Mickeyboro

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Looks fab! As a Precision player, how does it compare? I#m presuming that bridge gives better sustain?

2 hrs a week with my main band. We try to do 'homework' beforehand tho'

I have one. Bought on this very forum. Best £325 I have ever spent.

Bought strings - sent next day - perfect transaction!

The Stax stuff is available on DVD - I hae it! I wonder if Andi P lost his Ed after being told to do Duck a l'orange?

Bought his Jazz bass. He even parked my car (you have to see his road to understand!) so gets thumbs up from me!

The first album I bought was Every Picture Tells a Story. The second was A Nod's As Good As A WInk... They never improved on those. And they should never reform! It'll be like the uncle dancing at the wedding reception...several times over. Mind you if the Sun front page is to be believed Woody has no shame! Don't think he'll be updating that AWFUL book anytime soon.

Would seem likely! I learned all my bass playing from Man albums and now know them quite well...the people not the albums

Sarah, has the superglue worn off yet?

A purple neck...never thought I'd see the day!!

Played a big charity ball in Surrey in a marquee to 142 p***ed up posh people who all wanted to let their hair down after a sit down meal. I was depping in a pop party band and must have been concentrating too hard as I was chided by one beauty for 'not smiling enough'. I was at the end of the night when they upped our fee by 25%! Prize for trickiest song of the night: 'Come up And See Me (Make Me Smile)'...the middle 8 lasts an age if you're bluffing it. Prize for most optimistic punter: The girl who wanted 'December 1963 (Oh What A Night)' by 4 Seasons. Prize for most satisfied punter: The guy who perusaded us to do an impromptu 'Wild Thing' with him singing as 'last time I did it the ladies tore all my clothes off'. On second thoughts he wasn't happy - they didn't. Final song of the evening '500 Miles'. I ended up singing lead as the singer (now in Superman costume from a dinner jacket) didn't know the words. On seciond thoughts what am I saying? The audience took it. Oooh my head.

But your drummer (WoT) is the fabulous Ray Laidlaw of Lindisfarne!! Isn't that cheating? Incidentally, how many people know that when Ray parted company with Lindisfarne to form Jack the Lad, Phil Collins was offered the drum stool - and considered taking it! How different would life have been then? It's in the book so it must be true!

Roye Albrighton of the prog band Nektar (big in Germany) played an Antoria 335 knockoff throughout his career even when he could afford the 'real thing'.

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='232179' date='Jul 3 2008, 05:34 PM']Takamine EG512C has never let me down. It's big, but so am I![/quote]

Paul Rodgers has a fine voice,but why does he have to have the audience sing the chorus of every song he does,over and over again,on their own? Couldn't agree more! Mid you the whole show was an exercise in corporate rock - sponsored by Miller Lite! (I got a beer voucher as a journo, and, driving, wanted a water. They wouldn't exchange it. Turned to the guy behind and said 'Buy me a water, I'll give you a pint!') Mind you the difference between Miler Lite and water is minimal!