Mickeyboro

Amazing player… another taken way too soon.

Anyone gigging in Derby tomorrow night or can recommend a band/venue? Frustratingly we are across the road from the Flowerpot but it’s sold out!

My fingers: 67 years and counting… 🖐️

Warning: this thread may turn into an episode of Casualty without warning! Good point, but I felt it was an effort getting through at the time so guess I wasn’t surprised at the subsequent soreness.

Maybe I play too hard to be heard with the passive bass and ease up when I have an active volume boost to hand?

Played two sets of blues with the Otis Jay Blues Band in our favourite club. Regret selecting the 71 Precision with flats over the Sandberg VM4 with rounds. My fingers feel very sensitive this morning! Guest sax and vocalist worked well. In some ways our temporary lineup has worked better than the original- singer/harmonica player has been away for two months.

Last time i saw him with Wilko the sound was atrocious. Don’t think his stack was DI’d properly so got only a trebly clank my side of stage. Fingers crossed that was a one off.

Who are you? Wish people would identify their bands😬

You could just have quoted the immortal JL: ‘Well, can't you just let it ring a little longer, longer, longer…’

Ironically longer than Kelly Groucutt, eh? 👏

I think one’s response might depend to some extent on the price of the ticket? Has a band ever faced the wrath of the trades descriptions act? 😁

How much latitude is allowed? Would we be happy if Sabbath did reggae versions of their ‘classics’ f’rinstance? Easier perhaps to not play hits that are millstones. Saw Procol Harum once and they refused to play A Whiter Shade’… Better than the jazz reworking if Woodstock by Matthews Southern Comfort and a bizarre demolition if Sylvia by Jan Akkerman!

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As a funny ps, I introduced ‘Tulsa Time’ at our last gig as an Eric Clapton song. Digging deeper I found it wasn’t. Then I found a version by its writer…

Three-hour gig with the Otis Jay Blues Band in Bournemouth. Singer-harmonica player in Japan so we had two deps for the price of one! Not to mention a guest sax player… All good clean fun. PS: Sandberg VM4 through Elf plus Barefaced One10. Plenty loud!

Which one’s Midge?😈

I went to see the Zombies, whom I love, on Wednesday. They played a trio of songs from Odessey and Oracle that was genuinely heart-stopping. They then went on to do a 15-minute version of Hold Your Head Up, not even a Zombies song of course though written by Rod Argent, and ended with a version of She’s Not There that featured a four-minute heavy metal guitar solo. And no, it wasn’t even the Santana version. Given the show was less than 90 mins in total, I would have preferred four more songs. I blame their recent success in the States; last time I looked, Wimborne Tivoli is not a basketball arena. My point, I suppose, is: having created classic songs, do bands have an absolute right to ruin them?

A pic of Nigel in action…

I have just learned that Nigel passed away earlier today. If you have memories of him to share, please feel free to do so on this thread. Lovely fella, I am a bit cut up at the moment.