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Glad it went well Chris, I did call in at the venue around 11:40pm but couldn't see you, there were one or two guys packing up gear but I didn't hang around.

Sold Pete my P deluxe, no hassles and easy meet up to do the deal. Get well soon Pete!

Though I think the T&aW footage is mimed, he's 'using' a telecaster bass with an added pickup. I think there was a bit of a story about it. It either got stolen or disappeared for years but he got it back a few years back.

For those in the mood, more old yes here. Some of it even pre dates Steve Howe! [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SszeZhF9Xq4"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SszeZhF9Xq4[/url]

Yeah, that's why the Beatles [i]really[/i] stopped touring. Couldn't keep 'em in tune

Presumably her guitar was just mixed so low to FOH that it wasn't loud enough to mess up the OK performance from everyone else. Certainly wouldn't be the first time nor the last at a live music gig. Doesn't condone her horrible sloppy playing (assuming it's genuine) but if the suggestion is that she actually plays like this all the time at every show it's probably way off.

Not playing it, didn't actually know about it but checking it out it looks to be on a Sunday which is a bit awkward for me with work next day. Next time you are doing a free entry gig somewhere I'll try to pop along if I'm not gigging.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1412789403' post='2572108'] To my ears, he sounds just like Sean Bean. [/quote] Completey opposite sides of the pennines. Anderson's is a classic Lanacashire burr whilst Bean's a Sheffield lad. Chalk and cheese. Bloody southerner

Vintage bike? Call it the Bonnevalve. It'll be a triumph of bassiness.

Sorry if it's been posted before but Geddy & the boys are auctioning stuff off for charidee. Be prepared to have deep pockets for anything really interesting though! [url="http://www.ebay.ca/sch/grapes4humanity/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from"]http://www.ebay.ca/sch/grapes4humanity/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from[/url]=

Darn, you always seem to pick a night when I'm doing something else! This Sat it's beer festival followed by mate's 50th birthday meal. Have a good 'un Chris.

I found them really useful, especially when I was co-opted into the house band for a while. Though I'd ben in a few bands by that time my musican knowledge was still pretty basic (probably still is) but being put 'on the spot' enough times does get you thinking if nothing else. I think it also gave me a bit more discipline as someone might ask me to play something i didn't know and I migh try to busk it one week but then I'd know i needed to go away and learn it for the next time they showed up. I always wondered why seasoned players showed up though I'm gald they did 'cos I learned a lot. I couldn't see what was in it for them except just the love of playing, which is fine I guess.

Funnily enough I caught a bit of a band in my local music pub on Sat night. The bass player's rig must have cost quite a bit. Some sort of lakland (don't know the model but it was a jazz lookalike 5 string with a colour matched headstock) played through a big Aguilar amp/preamp with something else stacked on top of that, cab was an ampeg 4x10. Yet I didn't really sit up and think 'that sounds immense', it sounded no different to me in bnd context than any number of other bass/rigs combinations I've seen in the same venue over the last 6 years. I couldn't knock the guy, he could obviously afford it and if it made him happy then that's great.

Or alternatively... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGa70tVYVKo"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGa70tVYVKo[/url]

I'm sure on the mamas and papas 'I saw her again' where one of them comes in early, stops and then comes back in again on time toward the end of the song can't have been intentional but they left it in. Wouldn't seem the same without it now.

Not got time to do it but can someone at least put some Who, Beatles, Yes, Cream and Rush on there. A bassline related list looks lost without them.

I know where you're coming from Jack. I remember some years ago I was persuaded to go along to one of those '3G' type events which was Satriani, Vai and someone else but it all gets too much very quickly and none of it sticks in your mind like 'good tune' would.

Huge, you've set off my memory cells again. I didn't get to talk to Noel but must have come within brushing distance as a mate of mine had all area access to one of the Alexis Korner memorial concerts they used to hold annually at Buxton Opera House. Think that was early 2000's so it might have been around same time. He did a 3 piece with Eric Bell on guitar and John Coghlan on drums. I recall they had a go at Quo's 'Caroline' and it was like a Sunday afternoon jam down your local, Noel couldn't remember half the words and as you say he didn't look in th ebest of health but seemed happy enough. I did get to chat with Bob Harris who was just as nice as you'd expect and Tony Ashton who cut a rather tragic figure by then and like Noel hadn't a lot of years left sadly.

JamesBass reminded me that years ago (mid 80's) I was doing stuff for a local student newspaper and helping out on a rock show on hospital radio. I went to a venue to do a taped interview with Graeme Murray from Pallas for the radio thing then review the gig for the newspaper. As we chatted I must have mentioned I was trying to pick up the bass and one day I hoped to have a ric. He didn't hesitate in letting me have a noodle on his, sat on the drum stool behind the full band's kit. For a novice it was a real eye opener to get a drummer's eye view of looking out on a venue, even if it was empty at the time. I also recall the ric had an incedibly low action and there seemed to be a lot of fret buzz but live in the hands of mr Murray it sounded immense.

Do you typically go for a night out 'tooled up'? Does the thought of watching scantily clad young women getting well oiled and then doing their uncoordinated dancing thing pique your attention? Then I might have just the gig for you... First Sat of each month we play [url="http://www.h2ohucknall.co.uk/index.php/live-music-at-h2o-every-saturday-night-h2o-hucknall"]here[/url] so if you're in Notts and have nothing better to do why not drop in for a laugh, a beer, watch a fight and see the local police try to get things under control by the time we do our encore.

Yup, me too. I think it's because it has more top end even with the tone rolled off. Is this due to the PU's or the maple fretboard though? All the others are rosewood boards and they all sound a bit 'muddier' to my ears though I'm listening with tuppence ha'penny earphones on a computer

Think that's Dave La Rue who's worked with Steve Morse in various guises so he's used to backing sh*t hot guitarists, he's an excellent bass player without being unneccessarily showy which fits these type of acts just fine.

You can run 10 pedals off one of these; [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000NVU9GG/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=479289247&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B007VC042O&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=01RNZRWFVPKDQVTK9BRY"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000NVU9GG/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=479289247&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B007VC042O&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=01RNZRWFVPKDQVTK9BRY[/url] But I suspect the logistics/relative sizes of pedals would probably limit that. I have one with a 5 way ouput I got from maplins years ago and then got separate cables to run from it to my pedals. Currently only use 3, only 1 of those is a genuine effect which I don't even use every gig. Other option is a decent battery charger and plenty of recharchable batteries so you always have spares ready to go, the 9v rechargables can get a bit pricey though.

I'm sure a lot of that programme came from the 'synth britannia' or something similar that went out a couple of years back, unless I had a major deja vue moment, seemed I'd seen/heard a lot of the 'tram' interview footage before. Worth a look though.