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you just reminded me that Nick Beggs rode his bicycle passed my house back in the 2000s. Not completely unexpected as we lived in the same town.

I recently discovered, whilst casually chatting to my brother, that my sister in law is Norman Watt Roy's niece.

Really good job you did on this. I grew up listening to this band and know how difficult it is to play these basslines let alone singing too. Best of luck with the future.

Gary Sanctuary solo on Rhodes is amazing

Vintage machine heads from China. If possible could you pm a link to these? Many thanks

Wishing you a full recovery. I used to work with toughened glass and it can behave unpredictably. You can hit it with a hammer on the surface and nothing will happen but then it can just shatter on its own. A gentle tap on the corner will also make it shatter.

The couriers I have spoken to in my area of London are all under pressure from the increased workload.

Thank you @Geek99

No they are not the cleanest environments

I work for Royal Mail. The problem in sorting offices is that we have to practice social distancing so letters/parcels can't get sorted as quickly and efficiently. Also staff are off sick. The number of letters has probably decreased slightly but parcel numbers have massively increased. In our London delivery office tracked parcels are a priority and letters and non tracked parcels are having to be delivered every other day as opposed to the normal everyday.

I agree the Bass Collection logo is horrible

Original bass player Rex Horan is on the first couple of albums. Their latest, Golden Days is a masterpiece.

Thank you, most generous, I look forward to reading this. 🙏

Could this be a design collaboration with Mark King? 32" scale length and 30-90 gauge strings as standard.

Yes I have had mine for 18 months. I have the mosfet model also and love them both. The only strange thing with them is when powering the amp on the mute is disengaged.

Oh I don't know. I haven't made a string order for a couple of years.

Yes don't remember them being amazing but they were my introduction to flats so I had nothing else to compare them to.

I have Picato flats on my P bass because I have an endorsement deal with them. They seem really smooth with possibly medium tension. I just want the bass to sound old like Jamerson/Pino. They work for me and stay on the bass until they break. I think my current set have been on there for 5 years, so relatively not that long. Previous to the Picatos I had Rotosounds so that's all I can compare them to.

Yes me too. was thinking recently that there hasn't been a series on for at least a year. I am sure it used to be on more regularly.

I had a experience playing an LP launch gig in a venue in Central London. Only took my Eden DI pedal as I was travelling by tube. Soundcheck went ok, then second song in of an hour set the in-house engineer decided to take my bass out of all the stage monitors. At the end of the gig he approached me and told me I needed new pickups as my tone was all bottom end and no mids. I have been gigging for 20 years professionally and often get complements on my sound and playing. That night I had to play the gig using the FOH as my monitor. So thats the risk you take.

Likewise, I assumed that was you in your profile photo.

That tracklist is something else. I had no idea Joe played on some of my favourite songs.

[quote name='tonewheels' timestamp='1464305361' post='3058399'] Twickenham/Richmond area is a sort of halfway house between urban London and home counties twattery. Culturally it's middlebrow. Nothing leading edge going on but not tribute band hell like, say, Surrey. I've lived there, under protest, for 35 years. If you have to live in SE England, it's the least worst option. Property is stupidly expensive now and the quality of people has declined in the last 10 years with the very diverse population being inundated with an influx of wealthy identical nuclear Stepford families and Russian crimelords. It does have a noble musical history though, being the epicentre of the British blues boom in the mid sixties. The iconic gigs were the Eel Pie club, the Crawdaddy club and the Winning Post. It's where the Stones, The Who, Fleetwood Mac (the good one rather than the sh*te California one) made their names. That legacy still exists, the SW London blues scene is quite vibrant. Robin Bibi, Papa George, Micky Moody, Steve Simpson etc. Jagger and Townsend still live on Richmond Hill. [/quote] Yes this sums it up perfectly