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They are hard work on the hands. I play mine for 3 in our set, but they have to be the last 3 we play. My left hand is fecked by the end of it!

Kings X sound was really good. The venue was too small for the choas of the Fishbone sound I think

Don't think Rocky played on the last album. He was playing with them in 2008 too.

Dug was playing a Schecter

They only sold 100 tickets at Newcastle. Luckily they sold another 100 or so on door sales Bloody Ncle Academy 10pm curfew is a joke though. Norwood wasn't impressed when we saw him at the end. Great gig as usual, but sound was pretty poor

Saw Fishbone on Saturday night, who were fantastic as always. Had a chat with Norwood afterwards Here is playing his Thumb Bass, also played his Infinity NT 5 too during the gig And a couple of weeks earlier Kings X played a killer set at the same venue, and I got Mr Pinnick to sign my 12 string Hamer. Inspirational stuff from 2 bands who should be more famous than they are

Don't know if this is the right forum for clips but here's a couple of vids from our last gig Open Letter by Living Colour [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGoxL6ST-mY"]YouTube - Open-letter (to a landlord)[/url] Dogman by Kings X and Filter's Hey Man nice Shot on 12 String Hamer (gig debut) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XpNFnrvnmM"]YouTube - Dogman and Hey Man Nice Shot[/url]

Saw them in Newcastle. Awesome. You won't be disappointed. Best bass sound ever

Just a reminder to those interested in this thread. My band doing Fishbone and Kings X and other covers will be playing Trillians in Newcastle this Friday

My covers band, Dogman, are playing Trillians in Newcastle on Friday. We'll be doing covers by all the best alt/rock bands of the early 90s - Pearl Jam/Living Colour/Fishbone/Kings X/Filter/AIC/Nirvana/Soundgarden etc etc Entry is free and we'll be on from around 9pm. Should be the first chance I get to use my new 12 string live too

This is their current line-up + Walter [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPMNcRF3yIw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPMNcRF3yIw[/url]

Saw them in 2008 and they are back to strength with a full brass section. Almost as good as the Reality tour Recommended

Tickets for Newcastle gig now back on sale. Just bought 2

A bit mysterious still.... I've spoken to Ticketweb, who confirm that my tickets are still valid for the event. However, they are not selling any more at the moment. It is not sold out, and it has not been cancelled or postponed as far as they are aware. The guy just said keep trying the site over the next few weeks. He also said, because I have tickets they'll let me know straight away if it's been cancelled, so I will update on here if that happens. Maybe they're waiting for the promoter to pay the deposit on the room? Reminds me of the time they re-scheduled a Newcastle gig as they were rumoured not have been allowed through customs after their previous gig in Amsterdam

Cheers. I ended up getting the Warwick Infinity after a chat with Norwood in 2008 - I've been using a thumb NT 5 for about 20 years - just before I saw Norwood using the same at the Riverside - I'd been unable to find another bass that had the mid range punch of the Thumb but with a more rounded tone - tried Streamers and hated them. Norwood suggested trying an Infinity and then he used one at the gig that night - I was blown away by the sound. Amp is a Thunderfunk with 2 x 90s Trace cabs (2x10 and 4x10) We are considering getting a couple of mates to do horns and try and do another Fishbone track at next one. Trouble is Fishbone tracks are so difficult to arrange without keyboards and 3 vocalists. Also trying to work out what's going on in those tracks isn't always straight forward To get back on topic, I'm going to try and speak to the Ncle academy about what's happening with this gig as I need another couple of tickets for some mates coming over from the US. I'll keep you posted

Some stuff from our last Trillians gig here [url="http://www.youtube.com/dogmanband"]http://www.youtube.com/dogmanband[/url] And one of Sunless Saturday that one of our audience took from the same gig [url="http://www.youtube.com/v/AgKwGPEhJLg"]http://www.youtube.com/v/AgKwGPEhJLg[/url]

[quote name='SisterAbdullahX' post='1120615' date='Feb 8 2011, 08:48 PM']Yes, gutted that I won't be able to get to see King's X as the wife is due to give birth that week. Boo. Dogman sounds interesting though![/quote] I believe it's free entry. We'll be doing 90s alt - Alice in Chains, janes Addiction, Kings X, Fishbone, Living Colour, Pearl Jam etc. I saw Fishbone in Leeds 2008 (as well as in the early 90s). Awesome gig.

Kings X playing a few weeks before too. And my coverband - Dogman - doing Fishbone and Kings X covers in between at Trillians 15th April Strange thing going on with tickets though - I bought mine when they went on sale and they arrived last week, but a friend has been unable to buy tickets even from the academy box office, they claim they don't know what's happening apparently. Weird, especially since they've now sent me my 6 tickets. They're doing a full tour and you can buy tickets for all the other dates

It is very well made. I'm a Warwick man really - Thumb 5 NT and Infinity 5 NT

I realise it's the CH-12 rather than the B12, but all the sites I've been on in the past year list them as discountinued

We all love KingsX in the band (which is called Dogman), so we do 90s alt/metal people know and throw in a couple of Kings X songs to educate the masses!

This was a factory second that a dealer in the US was selling on ebay for around $500. I sent it to some friends in the States as a joke saying buy this for me for Christmas - we always do silly stuff like that! I was a bit shocked when they turned up with it the other night I don't think Hamer make them any more, so they are pretty rare. My band do early 90s covers - Kings X/Pearl Jam etc, so the twelve string will fit in perfectly for some of the set I am a very lucky lad!

Cheers

I've been unexpectedly bought a 12 string bass for Christmas by some unvbelievably generous friends. It is an awesome sounding thing, but quite tricky to play So good that I've broken my self imposed rule of not posting bedroom playing stuff on Youtube. These are my band playing covers of stuff that originally used 12 string basses, with me playing new takes with the new bass [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrIIQbO0mA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrIIQbO0mA[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMkG8VQ_Clc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMkG8VQ_Clc[/url]

As a player and producer/engineer, I'd ask if you trust the engineer in question. If yes, then let him get on with it. If no or don't know, I suggest you familiarise yourself with some of his/their previous work before going much further. With my producer/engineer hat on, if a player was getting really arsey and I thought he/she was wrong, I'd record a decent DI and their amp signal, knowing that I could fall back in an emergency using the DI and re-amping when they weren't there. Luckily for me, I don't find myself in these situations. It isn't my day job and I can pick the people I want to work with