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    I’d love this - I’m just sadly nowhere near you!
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    Ooh I say that’s rather lovely.
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    Lovely little solo acoustic guitar/vocal gig last night at the Organ Grinder in Loughborough - my first solo gig in over a year (I do them to fill the gaps in between my other band gigs). Nice crowd, good atmosphere, and felt good to get back into solo stuff. Also the first outing for my old Yamaha acoustic that cost me £40 last year, and it’s Seymour Duncan soundhole pickup. Good way to round off the weekend. Very much enjoyed it and got booked for two more gigs straight away.
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    Thanks but it’s ok. I’ve got more cabs than I need already!
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    Yeah I very much like being the age I am now. Better player, wiser, way more experienced and a lot calmer than I was as a youngster. People go on about how great it is to be young, but for me it meant having no money, poorly paid work at the bottom of the ladder, no clue what I was doing or how to do it. I think I’m happier now at nearly 50 than I was at 20 for sure.
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    On a more practical level, not smashing up my left shoulder at the age of 42 would have been handy. Put politely it hasn’t improved my playing one bit.
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    I’d like to have had more confidence and self belief when I was younger and people were telling me it was fine to have music as a hobby but to get a real job. As it turns out playing music has been the one constant in my life since I was 12 (including some of those people who gave me their helpful “advice” and have long since gone…). Far more important than just a hobby - a massive part of my life and something that has got me through a lot of hard times, as my escape, my own form of therapy and nourishment for my soul.
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    I keep looking at this van and thinking it must sound ace! I’ve got a pair of the regular Markbass 2x10s and they’re great, so this bigger cab double ported variant, pimped into a 4ohm 600w cab must sound the absolute dogs! Shame I’m not nearer / have more spare room or I’d have it. A lot of cab for £150.
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    Awesome band. Awesome song. Awesome racket.
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    Got asked if we could play any Girls Aloud once on stage in a pub gig. We were a five piece band of 40/50-something men… so no.
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    Hello, I’ve recently taken these off my Mustang bass - they are lightly used (I’ve done about half a dozen rehearsals with them on, so nothing too arduous and plenty of life left in them as a result.) These are made to fit a string-through body Mustang. They are gauge .43 to 104. Some minor wear to the red silks but really overall very good condition, clean and ready for lots more music! How does £25 posted within the UK sound? Excuse the slightly DIY plastic bag wrapping to keep them clean and dust free.
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    Cool basses these. I have the very same.
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    Also yes mainly acoustically if I’m just noodling on the sofa etc. The headphones et al are only for learning / playing along with stuff I need to know.
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    For gigs? I sometimes just use one cab instead of two. For home practice, either a Vox Amplug and my laptop, or my blackstar iD Beam little practice thingy.
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    Brilliant for improvising, but hopeless for remembering what brilliant improvising you did.
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    Thermos of Earl Grey tea. Always. Black. No sugar.
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    Morning Siggi - come on in, the water's lovely.
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    Headlined an event called Picnic in the Park at Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire yesterday as part of the Elton John tribute band. Nice afternoon out, good crowd, didn't rain (yay!) and a big stage to throw rock star shapes on. All boxes ticked really.
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    Done Butlins at Skeggy and Minehead. Big stages, nice house rigs (SVT and 8x10 cab) and the staff took good care of us each time. Good crowds at these weekends (I think ours have been 1970s weekends) and people right up for a dance and sing along. We were on just before Stan Boardman last time! Cool gigs.
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    Aye I always drive too. I don’t drink so it’s easy for me to be the driver. I’ve walked to a couple of gigs before now with bass on my back if I know there’s good backline provided (or I’ve had to set up earlier and can leave kit there etc) but that’s few and far between. When I used to drink we’d have all sorts of complex travel arrangements to avoid driving at all costs but I much prefer to pack down, load in and get out of there at the end of the gig.
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    Same. I learned from Harvey Vinson and Jim Gregory’s books which had the floppy 7” record in the back. Got about halfway thru the book and then learned the rest from listening to Iron Maiden and Kiss albums from the local record library. Been winging it ever since, rather effectively it must be said. Still can’t read a note of music but after 38 years of playing I think I’ve probably missed the boat on that one.
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    Sunday afternoon gig at a very hot, humid, steamy Donkey in Leicester with the Andy Wales Blues Band. Outside was about a zillion degrees and we were roasting to death in our tight black jeans and Chelsea boots. But the decision to play inside paid off when a massive downpour and thunder arrived a few songs in. The whole vibe suited our swampy blues and soul music thing tho. The only downside of all that humidity is that I now have exactly the same hairstyle as Gene Wilder.
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