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Why am I thinking 'Kuato' ?

Yeah, just entre nous* I think I'd get sick of Geddy being quizzical at me and have to silence his gaze with some ducting tape. *Thanks folks, I'm here all week.

If I turned up to an audition and the band approached the covers differently to how I'd learned them, I'd assume that I wasn't the right bassist for the band, not that the band were 'doing it wrong'. I'm not one to tell a bunch of strangers how to run their band. YMMV of course.

I'd ask the MU History section directly - I doubt they have all their information online.

I heard you liked necks, so I put a neck on your neck for you. Joking aside, what an interesting video, and as educational as I'd expect from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Welcome ! Nice to have you along

Two Hawkwind-mad guitarists, an absolute techno demon on laptop and me with the largest pedalboard I've ever had...Yeah, it was pretty darn awesome There are further stories of chemcially-altered crowd antics, but I'll save them for another time. Mind you, Mrs. Pook tried to have a conversation onstage with me during at gig with the same band, bless her. She'd been, um....partaking rather heavily that evening and was very insistent that we have a chat. "But I'm onstage..." "I know but....." "Love, c'mon....kinda busy.....hey, you couldn't grab me a beer could you ?" "Yeah, sure....back in a miniute..." Busies off, happy to have a mission. She got lost in the crowd chatting to people and I caught up with her after the gig.

Gig some years ago with a space-rock techno band, man approaches me from the crowd gurning like a bastid, huge grin on his face, brain quite obviously in a very happy place. "Oh Man.....what note are you playing right now ?" he bellows at me from a few feet away. "G" "I FECKIN' LOVE G !!!!" he screams /Dances off into the crowd/ Priceless

Wow, that's brilliant. Recording AND performance. I doff my hat, sir. I doff.

Wow, I didn't know it was Klaus Voormann on that, he just got even cooler....which is tough

As a a rule of thumb, 25 years seems to be about right for musical stuff, but there's no hard and fast rule as far as I can tell !

May I ask why ?

The White Album is probably my favourite Beatles album, but no interest in the remasters - they have no artistic merit in my opinion. It has as much worth in my mind as deciding that the Sistine Chapel ceiling doesn't look good in photographs and deciding it needs some brighter colours. YMMV of course.

Hmmmm. There's just too much going on. ...are we going to the opera ?

Nope, don't understand. I don't think I have enough hubris to be be this judgement about other people's playing

Bevis Frond wrote a song about them.

For some reason the like take me to this page. Recursion.

The Ark of the Covenant ?

I think Fender have revamped their range since I got a gig bag for mine, but there's a long and short scale acoustic bass bag that I guess is a similar product. Can't see any dims tho.

He's made some great music, I loved some of the Folk Implosion stuff...and Sebadoh ? Awesome stuff.

I take it you've seen the Dinosaur Jr. Rig Rundown ? Lou Barlow seems such a nice chap. Nice to see someone so honestly enthusiastic about their gear (certainly in comparison to Mr. Mascis ) Hopefully you'll get some other ideas as well. I reckon @dannybuoy might be able to offer some ideas.

I bet that sounds 'kin awesome ! As someone who's very partial to some chords and overdrive as well, a compressor could help you even up the difference across the neck when you're chording, but maybe have a quick play with your EQ as well. You can sometimes tame the difference in tone with a bit of subtle EQ. That said, I do find a compressor useful when I'm rocking the Lou Barlow vibe. I use a Schalltechnik Pumpernickel, which aren't that expensive...but you do have to build them from a kit, so whether that's an option depends on how good your soldering is ! I'd look for something with parallel compression where you can mix between the clean and compressed signal, and put in the clean side of your blend, keep the grind uncompressed.

Oh dear....I see what you mean. I was more thinking BBC Sunday evening comedy-(slight) drama but now Mr. Oliver's turned up my vignette may have to take a somewhat 'scandi-noir' turn.

I can see it now...a few excited phone calls..."Hey, you see that gig at the Highwayman ? You did ? Yeah...I thought we could give it a go too. Is Jo still playing drums ? Brilliant...I'll bung them an email. Hope we've got enough time !!!" A slightly haphazard gig of some old crowd-pleasers, the band have a blast - old fires rekindled, the crowd dance the night away, totally oblivious to the bum notes here and there. Two weeks after the gig, the band get together and talk about how much they enjoyed it "Hey...you think we could do this more often.....?" Now, isn't that a nice picture ? That's what popped into my head when I read the ad.

I would suggest it's a PBAC-100. No prior knowledge, but this is a fretless one.