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That's quite a difference from the £600+ everyone else is doing it for....

+1 Check for damp, and check your insurance policy.

Played at a warehouse party last - amazing fun! The vocal sound took a couple of songs to get right as the sound guy was stoned off his box and we had to turn right down at one point as the council noise chaps came round but 10 mins later and the levels started going up again. Will have video soon!

Show No.3 of RUDE: Didn't do a full sound check and as a result my levels were a little low for the first couple of songs till I got a chance to get back to the amp - that'll learn me! We had a soprano sax covering for the trumpet player last night which I had initially thought was a terrible idea, but when it came to the show he was really good - it wasn't the same but it worked. This show has also taught me the art of the quick slide down the neck to end a sonfg - something which I'd never really been able to do before for some reason but I've got it sounding nice now 7 more to go!

Thanks for the heads up on the tour - just bought tickets to see them in Bristol!

I bought the Maplin one a month ago - dammit!

Oh yeah! Such a good touch!

[quote name='Huge Hands' timestamp='1351241844' post='1849044'] Thanks for this - I am a huge IH fan too. I had seen this clip before and have been looking for for ages on you tube. I think the bass player might be James Alexander - the only member of the Bar-Kays who survived as he didn't get on the plane with Otis Redding.... EDIT: Just read the wiki - apparently the wasn't the only survivor - the trumpet player actually on the plane survived the crash. [/quote] The bass player IS James Alexander - although, laughably, Carole Kaye has claimed she played bass on it....

Very nice example of a Cardinal Series going in the next few hours [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aria-Pro-II-CSB-380-bass-guitar-1982-Cardinal-Series-Bass-Matsumoku-/190740442370?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c69042d02"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aria-Pro-II-CSB-380-bass-guitar-1982-Cardinal-Series-Bass-Matsumoku-/190740442370?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c69042d02[/url]

[IMG]http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii616/chaylockyer/new%20Thunder%20II/IMG_1317_zps4ba18bc5.jpg[/IMG] 1981 Westone Thunder II

Second show of RUDE:A Ska Musical last night. Band was noticeably tighter than opening night, playing almost perfectly until a major sax [url="https://sites.google.com/site/7947e518703066c9/"]quog[/url] at the start of Ghost Town Some parts of this show are really tricky - we do a version of Gangsters which has stops for narration after each section and halfway through each verse and coming back in on a non-musical cue is hard! Otherwise though it's great fun and I get to have a fight every night too!

Wow nice! I know Willie Hall is on drums and Charles Pitts does the famous wah-wah guitar - but do you know who the rest of the band are? The E.P. player in particular is very familiar. EDIT: That would be 'cos it's Booker T - D'oh!

Ooo liking the binding on this roadstar [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-Roadstar-II-Bass-Guitar-/261116025681?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3ccbba5b51"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-Roadstar-II-Bass-Guitar-/261116025681?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3ccbba5b51[/url]

I like unusual basses, I like basses from the 1970's/80's. But, I hate Guilds - fugly unbalanced mud-coloured pieces of crap!

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1350936168' post='1845358'] 3 months old, been on a skateboard and towrope at the rear of a tranny, up and down the M6. [/quote] I think I've met that transvestite..

[quote name='Stance' timestamp='1350858120' post='1844464'] [url="http://www.gbase.com/gear/bc-rich-mockingbird-bass-bc-rich-mockingbird"]http://www.gbase.com...ich-mockingbird[/url] [/quote] That Mockingbird is gorgeous! I do love a bass with many many switches.

I think he's been dragging it down the road.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1350815989' post='1843676'] Looks great, and I bloody love goat curry, me. Cardiff's a bit far, but hope you have it large [/quote] Thanks man, you'll just have to wait for the film (which has just been confirmed as going ahead) then - wooot!

I'm playing bass (and doing a bit of stage fighting!) for this show which runs from this Wednesday (24th Oct) until the 2nd November. It's especially good if you like Caribbean food as the chef in the restaurant where it's staged cooks a great goat curry! http://www.chapter.org/28154.html