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Some BC people may be interested in tonight's evening of Rod Stewart stuff on BBC4. First up at 21.25 is the Alan Yentob documentary 'Can't stop me now' - a repeat but quite interesting. Following that is 'Rod at the BBC', starting at 22.50. A new compilation, should be lots of Faces & Ronnie Lane with a bit of luck. Then at 23.50 there is 'Sings the American Songbook', ( which for me is probably best avoided!) Cheers.

I play with a drummer who has this problem more than many. Perhaps it's a confidence thing, perhaps it's because he's an intense worry-wart, and I think he also watches too many drumming technique videos instead of just paying attention to the flow and groove of music. Anyway, you can just hear him [i]thinking[/i] in the way he plays. I keep telling him to chill and let it flow, but it's like he's forcing the drum parts into being, beat by beat, and then trying to chuck in some 'triplets over a half-time quarter note feel' in a fill when a simple 'bip-bap-crash' would do. Always bloody thinking, and it drives me nuts sometimes. He could be so much the better player if he'd just shut the hell up in his own head, and [i]let[/i] it happen, instead to trying to [i]make[/i] it happen. This ^^ is so true!

Dano Longhorns do suffer a tad from neck dive I'll admit, but nothing that becomes a pain TBH. Inevitable I guess when the (hollow) body is made from pine/ply and hardboard!! No rainforests in danger here!!!

Couple of Dano Longhorns for your delectation - 1st reissue in 'blue suede' I believe, and a Korean 'Pro' which remains my favourite. The black/silverburst one in my avatar was a beaut too.

I've been after a silver sparkle DC for a while now - missed a couple along the way. Remember trying one out late 90's when first reissued - should've got one then!

I have a few Fender Precisions and a Stingray - my favourite bass though? My Danelectro Longhorn! 30.5" scale, pretty much only one sound but it's a great one!

You can, but will probably sound less 'acousticy' than bronzewounds. (Also may not respond so well with piezo pickups as bronzes?) I have a Washburn EA20 and usually use Elites acoustic strings and they are fine. Having said that, Strings Direct are offering free postage on orders till 31st August, and have Fender Phosphor Bronze sets in at £13.99 so may be tempted to try some.

hey Chris - thanks mate, but not really my thing! Good luck with getting sorted, cheers.

Still available! Cheers

Amazing!

Great track/groove!

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life (or indeed any of the others!) Bruce Springteen - Born to run Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Better Days Marvin Gaye - What's going on Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

Part of the launch for The Commonwealth games in Glasgow I believe.

Great 1100 strong crowd at The Empire Theatre in Liverpool last night to see 'The ELO Experience'. Fantastic theatre with Beatles history etc. One of our best gigs for a while, helped by a massive PA!

I quite enjoyed some of it, without liking it if you know what I mean! Gary Barlow's band as the house band were superb as usual, along with Steve Sidwell conducting the orchestra. Good variety of acts, although could have done without Il Divo & Ronnie Corbett (WTF?). All played live to these ears too, unlike perhaps some other acts at ..errm... recent festival appearances. And what about John Miles, still hitting all those notes in 'Music' aged 65- brilliant.

Think it will be good for you - John's knowledge and expertise in dealing with many varied types of music will be a big help I'm sure. He's got great ears and bucket loads of patience too, perfect for a first time session. Think you'll enjoy.

Done a number of things there over many years (although not that recently) and found it a good place with helpful staff. Engineer John Spence always great to work with, and managed to get my bass sounding good in a few minutes (no mean feat!)- usually ended up playing in the control room too. Hope you get it sorted, cheers.

Glad I did n't read this before going to his Leeds gig last night! Did n't detect any tension there with the band/out front sound etc, so guess it was maybe onstage monitoring giving EC grief as suggested? No excuse for a strop like that though....

Henry Spinetti in current Clapton line up too!! Happy days....

Just back from seeing Eric Clapton at Leeds tonight, with Dave Bronze in the band. Yet again superb playing all night, using previously mentioned blue Jazz and also an Epiphone Jack Casady goldtop with flatwounds for the acousticy part of the set, which sounded brill

Coda is probably the best shop I've been in - great stock / staff / service etc. Despite looking small from the front, they have so much stuff it's unreal. Whenever we are gigging in the area we always find time to call in. Last time I was there I got chatting to a guy who turned out to be the Gibson Europe rep - gave me some insight into finding the perfect 335 for me! Just need to save a bit more now..............

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Radio 2 have been playing this for a couple of weeks or so now - stopped me in my tracks on first hearing too. Great stuff.

Heatwave used to play at The Trog bar in Hull in the mid 70's, think they were called Chicago Heatwave at that time. Even back then they were obviously destined for better things. They had a local agency managing them, and somehow were still doing working mens club gigs when they had a top 40 single!!

I use an early Ipad for my pub gigs. Am in 2 different bands, both with well over 100 songs apiece so reading is okay! Find it fairly easy to use / navigate - just save parts into a documents app and go from there. Main problem for an old gimmer such as myself though is screen size - I'm at that stage where its quite hard getting the right distance to see the screen perfectly. Guitarist in the band uses a laptop with a bigger screen which is easier to see, but only works well with laptops where the screen opens 180 degrees flat. Ironically I always bring backup pad with me just in case though..........