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Fossil Fuel by XTC on Spotify - before hitting their back catalogue in earnest

Last night was probably our last gig for a while in our current incarnation as one of our singers is about to take herself off travelling for up to a year. It was in a pub next to York racecourse on race day, so judging by the punters walking past, some alcohol may have been taken . We were a bit nervous and our tech for the night had some teething problems, but once we got going, we had a hoot. All a bit emotional and end of an era feeling - we're all buddies. We do have another singer (another buddy) lined up as a dep for a few months.

What a great story! As above...go for it!

Another vote for Hatful of Hollow. Great songs, brilliantly played. Words are clever and funny, but I think Mozza needed Marr as an antedote or foil.

That colour combo is great - like it a lot! Has also got me thinking about a Limelight again as an affordable YOB-alike.

Stop it. I like it! Incidentally, think dv247 still have some Gibson offers on.

^Definitely this.

"...cool ammo belt..." What rot.

My first was a purpley red Avon EB0 copy, though I can't remember how I acquired it (1977ish). It was fun but had rather odd build quality, especially in the bridge department. This was traded against a very "well used" Musicmaster from a second hand shop somewhere in Cardiff. I liked it, though the fretwork needed fettling. This went a couple of years later post University and wasn't replaced until 2008 with the arrival of the MIM Precision! I was happy with one bass...until I came to this place

I had a Musicmaster back in the 70s, it had a mahoosive oblong case which I[i] think[/i] (I've had a few sleeps since then) was a Fender case. This one on ebay looks very odd...

This makes me feel much better...when you are mid set, about to start the next song and your mind goes blank ("what do we start on?)...or worse, mid song, completely in the groove without thinking and then you regain consciousness and it all goes to the proverbial.

Lovely trio!

Nice one, thanks for posting.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1458933487' post='3012282'] Sending that to our drummer & guitarist. [/quote] This

"[color=#333333]After further research found to be a rare , highly collectable model." Now starting at £160. [/color]

One of our singers asked for this to go on the setlist [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRo_CHSdt0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRo_CHSdt0[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1458321232' post='3006663'] I finally bowed to pressure from the offspring and painted the guard white. Technically it's 'Royal Ivory', but I think 'white' covers it. I know more people expressed a preference for gold, but I have to live with the great moaning git, so here it is. I think it's not half bad actually... to be more 'authentic' it would need to be a two-tone burst, not a three-tone. And have a two-saddle through-body bridge. And the horn shape is too pointed... and on and on. But I'm hoping it's going to be enough to stem the 50s P-GAS I've been suffering from. Here's the previous gold version, for an easy comparison: I think they both have their merits. Also it was cloudy today, so the white guard pic is a much more accurate real-world colour representation. The pics in full sunlight are very lush - but in reality the bass just isn't that bright. [/quote] The gold PG is nice, the white is lush IMHO - nice work that man! Oh and kudos to young Master Discreet

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1458210013' post='3005550'] UPDATE: Ahem... Long story short, I used an existing FL Studio file for the HB demo to save time and didn't notice there was an EQ plugin on the bass channel... which I have now removed. Here's the updated audio file for anyone who's interested... [url="https://www.mediafire.com/?uo7r65oi7ysll7e"]https://www.mediafir...uo7r65oi7ysll7e[/url] I've made it a .wav file as SoundCloud compresses everything to a 128kbps .mp3 file... I think you'd have to agree it's a lot smoother and less 'grainy'. It could even be less 'woolly', who knows..? Point is, the Wilkinson pickup is perfectly adequate in my opinion, so if you were thinking about buying a HB PB-50 you shouldn't have to factor in the cost of an upgrade pickup. In theory you don't need to spend any money on it at all if roundwounds are your thing. Just a little time setting up and a bit of a fettle if you're that way inclined... bargain! [/quote] Sounds great...nice playing too.

Oops, double post. Bloody phone...

How long by Ace. Saw them as bottom of the bill on a pub rock special at Guildford Civic Hall below Bees Make Honey, Dr Feelgood and Charlie and the Wide Boys. A few later weeks later they were on TOTP.

Led Zep May 1975 as mentioned above at Earls Court. Really poor acoustics combined with the initial salvo of noise meant I no idea what the opening number was. I've Blue Oyster Cult several times over the years - never struck me as that loud.

I do like the Non Reverse: sort of endearingly wonky looking

Very cool! Any neck divage from the longer neck?