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After a bit of a trawl for photos from the set, it looks like you're right! I can see what you mean though - from a distance it's a dead ringer for a Model T. A Lakland makes a lot more sense though.

Was anyone else at Hyde Park BST last Friday, and can anyone confirm whether Geezer was playing a blonde Schecter Model T for the songs they played from Master of Reality?

[quote name='basskit_case' timestamp='1404410302' post='2492419'] No DI on this amp [/quote] Ah, OK, I stand corrected! (But then I did only own my CTM-15 for 24 hours!)

Finally got round to taking a photo of my own setup: [attachment=166171:Rig2a.jpg]

More photos of our Togfest shenanigans, courtesy of Andy Powell, one of the event's official photographers: [url="https://flic.kr/p/o9QKPh"]https://flic.kr/p/o9QKPh[/url] (More of Andy's work can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andykpowell/ )

And a more recent one, hailing from BC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-2MVZd7vA

(NB after some deliberation I thought it might be appropriate to ask here - if the Mods think it would be better in the Gigs section then please feel free to move and accept my apologies for any inconvenience!) Can anyone in or near Bristol point me in the right direction? I need a venue or promoter that might be willing to take a shot on a London-based band and offer us a support slot on, say, a gig with a couple of local bands. Ideally a weekend, but I wouldn't rule out a weekday evening, ideally some time in August or September. As you'll see from my sig, we're playing at a festival in the area in the middle of this month, which would be a great chance for us to plug an upcoming gig...we just need to have an upcoming gig to plug! https://cherrywhite.bandcamp.com/

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1404167419' post='2490035'] They want to know your [b]height[/b]. WTF? [/quote] [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1404209733' post='2490245'] Looks like the ad may have been placed by the singer - maybe he's a bit vertically challenged and doesn't want anyone taller than him to be in the band... probably best to take a Barefaced Midget, then. Har, har. [/quote] Wasn't this the case with the late Mr Dio's band? Obviously there was a limit to what platform heels could achieve, but I have heard that the guitarists were instructed to spread their legs a bit further so they wouldn't tower over him quite so much. Which may have inadvertently led to the "crabcore" phase that...actually may still be going on. I've been reluctant to do research into the matter.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1404080817' post='2489181'] i really dig his style. the guy was mental, and that comes across in his drumming. he's no billy cobham, but thats what makes him more interesting. he's def not sterile. [/quote] Yeah, from reading his biography, it seems although he always called himself a "rock drummer," he basically wanted to be Gene Krupa but in a rock n' roll band. (Playing a lot of surf before joining The Who probably helped his crazy style as well.) Probably as a result, I've come to prefer the jazz-drummers-in-rock-bands over straightforward "rock" drummers - so I love the way Moon, Baker*, Mitchell, Densmore, etc relied on their bassist (or Manzarek's left hand) and took diabolical liberties with the beat, but I find e.g., Bonham a bit plodding and unimaginative by comparison**. [size=3]*Right, I'm now going to have to wear a cricket box for the rest of my life in case Ginger Baker sees that I've put him and Keith Moon in the same sentence and tracks me down...[/size] [size=3]** I was going to say "leaden," but I think that level of punnage might be a capital offence outside of OT[/size]

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1403998456' post='2488492'] I've been listening to a lot of these guys, and I've got to say the drumming is amazing. of course the music is fantastic. this track is just….. [/quote] Aye, they've been my favourite for something like the last 15 years. I'm sure I'm not the only person on here whose playing style is influenced by / lovingly ripped off from the Ox. And yeah, the drumming - I know a lot of drummers hate Keith Moon, but he had a style, even if it was a style with little-to-no discipline. Dangerous stuff though: once you start to appreciate it, you'll find more conventional "rock" drummers a bit boring to listen to!

The first grainy photo of Cherry White onstage at [b]Togfest 2014 (Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes), 28th June 2014[/b] [b][attachment=165781:CWatTF14.jpg][/b] I suspect more may follow in due course!

A quick placeholder for any photos that may yet turn up from [b]27th June at the Spice of Life, Soho[/b]...

Even splendidder. We've just got back from Togfest in Milton Keynes. A really charming little festival, in the idyllic setting of Bradwell Abbey. But most importantly, the crowd seemed to absolutely love it - for the first time ever, we actually sold out of CDs. I think we're all on a bit of a high right now...

Quite splendid. Cherry White returned to the Spice of Life, the pub at whose weekly blues jam we all first met. After a bit of a quiet start, the evening picked up and the audience swelled. Vera Lynch (http://veralynch.bandcamp.com/), who were on before us, turned in a great set with enough charisma that we were a little apprehensive about following them on! But fortunately the crowd enjoyed the contrast between VL's psychobilly cow punk and CW's bluesy classic rock. The new song seems to have gone down a storm as well. Think we'll be keeping that in the set for Togfest later today.

Christ on a Segway...that is absolutely gorgeous.

I'd like to thank you all for having this discussion - I've never really "got" Queen, despite my friends' efforts. I appreciated that JD was a very adept player, so after reading this thread I went and popped on [i]A Day at the Races, [/i]and yes, the bass solo at the beginning of [i]Millionaire's Waltz[/i] is bloody lovely. I may yet be convinced.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1403553620' post='2483900'] It's a port port port. [/quote] That's going to be an expensive round...

Well, one has to embellish a few details to make one's biography a little more "rock n'roll"...

Nothing? Jolly good. I have a suggestion for you: [url="http://www.hotvox.co.uk/events/cherry-white-plus-support"]http://www.hotvox.co...te-plus-support[/url] [center][b]Cherry White at the Spice of Life. [/b][/center] [center][b]Friday 27th June[/b][/center] [center][b]£6 entry, from 7pm[/b][/center] We're returning to our birthplace! With support from Vera Lynch, Husky Loops, The Ralph Major Band and Lulah. Advance tickets are available from the link above...and you may wish to get 'em sharpish, as I'm told there may not be many left. [media]http://youtu.be/1n4I0qYrdXo[/media]

[quote name='Sercet' timestamp='1403200198' post='2480781'] Can you clarify something for me? All the specifications on the web says this has a DI, but the amp only version doesn't, and I can't see a DI in any photographs? [/quote] [s]It's on the back! (At least, on my LB30 head it is...I presume the combo is the same)[/s] Edit: sorry, got confused and forgot it was a CTM-15 head in this one. But I seem to remember that also had a DI at the back...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1403190999' post='2480663'] Flutes and trumpets generally don't sound like an elephant being rogered with a chainsaw. [/quote] Brilliant, sir. Considered yourself immortalised in the quotes thread.

No dealings myself, but you may want to have a gander at this thread: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/235450-has-anyone-got-a-current-contact-number-for-jon-letts-of-lettsbass/page__hl__letts - a fair few angry customers; unfortunately it sounds like the business has recently had a number of personal and financial problems which have set them back quite badly. I've no idea what the current situation is, but this may provide some insight. (Edit: link fixed)

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1403011715' post='2478819'] ...but that's not to say I know what 'Alternative Rock' really means! I know it's meant to be alternative to mainstream rock, but I think alt-rock has [i]become[/i] mainstream rock, so I have no idea where that leaves us. But I'm no longer a teenage dirtbag, so I don't care [/quote] [quote name='sykilz' timestamp='1403008215' post='2478756'] ^ this. The early 90's "alternative" were an alternative to Motley Crue, Van Halen , Bon Jovi etc that were the big " mainstream" rock bands, and even Maiden and Metallica who were mainstream metal, the new bands were a bit more punky ,and raw sounding, until they then got popular and became the new mainstream!! That's what I remember anyway..... [/quote] Is this perhaps the crux of the problem? The very word "alternative" is a relative term, i.e., the thing you are describing is an alternative to something else. Logically, now that a lot of "alternative" rock is gaining mainstream acceptance, one of two must happen: either somebody comes up with something sufficiently unique or different from the mainstream that they will then take the title of being the "alternative" to normal rock...or, more likely, a much more bog-standard rehash of rock starts to be considered as an "alternative" to the formerly alternative rock that has now become quite mainstream. Edit to say I meant to include some kind of snarky remark about post-rock being unidentifiable from rock except for the fact it turns up two weeks late a in dented package...

That's absolutely unbelievable - what kind of MONSTER puts up a bass with such a flagrantly mismatched D-string?

[quote name='gsgbass' timestamp='1402538573' post='2474619'] "Electric Lady" showed up today. [/quote] That is one beautiful specimen!