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[quote name='lemmywinks' post='482280' date='May 7 2009, 06:41 PM'] A dad joke of the highest order![/quote] I think Seiko do pocket calculators too ........

[quote name='ped' post='482290' date='May 7 2009, 06:47 PM']Wot about a link to your Baschat forum? I love the pic on the homepage of the little monkey fellow.[/quote] Little monkey fellow? I thought that was Alex and the cabs were three storys high!

PM'd

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='482154' date='May 7 2009, 04:42 PM']Got a Seiko keyring tuner for £5.50, very accurate. Great for noodling around the house, esp as my classical guitar refuses to stay in tune for longer than 5 minutes![/quote] Handy.. My keyrings are never in tune ...

Grolsch Strap Locks Cost nowt save valuable repairs and damage.

[quote name='boabskiboab' post='481770' date='May 7 2009, 11:37 AM']I always thought these looked pretty damn cool. [/quote] I like that one. Reminiscent of Vic's YingYang Fodera too

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='481730' date='May 7 2009, 10:51 AM']I don't think it's the shape that makes for the most stylish aeshthetic - It's the material. The coolest looking ones are the transparent persprex ones. They make a bass look seriously cool.[/quote] I'm looking at both aspects ... Here's a W&T J-type with perspex. I'd prefer a chrome knob plate though

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='481554' date='May 7 2009, 12:51 AM']Do you think he was eating a Lion bar when he sketched that one?[/quote] Or some "special" cakes

Long booked wedding celebration gig in south Somerset last Saturday. It was our new boy's wedding so he was planning on braking rule 6b for wedding bands: "don't pull the bride" .. This was not your average wedding gig though. They actually got legally married in January. This was the Druid Handfasting in a stone circle and celebration of the wedding. Very nice day. The bride got to wear her wedding dress again which is moe than most do, and she was wearing nice white and blue stars DM boots too Their son enjoyed it too Young people these days eh? Anyway our client, (remember he's our guitarist/keys player) only found out the day before that our electric Ceilidh band couldn't play in the marquee as planned because of licencing restrictions (Doh!) Acoustic music only in the tent. So we were in a pretty small room inside. Hummmm Bit tight for ceilidh dancing .... All went well, the Bridegroom got up for a couple, as did his dad who turned out to play in a 60's rock covers band Dad also spilled the beans about our lad who, it turns out, once came second in a "how many instruments can you play Smoke on the Water on?" competition.. He only managed 35 or so... Also turns out the he once taught a few bass master classes .... Yup, I play in a band where the two guitarists/keys also play bass .. Handy for when I get things wrong Good gig in the end and the crowd apreciated the band's willingness to have a go at anything they shouted out, and half of Dad's set.. Some nice comments aftewards about my bass playing. Turns out the crowd had a fair few bass players in it. Nice to be noticed at all and to be complimented by fellow basists ... Little rosy glow there .. I've yet to ask Dai if he scored but as he'd been married 5 months by then I doubt it somehow

[quote name='BigRedX' post='481376' date='May 6 2009, 08:16 PM']Ta! The Harkte looks like a thin brushed metal film over black plastic. The Talbo is aluminium sheet. The Traben is part of the bridge so chromed whatever the bridge is made of. The Reverend is the strangest - it looks like a thin semi-opaque white over black which just happens to look silver in certain lights.[/quote] I blame Phil Lynott

[quote name='Finbar' post='481356' date='May 6 2009, 07:50 PM']How much does Jon charge for these? PM is cool. Could email him, but this is probably quicker. Don't want to bother the poor guy! I'd love one. Maybe in a year or two. Maybe a short scale one..[/quote] Stock price is about £1500

Ah I suspected you'd have some good ones Are they all silver coloured plastic?

I used to hate it in a previous life when you'd send the venue a tech spec well in advance and then turn up early enough to set up and sound check our gear, then the support's .. only to find the sound bloke wander in an hour later and start complaining that he didn't have enough mics and cables and stands for our huge horn section and we'd have to share and then take ages to plug it all in and actually get to sound check. Quite often at this one venue the support didn't get a check despite being there 3 hours before doors ... This does not make for a happy gig..

[quote name='Bassassin' post='480916' date='May 6 2009, 12:54 PM']Cheers - some of those are stunning. J.[/quote] and some ......

[quote name='Bassassin' post='480871' date='May 6 2009, 12:27 PM']What's that? It's luvverly.[/quote] [url="http://www.lecomptebass.com/gallery/"]http://www.lecomptebass.com/gallery/[/url] That's the Lecompte PT 1.5, I think

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='480800' date='May 6 2009, 11:41 AM']Me trying to look cool infront of what can only be described as a wardrobe! [/quote] Not a huge Leslie speaker is it?

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='479991' date='May 5 2009, 03:31 PM']I don't disagree, but as long as that's agreed and cool with everyone. It's when the 15 minutes turns into an hour and the guy who has work tomorrow is now blazing mad that it becomes an issue.[/quote] Sure.

I used to like its drumming a lot but now I'm an ex-tractor fan

[quote name='alexclaber' post='480649' date='May 6 2009, 08:39 AM']Well the free version is a nightmare to read! But maybe I should pay for the pdf... Alex[/quote] ... and it crashes every browser known to Man .... I was trying to read something I spotted on page 16 yesterday using IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari .. Regular huge delays in paging forward and eventually they all froze up .. Hardly a good sign.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='480426' date='May 5 2009, 09:56 PM']Thunderbird. I'm also a fan of the look of the Traban Basses with the "bigger bridge" where it takes on much the same aesthetic features as a scratch plate, particularly the Phoenix and the Tribal Sun designs.[/quote] Any contenders in your weird and wonderful collections? I think these add to the style

I'm looking for examples of basses with stylish scratch plates, stuff with curves and proportions that add to the overall aesthetic of the bass rather than just cover a hole or give you somewhere to stick the knobs. I'm not really looking for mainstream P J MM etc types as I'm very familiar with those designs. What else is out there?

[quote name='chris_b' post='480369' date='May 5 2009, 08:51 PM']As far as I understand, the promoter pays the PRS.[/quote] Well yeah, and the door take/ticket sales pays the promotor If it's your first contract and your first gig at this venue I'd not create a fuss about PRS. just sell a few more tickets to cover the costs.