rushbo

I loved fIREHOSE. Watt has to be one of the hardest working musicians on the planet. I can't get to see him this time around, but I've seen him a couple of times in the past and he's always top notch. One of the good guys.

Twelve pages of people talking about artists who have changed the world/their life and no one has mentioned Robert Johnson? If you're looking for the absolute source of the vast majority of Western Popular Music, he's pretty close to the fountainhead.

I've not done this myself but...apparently, if you unfold your cable and drape it around the inside of your airing cupboard and leave it overnight, the gentle heat helps to un-kink any curls. This could be completetly erroneous, so check with a grown up first.

I ordered the 2.5mm rod and the dinky little torch dealio. With P and P, it came to £16.89. You'll need some masking tape, snips, a woodworking drill bit, some medium rough (340ish) and some fine (800-1200) sandpaper. I'm no expert in the fine art of woodworking, so I guess it took me about an hour-ish. Not a tricky job, but I went slow. There's a really useful guide on the Luminlay site and a few similar projects on YouTube. Practice on a bit of scrap first.

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1440837132' post='2854180'] The daft thing here is that lots of people will have had musical epiphanies at various stages of their lives and they will be especially influential at an early age. Everyones experience will be personal and will awaken ideas and thoughts that provide an insight and even a passion that they can follow , this is a wisdom in its own way , but is very personal to the circumstances that brought it on. I think the argument about which artist influenced which artist is immaterial in this context, as is also the 'curse', I think that if someone has a 'hallelujah' moment with regard a performance or an occasion , whether it be on their own or shared with 10 million others , it is a personal thing. It is not really for anyone to be upset that they can't make us have the same feelings as them about the same event , but I am sure most of us will have those feelings about some event , so don't feel cursed , we may not actually have been [i]there[/i], but we've been there [/quote] This.

Reviving a zombie thread, but I installed these on my Squier project bass and was amazed...A pretty straightforward job - go slow and use plenty of masking tape, but what a difference! I used my Maplins own brand "Dremel" to drill out the neck and it worked a treat. Get one of those neat little torches to activate them, too. I got my kit from the Luminlay website and it came from Japan in about 5 days!

[font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000]There is some truth in the observation that most popular Music owes a debt to The Beatles. What we often overlook is that they were just one of many bands working in a similar musical area in the UK at the time. With Rock and Roll being pretty much dead in the US in the early sixties, bands in Britain responded to the fading echo of that music and made it their own. Often by playing it slightly wrong on inferior (or homemade) instruments. We also had Skiffle, which tends to be forgotten, but that had a massive influence on late 50’s youth over here and put guitars in the hands of thousands of would-be Lonnie Donegan’s. If The Beatles hadn’t made it, who’s to say that The Animals, the Kinks, the Yardbirds or The Rolling Stones would have become the defining band of that era? [/color][/size][/font] [font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000]Because of the speed that Pop Culture moves at, it is pointless to insist to a guy in a Death Metal band that he owes everything to George Harrison. He will counter that he gets his style from Synyster Gates, who got it from Dimebag Darrell, who got it from Eddie Van Halen, who got it from Jimmy Page who got some of it from Harrison, but a lot of it from Lonnie Donegan and James Burton. [/color][/size][/font] [font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000]50 years is a long time in Pop. The Beatles were a massive influence, but that has dissipated somewhat – it permeates most western Pop, but with every passing year and every new sub-sub genre, the degrees of separation increase. To say that “you don’t get it because you weren’t there” smacks of arrogance. I wasn’t around for when Leo Fender and Les Paul created their prototype electric guitars, but I know how important their work was. I sympathise with OP as I’m a massive Beatles fan (I’ve been to conventions and everything…) but 2015 is different planet to 1963. [/color][/size][/font]

Hugo Largo! Man, I love that band!

Hi from Halesowen!

What's the ugliest part of your body?

I used a scrunchy on my Bass when my old band played "All Right Now" (yeah, wanna make something of it..?) It helped to mute that cheeky open "A" during the solo bass lick. Worked a treat. I got four for a quid, too. The GruvGear ones have got the velcro fastener thingy, but they weigh in at slightly more than a quid. And you can't buy 'em from your local Superdrug.

Bought some strings from Lee - great transaction (as they used to say on Ebay...) Buy and sell with confidence. Rushbo

I put off going wireless for years, thinking that as my bands rarely played on big stages, there was no need. Ironically, it's the smaller stages where having less clutter on the floor is the biggest help. I'm another Line 6 G30 user and I've had no problems at all with it, I've popped the receiver in one of those Maplins silver mini flight case dealios with my Zoom single pedal multi fx and that's my set up for many of my gigs. A kettle lead, instrument lead and an amp and I'm good to go. I also use rechargeable batteries too...I shelled out for Duracell ones and a super rapid (15 minute) charger. I'll get a three hour rehearsal and a two hour gig from one charge. They paid for themselves in about two months. The clips on the G30 aren't the best tho,so I bought a cheapo camera case from Amazon (£3?) which sits on my strap and can be moved easily from Bass to Bass. Thomann do a pouch for it for about the same money, but it will only fit straps which taper to a thin end.