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Check out the bass solo at about 2.25 in. It made my eyes go funny until I could figure out what was happening!

I discovered Haley Reinhart and subsequently Post Modern Jukebox. Totally not my normal bag of fish but oh my word, what a singer! (And the second video is of PMJ with Morgan James singing one of my faves)

Apparently I was irreplaceable when I handed in my notice back in July - the other guys decided to fold the band rather than find a replacement. Devasting good looks and unbridled talent would be hard to replace I thought. Or maybe it was because I got all the gigs, did all the social media, sorted all the lighting out and stopped the drummer killing the singer and guitarist... 🙂

Just ask Alex for a replacement speaker - It'll be a lottery putting something else in there. And as fretmeister says above you'll lose all the resale value in the cab if you wanted to move it on.

I used to have a mooch on TB mainly becasue there was a decent Spector group on there and a few guys going on the same amp/bass journey as me. Loads of real hillbillies on there though and the recent facelift totally ruined it in my opinion. Its very clunky now and I can't be bottomed with it anymore.

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You're in Redonizm Greg? Looks like Rekovered are in on Friday at the Cow the night before you. They'll pull a big crowd there. Hope there's some money left for the locals to come out in the Saturday for you.

The regulars are a lovely bunch. It's like the Star Wars Cantina Bar in a good way! Saturdays are usually pretty good anytime there. Fridays can be a bit hit or miss depending on who's playing at Papillon up the road. If it's a good band there they sometimes head off at half time and split the evening. Or start at the Pap and finish at the Cow.

I think Carlos Fandango was just a bit confused as to which one he should use. He's was fishtailing for about 100 yards before he drove into everyone else. Left, right, left, right, left, oh poop!

All the best buddy. Thanks for your contributions to the site and make sure you check in now and again!

I played my final gig with Yellowhouse last night at a packed out Cow and Telescope in Southend. That's me now taking at least 6 months off now to get over the last year and concentrate on family and personal stuff without weekend gigs and doing all the booking and social media getting in the way. I lost my dad a few months back, my mother in law 2 months before that and my closest uncle at Xmas last year. It's been a difficult year for many reasons and I want to totally switch off from band commitments. I handed my notice in to the guys in July and they wanted to fold the band rather than replace me so we cancelled all the gigs apart from 6 of our favourites. The gig was awesome. We filled the place and they were ready to party! People travelled to Southend from all over the place in the storm to say goodbye. We had some from the West Midlands, Guildford, Margate. Some friends and family turned up unexpectedly as well. I was truly humbled by it and the love from the locals was overwhelming. I have a little tendon issue which flared up in the last 4 songs which was fun - it means I can't actually lift my fretting index finger off the board. It just locks down solid and I can't lift it off. You sort of stare at it willing it to move and it doesn't. So that was fun trying to work round it but I got through it ok. And then to add to the excitement some d##khead in a whizz bang BMW M5 decided to floor it outside the pub on the wet road as we were loading out. He narrowly missed us but managed to hit 5 other cars and nearly ended up in the 24hr shop that I was walking towards to get some milk shake and choccies for the trip home. You've probably seen my typical gig pics and videos so here's some of Carlos Fandango instead...

I think maybe funk is fairly repetitive in general? It's hitting a groove and seeing where it goes a lot of the time. Some of their songs take a huge left turn in timing in the middle bits but there's a lot of material to go through to find them. They remind me of a lighter version of Stevie Salas Colorcode which was a band I used to like a long time ago.

I'm playing my last ever gig tonight and I'm having a moochy morning - a bit of tea and toast, a lie in watching You Tube on the laptop and then shortly I'll restring the bass and get prepped for what looks like to be a cracking final apearance in Southend, Essex And then I found this lot.... what tha actual f### have I been missing! Flat out funk, the tightest band I think I have ever seen having a total blast playing together and a monster of a bass player with a killer sound on every video you'll ever see of them (someone at Sire needs to sign him up btw...) It either wants to make you give up completely or keep on playing - I'm not sure which yet. Oh and they played up the road from me a few days ago. Aargh! Anyone else like them?

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Friday night was the last one at one of our fave venues in Essex. It was a great turnout and so many people came along to say goodbye to us. We have one more in Southend next Saturday and then we're packing the band up after a total of 24 years. It's gonna be 'emowsh' as we say down here.... Here's some pics from Friday

True dat.....they did look tasty. And I was only trying to spend some cash with them 😂

I popped into the Cambridge PMT a couple of weeks ago. You go in the front door and walk right past the counter to go deeper into the shop. There were 3 staff sitting behind the counter having a chat and eating lunch - no one even looked at me let alone welcomed me. I walked to the back of the shop, hung around the bass section looking at the couple of 5 strings they had locked up on the wall for about 5 minutes, did a couple of laps of the shop in case anyone could be bottomed to ask me if i needed anything or wanted to try a bass and walked straight back out again. I was still less interesting to them than a baked potato. Thats £500 of my money they're not getting then....

We've been using a water based Beamz Hazer for years now. It has a remote that can vary the intensity of the haze, the duration and the interval. You just need to be sensible with it. If you have smoke detectors over the stage don't use it or just have the odd tiny squirt. Use proper haze fluid and not general smoke fluid, it seems to produce a thinner but longer 'hanging' haze.

£20 a set here and arrive in about 10 days..... You're welcome 🙂 https://www.stringsandbeyond.com/dr-electric-bass-strings-mr-45-med-45-105.html

Don't mess with it. Take it back to the seller for a further chat about it. If you played it in the shop you may struggle to get a better outcome but if you bought it online you can probably return it if you haven't had it long.

No idea sorry. Drummist turned up with it one day. It's bloody heavy.