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Thanks Miles'tone 🙂

I love all his funky stuff, of course, but this one has always, right from the very first hearing, brought tears ro my eyes. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZONgpmw58 Can't seem to make the video appear in the post. Can someone with a brain fix it please? Ta.

Toured with Bowie for years. I think maybe connected to Carlos Alomar who was Bowie's guitarist and MD for a good while.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461343046' post='3033905'] One in the eye for the competition. [/quote] Hence their glazed expression?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461240266' post='3032769'] So that's the money shot..? [/quote] Yep, simply take it on the chin.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1461018965' post='3030791'] So I never got to really experience the "struggle" of previous decades. The experimentation of it all seems really exciting. Even the crap instruments and struggling to get even the latest record has a certain fun element. I can't help thinking in a way lacking all that now has lost us something, some magic in it all. [/quote]e This is so true. The thrill of finding a record you had wanted for ages (and at a moment when you had the dosh) was something special. Getting to see a favourite artist live was a total dream. The thrill of the chase.

Good for metal? ....coat.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1460853665' post='3029380'] Ya big loaf! [/quote] Loaf? What a very excellent expletive. Glad to hear that you got it satisfactorily resolved - result!

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1460792235' post='3028716'] Yes, last night was the first time there had been an audience collection. I obviously can't comment on other band nights but the first time, in our four gigs. Strangely enough, it was the busiest it had ever been there last night with us playing with some people even doing a 150km round trip to see us. He also provides meals and by his admission was fully booked to the point that the band were going to have to eat outside in the rain or in their lounge upstairs. [/quote] In that case, I can understand your being miffed at the pub boss. If a precedent had been set, albeit tacetly, that there was a fee from him and now the hat/jug/receptical was additionally being sent round for the band, he's moving the goalposts. Might it be better to approach the landlord and express your unhappiness with this new arrangement? Making it clear that, in future, you want a different deal and expressing clearly how that deal would look? It may be possible to resolve this problem without having to lose a gig and disappoint faithful fans of the band.

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1460765910' post='3028663'] We're aware of how much the owner pays as a maximum [/quote] Is it part of your agreement with the manager that this maximum fee has to come explicitly from his pocket? Maybe it's always a mix like this and, depending upon how much the crowd donates, the manager takes more or less of a loss for which he then has to make up the difference. Or was last night a change as to how you've done it in the past? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I feel that specifics like this do throw a completely different light on the matter.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1460730626' post='3028281'] She could have caught him doing worse things in his bedroom... [/quote] What? Worse than that? That'd take some doing.

Felt like one of those deliberately eggy moments in a Bill & Ted film. Was he drunk?

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1361778823' post='1990545'] Yup. MK played bass on the track "Easy" from the Riddle album. A slight change of direction maybe, but Nik sang guest vocals on this track too... (Bass played by our very own JD1) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T64YKHUY1dA[/media] [/quote] Good song. Somebody shoot (or cut one foot off) the drummer.

Very lovely, a cracking tone and nicely played. Well done.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1460384261' post='3025208'] I was wondering about the apparent lack of a G-string. [/quote] (Geordie accent) You wouldn't let it lie, would'ya?

I like my Eastwood Classic 4, if you don't mind shortscale basses.

Thanks for the video Wateroftyne!

I payed a brief visit to Maruszczyk's shop a few weeks back. It's just outside Aachen which is miles away from where I live, but we had a day off, on tour, nearby. I only had a limited amount of time, but made the best of it. The shop is in an old converted tudor-style complex (OK not really Tudor 'cos it's in Germany, but you know what I mean) in a tiny village. The man himself wasn't there unfortunately, but a young assitant was very helpful, offering me tea and biscuits and information if I wanted it. Otherwise, he just left me alone to noodle on as many basses as I felt like. Fun , but also purgatory, if you know what I mean... After 45 minutes I couldn't remember anymore which bass I liked more, or less, or was it the neck-profile, or the sound, or, or, or...that way lies madness. Anyway, the reason that I'm boring you with all this, is because of one thing that really caught my [s]eye[/s] ear. They had a number of basses with a j-p-j configuration (yes, you read right, 3-pick-ups). Aesthetically appalling, I must admit, but what a range of sounds, and fully passive. I was really surprised. Being someone who's not a big fan of active electronics, this seemed a nice way to have a broader range of sonic possibilities within a passive instrument. Fugly, I'll grant you, but some cracking sounds. Oddly, I can't seem to find any of these basses on the Public Peace website.

That looks/sounds like loadsa fun! Thanks for posting.

Motor boating meant something entirely different when I was a teenager 😏

Niiiice....

Had freebies to go and see Duran Duran a couple years ago. I went with some mates who were my age too. I have to admit that, despite myself, football-crowd singing along to Rio, Wild Boys etc. was loads of fun 😊

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1458774346' post='3010884'] Ah takes me back to my youth!!! But where do you start with these as there are so many. I picked this one because If you went to a club in 77, 78, 79 they would play this monster at least once - monster because you'd need some stamina to dance for that long but people loved it and the bass parts are wicked!! [media]http://youtu.be/EwjZEEsMJaU[/media] [/quote] That is absolutely killer! Thanks for posting

Captain of the Heart - Double