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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1428932302' post='2746042'] I picked up a bass in 1974, etc etc... but I'm thinking I'd rather have left music college last year and live in Truro... [/quote] I'd rather not have left music college!

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1428934025' post='2746076'] Not if the Groundhogs have their way. [/quote] They'll just have to learn to share!

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1428922248' post='2745900'] Not sure how you can have an opinion till you've actually been to one(or more). [/quote] Don't knock it until you've bashed it!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1428914594' post='2745777'] Everyone's gone to ground on this, then..? I can hear the gnashing of teeth; here's some street music by way of interlude, played by our organ [s]*******[/s] man ... [attachment=189194:Orga_Grin.jpg] [/quote] In the nick of time!

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1428912214' post='2745751'] Enough of all this talk of kettle leads. Anyone for a cuppa? [/quote] Careful now... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/257496-the-issue-of-consent/

Reminds of something... an implement for eating snails?

Don't let it ampere you, it's not your volt.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1428867548' post='2745508'] We really must stop plugging these products. [/quote] Wire you saying that?

At those prices, how could I re-fuse?

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1428800520' post='2744706'] "You sound just like Roger Waters but you have better tits" a rather drunk fellow in tonight's gig in Pontypool [/quote] This had led me to wonder how Guy Pratt's tits measured up...

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1428683940' post='2743803'] And so is Michael Fish!! Is it time to post the Russ Andrews link again? Always good for a laugh - http://www.russandrews.com/default.asp [/quote] I feel some Amazon reviews coming on...

The stand has arrived.... and we've come a long way since GAS 1.0! [attachment=189047:IMG_03381.JPG] (I'll be trying it out in rehearsal tomorrow.)

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1428665040' post='2743526'] but since I can make a case for needing them, that isn't GAS. [/quote] [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1428671865' post='2743640'] Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!! I'm making a note of that line. I may be using it ... [/quote] I need a boutique bass because the UK's small businesses need support to help us out of the global recession....

Hopefully no such problems with Portnoy - he's no stranger to healthcare

+1 for both, which I was I've done recently when getting a singer for some of my songs. Luckily my own singing is so bad that no one could mistake the guide vocal as the definitive statement in how it was supposed to go

If you'd asked for this 8 days ago I would have referred you here: [media]http://youtu.be/-cxpKQJjt9g[/media]

The Recording Revolution site has several demos/tutorials on recording drums with one or two mics. http://therecordingrevolution.com/?s=drums

[quote name='dadofsix' timestamp='1428552091' post='2742337'] I actually kinda like Susan Boyle's version of it. She sounds so terribly vulnerable while singing it. [/quote] Just checked that out: good call!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1428504257' post='2741917'] [/quote] Quite. Whereas I thought, "Follow me, I'm a kettle!"

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1428430550' post='2741225'] The Alternative Rock Factfile proudly proclaims over 27k 'views', when it [i]could [/i]proudly proclaim over 28k..! You read it here first. [/quote] 28001, now that I've read that.

[quote name='Andrej' timestamp='1428151365' post='2738525'] When and why do you look at the drummer or at the other instruments? What triggers that decision? [/quote] As Thomas Beecham almost said, don't look at the drummer, it only encourages him.