Roger2611

We managed to earn enough off Spotify plays in one year to take the whole band out for a pizza, that, for me was as close to making it as I am ever going to get 😂

I gave up playing for about 6 years 25 years ago, I had been on the verge of "making it" in the music industry on a couple of occasions but fate had always dealt that killer blow, I sold my kit and didn't pick up a bass or guitar for years, I felt that they had let me down, or that I had let them down! I enjoyed the break, the removal of that desperation to "succeed" I was eventually tempted back into the fold with a band that again was striving to "make it" in the music industry but, to be fair we were already too old to even be considered as a new band...that still hurts because it was a bloody good band getting plenty of radio play and some bloody good gigs! But with that final acceptance that I was never going to "make it" in the music industry I have played and am still playing many of the venues my heroes played, I have played and still play some fantastic festivals, I am still playing in an original 1976 Punk band, I am enjoying playing for the fun of playing without any chance of "making it" in the music industry now!......Oh, and by the way, what exactly is the definition of "making it" in the music industry?

Chris P Trousers!

I was once turned down for a band because I didn't like Guns n Roses enough, the band didn't even play any Guns n Roses, they rang me up a few weeks later to see if I would be prepared to dep for the bassist they had gone with as he couldn't do many weekend gigs! I politely declined!

Bartonlini, had a Tune Woodbass fitted with Barts, hated the sound of it, had a top end Bass Collection fitted with Barts, hated the sound of it, had an ESP Horizon 5 string where the original pickups and electrics had been replaced by Bartolini stuff....double hated the sound of it....sorry if you just looked at you ESP and thought "hey! I'm stuck with that POS now!"

I have a high end bass collection 4 string fretless, it spends most of its time in a case, I used to play fretless 70% of the time but in the last 10 years or so it has been 100% fretted work, I do miss playing it and really ought to dig it out and give it some love again

Yep, "Slinky as raccoons in the roof" does appear to be correct, who knew!

I have read through the thread and think I have a winner, tonight we play alongside the UK's only Mega City Four tribute band Mega Fishy Four!

If you do change your mind the USA Sub basses are utterly brilliant basses and to me are the only bass that truly captures that early Stingray sound, I actually have a passive version and it sounds fantastic, it is certainly one I will be keeping hold of for the foreseeable future

Seeing Poorly Trained Radicals in Brighton, Diablofurs in Leicester, Holy Youth Movement again in Leicester and catching The Dollheads again in Northampton, each gig was utterly brilliant and each gig was under £10.00 to get into!

Bass: Bruce Foxton Stuart Morrow (early New Model Army) Peter Hook JJ Bunel Pino Ali McMordie (SLF) Guitar: Jake Burns (SLF) Billy Duffy Andy Gill (Gong of Four) Keith Levine (PIL)

3 months out with a trapped nerve in my shoulder (the most painful thing I have ever gone through) followed by three stinking colds in close succession! 2024 was not a good year health wise!

Two of my longest serving instruments are a Tokai Les Paul and a Crafter acoustic, when I brought the Les Paul the shop had about 15 or them hanging on the wall, I knew I wasn't bothered whether it was a standard or a custom and wasn't fussed over colours so I played them all and brought the one I liked best Acoustic guitars have never been my thing, but I needed one and so decided I would buy one and only one and it would be a keeper, I went to a shop in Kettering that had a good twenty or more acoustics ranging from a couple of hundred quid to £1500.00 again I played them all and picked the one that played and sounded best, A Crafter ltd edition SM Rose with this horrific salmon swimming upstream fret inlay (Google it!) I still utterly hate it but it is still the only acoustic I have ever owned or needed....try before you buy....every time if possible!

I got one art O level, it did nothing for me!

We used to do the Kaiser Chief's Everyday I love you Less and Less...for some reason every time we were asked to do a wedding the brides and grooms always put it in the set list!