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I've found them very prompt and helpful when I recently ordered a capo that was out of stock. The login/account part of the website is sh*te but it all seems to work out ok despite that.

[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='367264' date='Dec 31 2008, 05:32 PM']Played there a few weeks ago, nice easy load in through the back door, easy set up area and plenty of room to move. Nice and friendly audience who were up for a dance as well so you should have a good gig. What's the name of your band ??[/quote] Alison Raven Band. I played there a couple of months ago with a big crowd of people we'd brought along. Was a good gig. Not really bringing anyone tonight - no idea what the locals are like.

Yep, gigging at the Harlow in Harrogate. With a very experienced dep drummer (our regular drummer has a gig with his other band). Looking forward to it.

Some great stuff on here - the Jan Garbarek is particularly good. Thanks for posting.

PM'd.

Great tracks all - thanks for these. The Fat Back Band especially!

I'm so in the mood for some funk, but am at work. I'll check these out tonight.

Well, whatever you reasons, and no matter how valid they are, do you really think you can go through life without ever needing a doctor? You have to come to terms somehow with your issues. Have you [i]never[/i] seen a doctor you trusted? Who was helpful? Ever?

Somehow I didn't expect you to listen to any good advice.

Listen to Mewsie, she's talking great sense. Rest your wrist, get over your anger and see a doctor. The one thing you don't want is permanent damage. Martin

Sibelius is the de facto standard, but is very expensive (although there is a student licence available). I've used one called Mozart in the past (http://www.mozart.co.uk/) which has plenty of features but is still a little clunky to use. I think its great value for money though compared to Sibelius. Martin

I started in piano, then violin, then guitar, then bass. I still play guitar (in a punk/garage band) and bass in a functions band. I tend to play piano or guitar at home. I prefer to play rock/punk on guitar, and soul/ballads/country on bass. But its all good. I have 2 Rickenbacker 360 guitars (6 and 12 string), an old Maton Alver, an Ibanez acoustic, a cheapo strat copy and cheapo classical guitar. And a ukelele and a mandolin. The cheapo strat gets played most often at home. Basses are a 70s Fender Musicmaster and a defretted Warwick Rockbass. Nearly all my gigs are on bass now, so I'm looking to upgrade, probably to a Lakland Duck Dunn.

15th is the preference for me Phil, but any should be fine.

[quote name='mewsie' post='350607' date='Dec 10 2008, 12:46 PM']haha, as i learnt last night! i can't remember what the last bassline i learnt was, so i'm going to tootle off and learn one now.[/quote] I'm gigging it for the first time tonight - might refrain from the vocals this once...

[quote name='johnnylager' post='349978' date='Dec 9 2008, 05:36 PM']Excuse me, but what a pair of cocks, kill them. f***, lets have a whip round and I'll come and do it for you.[/quote] Let's just agree now what to do with any excess funds after the deed is done...

Higher and Higher by Jackie Wilson. Repetative and easy enough to play, but a little off-beat and therefore tricky to do backing vocals whilst playing.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='343754' date='Dec 3 2008, 06:52 AM']You can purchase a kit [url="http://www.monteallums.com/pedal_mods.html#cs3optoPlus"]here[/url]. Looks cheap, but probably a bit intimidating if you're not handy with a soldering iron.[/quote] I did the mod recently - its easy enough to do. Couldn't hear all that much difference in the end result though...its a little brighter and cleaner, but still doesn't do much for me.

Yep, I've been following this and its amazing how you've managed to pull together a successful result. Well done all round. Now, I had a shiny new Rickenbacker 360 guitar stolen 24 or so years ago...I know who did it....new mission for Super Rob??!!! :-)

Thanks guys - it was wooleydick's experience that made me ask the question.

We have a gig tonight, so its an opportune moment to ask what I imagine is a simple question... I've been told in the past that it is better to run everything from a single power socket (PA, backline, keyboards etc), possibly excluding lights. My guitarist believes that it is safer to use as many sockets as possible as he is concerned that we might "overload" the single socket. This seems spurious to me, as they are all connected to the same circuit usually anyway. I suppose that might affect my argument too. Does it matter? Cheers, Martin

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='327266' date='Nov 12 2008, 07:58 AM']Dare I say that Bob Mould's band Sugar did the "modern pop-punk band" sound a decade or more ago, except that Sugar had much better songwriting than I hear from the copyists. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ku23nZkukE&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ku23nZkukE...feature=related[/url] Sugar was a three-piece, and their debut album is full of cracking tunes.[/quote] His earlier band Husker Du were also a 3 piece and had some cracking pop/punk tunes. Police. Early Joe Jackson has some great guitar/bass/drums tunes with occasional piano thrown in.

A local violin teacher recommended using slightly watered down whisky. Worked well on my very dirty fingerboard. And finally a worthy use for a large bottle of Red Label my father in law bought a few years ago.

Another Fall fan here - seen them about 15 times since 1987. Drummers and bass players have nearly always been excellent, but Hanley was the best by far.

Thanks BOD2. I'll be using a standard centre negative power supply. The connection points on the PCB are labelled "In sleeve", "In tip", "Black", "Red" (these two connect directly to the battery clip in the build), "Out sleeve" and "Out tip". Trying to make sense of the diagram in the link dangerboy provided...would the in and out "sleeve" connections equate to the "ground" connections in that diagram? The more I read, the more confused I get! Cheers, Martin

[quote name='dangerboy' post='319140' date='Oct 31 2008, 03:50 PM']Does this page help? [url="http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=27"]http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/index....3&Itemid=27[/url] I suggest this diagram particularly: [url="http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/switch_lo_dpdt_std.gif"]http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/diagra...lo_dpdt_std.gif[/url][/quote] That's great, thanks dangerboy (they don't call you that because of your history with electronics projects do they?!). The latter diagram particularly. Just not sure what to do about the DC socket.