BILL POSTERS

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1429384416' post='2751029'] Scarborough Fair #11 in US 1968. [/quote] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3][size=4][i][b]Most [/b][/i][/size]of the ones mentioned so far were not actually hits.[/size][/font][/color]

Most of the ones mentioned so far were not actually hits. Didnt Joe Brown have a hit with Hava Nigila ? Or was it Dave Edmunds ? Either way its a very old song, and was at least, a minor hit for one of em. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Oo8dSBwAA

[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1429339506' post='2750508'] Good call Bill, Golden Vanity was first collected by Samuel Pepys in 1667. Sir Walter Raleigh didn't write it but is name-checked in versions of the song! [/quote] Not really a hit song though, just the B side of a hit. Actually had to explain to somebody what a B side was the other day ! Must be getting old

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1429342956' post='2750532'] That's happened to me as well, there must be a cute serial beard stroker traveling from gig to gig around the country [/quote] She must be pretty old by now, used to happen to me quite often - in the 70s

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1429283403' post='2750039'] Lonnie Donegan pulled a few out of the ark, too. [/quote] Yeah. Wasnt The Golden Vanity written by Walter Raleigh ? B side of My old mans a dustman btw, which sounds like an old music hall song to me.

A good front man is essential. You can get away with just being a competent singer, but now with being boring. The idea after all, is to entertain.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130205-should-you-bash-a-bible-bump

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1429107656' post='2748081'] What book would be best? A novel or factual? [/quote] A Bible, or it will come back. Thats the old rememdy. I wonder if its why old people call them Bible lumps.

Definitely looks like a Ganglion. I had one on the back of the other hand when I started playing again after a long break. My GP said not to hit it, cos its a cyst and they just come back if you burst them. Best just leave it and it will go away.

Either my thoughts - try and forget the gig - or Radio4.

[quote name='mikebass84' timestamp='1428911096' post='2745735'] Depends on who says it really. It's usually just a "thanks very much" but if it's a fellow bassist it can lead to nerdy gear talk [/quote] To be avoided at all costs ime. At least 75% of the people who tell me they enjoyed it follow up with " I'm a Bass Player" To be honest I find talking about gear boring, and the gear anoracks do like to ramble on and on.

At a gig at a small pub with a very very small 'stage' in a small town near Tamworth a couple of years ago. As soon as the doors opened a stroppy looking old boy comes up to me and in a very demanding tone wanted to know if there were any of the original members still playing with us. He didnt stay for the gig, didnt even have a drink. I often wonder who he thought we were

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1428823987' post='2744754'] Thankfully Russ Andrews make a 10 amp 'Superfuse'. That's a relief. [/quote][quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1428823987' post='2744754'] Thankfully Russ Andrews make a 10 amp 'Superfuse'. That's a relief. [/quote] Thanks for that, just been reading about them. http://www.russandrews.com/product-Russ-Andrews-13A-SuperFuse-1016.htm Cant believe I've been missing out on the benefits of high performance fuses for so long. Cant see a kitemark on them and they dont match the colour codes I'm used to though. Guess I'll just have to put up with the multipack ones from poundland.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1428783983' post='2744565'] You can, but they're not a popular value so you'll struggle to find them in the DIY type stores. [/quote] You dont see 10A in places like that either, which is why I mentioned itt.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1428489604' post='2741697'] You'll probably find two types a 5A one and a 13A one. They have different cables but the IEC plug socket is only rated at 10A. Work that one out. Anyway, you might need a 13A one with a 10A fuse depending on your amp power and whether it has a 'soft start'. There's a grey area between 300w and 500w amps as to whether the manufacturer fits a soft start. Essentially you could have a 500w amp that randomly blows 5A fuses when you turn it on. [/quote] I'm pretty sure you can still get 7A plug fuses, if your really bothered. Personally 5 or 13 is good enough for me, even 6A cable will blow a 13A fuse if theres a short - unless its a really really long cable anyway.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1427658401' post='2732790'] This, particularly No6 Tipped or Rizla packet card. [/quote] This.. Red Rizla packets definitely sound better though. Something to do with the density of the red ink probably...

Regularly either Wooly Bully, Blockbuster or Great Balls of Fire. One of ems nearly always the last number. Maybe the audience are glad to see we're finished.

Donkeys years ago, at a pub or workie club in Tamworth, playing with a band of old fogies doing Dave Edmunds and Shadows type rock n roll covers to a disinterested dozen or so people, 2 of who were playing pool in front of what passed for a stage. One of them walked up to me between numbers and asked me to turn my amp down as I was moving the balls on the pool table and it was affecting his game. By the way, I was using an HH IC100 guitar amp and a 4 X 12.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1427389485' post='2729824'] Not if you're Jeremy Clarkson! ...sorry, wrong thread. J. [/quote] Off topic, sorry. But if you watch TG closely,Clarkson doesn't go fast in all those flash cars. Look out of the windows when he's driving and he aint goin fast. Try and see whos is driving when you see cars flying around and you can NEVER see the driver -unless its the Stig. Surprised no one else has noticed that.

[quote name='Froggy' timestamp='1427373129' post='2729468'] Yes, it could be down to those things, and of course, nobody is perfect, however I see the same people making the same mistakes over and over again on places like Facebook etc. Many of these people have the same education as I do, and were taught by the same teachers that I was. I'm sure many of you have noticed the same at different places around the internet. Education in this country isn't that bad when it comes to the basics of literacy, so there really isn't much excuse for it. [/quote] Ah, but. , Like a lot of others, I was educated in a 60s secondary modern. I read a lot as a kid, but trust me, I was the exception, not everyone did, So I can at least spell and use a comma and a full stop. I was never taught any grammar after primary school, I dont know the 'rules' so make mistakes. There must be loads of people in the same boat as me.

[quote name='Froggy' timestamp='1427359083' post='2729218'] I'll hold my hand up and admit to being a grammar nazi, a spelling nazi, and an apostrophe nazi. To my mind it's just laziness. [/quote] Don't you think sometimes it might be down to a poor education ? Or sometimes typos or predictive text...

[quote name='Froggy' timestamp='1427359083' post='2729218'] I'll hold my hand up and admit to being a grammar nazi, a spelling nazi, and an apostrophe nazi. To my mind it's just laziness, excepting those who are truly dyslexic as opposed to those who use dyslexia as an excuse for their laziness. I'm sure someone will be upset with me at this post, but I've never been one to [b]mine[/b] my words. [/quote] Hmm. Is that wher you dig yourself a hole ?

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1427290830' post='2728345'] I tell you, I'm a hair's breadth away from flouncing off, joining facebook and starting my own group for spelling and grammar pedants who also happen to dabble in a bit of bass. Who's with me? [/quote] I'd be totally up for dat wouldnt I, except for the flouncing bit anyroad.

As soon as anyone starts a sentence with Basically, I think - Tosser. Especially if he's wearing a short sleeved shirt with a tie. For some reason that really offends me. That and misusing Totally - more often they will say toealleee - Bugs me. Theres sposed to be a f***in T in it, innit ? In fact missing the T out winds me up generally. Groovy is good tho

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1426783000' post='2721931'] Is it harder to learn how to play rock & roll today then it was 50 years ago? Back in the 60s we were just a bunch of kids, we aquired guitars and basses and someone knew a few notes or chords, we learned from listening to 45 rpm records and built on that. It worked. Bluer [/quote] Probably, yes. Back then people didnt (usually) have formal lessons. Like you say, picked it up as they went along. So if you didnt have a natural aptitude, you soon lost interest, and didnt hang out with other musos, sold the Guitar or Bass or whatever and found something else to float yer boat. There are exceptions -The Strypes for example - but not many kids seem to want to play Rock n Roll now, three chords its too 'simple' and beneath them. All the lessons and technical know how seems to push them away from cheap guitars and old junk amps. Perhaps in a few years we will be back to something like Prog Rock superstars. Then somebody will re-discover Dr Feelgood and it will all go around again Only my opinion based on my experience mind, I'm sure others will disagree soon.