BILL POSTERS

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1432924142' post='2786305'] Mick and Keith could play blues in small venues well into their 80s. However, I think they're too famous to play any small clubs. Blue [/quote] Or they could do gigs at huge venues, for a huge fee, 1 or 2 gigs a week, staying in luxury hotels, with hired help, nurses, doctors etc on the payroll. It would be a couple of hours work a week done that way. When I saw them they didnt seem to have rehearsed much, although tbh the mid 70s were not their finest hour, were they ?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1432863578' post='2785753'] It will be great next month going to see The Stones probably for the last time. Blue [/quote] I saw The Stones for probably the last time in 1973. And again (for probably the last time) in 1976. They will probably go on for years yet.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1432767602' post='2784898'] Your right, I'm even starting to say pubs instead of bars.lol Blue [/quote] Cor blimey guvnor, it wont do you any harm. Not as long as you dont start speaking like Dick VanDyke anyroad.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1432662922' post='2783746'] In the olden days our drummer used 4 x 6" nails and a length of bog chain. 2 nails into the floor in front of his bass drum. 2 nails behind him to anchor the bog chain which held his hi-hat in position. There were a few jarred-off landlords and Town Hall managers in the Bucks / West End / Berks / Oxon area who were not happy with holes in their floors and stages though. [/quote] We got barred from a pub in Redditch for nailing the bass drum to the floor. Funny how picky landlords can be sometimes innit At my daughters first ever gig, at her school, The bass drum actually fell off the stage.

Wots a Genzbenz ? Sounds like a brand of drain cleaner to me.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1432474589' post='2781788'] Good ole Keith, he really is THE man [/quote] You dont think it looks 'staged' then ?

As with anything else in life. confidence goes a long long way. A lot of the people I have met that call themselves pro's aint that good tbh. Wish I'd realised that when I was younger. Get on with it, as has been said reliability and no drama will be appreciated. If you don't try, you will never know.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1431969568' post='2776762'] And there we go... I'm now left searching for my 3amp/5amp leads and my 10amp/13amp leads. Otherwise I'm going to blow a 3amp lead next time we use it on an amplifier. Time for some labelling? [/quote] Either spray the plugs different colours - easier to see on a dark stage than labels. Or just fit a 13A fuse in all of them and stop worrying.

Never tried it, but I read somewhere that you can build it back up with a mixture of superglue and baking powder, then file it back to the shape it should be.

Have you tried Brasso ? Its like T Cut but finer. Proper liquid Brasso, not the stuff thats on cotton like Duraglit, although that would probably work as well.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1432377739' post='2780957'] Our guitarist uses a very old Traynor 2x12 80w valve combo. I'm led to believe that they are a copy essentially of the Fender. Is that correct? [/quote] Most old valve amps are pretty basic and very similar to be honest. The original designs were by the manufacturers of the valves, and go back to the 1930s RCA with 6L6 and Mullard with EL37 - later replaced by EL34. So, yeah.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1432330391' post='2780655'] Like this..? [/quote] No, smaller than that. Narrower than the amp by 1/2" either side. [attachment=192629:post-21952-0-74098200-1338920943.jpg]

I have a Bassman 100 Silverface and a Fender 2X15, which sounds great to me. The cab is about the size of the horizontal ones you used to see a lot, but the badge is the wrong way around for that. If anybody has any idea what the cab was originally I'd be interested to know. Its fine for pubs but the sound gets lost on a largish stage.

Martin Clunes

the Shend. Redditch's answer to Harry Dean Stanton in that he pops up in loads of things and is instantly recognisable without anyone knowing his name. Was / is the Cravats Bass Player. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBK3CvRCSNs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=cBK3CvRCSNs[/url]

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1432059998' post='2777738'] A Ritter Royale I'd guess [/quote] Uses Crown amps as well I bet.

Surprised he gets chance to practice with a baby in the house. Instead of leaving his missus changing nappies, looking after the kids and doing the housewwork, he should pull his weigh, not mess about with bloody guitars

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1428397236' post='2740788'] Currently listening to Green Day - Kerplunk. Not listened to this for about 20 years, I gave up on Green Day with Dookie. But recently I've been listening to a lot of early 90s US punk-ish bands. I think I have a new found respect for Mike Dirnt. I'll have to revisit Dookie too... [/quote] I like Mike Dints playing. Looks a bit of a poser but cant fault his bass lines.

Dont go too soft. i've seen them done with upholstery foam, trouble is a heavy amp will move too much if its dropped. Wrap it in a couple of layers of bubblewap, then box it with at least 3" of broken up polystyrene chunks, the sort of stuff thats used for moulded packing broken into bug chunks. If you must take out the valves, roll then in bubblewrap and put them in a cardboard tube, then put the tube inside the amp.

[quote name='GrammeFriday' timestamp='1431773303' post='2774800'] Like everyone else I have my likes and dislikes, but if we are really talking intolerable, blood-pouring-out-of-every-orifice levels of physical pain and suffering, I find Deep Purple’s ‘Child in Time’ very hard to beat. Especially the ‘Made in Japan’ live version. In order to avoid something like the 'head popping' scene from David Cronenberg's 'Scanners' taking place, I absolutely have to be out of the room well before the full-on falsetto screaming bit kicks in. Truly awful, brain-destroying stuff. [/quote] I find anything by Deep Purple extremely naff. Most of it sounds - to me anyway - like it was written by a school teacher for a 'with it' Yr6 school musical, or maybe by a leader at a council yoof club.

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1431784414' post='2774965'] student accommodation! what could possibly go wrong that would piss off the local residents [/quote] What local residents ? The indigenous Selly Oak locals moved out years ago. I had a lot to do with Selly Oak at one time, never lived there, but have had 2 businesses there. Now my daughter is at the University and lives there. I can hardly recognise it. [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1431784717' post='2774967'] Bubble's gonna burst in Birmingham sooner or later. I know we're got 3 Unis (at least, depending on how you define them!) but there is a finite number of students. Student residences are springing up all over the place. [/quote] The University is taking loads of paying foriegn students - thats where the money is.

Halfords sell an ignition points file for about £1.99. Thats what I used, worked a treat. Just take your time.

Its a shame whats happening to Selly Oak, most of the old terraced houses have been turned into badly converted student hovels managed by ripoff letting agents. There a concrete and glass monstrosity going up in front of the university, when its finished I doubt if you'll be able to see the clock from the road, Never used Rich Bitch much myself. not the worst rehearsal place in Brum, but I was never impressed with the knackered gear and smelly rooms. Maybe it was good in its day but that was a long long time ago.

Anything by Queen, and the radio goes off. Almost all of the drivel played by Heart FM, which my missus has on in the kitchen all day. Especially ones with the line "Marry dat girl" or "Got da mooove like Jagger"

80% up on a P. With my Jazz, which I rarely use these days, front PU at 80% and about 25% on the bridge. Tone pot always backed off all the way.