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Does the drummer remind anyone else of Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Spaced)??

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Bullet in the head is [i]great[/i] for building up finger strength and is good fun. My hand still aches now if I play that build up all the way through!

Maybe it's because you're touching the staff...

A pub local to us take 20% of the door. That's fair. 50/50 is steep, especially if there's other bands. I expect they're just using their name to bully you.

[quote name='Breakfast' post='99175' date='Dec 4 2007, 09:00 PM']I would guess that was either a licence thing or they lost the organiser. Having a person or a few people who keep pushing things and keep the scene moving are the only way most local music scenes get by. You just need one or two people to move away or give up on it and it falls apart. Usually if you have the will you can get funding from somewhere.[/quote] Nope it was council run. They cancelled it to put 'funding into other areas'. God knows what they were; bring medway it probably went on erecting a bunch of anti-pikey bollards.

Isn't there a 'luthiers to avoid' section in the thread?

[quote name='The Burpster' post='99124' date='Dec 4 2007, 08:16 PM']I thought this was too good to be true, but aparently it is true.... [url="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/takeitaway/index.php"]http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/takeitaway/index.php[/url] Intrest free loans up to £2000 for musical stuff...... Just in time for christmas too. Those thinking of getting a youngster an instrument.... get them a good one and use this scheme while they have it on..... I beleive I will be getting my Mesa 2x10 from PMT in the new year now..... If someone that knows them would like to ask the Gallery if they want to sign up (they can do if they wish) I'm sure bewteen up we could shift some of their stock![/quote] Yeah I've seen that. I'd rather they put money and effort into events for people to play: We used to have a yearly one which was kind of everyone's high point for the summer. Then they stopped it and nothing has replaced it.

I bought a Harley Benton suede bass stra[. It was extra long and I had to make an extra hole to play it higher up my body, but for £10 it's fantasticquality and ain't never gonna snap or anything. Comfy n wide too if y'allz are after a budget strap.

"The bassist's job is to make the drummer sound good" -Jack Bruce.

I have never ever used one, and have never ever had a problem with going out of time in a band. I help create the beat in my band rather than follow it; we all do, and so it works.

[quote name='Hamster' post='97298' date='Dec 1 2007, 05:39 PM']I have this on it's way to me from Lowdown - not sure about black on gold?? What do ya all think would be nice? Thanks Hamster [/quote] Linky no workie.

It'll be fantastic, any peeps in Kent should pop down!

First played: My uncles Fender Jazz: First owned: My mum's old Westbury Track 2. Not bad!! Looks like this but without the stickers and I've added a badass style bridge to replace the original which had a strange curve to it, like an upright meaning the middle two strings were about 2mm higher of the fretboard - hard work! Originally strung with 20 year old rotosound black nylons it didn't ever stay in tune. First time I bought a set of strings for it (a set of fenders I think) I was amazed at how good it sounded! These are great little basses, it's very well made too.