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On 13/10/2023 at 18:38, Dom in Dorset said:

I had to resurrect this thread after finding out  that Timmy Mallet had just ridden his bicycle past my friends house.

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. 

On 15/08/2021 at 19:00, Mikey D said:

I've always loved this one!

Gary Sanctuary solo on Rhodes is amazing

22 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Maybe it's mostly London. I've bought half a dozen things off eBay by second class post. ebay saying delivery may take up to a month, all arrived as quickly or quicker than normal.

Greatly appreciate the PO and other delivery services keeping things moving ATM.

Ordered some vintage machine heads from China a few days ago - that one will be interesting.

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. 

6 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

Harsh for these times, don't you think?  Maybe it's just me.

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

16 hours ago, Geek99 said:

I think they’re doing an absolutely amazing job under the circumstances. @soulboy

Thank you @Geek99

10 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

 

Not sure I’d want to live in a Royal Mail van........

No they are not the cleanest environments

On 25/04/2020 at 15:21, ClassicVibes said:

I don't understand why letters are taking longer to arrive - it's not like lockdown will cause more people to send them? 

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. 

On 18/12/2019 at 17:42, BrunoBass said:

Looks good, certainly better than the original design.
 

I wonder if anyone from Bass Collection is taking note? Their dreadful headstock logo is a major turn off on an otherwise very decent instrument. 

I agree the Bass Collection logo is horrible

On 14/03/2020 at 15:00, bubinga5 said:

I was having a scrabble around a local music shop today and this track came on. Immediately my ears were on high alert when this record came on. Imo it is just superb. Fantastic groove bass (I think) by Cameron Dawson. .. Amazing voice he has also.. Ive no idea why there is a Jack Russel running around. 

 

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. 

On 22/12/2019 at 09:53, King Tut said:

So I've learned from this thread that most lighty up amps are lit by LEDs and not valves and that preamp valves don't usually glow. Thanks fellas. Anyone else out there rocking a Veyron T at the moment?

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.

4 minutes ago, franzbassist said:

I don't think they're making flats since the buyout are they?

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

6 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

IMHO Roto flats are the worst, super high tension and characterless

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. 

On 17/09/2019 at 20:53, spectoremg said:

I've got boogie woogie piano and shite bands withdrawal symptoms 😭

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.

On 27/08/2019 at 20:37, Maude said:

We use our own pa on most gigs and have good monitors and our own easily adjusted monitor mixes using the xAir app, I never use an amp when gigging like this and much prefer it, just bass into my Line6 X3 Live then into FOH. But when having to use an in house PA with a sound engineer I always end up taking my amp. I've lost count of the amount of times I've been told, "Oh yeah, you can put your bass through the monitor", and then find their monitors will only handle a bit of bass before the engineer gets tetchy, and I'm happy to cut the bass and boost the mids in the monitor just to be clearly audible and not fussed about having it pounding. It's just quicker and easier to take an amp and look after my self. 

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.  

On 02/03/2019 at 19:19, TheGreek said:

Is that you? Not how I imagined you..

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.

I have these identical cabs. They are amazing, exceptionally well built. More often than not one cab is enough for my gigs. A bargain! 

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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.
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Yes this sums it up perfectly