121 cab. The combo on its own was loud enough for live use with my band at the time which consisted of drums, 2 basses, 3 guitars, keyboards and 2 singers, doing punky/indie type music. Adding in the cab really filled the sound out but the combo on its own was easily enough.

Yep, Ampeg pretty similar tho I find that Ashdown have more clarity when the top end is pushed, seem a bit smoother to me, with Ashdown maybe being more low-mid biased with Ampeg more towards middle-mids if that makes any sense.

20hz - crazy, would any regular market speakers handle that anyway?

A bit like Bon Jovi then, halfway there

Yep I always pick the sound for the band. The sounds I had for my previous two bands, although both achieved using a Precision, were a fair bit different. And the sound for my current band, again with a Precision is a tad different, though probably more in-keeping with the two bands ago sound than the last.