pete.young

I have a Nordstrand in my Precision, and it sounds great

That's a great shame Clarky, it was very evident how much this band meant to you. Still, onward and uppards, as the bard said.

I've not heard of them either. Not exactly local to us, the other side of Eye. I usually take my setups and amp repairs to Paul Glazebrook in Kesgrave who is very good and doesn't charge nearly enough. There's also Colin Fulton in Little Glemham if you need a luthier.

Webstrings Detroit bass - www.webstrings.com/electric_bass_strings_detroit-nickel.html

Appreciate the sentiment, but you're a month early. It's Saturday 17th March.

EdwardHimself, you will have to hurry up - I've just found out from the Mandolin Cafe site that Epiphone have discontinued the Mandobirds both 4 and 8 string versions, just a few days ago. Or save up a bit more for one of these babies: www.almuse.co.uk/mandolin_gallery.html

I have one of those, although its the 4-string variety. But it sounds good through a chorus, and is a lovely shade of seafoam green. There is some tab at Mandolin Cafe - www.mandolincafe.com . Don't tend to use tab mice elf.

In Macedonia, they make bagpipes out of whole goats. I saw someone playing one like this in Poland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImtjPPBSr8I Tip: if you're at work, don't go searching google for 'man blowing goat bagpipes'

Seems to be just the CXL cabs that are affected by this. My LMII is quite happy to drive a pair of 8-ohm VL110 cabs all day long without any overheating issues. The iAmp 350 is of a similar age, and that only runs to a minimum of load 4 Ohms, unlike the newer iAmp 500 and 800.

+1 for the Eye and the London Aquarium. I think it's cheaper to book the Eye on line than queue up and buy a ticket on the day. Duck Tours URL: http://www.londonducktours.co.uk/ Most of the museums will involve a fair bit of walking. For musical instruments, you want either the V&A or the Horniman museum, which has a fantastic collection of instruments but is a bit of a trek to get to.

Check out Bellowhead and their amazing percussionist.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1328956760' post='1535218'] Ahem, post #28 [/quote] Oh, yes. Sorry I missed that.

3 pages and no-one has mentioned Jaco?? Richard Bona has some nice lines, very understated most of the time.

[quote name='razze06' timestamp='1328617937' post='1529994'] No less than three bands (including ours - guilty as charged) were practicing this last night, and that's just at the practice room place we use (The Depot in Edinburgh). [/quote] What took you so long? We learnt it for a music festival last summer. Still use it for the odd party gig, the punters seem to like it. I think it's quite enjoyable to play, secret is not to overdo it.

Some of that gear is pretty rare and recognisable. I take it they've done the usual things with contacting Cash Converters and all the local music shops?

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1328555771' post='1529065'] For some reason, it never occurred to me that you could play a violin and do BV's at the same time. [/quote] If you have enough double chins anything is possible, just ask Iain Telfer of Oysterband. Alex, great performance under the circs and I really hope you get your stuff back.

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/198-recommended-amp-techs/

An eventful evening in the wilds of Suffolk. Sound check - guitarist sounds fine until he picks up his strat, it starts feeding back and making unpleasant noises. I plug in my bass, and the bass amp starts broadcasting the background noise, and then feeds back too. WTF? After a bit of headscratching - inspiration - there must be an inductive loop somewhere, causing the single coils in my bass and the strat to behave like hearing aids! Sure enough, I found the culprit and turned it off, and normality was restored. Thank you basschatters, I'm sure my deductive powers were a result of a half-remembered conversation on this forum. Gig was great - journey home was interesting in the snow. Fire up the Quattro, Polly!!

My Markbass head has a dual speakon/jack speaker output, so I would imagine they fit the same things to the speaker cabs.

My Bass Collections don't have them, and neither did the Dean B2. I don't think the TRB5P does either, though I'd have to take it out of the case and check to be certain - shows how much I rely on them. I've only come unstuck once, and that was on a very very dark stage with the Dean, when I couldn't see the side dots either. Didnt play any more wrong notes than usual, but it was a half-a-crown thruppenny-bit moment.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1327517847' post='1512817'] Richard Sinclair, I think. [/quote] You are correct. If the music shops in Kent are to be believed, Richard Sinclair has owned more basses than Beedster! Every single second-hand bass in the county has passed through his hands.

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1328203577' post='1523668'] I have a mandolin clamp that just clips to the mic stand, job done. I can't see them on EBay etc right now but worth hunting around for one. This is the closest I can find right now [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fantastic-stand-mandolins-violins-guitars-banjos-/300525905070?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Access_RL&hash=item45f8bd64ae#ht_500wt_922"]http://www.ebay.co.u...ae#ht_500wt_922[/url] [/quote] If I've understood this correctly, these are for holding the mandolin when you're not playing it. Monckyman is looking for something to hold the mandolin while you are playing it. Mind you those old bowl backs are so cheap on Ebay it might be worth just buying one, drilling a hole in the side and fitting a speaker pole socket to it :-)

Ha ha! Yes, they are a bit dear. I have an Epiphone Mandobird which worked pretty well as a cheap fix until I got a decent pickup in my main mando. An Mbrace stand should fit a mandolin, judging by the comments on mandolin cafe, but it probably won't work with a bowl-back.

Does anyone know of a way to donate some money to Mr. Rainey that doesn't involve using Paypal?