YouMa

I had the same problem with my streamer,im going to fit a preamp to my new fender jazz but i am going to try and get something as uncomplicated as possible that just makes the bass more powerful.

[quote name='leschirons' post='454492' date='Apr 5 2009, 07:23 AM']Great pic and cool strides, vocalist looks like he's going to be asking "Do you want fries with that?" someday. Some gear investment there too, did you have wealthy parents? Pretty ground breaking covers for the time what with 8 miles high and R & R star. You must've been pretty good. Nice one.[/quote] I think the vocalist looks like terry hall from the specials,or at least is wearing one of his jumpers.

Nah your as old as you feel,just keep busy,my father in law had mrs youma late on in life and he is now 80,still as fit as a fiddle,he still has his gardening job.Good luck with the gig.

[quote name='leschirons' post='453785' date='Apr 4 2009, 12:41 AM']Lucky? Certainly. Because I happened to be growing up at the right time and in the right place. You couldn't buy that now. Was fortunate enough to see Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, John Mayall, Jethro Tull, The Birds (as in Ronnie Wood) Free, Peter Green, early Genesis, Spencer Davis, Peace (Paul Rodgers, after Free and before Bad Company) Black Sabbath when they were called Earth, Black Widow, Spookey Tooth, First Supertramp gig (sorry) Mott the Hoople, East of Eden, Argent etc. They were great days but I did start young. I was at the Marquee every week since the age of 15. Also saw some great bands at the Cooks Ferry inn at Edmonton. Great that you're into such a great period of music. Next time I'm over, I'll bring Harpic and my old copy of Fill your head with Rock.[/quote] Would love to have a beer sometime and hear some stuff,my dad saw earth in carlisle,im off to bed now,it wasnt that long ago when you think about it,time does fly doesnt it,bit of a bugger really.

I got bored of mine,seemed like a good idea at the time.I had to much money then.

[quote name='leschirons' post='453668' date='Apr 3 2009, 08:47 PM']Whoa YouMa, you're either my age or a rock historian. The Pink Faries. What a band. Twink was one of my heroes. I never saw them with the first drummer (Russell someone) I think Martin Stone joined then later on from possibly, Savoy Brown Blues band? Don't quote me on that, I partook of far too many dubious substances in those days. Never tried Harpic though![/quote] Im just turned 34 mate but i have a lot of time for you guys,what a fantastic explosive time,my last bird nearly dumped me because i spent so much time with her mother talking about 60s london,what a time,you lucky man. Cmon over and ill get the stash out.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='453235' date='Apr 3 2009, 11:24 AM']I've seen both I grew up in Liverpool and from 1959, lived opposite Paul Mc Cartney until he moved away around 1964. I was only young but have some nice memories of the Beatles around that time - playing footy in the street with them, Uncle Jim (Paul's Dad) letting me pluck that bass on the sofa and best of all, sitting in a Ford Thames van with John while he signed copies of Fan Club Magazines. I can remember that as if it was yesterday. My older brother got a guitar for his birthday - I remember it was a white Framus single cutaway and he couldn't tune it so he used to send me around to Terry Silvester's house to get it tuned. Terry was in a band called The Escorts then - he later joined The Swinging Blue Jeans and after that replaced Graham Nash when he left the The Hollies. Terry got fed up of me going 'round so he showed me how to tune it and a few chords. I was about 7 or 8 and got the bug. There were bands everywhere were we lived. Anyway, when I went to secondary school, I met another guitarist called John Lewis and we started playing as a duo - did our first 'gig' at West Derby Conservative Club in 1967. We did a few songs and got a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps. Me and John carried on playing together right through school and drifted apart. Here's a back garden shot of me showing off my brand new AC30 which I bought from Frank Hessy's for £120. The guitar is a Hofner Verithin. Here's me and John - I'm about 16 in this shot..... ..and here we are a couple of years ago. He'd just done a gig at the 606 Club in London with Connie Lush - I sneaked up on him and frightened the life out of him. [/quote] What were hendrix and clapton really like was it as mind blowing as people always make out or just a really good gig?

[quote name='beerdragon' post='453085' date='Apr 3 2009, 09:54 AM']Here's me looking thoughtful in the front. weirdly we are all still in bands and are doing a charity thing on the same bill later in the month.[attachment=23206:4_3_2009...36_00_AM.jpg][/quote] You look a lot cooler than the bands playing these days,the guy on the right looks like john squire out the stone roses.

[quote name='chris_b' post='453061' date='Apr 3 2009, 09:37 AM']No and no. It was much duller than the reports suggest. Most of the people weren't that weird or out of it and most of the audience seemed to be your average punter for the time, including me![/quote] Have you ever seen Hendrix or cream live mate?

[quote name='chris_b' post='453008' date='Apr 3 2009, 08:45 AM']I remember Scaffold, Family, Edgar Broughton and Arthur Brown but the rest is a blur and I slept through Pink Floyd!!! The sound system wasn't very good and a lot of it was quite boring. I went with our guitarist who was trying to get a band together with Felix Dennis, of IT fame, now millionaire, then not very good drummer. In the end I was surprised to see that it got so much coverage![/quote] Was it as crazy in there as the books make out? and did you see anyone famous wandering about?

[quote name='bumfrog' post='452393' date='Apr 2 2009, 01:23 PM']anything from the acid jazz label is a good start, so Mother Earth, corduroy, james taylor quartet, galliano etc... A little know band (now defunkt) called DAG, Prince, Spearhead and one of my personal favs - G love and special sauce but for me, still can't beat the original p-funk [/quote] +10 mother earth were great i wonder what neil corcoran the bass players up to now? He was very good. People tree is an excellent album.

[quote name='chris_b' post='452880' date='Apr 3 2009, 12:10 AM']I grew up in West London so I got to see most bands. John Mayall, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Retaliation, Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck, and before that with Steam Packet and Long John Baldry's Hoochie Coochie Men, Jimi Hendrix, Yardbirds, Phillip Chen with Jimmy James and the Vagabonds, Geno, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, the list is much longer! I sneaked off to the Technicolor Dream at Ally Pally in 67 and got grounded for a month by my Dad!! My first gig was in 1966 and I turned pro for the first time in 69. That lasted for 6 years. I played with Jess and James in Europe, Python Lee Jackson, (no I'm not on the record!), Herbie Goins, Storyteller and Andy Bown amongst others. I only got about 5 mins of my 15. I'm still looking for the rest![/quote] Wow! did you really go to the Technicolor Dream!.. if i had a time machine this would have been one event i would love to go to. Stories and photographs please. Did you see the floyd with barrett on early in the morning what was it like?

[quote name='leschirons' post='452957' date='Apr 3 2009, 07:51 AM']You'll be sorry you asked. Here's a few. Surrounded by Marshalls at a dingy club in Brighton. Seem to remember our PA was Fender. Bassisit then had really nice early Gibson (big Jack Bruce fan) Also, one of us three trying to look cool. Me on the left trying to look like Mitch Mitchell. Bro in the middle was a big Luther Grosvenor fan. (Spooky Tooth) One of me after buying the secondhand marching drum to add to the kit, and the invoice for my bro's first fuzz box. Club pic depicts us in full throw doing our version of Sky Pilot (Animals I think) in which we used to stick a chunk of Rhapsody in Blue in the middle. We thought we were going to change the world by inventing prog rock. Bro's guitar was a chopped Strat as he is lefthanded so the horns came off.[/quote] You look a bit like the early pink fairies,cool photos.

Zender always looked the sort that wouldnt wash to me.Its a disgrace and he shares my birthday as well its disgusting!

Awesome more please lads,anyone support barrett era floyd,or anything like that. Peter greens something to be very proud of though,better than clapton in my opinion.

[quote name='Platypus' post='452846' date='Apr 2 2009, 11:22 PM']Buginga5 bought a bass from me recently, in what was a really east transaction. Transfered the money straight away and was easy to communicate with. He let me know that the bass had arrived safe and well. Thanks Andrew[/quote] east transaction,lucky it wasnt a south.

Doubt they will be around much longer with global warming etc.Shame.

Wish i had been there boys,i am in spirit.

[quote name='thebeat' post='452531' date='Apr 2 2009, 03:09 PM']Doesn't take much to cause consternation over there though As for [i]not[/i] knowing who Stuart Zender is being an issue, well, i [b]know[/b] who he is and don't think that much of him either, he certainly doesn't make the bass more valuable in my eyes if i was buying it i'd have to factor in the cost of having it disinfected.[/quote] Is that true? Does he really have dirty hands. The filthy beast.

Im into the dorseys and al bowlly on that front at the moment from way back.

Whats an ironing board?

I still say if you are not heavily into funk you will never be a good funk player,i also think a lot of people get confused between funk,jazz/funk,soul,rare groove etc. I personally have never been a massive fan of funkadelic and prefer more soulful funk than this.

I was a bit shocked when she spoke,reminded me of angus young,quite a harsh ripper,stoked,fosters,croc dundee, aussie accent.

Well your buggered, sorry stranded then. Surely its better and more fun to play over a looped wav file,and a laptops not that big?

What! Its some kind of sick joke!