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Ah didn't see this one sneaked in at the end, possibly my favourite SLAG track.

I really like this one 👍

Too true! I've looked and it's gone, it was one of those 'facebook live' videos, maybe they only last for so long. I really must make a proper effort to get a camera set up and get some footage, it's usually the terrible stuff people record on their phones.

Hmm, it did link to a Facebook video, it was on someone else's fb so maybe it's gone, I'm not good with that stuff. A photo from it will have to do then 😁

That's pretty cool 👍

OMG you're in 'Imports Misc O', that's so cool! 😎 Actually one of your CD's is in my car right now. I've just bought a Jaguar, I brought it home and needed to stock it with CD's, a neighbour saw the new car and said "it's proper old school gangster that is" (it really isn't) "You know, 'Get in the car you Slaaag' ". And that was one CD chosen for me. Never had any band reference crop up although the first time I heard us unexpectedly on the radio was cool.

This seems very weird for me as well. I use a stage name, (not through my choice, I set up facebook for band related stuff and used a different name and the bands started using it), and the first few times I didn't know whether to sign my real name or 'stage name', especially as I don't have a signature for the stage name. It was like being a kid again and choosing how to do a signature. It still seems odd signing setlists, posters, cd's, etc.

Just once more please.

I wear a suits a lot in our Mod band, material covered buttons are the best (including style wise), plastic buttons have never really marked my bass (the odd tiny dent that you really have to catch in the light to see but I do get pretty lively with it) never have, or will, tried metal buttons.

Oh well aren't you just a little ray of sunshine. 😉

Wasn't Horn's Fairlight first used on a Dollar single? Oh the shame of it 🤒

From memory of interviews it was Trevor Horn's, cost something like £18,000 back in the early 80s.

I used to do it in a previous band a few years back, it always went down well but as has been mentioned, keep the speed in check. It's all too easy to let adrenaline get the better of you and start it too fast. I got pretty close to the sound using my Line6 X3. As you can run two completely separate signal paths with these I had one channel with the effects and one clean, albeit with some octaver, to keep it punchy and not too muddy.

Very true. We all go on about Norman Watt Roy's bass playing, and rightly so, but the entire band really were a cut above, extremely creative and Ian Dury's lyrics were just sublime, poetic and beautiful, yet slightly seedy with some market trader swagger.

Eh? The string still vibrates between the fret and the bridge saddle, it's just the pad of your finger hanging past the fret very slightly mutes the string. Palm muting is the same thing at the other end of the string, albeit a different amount, and doesn't pull it out of tune.

The first band I was in had a terrible name but we were popular locally and couldn't change as pubs would just advertise us with the original name. The events leading to the hasty naming involved a group of mates that got together with instruments in someone's kitchen once a week, not a band as such, just having a laugh. We went to the pub one evening to see a band and one guitarist was trying to chat up the barmaid with the old, "Oh yeah, I'm in a band you know", line. It worked so well he got us a booking and she asked the name of the band to put in the diary. We weren't a band and we had no name. He looked around for inspiration and a random bloke was wearing a bobblehat, erm "The Bobblehats" he said, Tw@t. Anyway we had to choose who would play what a get a set together in three weeks. The gig was horrendous and amazing at the same time. I had massive feedback issues for the first half but got it sorted in the break, at the end a bloke came up and congratulated me on my amazing sound in the first half but didn't like what I'd done to it in the second. It was noisy, raucous, and ferocious and people were dancing on tables and anything that would move got dragged out and danced on/broken. We were paid and the banned from ever playing there again. I learnt a lot that night, not least that we were The Bobblehats and the name stuck. Moral of the story, pick your name wisely, it might haunt you for a long time.

Thank you, it is rather nice🙂. Yes makes his own R tailpieces and bridges, a very talented chap.

I never pass up an opportunity to whip mine out. Made by the same luthier as Rick's Fine' 52 (I think). Given the price genuine ones command that wreck of a shell on ebay might not be that rediculous. I'd never go near it but at around a third of the cost of a complete one who knows? It is an absolute turd though.

So would you sell for £275?

So would a belt sander but there's more than one way to skin a cat. Actually the belt sander would do that as well

Fixed 😁

A good set up will transform a fretless far more than a fretted bass. Give it a go and then decide, it doesn't cost a penny and can be quite rewarding.

Sellers can be freaks as well, I had a right one on a Facebook selling page. I wanted to buy a VCR to convert some old videos of the kids to DVD. I work in Plymouth and saw one for sale in Plymouth, ideal I'll swing by one the way home from work. "Is it still for sale?" "Yes." 'I'll have it, I'll pick it this evening at half five." "Yes." “Can I have you address please?“ “Yes." After about an hour, " Can I have your address please so I can pick it up this evening?“ “Yes." Another half an hour goes by, “Address?“ “I'm not giving out my address over Facebook, here's my mobile number, if you text when you're five minutes away, I'll give it to you then". "How the feck will I know when I'm five minutes away, five minutes away from where? This is too difficult, you can keep it!“

My knowledge on IEM is lacking somewhat, but I do know that no bluetooth device is suitable for monitoring, there is just too much latency.

I think that's the joy of the internet. You used to have to put work into buying an instrument privately, first buy a paper or whatever it was advertised in, then make a phone call with one of those things connected to the wall and have an actual conversation to discuss and arrange a viewing. Now you can just sit on your sofa, see an ad that takes your fancy and send a quick message, before really thinking about whether you actually want it. Then decline on a whim without having to speak to the seller. The upside is, obviously your ad reaches a far wider audience though. Yes there are lots of numpties out there, but it's still better selling today than in the days of FreeAds.