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[quote name='dood' post='215614' date='Jun 9 2008, 06:38 PM']Ahhh I don't recall the name.. My mate Andy was offered the Australian Budgie tour last year, but is busy with his own band at the mo'. I was playing lead guitar for a pretty successful local band called 'Sod's Law'. We supported a lot of 'big names' at the time, which was really cool.[/quote] Yeah, they get around a bit, I think Burke is around the 60 mark...I know Ray is...still pumping it out The Australian Tour....Steve Williams on drums I think...not sure, local chap anyway. Ha, I bet you nailed all the supports...guitar player too, I dunno, seems to be a shed load of talent up Norwich Glenn......awesome, what a huge talent!!! my mouth open all night.

Always best to go with what suits you.

Perhaps your grit might sound like a bee in a jar if you use it with a DI....Be best to mic it wouldn't it? Or do both.

[quote name='dood' post='215487' date='Jun 9 2008, 03:19 PM']Yes! We used to play there all the time too!! heh heh!! Those were the days! SMALL WORLD! - So who were you playin' for?[/quote] That would have been with Ray Phillips of Budgie, a 3pce set up doing a huge set of old and new Budgie tracks! What band were you with then?

Ahhh, right got you dood, no I've seen Billy in Newport Wales and when he did "Billy's Back" with Ampeg, the clinics in Wapping high street. Well if you did the support around 94 I may have seen you if it was closer to 98 I know I wasn't there....just trying to connect things up....I know I had a gig there myself, not Glenns support just a gig on our own IIRC, that's how we heard about Glenns gig...PHwoa!! those were the days Slightly off topic...do you know a gig The Fighting Cocks, Great Yarmouth?? used to make a noise there too!!

We're talking early 90's....I'm so old, I get into these threads and it just ends up reminding me that I ain't getting any younger

Hi dood, I'm sure it was The Oval....the venue with the Maiden thing going on....you got me thinking now, The Waterfront rings a bell too, long time ago...anyone know of a gig list / history of Glenn???

Used one of these for a while, with a power amp and a 2x15, gorgeous sound wish I still had it. [attachment=9443:ampeg_svt_iip2.jpg]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='215220' date='Jun 9 2008, 08:56 AM']Did two gigs this weekend - one was to a yacht club function. 250 people all eating drinking and being merry. They loved it; some singing along, some dancing, lots of applause. But, yes, you guessed it, the music was dross. Didn't swing, didn't groove, weak players, dreadful sound (massive warehouse type room - think Stafford Bingley Hall but smaller). Earned £100 - hated every minute except the breaks. 2nd gig - jazz trio (piano, bass, drums). Great sound, real piano (for a change) - appreciative, attentive audience including a retired American pianist and his party who were thrilled to hear jazz played so well in the UK and kept saying so - he kept asking for requests, most which our pianist (Chris Simmonds, Norfolk) knew and I could credibly busk. Great evening - spiritually, socially, musically. Earned £50. When I start turing down gig 2s to play gig 1s because it is more money, then I will know that the integrity has long gone.[/quote] It's an odd feeling when you know the gig wasn't up to much and you went down a storm!

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO CHAT...WE SALUUUTE YOUUUU! Sorry

[quote name='Jonny Walker' post='215191' date='Jun 9 2008, 12:42 AM']I propose a salute to humanity lol[/quote] Aye, a salute to humanity and a salute to all us mad unknown bass players who live here at basschat.

What sort of stuff you playing? In a Rock set up I use an 8x10 and a Hartke HA4000. In a 3 pce set up Improv, jamming and rehearsal I've used the same amp but with a 4x10 and also a Trace 4x10 combo.

Glenn is a legend, he's absolutley amazing. I was blown away when he signed a picture saying "From one bass player to another" He had the same effect on me as Billy did when I spoke to him....yep! I was a babbling idiot The Oval in Norwich...many moons ago!

I have to tune down for my covers band, loads of players do it and there's nowt wrong with it. I'm happier with standard tuning because I prefer the tension but not bothered in losing a bit when I tune down.

[quote name='Josh' post='214989' date='Jun 8 2008, 05:22 PM']I guess, but at least it shows even Pro-Bands screw up, makes them that bit more human. I could make a film containing all the Metallica gigs in which they cock it up quite embarrasingly.[/quote] Our drummer is into Metallica, he's mentioned about the dodgy gigs he's seen them perform, happens to us all I suppose.

[quote name='OldGit' post='214882' date='Jun 8 2008, 01:51 PM']in case they get subsumed by the culture[/quote]

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='214861' date='Jun 8 2008, 01:24 PM']I don't know if it's a bad habit or not - You guys can decide... I really can't see the point in rehearsing! The two bands I play in are highly professional & have always just gone out and played (ie. These two outfits have never rehearsed at all!) In my experience, the tightness comes from playing it out in the field, as it were & pure spontanaity. I joined a 70's band the other year & hated the endless rehearsals, generally acheiving nothing![/quote] That sounds like the ideal situation, I've only had that with a few players, most players I've met want to get some sort of rehearsal in, which is fair enough. I had to put strict rehearsal in while playing a few Zappa covers with a band. If it is a lazy bass habit OTPJ.....it's a good 'un

Good to hear it went well OG, when you gigging in Whales mon?

Cleaning my bass, not putting the effort into learning how to read or sort of understand notation, slouching in a chair over my bass. Leaving it to the very last possible moment to learn a bass part for a rehearsal or gig. Not sorting the intonation on my Jazz. There are more but I think that's enought to send me to hell

Just an update on my HA4000...found the culprit or culprits, although I had checked the connections to the boards inside I failed to check the little ones from the volume, eq, mid range, bandwidth, etc....all were lose or not connected at all...sorted I shall now be checking periodically that the little suckers are clipped on. So, no contacting Hartke and best of all no forking out for a new amp!!

[quote name='Initiation Hunchback' post='214613' date='Jun 7 2008, 08:44 PM']thath good to know. thankth jathe [/quote] Your welcome

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Male or female, two heads and a hump..... I'd still post

[quote name='SJA' post='214492' date='Jun 7 2008, 05:14 PM']sounds like the best option, he seems eager to offer advice, wouldn't mind hearing it.[/quote] Sorry, I just got excited earlier , you're probably right there.

[quote name='umph' post='214488' date='Jun 7 2008, 05:10 PM']i wouldn't say it was that hard to play ;< i prefer the older stuff its got more groove[/quote] Ok, maybe if I said as a player you need stamina, dexterity, speed, that's the hard bit to get up to scratch. I enjoy the older type of stuff cos....Ha! I'm older