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Bought a vintage pedal from Chris, excellent communication, fast delivery... I can highly recommend him, you can deal with confidence.

I can only echo the above very positive posts... you can certainly deal with J with the utmost confidence. My bass also arrived well packaged, it was promptly shipped and with great communication throughout.

My first fretless was a Vintage (Vintage being the brand name, not the age of the bass) ICON Jaco Pastorius), it really is lovely to play and has a great tone; and they are unbelievably cheap for what you get. I still have it, and I probably play it more than the other higher end fretless basses that I have acquired since I bought it. They go for around £225 new and around £150 secondhand. Honestly, at this price you cannot go wrong! Edit: to say that I replaced the stock Wilkinson pick-ups with Seymor Duncan Antiquity 11's, the thing now growls like a pit bull Here's a clip of one played mighty well! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xd2394nEYs[/media]

Just seen the news that Kate is the first woman to have eight albums in the UK top 40 album chart at the same time. I've been enjoying her music since Wuthering Heights and The Kick Inside, gutted I couldn't get tickets to see her at the Apollo.

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[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1372966044' post='2132296'] For the first 3 days (non-stop...)..? Grateful Dead, like back in them thar good ol' days..! [/quote] ++1 the first day taken up entirely with them playing Dark Star! The Dead played the longest set I have ever seen, over 5 hours at Bickershaw Festival (yep the Dead played Wigan!) during their legendary European tour of 1972. In fact my fantasy Glastonbury would probably be just a re-run of that festival. The Dead Beefheat New Riders of the Purple Sage Cheech and Chong The Kinks Hawkwind Family Donovan Country Joe and the Fish Dr John Wishbone Ash Linda Lewis Flaming Groovies The Incredible String Band etc etc. The festival was actually organised by a guy called Jeremy Beadle - who went on to do lesser things including You've been Framed. Both Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello were somewhere amongst the crowd in those muddy northern fields.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1371935156' post='2119907'] That was when bands would regularly do 30-40 date tours of the UK. When I first started going to gigs in the mid-late 70s that there was rarely a week went by that I wasn't going to see somebody. I've got one of my old ticket scrap books in front of me (sad bastard that I am), some sample prices from 1979-1980 are: Motorhead - £2.50 Hawkwind - £2.50 Yes - £4.50 Rainbow - £4.00 Girlschool -£3.00 [/quote] I saw Black Sabbath at the Cosmo in Carlisle in 1969 or 70, I think it was the Arts College Ball, cost 8 old shillings - that is about £0.40p. I first saw the Black Sabbath line-up as Earth, just before they changed their name, in a local village hall in Cumbria, cost 5 old shillings - that was a bargain at £0.25p, most of their set was stuff which would be soon released on their first album.

I use a Bass POD XT amp modeller with headphones for practising, I have had it about ten years or so now. I don't think Line 6 make them any more, or know what they are making second hand; but with 28 classic amps which can be twinned with different 22 cabinets and a further 50+ different classic effects, it does make practising fun. I can also run POD run through an amp in a live setting, as long as the amp is set up for a very clean sound, I can get my Messa Boogie to sound something like an Acoustic 360 or my SWR to sound something like a 60's Marshall Major.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1371914442' post='2119553'] I think that the closest they get to each other is there were a lot of bands at each and both were called festivals. I reckon that's where it ends. Glastonbury is the height of luxury compared with the IOW festival. People slept where they lay and the lack of food was a major problem. My brother shard a sandwich (we always went well prepared) with a girl who was crying she was so hungry! There was little food at the site and local shops soon sold out of all food and their shelves were so bare. Not to mention the hours of queuing for the ferries after it ended. Kids today don't know how good they've got it. Oh, hold on a minute, that's another difference. There are a lot more older people at Glastonbury that there was at the IOW! [/quote] I honestly cannot remember being hungry at the Isle of Wight in 1970; but thinking back, I didn't seem to eat much in those days anyhow. I do remember climbing the hill over to Freshwater Bay and skinny-dippin' in the sea, I'll never forget the toilets (and folks complain about the loos at Glastonbury!), although we had tickets we went and joined the thousands of ticket-less fans watching everything for free on the hill overlooking the arena (a bit of bad planning by the organisers that!). I also remember that the weather was beautiful over the five days we were there, but I often wonder what it would have been like if the weather had turned, it could have been a disaster area. I had no tent, just a sheet of plastic and a sleeping bag, a few cans of beans and a spare pully. That weekend taught me a lot about life.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1371919467' post='2119623'] ..... The simple fact is that rock music and the culture which surrounds it was never the same after Live Aid . That was the moment at which rock entered the mainstream and was no longer focus of anti - establishment sentiment and the vanguard of social revolution . [/quote] Yes, I agree. Two significant events happened within six weeks of each other in 1985. On the 1st June there was The Battle of the Beanfield, which virtually put an end to the free festival movement in the country, then on the 13th July there was Live Aid; now almost 30 years on and we are still living with the legacy of what occurred back then.

I paid £3 for the weekend ticket to the Isle of Wight festival in 1970. Ok back then it was half of my week's wages and you could get 8 pints of larger and lime in a pub for £1: but Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Free, Taste, Chicago, Family, Joni Mitchell, the Groundhogs, ELP, Miles Davis, Ten Years After, Melanie, Sly and the Family Stone, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen and loads more for £3! One thing about being an old codger, you certainly got the opportunity to see some class acts when you were younger! Edited to do a sum: if the average uk price for a pint is now £3 and you could get 8 pints to the pound in 1970, that means a £3 weekend ticket in 1970 would cost you the equivalent of 24 pints x £3 today, which is £72. To put that in perspective, the ticket I bought to see The Who on Thursday, including booking fees cost £78.