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Someone took a picture of my gear at a gig we played on Friday night and put it on Facebook.

It’s all relative, started my first job in 1972, my weekly wage was just over £9. Went to the first Knebworth Festival in 1974 and that was £2.75p. I noticed Stray were on the bill at Weeley, one of our fellow bass players on here currently plays with the band.

That’s a bit of a rarity nowadays, two Peavey combo’s on stage.

Might be a silly question Daryl. Are you removing the jack from the bass when you are not playing ?

Very frustrating rehearsal last night, schoolboy error which we should all know better. We decided at the last rehearsal a cover song we could add to the set. Turned up last night, myself and the drummer learnt one version, the vocalist another and the guitarist in his infinite wisdom learnt a live Glastonbury version 🤪 Every version was a different structure, so much time was wasted to come to a compromise of how we were to play it, a bit of a joke. It won’t happen again, we will ensure every member is learning exactly the same version of a song before going ahead with it.

Silk

Pretty sure they did a slot on The Old Grey Whistle Test back in the day.

Strat or PRS.

JST is pretty well known within the blues circuit, but otherwise an unknown to folks who aren’t into blues.

They just walk into shops nowadays, help themselves and just walk out ☹️

Massive live production, superb musicianship, exceptional bass sound, hairs on back of neck reaction 👍👏

Blimey, this is like a question on the 1% Club 🤪

Just seen some of the Avril Lavigne set on YouTube, excellent performance, top notch vocals and backing band, really rocking to a capacity 70k crowd. I agree with a lot of the comments directed at the festival organisers that she deserved the bigger stage, more worthy than a couple of the female performers who shall remain nameless, who’s performances were at best mediocre.

This is the version we are currently doing, our new vocalist wanted to do a rockier version of the song, he suggested the FM version, I still prefer this one, but was out voted.

Here you go.

That looks sh*te. I prefer mine.

Heard it through the Grapevine - FM version.

Nice to see a pratt openly smoking at 0.31, it’s an indoor gig.

Really enjoyed the Simple Minds set at the I.O.W Festival on Sky Arts, great musicianship and Jim’s voice is still OK.

Great sound, really got the crowd going……………..BOUNCE.

Really looking forward to Crowded House, always really liked the band, sadly very disappointed with this performance, musically it was ok, unfortunately Neil Finns vocals were flat and pretty dreadful, turned off after three songs. Another one of my favourite bands that are now well past their best, I was surprised Neil Finn is only 66, not particularly old and appears to be struggling vocally, it just highlights the high level the vocals and harmonies were when the band were in top form.

Take a look at some AWB recordings.

Sky Arts tonight Friday June 21st, 8pm to 9pm. Crowded House, Isle of Wight Festival 2024.

Excellent recording, really enjoyed that, you guys should be very proud of the result, your vocalist has a tone very similar to Stevie Winwood. 👍

Jesus, that is a lot to cram in, I assume you were suitably rewarded.