taunton-hobbit

So, back in the day....Klooks Kleek (Railway Hotel, W. Hampstead) - Refectory (Golders Green) - Railway Hotel (Wealdstone)- Taggs Island (London/Surrey) - Cellar Club (Kingston - ok, it wasn't a pub, but a bloody good music venue) - Star & Garter (Windsor - the original Ricky Tik) - music was harder to find then, we valued it more; outside of Caroline/Radio London and the local juke box (anyone remember the one in the metal cage at the Ace cafe?), music was hard(ish) to find. Times change, and we move on - Ah so we say.....

So, around 1965(ish) I used to chuck Chris Squire in the back of my minivan and take him (& the band kit) complaining loudly, all the way from his home in Kingsbury to the Graveyard venue opposite North Harrow Bowl (after they quit the St Andrews church hall venue). The band then was The Syn, changed to the Selfs- I have a good memory of Chris screaming 'Heatwave' into the mic at the Harrow TA centre- around this time, Joanne (his mother) played me a studio dem of the 'new band' (Yes) - must admit it wasn't my thing.....the last time I saw Chris was when he and various members of his entourage tried to ponce entry into a Geno Washington gig that I was promoting. I figured that he was (then) worth the odd mil, so I offered them reduced rates, seeing I had expenses to meet - the response was less than charitable, and that was that..............

Gigged at the Refectory, Golders Green with John Mayall, -Bruce and Clapton were in Bluesbreakers for that time (Worlds best scratch band?)
Was working the Blue Moon Hayes for one of Creams first gigs - very loud - very busy night. Eddie Norman (promoter) looked happy.....
RIP Jack, the world is lessened musically by your loss............... .

Barefaced foot problem - I'd use a wood batten the width of the cab (painted black, natch) bolted in to place - but, then, I'm that kind of bloke - btw, my dubsters don't seem to be inclined to the foot problem, as yet...........

See, the problem is that 'these days' we're spoilt rotten.....
I remember, back in the day, Selmer gave me a Stereomaster amp and two speakers that they wanted some feedback on.
Said cabs were about four foot high, two foot wide, 18" deep, and chipboard.....with NO handles/grips/holes of any sort.
These days I have a couple of Dubsters and everything is good.........thanks Alex!

As someone who once tried an emergency stop in a Ford Escort with a trailer-load of logs attached (not good, before someone asks) - I don't think I'd care to risk an amp and bass to a cycle trailer on a steep hill....but that's just old age kicking in, I guess......

Ok, old story but...I had a mate, an English-born British Pole, who went 'back home' to 'collect' his new Polish wife. She was allowed in, but he was detained for about two days, courtesy of some lemon at Heathrow, as a suspected illegal....you just couldn't make these people up........the 'Level 42' tale causes no surprise around here.........

As always, EBay is your friend .... you want Steampunk Comics...they've got (I looked it up without even knowing what SP was, but life is a learning curve, so they tell me).

Gotta say I loved the pic but some of the posts were getting a bit much (imo) ....this is a family show (supposedly).....Don't know what your mum does, but mine never - tails of -, kettles boiling and I've got choccy Hob Nobs (which might just take us back to Abbey Clancy...surely not).

Oh dear - s'Bowie, (still) off on one, mind you, gotta give the geezer this, the voice still sounds very close to Space Oddity and he's got a bit of petty cash these days so I guess The Boy dun Good...........?

Just did a bit of a fly round Google - looks as though the said boxes will handle 200 watts and down to 20hertz - just what you need for the average pub....I have to say that I think your vocalist is being a tad alarmist?

Had another type of these cheap fold-away trucks at about the same time as Noah painted the ark - got about five years serious daily use out of it shifting stuff in & out of pubs - great value - only traded up for a 'proper' sack barrow because I couldn't find another at the time when the little one finally self-destructed,,,,

I wouldn't even try and 'fix' a neutrik - if 'wiggling it' makes a difference, I'd grab a new (genuine) one off EBay. Worn used plugs are always trouble long-term.

You can feed from an amp to a home-stereo, but you will need a tech to install a phono/jack socket from your preamp chassis to act as a 'line out' facility (if you don't have one already) - not an expensive or difficult job. If you already have effects send/return, you should be able to feed the 'send' line to your home stereo 'aux' input.

I've used this simple rule for years:
1) The amp output in ohms should equal the specified ohm rating of the loudspeaker.
2) If your ears are bleeding, it's all probably got a little excessive.
3) My amp goes up to 11, so it's louder than yours....right?

One of the better (& loud) Jamaican/English sound systems that I stumbled across in the '70s, was a simple valve preamp tied into four large transistor chassis amps, about 250w each, powering a number of Tannoy Golds & 18" bass drivers. The amp chassis replaced an equal number of KT88 driven sets, and the difference was impossible to spot when the system was fired up at a gig.
....Just sayin'......

Just had a listen on UTube - very tame, none of the aggression of Generation or Can't Explain: shame, but we all get old(er).............

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I ordered a non-standard size cover for one of my custom Matamps in February 2014, they worked from my supplied non-metric sizes, and the beast arrived about four days later, perfect fit, nicely made & all round good - one happy bunny..........

Sho 'nuff gotta be funky, but right now I'm listening to Mose Allison - Seventh Son ....'nuff said.....

Oh good - it's turning into an 'I remember Stonehenge when' thread......
I've got colour slides (remember them?) somewhere of the Henge around the late 50's....no fences, no cafeteria (& no other people).
Went with mum & dad in a 1939 Morris on the way to Cornwall....I remember trying to climb on the stones (cos you could).
Bucket lists are for people who feel insecure about their reality (imo).

Saw the Man twice - once at the Royal Albert Hall, about 1969 I think, and again at the Barbican (inventing America) in '98.
The RA gig was loud & competent....musically great, The Godfather worked hard, but somehow missed the spot. At the Barbican, it was all overloud and messy. Had the feeling that James had taken too much of something. There were false starts, wrong starts and no starts, all of them at tremendous volume. (we are talking silly LOUD here) - shame, because funk, soul & reggae are very much my thing.
Nevertheless, the world of music is a quieter (& less energetic) place without The Hardest Working Man.....

'Hybrid' amps are nothing new - stuff a valve input stage on to a class D solid state and you get something fairly close to a cooking great valve amp without the drawbacks - try it with a Crown xls - it's an interesting mix..........

Amp hurling - nothing like welly wanging.
I recall a wet Friday night many moons ago when my (then) girlfriend was carrying my Marshall Plexi 100 (original!) across a quarry-tiled pub entrance floor.......
She went one way and the amp went another, both hitting the floor with a dreadful crash. Being the perfect gent, I left her to get up and rescued my amp, which rattled 'orribly. I took it to my local tech the next morning who replaced every valve and tutted over the split in the corner bend of the chassis.
He ran it up, and it worked flawlessly (& continued so to do until I sold it on, about 18months later, with the split still there..) - Probably says a lot about early Marshall amps (and girls in wet shoes).