Clarky

My newly acquired Fender Jaco Tribute bass. I prefer a scratchplate and I don't want to emulate/hero-worship Jaco so I have added a tort plate from Howard the Bass Doc and ditched the roundwound strings in favour of meaty-sounding TruBass black nylon strings. Very nice! [attachment=119244:P1050517.JPG]

Hey Paul, subject to sorting out child-minding, I will be at the George IV on Friday

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1348428552' post='1813548'] Here's my band, Prescott: [media]http://youtu.be/1EY3GZdRtbY[/media] [/quote] I enjoyed that Kev. Best word I can come up with to describe it is insidious

This thread needs a badass

Trev bought a guitar pedal from my baNd's guitarist. All went swimmingly and both parties very happy

Roger just bought my Kolstein Busetto travel bass. As Keith said above, a perfect gent and one of BassChat's finest

Russ (username Rayman) is selling an old (1950s?) ply bass which looks a great starter for just £350 [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/186613-old-european-double-bass/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/186613-old-european-double-bass/[/url]

Two comments from me to add to the above 1. Get a lesson asap - its invaluable to set your posture and technique on the right road. There are a few DB players on BassChat that teach in the London area such as jakenewmanbass (I can recommend him strongly) and chrkelly (not had a lesson but super nice guy) 2. I gig DB in my band and cannot play arco for toffee - I don't feel the need to learn either (although I do have a bow) as the music I play (folk/blues/country/flamenco) simply doesn't require it. Some strings don't work for playing both arco and pizz and an arco setup usually requires higher action than a pizz-only setup, although personal tastes can obviously vary widely about string height (some like it Ray Brown-style high to get more plucking volume, I prefer it low as I have to play a lot of fast lines). In short, learn arco if you want the broadest DB experience but its not necessary for many types of music. Your call here

Less than a mile from my home and I am in the recording studio in NW London all day ... sod's law

The good news is the promoter got fab feedback on the gig and has offered the headline slot on 14th November

Part 2 of our two-night gigathon tonight!

Wow! Great photos. Thanks Silvia I like this one too: [attachment=118860:hm.jpg]

Many thanks to Silvia (Bluejay) and MacDaddy (Simon) for coming along tonight. We had a really good night and very much enjoyed playing our set, including new song Las Vegas Parano (recorded in the studio on Sunday using Nige/silddx's lovely Spanish guitar). Hopefully the Half Moon will bump us up to headline before too long

No worries Ad, get better soon!

[quote name='Leen2112' timestamp='1348006238' post='1808156'] How about this then....... [color=black]: [url="http://planetmosh.com/steve-hackett-genesis-revisited-tour-and-more-album-info/"][color=#0000ff]http://planetmosh.com/steve-hackett-genesis-revisited-tour-and-more-album-info/[/color][/url][/color] [/quote] Cheers! Hammersmith Apollo is 10 minutes walk from my house - think I'll get tickets for the May 2013 gig

My re-finned 1963 Precision (year of birth) [attachment=118757:P1040192.JPG]

I didn't actually buy anything from Nige but he was kind enough to lend me his wonderful Spanish guitar for my band's recording session over the weekend. A top guy ... and it was good - when I picked up the guitar - to see Mrs Silddx (Diane) up and about and with a great sense of humour, despite her awful recent trials and tribulations. Cheers Nige and Diane

Supper's Ready live, complete with quirky, can-only-be-English-sense-of-humour intro comments from PG [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4&feature=related[/url]

John East does a 3-band drop-in [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/East_Preamps_MMSR.html"]http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/East_Preamps_MMSR.html[/url]