bassninja

I was in a jazz trio with session supremo Big Jim Sullivan for a while. Learned an awful lot fast. Got to meet & play with Herbie Flowers at a few of those gigs (looks like at least 75% of us here have met Herbie though. Nice bloke nonetheless...) I did an unrehearsed dep for a band at a party at Roger Taylor's enormous Surrey pad (the Queen drumming one). Met Gary Glitter (uurgh...), cool bassman Phil Spalding, Martin Chambers from the Pretenders, etc etc. Tony Hadley wee'd on my foot there... (by accident I hasten to add). Alvin Stardust. Richard O'Brien (Crystal Maze, Rocky Horror Show etc) said I played bass like a piano player's left hand. I think it was a compliment... I performed in a musical with 80s DJ Mike Read & Radio 4's mellifluous voiced announcer Peter Donaldson. He had us howling with laughter at his selections from the shipping forecast (just kidding ;-) But the best one was with a personal hero from my prog days: David Palmer from Jethro Tull. I remember him as a bearded pipe smoking Bloke behind a pipe organ and bank of synths... I met her shortly after her sex change when she became Dee Palmer. Got a peck on the cheek at the end of 'Locomotive Breath' though...

Should be in my signature thingy. Ah yes, there it is...

Its music. That's good enough. `

I'm loving that...

GRRR... sound limiters, eh? I've suffered from 10 to 11 syndrome in pubs for yonks too. The silence between numbers, the tolling of a distant church bell, tumbleweed blowing across the 'stage' etc etc. Until, at 10 to 11: "MAWWWRRRR!! MAWWWRRR!!!" (where have you been all night then?) Almost as bad as "can you do Bohemian Rhapsody?" I've found audiences in Europe are often a bit more on side (not always of course...) Anyone have a view on overseas bar/club gigs?

I use my Yamaha NE-1 Nathan East preamp between my bass and desk/amp/DI etc. Its a sweepable/variable mid cut and acts like a 'focus' ring on a camera lens to get the sound right in a given room. I don't tend to use any amp EQ afterwards either, tinkering as necessary on the old actives...

[quote name='lukeward2004' post='23890' date='Jun 27 2007, 09:26 AM']What, No HEAD? Man, that relationship must suck [/quote] or not...

Picked up a 300w 15" powered sub bin from a trace acoustic PA (TAPA SB300), looking to add a little depth to the old rig when necessary. I can't find any info on it however. Does anyone know anything about them?

Dropping the odd clunker because you're developing an idea, going for that 'little extra' or are feeling inspired is cool, because its what live music is all about (IMHO). Flatulent honkers due to being pissed, stoned or otherwise wrecked are just letting your band members/mates down. I regret to say I've done both, and I know which one feels most 'noble'...I always feel that the art of improvisation is the ability to 'go with he mistake'. It seems to me that Jimmy Page has made a fabulous career out of it. Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead tells a story about a fistfight he had with Jerry Garcia on a night when they accused one another of playing the whole night in boxing gloves, not listening, fretw*nking etc etc. When they heard the tapes back six months later, they released it as a live album...

Hi from the sticks...

A triumph of enthusiasm over taste... Didn't know that gurning had reached the States yet, though.

Cool pix. I played a few with Billy Mitchell some while ago, just before he got the Lindisfarne gig. He was in a duo called Maxie & Mitch then, and they were hysterically superb. I think Maxie went on to form and Irish band called Mahoney M (!)

Not, BilliRox...it used to be called "Rox on the Prom" in Bognor Regis. Just wondering...

Just found the 'new' forum, so hi again everybody. Anybody else play Bognor Rox event over the weekend? Is this an attempt for West Sussex to take the world over?