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I'm currently in an 80s duo. Keyboards and live guitar with backing tracks. There are so many good songs from the 80s. our set includes Wham! Culture Club Men without hats Duran Elton john (I'm still standing) Queen (Radio GaGa) Rick Springfield ABC Billy Idol, Survivor, Bon Jovi, Bryan adams, Depeche mode Dexys, Men at work, Erasure, Genesis, Ultravox, Toto, Howard jones, Huey lewis, KC and the sunshine band (give it up, cracking song) Kim Wilde, Lionel Ritchie, OMD, Pet shop boys, Frankie goes to Hollywood,, Soft Cell, A-Ha, The Police, Yazoo so many good songs

Gets you thinking doesn't it. Playing for departed friends, funerals that kind of thing. But thinking about it, I was doing a pub gig, standing in for a band that had just fallen apart (they were called Cunning Stunts) We were a very average pub band with a great singer, boundless energy and I had been playing bass for 6 or so years. The drummer and guitarist of the defunk band were there and we decided they should join us on Freebird. HOLY COW!! I'd never played with a drummer that could actually really play. He could spin his sticks through his fingers and he nailed every single fill. I had never felt connected to a drummer in my playing career. And then it was like having Steve Vai on guitar. He was a fab player, again full of energy, fabulous licks and it turned out to be a bloody nice bloke. We started a new band that weekend, learned 15 songs around sunday lunch and gigged that evening. Roadhouse!!. Gigged all over the south east, Hastings, Chiddingly, East London and Kent. 1988-1990 ish. But that version of Freebird, that night in the pub, that was special. It was a lights on moment for me

I've decided I don't need to play with knob heads. You're better off out of it I reckon. Look for something new. I've recently realised that band 'mates' should be just that,..........mates

pecial “2010 Dallas International Guitar Festival” inscription on headstock. Dallas 2010 “Shoot Out” McCarty Limited Run Specs: Top - Private Stock grade quilted maple Back - Lightweight Mahogany Neck - Mahogany Fretboard - Select East Indian rosewood Inlay - Green Heart Abalone “Original” Birds Neck Shape - Wide fat Scale Length - 25” Frets - 22 Fretboard Radius -10” Side dots - White Corian Fret wire - DGT/Santana Bridge - PRS Stoptail Tuning Pegs - Vintage style Color - Sunset Burst Finish - Ultra-thin polyester basecoat & Nitro-Cellulose topcoat Pickups: 57/08 w/ brushed covers Electronics: Volume, push-pull tone, 3-way toggle Hardware: Nickel String Gauge: 10- 46 Case: Modern Eagle paisley Back of headstock: "2010 Dallas International Guitar Festival" Each guitar is numbered out of 50

Could you get your old gig back, post virus?

already in my master plan for when I'm older. You have an audience that (mostly) can't run away!!

Yes but was not aware of this, I have an accounting qualification and am the company secretary, (it's my office as a shareholder as opposed to being a director)

No sweat, I look forward to listening to it

FCIS?

I've bought 2nd hand often and not yet had a problem

that must be really frustrating for you

I've been gigging for just over 34 years now. I'm nearly 52 and between 1988 and 2015 was easily doing 100 gigs a year. In the past 18 months I have cut back to about 35 per year and I try not to have my gigs back to back as it leaves me knackered the next day and the day after too. I have a full time job, I'm company Secretary in a family business with my brother. We employ about 18 people and manufacture security and search equipment. Since just before the pubs closed I haven't done any gigs, I've played at home much more, to backing tracks to polish up my guitar licks, played along with Guy Pratts videos (and really enjoyed that) I even did a live stream with my duo, in my garden. (Which I thoroughly enjoyed) I have noticed that I have much more energy, am not knackered all the time and my shoulders/ back / neck problems (mostly sports related) are causing me much less grief. I don't miss the idiots that come to the pub being a PITA, (I don't play for landlords I don't like anymore, so that doesn't come in to it) or any of the other grief, yet I still sort of miss it. If I never did another gig, well, I might be ok with that Your thoughts mighty BC collective By the way, I really appreciate how tough it is for the self employed musician who cannot work at the moment, this post is really aimed at people like me, the weekend warrior

£3.50 on ebay for Storyville

I've just ordered a copy of storyville

They were definately Framus branded strings. They were cheaper than the warwick reds at the time IIRC. Probably the same strings. They were fine

I used to have a trade account with Warwick (when I was making guitar amps) and I was doing a lot of testing of my amps. I changed strings a lot, I had a lot of guitars to work with. The nickel wound 10-46 gauge used to retail about 3 quid. They were fine actually. I also used their nickel wound bass strings. 45-105. I think they were a tenner. Never had a dud string in all the sets. I may even have a set or two left over, but I switched back to rotosound about 10 years ago

I have 3 Vintage 6 string guitars and they punch so far above their price point. I remember getting a V4 for my brother, probably about 12 years ago and I couldn't believe how good it was out of the box. I should have tried it on a gig before I sent it to him

no, never used transferwise

The MIM Flea is shell pink. I have one, it's awesome. I haven't gigged it for over 2 years now (not gigging on bass for a while) I think about selling it but it's the best sounding Jazz bass I've had. Great '64 fender pickups. I'm in Kent if you fancy a blast on it, when we're allowed to

keep the size of the box as short as possible because it will be cheaper to send I used Eurosender because BC gets a discount BASSCHAT10 is the code IIRC Also, I always write the delivery name and address ON THE BOX, just in case the label comes off. I also write where it's come from too

Vintage V52. If they're anything like my 335 alike and SG alike, they will be plenty good

Looks nice Bob, you could always add secondary dots on the side, level with the lines. I built a fretless P bass with no lines on the maple board and the dots were where they would have been on a fretted bass. I installed black dots where the frets would have been and it works perfectly

The can of worms that is wood and tone 🤣

There's been a lot of sliding pickup things over the years but that really does demonstrate how pickup position really is the key