Roger2611

I think one song that was a massive sonic step forward for me was Donna Summer's I Feel Love from 1976, I have to admit I had been smoking something naughty first time I heard it but boy the stereo mix was like a sonic headf**k I still think it sounds huge today

I have three questions, why? Why? and for heavens sake why?

The higher the bass the less cool you look versus the lower the strap the more your back hurts.....do you still look cool hobbling round like an eighty year old because you did a Peter Hook the night before. I realised I stopped being cool at least ten years ago (if I ever was cool) so I wear my bass for maximum comfort...I may go onstage next year in a dressing gown and carpet slippers

My worst bass was a Warwick Rockbass $$, it played fine but didn't have a decent sound anywhere to be found, I now own a genuine Warwick version which, as you would expect is worlds apart and is a fantastic playing / sounding bass. Warwick, why sell a bass that is such a poor cousin to the real thing? It is not going to make someone think...."oh that was crap, I am sure the more expensive version will be better, now I will buy the real thing", I ended up with mine as part of a trade, otherwise I wouldn't have touched another Warwick with a bargepole!

I was lucky enough to see them at the first "Madstock" gig as Ian Dury and the Blockheads and joined on stage by Wilco Johnson, an awesome experience, I last saw them a couple of years ago when Phil Jupitas fronted them for a few gigs again a stunning performance.

I to have seen the ones you speak of....my initial thoughts were something doesn't feel right to me, especially as they seem to have two vintage bodies for sale, both refinished

Ok just read your post about having your daughter in the band....best scrub my previous suggestion then you could try The Only Ones Another Girl Another Planet as a slightly tamer alternative

Got to be Wayne County and the Electric Chairs with "Baby F**k Off" the finest end of the night nightclub song ever

I have a beautiful Fender Custom Shop Princeton reverb in Orange and with a 12" Vintage 30 speaker it is quite simply the loveliest guitar amp ever made. I also have a recent Fender Super Champ XD which is an amazingly good little amp for the money, I understand now why Fender's small amps were so highly regarded

We supported Midge Ure last year and he went onstage with an "out of the box" Vintage V100, a Vox valvetronix amp and a Marshall blues breaker pedal oh yeah and a shed load of talent (and sadly a shed load of ego) He reckoned it was every bit as good as any of the genuine Les Paul's he owned. Personally I have a Tokai ALS48 which it better than our guitarists genuine Les Paul but I did swap the pickups out for better ones as the originals lacked sparkle

Seymour Duncan used to offer a pick up booster pedal which, from memory, had a switch that made a single coil sound like a humbucker or a humbucker sound like a single coil, I think you can pick them up for about £30.00 that way it would save you having to alter the guitar and may just give you what you want.

I have a Lindy Fralin 62? pick up in one P bass which sounds great for the Foxton sound, I have recently put a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder in the other precision which seems to offer a very different sound, it is a far more aggressive sounding pickup, it is very bright and lacks a bit of bottom end...it's as close as I have come to getting a Rickenbacker sound out of a Precision bass...which is weird as from memory the reason Foxton left the Rick basses was because they lacked the depth of a Precision. Of the 2 basses I prefer the Lindy Fralin pickup sound but the Quarter Pounder also sounds excellent and is totally useable especially for the more modern Greenday, Blink 182 type sounds

I use the Tech 21 Bass VT stomp box, I have to say I think it is about the most useful pedal I have ever owned, it gives me lots of growl and bite if I want it and tonally everything I ask it to do (within reason of course) sounds really nice, I have never been a fan of anything in the signal path but this one's a keeper

Who shrank my writing....and why?

[sub]I have never broken a bass string but that is only because I take a spare bass to every gig[/sub]

Why haven't people tired of the air guitar rubbish, yes it was mildly amusing....10 years ago

I read it and thought my brain was on the blink, Stanley Unwin - esque at its finest

I am totally happy, I know I am creating the best stuff I have ever done, so far. Recently a band I very much respect came to see us and commented on how good my bass playing was... unsolicited compliments from people you respect...I think that is as good as it gets

What's wrong with the tongue method, it's worked for me for decades...I quite look forward to the battery test times now....it's like Russian Roulette for the risk averse 21st Century

Hi, I have been offered a rather nice Hiwatt 100watt valve Hi Gain guitar amp head, obviously I would have to keep the gain under control but other than that is there any reason this wouldn't make for a cracking valve bass amp? Cheers Rog

I have found the Boss TU tuners can be really bad for this, if you are a full semitone sharp all you get is a . next to the note you think you have tuned to i.e. G = intune G. = semitone sharp, it can be very easy to miss in a gig situation, both myself and our guitarist have suffered the same problem on occasions

Bear in mind we are a bunch of 40 / 50 year old blokes playing the likes of The Jam, The Undertones, Blink 182 and The Cult, halfway through the last gig a muppet comes over and asks if we do any Rhianna, I didn't dignify his request with a response! We did learn One Way Or Another off the back of a request at a gig which is still in the set

Stick it all up for sale bar the two basses you have said are staying, see what goes, if you are getting down to a couple of amps left take a view at that point as to which one you would prefer to keep and withdraw that from sale

Cliff Richard

Quality....cheers for that