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Not music gigs, but had tickets to see Frank Skinner, and also The Sopranos! (3 of the leading cast in a behind the scenes and Q&A type presentation !) FS gig will be rescheduled but doubt whether The Sopranos will risk coming over any time soon.

Just heard this on Classic Soul, still sounding so fresh. Produced by the great Allen Toussaint and featuring The Meters. Such a slow groove with so much space too.

Also the average loft isn’t a great place to store guitars or basses. Extremes of temperature during the seasons can play havoc with them, as I know from experience. 😟

Doh, my mistake. Should have known Lozz preferred USA Fenders! 😄

8.5 lbs is probably just within my limit! I had one of these a while ago, black with a maple neck job, and it was way heavier than that which was a shame as otherwise was a great bass. Didn't have the passive option though, so probably pre 2012. IIRC the very first ones they introduced were passive only, sunburst with a gold guard too I think. Incidentally, I always thought these were MIM, yet your shot of the headstock says 'Made in USA' under the Fender logo?

Nice one Lozz. Been thinking about getting one of these for a while now, but was wondering how heavy they are? Also have they always had the passive / active option, am guessing yours is fairly recent model? Cheers, Pete.

He’s used Mesa stuff for years, amps and cabs I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=global+citizen

Oh okay then -

Agreed - Sheryl Crow did some songs from her home studio, sounded great.

Agree that Lady Gaga sang brilliantly, although those chords in ‘Smile’ were very doubtful, even in a jazz style arrangement! I even liked the song with Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli and John Legend, as nobody went OTT, at least not like they often do. Bits I wasn’t keen on - Elton (strewth...), Ellie Goulding , Billie Eilish and Eddie Vedder. Thought Billie Joe Armstrong was good, along with Taylor Swift and Shawn Mendes/Camila Cabello and Rag and Boneman. For me the highlights were Stevie Wonder and Tom Jones - I found his performance riveting. The Stones were good, despite the err...technical challenges. Charlie’s face whilst playing / miming was superb.

Apparently they are all on the Global Citizen YouTube channel, including many that weren’t aired over here.

I have a Fender Baja Tele which is ace. Had a few Teles over the years and this one is the best, and very light (under 7lbs). I love big necks on guitars, so the others I have all feature them too - 1959 Gibson Les Paul Junior, Fender Strat 57RI and a cherry Gibson 335. ( Also have a Sigma electro acoustic which I haven’t really bonded with yet due to it’s smaller neck! )

Our band is looking at August, although in my mind that is very optimistic. I feel it will be more like October if we’re lucky. Also the government’s rumoured approach to the lifting of restrictions in stages includes keeping those over 70 at home for longer, which could damage our sales figures a fair bit.

Our previous tech guy used to run my bass via the amp’s DI (GK1001RB) and also mic up my cab (GK Neo 410), using a mix of both I believe. When our current tech started , we did a few checks on the best way of doing it, and he settled on DI only, saying the difference was negligible. I ended up using a Sansamp BDDI for the FOH feed, with a Behringer BD121 as back up ( never needed yet). Sometimes we do gigs where I use other backline / quick changeovers and the Sansamp means one less thing for him to worry about.

My thoughts exactly Stew 😆

All 25 for me, honest! Has been over a period of 45 years of gigging though, and Red House was in one of my first bands (who had a Hendrix obsessed guitarist ) along with Black Night too .Most of the rest I still play now and then when doing request gigs in my acoustic duo. The shame.......

Or indeed his drag queen brother, Candy F.

Ampeg SVT all day long, although not sure of your cab specs so may not be suitable. If it’s a 4 ohm job then happy days. Failing that as others have said then some sort of pedal which can run into your Quilter . Sansamp stuff is great, maybe the Tech 21 VT Bass Driver.

A friend of mine has an Ibanez PNB14e, and rates it very highly. 24.75 inch scale, mahogany woods and built in electrics. Bit of a poor mans Taylor GS Mini bass at under £200.

Yup, Ross McManus. He sang with the Joe Loss Orchestra in the 50’s. I backed him once in a club, nice fella.

Got my YSC yesterday, and just given it a try out now. Really impressed! As with all Yamaha stuff, well designed unit with a good solid feel to it. Sounds great too, plenty of level using my P-Lyte and a pair of Sennheiser over-ear phones. Run full tilt I think I can detect a touch of compression which sounds great as well. Going to be a useful tool for keeping me practising during the current situation, so really pleased with my purchase. Thanks again for the heads up, cheers!

I’ve also found it helps with the hardest thing for me - that is when a song gets altered in the arrangement in some way. I find changing what’s embedded in my mind harder than learning a new song for some reason. Re-writing it doesn’t guarantee I’ll keep to the new version but certainly helps.

I find that with songs new to me, the best way to get them into my thick skull is to write a part out first, whether I’ll need it or not at a later date. There’s something about writing out even a simple chord chart that helps it stick in my mind, almost to the point of me remembering the page layout and what goes where as I’m playing it. I’ve subsequently got parts for most things I’ve played over the last 40 odd years! Always think that if my band ever needed an emergency dep then at least he/she may have a fighting chance if they could follow the stuff I’ve written too, certainly better than busking anyway.

01 Ever played a gig sitting down Yes, loads - especially as I've got older. 02 Ever gigged on a different instrument? Yes - Guitar and piano/keys 03 Ever shared a stage with a musical hero of yours? Yes - Albert Lee 04 Any fan ever had a tattoo of your band's logo? Yes 05 Ever signed an autograph in a dressing room? Yes 06 Ever cried on stage? Yes, a few times 07 Ever worn a hat on stage? Yes - only once, a Sombrero 08 Ever gigged with a band you hadn't met before the gig? Yes, a few times. 09 Ever been in a relationship with a fellow band member? Yes 10 Ever played in different bands on the same day? Yes 11 Ever had anything thrown at you while playing? Yes - A sprout and then a mince pie (you guessed, Xmas party gig) 12 Ever crashed on the way to the gig? Yes - once after a tyre blowout on the M62, and once when the drummer hit my car at a junction! 13 Ever left a band over the choice of set list? Yes - although to be fair, the band was on it's way out anyway. 14 Ever slept in the venue despite it not being a hotel? Yes 15 Ever been supported by a band clearly better than you? Yes - a proper Mariachi band as well as many others 16 Ever played a gig suffering from some debilitating medical condition? Yes - Broken arm meant I played bass on keyboards for 3 months. 17 Ever been in a band where the guitarist was your favourite bandmate? Yes, and still is. 18 Ever played in the grounds of a stately home? Yes - rather a lot don't you know... 19 Ever injured yourself on stage? Yes - First gig I ever did on upright, had blood spurting from my plucking hand . 20 Ever been told that your bass isn't loud enough? Yes - Plenty of times, got used to it playing in a loud band too long.