Born 2B Mild

I heard that Stevie Wonder got given a cheese grater for his birthday ...he said it was the most violent book he has ever read. (gets my non PC fur coat)

They should give away a free calendar with every sale

IMHO, there ought to be a Bass Chat desk, manned by volunteers, to gain new members and for existing members to meet up. I'm sure a contra-deal on advertising will mean no money changing hands.

An excellent bunch of confessions, so far. I'm sure there's more to come that would make Ozzy look more like Michael Parkinson. I'm trundling down to Duxford for the weekend's air display soon (monsoon permitting), but come Sunday night, I hope to come back to 'riches of embarrassments' on this thread.

[quote name='cetera' post='277687' date='Sep 5 2008, 11:14 AM']In my KISS tribute.... lycra, make-up, studded codpiece, batwings, a long wiggly tongue (of my own), firebreathing, blood spitting, crotch-thrusting, an 'Axe' bass and seven inch monster-headed stack heels!! lol! [/quote] Careful now. You'll have Mrs Tinman coming over all unnecessary!

Have you ever used an idiosyncrasy on stage, whether it be clothing or prop or otherwise? Phil Lynott had his mirrored scratchplate, The Ox invariably had something around his neck, Bootsy has his extreme shades and hats. Back in the 70s, as a yoof, I took to regularly having a large can of imported Fosters Lager on the top of my stack at gigs (yeah, I know [i]now [/i]not to put drinks there). At that time, Fosters was not brewed in the UK and the amber nectar was pretty rare (and hence 'cool'). Any BC'ers done any less tame things?

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='274453' date='Sep 1 2008, 01:11 PM']Dont know what picassa is but assuming its an image hosting site then you need to wrap the url for the images with IMG tags[/quote] Picassa is google's web albums service. It gives you the option of giving you the HTML code for embedding. So I clicked on basschat's "Insert Image" button and pasted the code. then posted and got "Sorry, dynamic pages in the [IMG] tags are not allowed"

So how's it done then? I'd like to add decent size images to posts without folk having to click on them to view. I do have a picassa account, if that helps.

One of the last gigs with my FNA Jazzman, in 2006.

Great thread. So completely readable and yet so completely pointless. Luv it! I thought I'd read it all and it would remind me of my pet hates, so I could second them. Amazingly, I found nothing. I don't have any! I have several consternations though. Like why have distortion pedals for bass? If I want filth, I overdrive my amp's pre-gain.