Woodinblack

We do that, at least the reel big fish version. Always goes down a storm.

Indeed - and maybe they need to push more too as my wife has asked 5 different doctors over 3 or 4 years if she could have her heart checked as when walking in the cold or walking any real distance she got pain in her neck an the top of her chest, to be told it was variously heartburn or acid reflux. For some reasons, doctors don't seem to take women very seriously at all.

Absolutely not, noone listens to the bass anyway, you just need to put on a show!

My wife had a heart attack on saturday night. Thought it was heartburn but it went to her arms. Took her to the hospital anyway to see and yes, found the markers for a heart attack so was taken in, her BP was over 200. She has been kept in for tests, and although they don't think it was a serious blockage that needs surgery she has to stay in to be monitored for the next few days. It is amazing how it shifts your life perspective

Well, I have bought quite a lot this year, and it is a bit hard to pick out individual bests Best: Rickenbacker 4003s - Its very good, I dont' have any issues with the quality apart from the stupid pickup thing, and once you get round to having the right strings on it (which it didn't, it had a regular 4 string set) it is great. Its currently my only taking out 4 string, which means it is in drop D for the metal group Boss XS-1 - great pedal. Again, with the metal group - a lot of the songs are drop C or C# or something, so with the above bass this can get put in for those songs so I just need a standard tuned 5 and a drop D 4 and I have everything covered. This is the most transparant drop tuner I have used and as a side trick you can merge in an octave up for a nicer richer feel. If it had memories or midi, it would be perfect, but for what it is it is great. Worst: nothing really bad, I guess the Sei flamboyant is the worst in that I don't really play it as it is too big. But maybe I will just tune it at F# standard and use it for the metal group!

My gig was slightly overshaddowed by some medical even that I won't go into here. We were playing at a very local to me pub, that we used to play at a lot and hadn't played at this year, ever since they booked us for new year a few years ago and then promptly forgot about. Anyway, management changed so played there on saturday night. I got there later than I would normally, normally get there an hour and half early to setup, but I was later than that, so when I turned up, the others were on hand to unload my car which was nice. For some reason it seemed a mostly quick setup (maybe because I had less time), and apart from finding a plug, that they had moved all of, a pretty easy one. Did a sound check, remember one feature of that pub is that it has shiney walls, shiney floor, shiney ceiling (a long way up) and shiney beams everywhere so remembered to turn all the reverb on the desk down (which you do and the band still say 'can you back the reverb off a bit' - 'its completely dry'). Bass and guitar sounded good and the sax projected - the sax player found an issue with his new nux sax sender, the unit charges in the case, the case was fully charged, but when you put the unit in the box, you have to press a button to tell it to charge, and he hadn't, so it was dead, but he got 40 minutes of charge before and charged at half time and no issues, seems a bit of a stupid design. I played the ric, but for some reason the output seemed a bit down. Gig mostly went ok, my dwarf crashed at one point when I was changing things, which leads to its most annoying feature, crashed it carries on as before but you can't change anything (its like the front end crashes), but unplugging it and plugging it in takes about 30 seconds to boot up and be ready, and the band picked that moment to not have much of a break between songs! I also for the second time ever (the first time being my first time with the previous band) forgot to do the 3rd verse of 7 nation army. As we didn't have any rehursal time we decided to just do the one of our christmas songs we remembered, the easy one, and still messed that up a little in the middle, but I dont' think anyone noticed that. anyway, crowd were unusually (for that venue) enthusiastic, and it was a good night from a gig point of view. Due to aformentioned medical issues, I had to rush out but not before hearing the singer talking to a woman who was trying to outbid another pub on us playing next new years eve!

Bought the ToneX from Paddy, smooth transaction for me, more trouble for him having to get the serials from IKMultimedia! Great transaction, thanks very much

Smaller than the bongo then, that is 123 including strap, so I would imagine it would fit fine.

That is what I would have if I had a person that would carry my stuff around for me!

I have one of these, I had to get something bigger to fit my bongo, its the only one the bongo fits in well as its got a bit of a spikey headstock. In fact all things fit in it apart from the Sei 42", that doesn't fit anything. If you say how big the mayones is I will tell you if it is long enough

Maybe this was yours a few years ago? https://auctions.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/catalogue/lot/a9f986cf25c045e44fe1c6a5bcf21298/63b778f7668dabe928d3800924a99077/the-guitar-auction-four-day-sale-including-guitars-e-lot-364/

That sounds fine for what it is, some extra effects, as long as you make sure the octaver never gets switched on!

Yeh, it seems once there is a scam you get a lot of it. That is what we get here.

Strangely over time, it seems he hasn't reeally had that many - he was given a couple of rickenbackers and a yamaha, the other things he seems to have got himself.

And a spammer isn't going to give you any useful info either, especially one I just kicked out. For reference, anyone who resurects a year+ old topic, quotes a post and says 'thanks for the info', just expand the quote, you will find that they have put a load of links at the bottom that you dont' see as it is all collapsed.

Yeh, I would do a video, put it on an unlisted youtube link and send the link to the video by reverbs messaging system.

If only that were true.

Genesis - Trick of the Tail Like being 11 again!

I would hate to be in a band that did that. But as you have done 6 gigs in not much time, it doesn't seem his availability is that good, so maybe come to some arrangement about which gigs to do, as long as it is all up front.

They are great - just fill the ceiling with little red and green patterns for a fiver - whats not to like

Sadly not, I did that on video one, it still pops up, turns up on other videos, turns up on facebook, even when you select 'don't show me content like this' his smug annoying face turns up on the next thing, and even when you think he has gone, someone else will post his inane dribblings about how someone else is the problem with the world.

You are right, he is everywhere, all over youtube and all over here. If I never saw a video with his face on it again it would still be too soon. While I find it hard to accept the idea of hating someone you don't know, he is someone who could change that feeling for me. Don't know what it is, just absolutely detest videos with the guy.

Sorry to hear that Greg - hope the next few months are as kind as they can be to you

Why can you not believe that someone hasn't heard of someone? Even as a bass player I don't know the names of most groups that I didn't have much interest in, and some that I did. I have heard of him from being on here and people talking about him, but most people of most groups I don't know so it seems reasonably likely that the majority of people wouldn't have heard of the bass player in a group that had a few top ten hits and a handful of more top 40s. I mean showaddywaddy had twice as many hits (including a number one hit) and I have no idea what their bass player is. I could probably name about 4 or 5 bass players from 80s groups at most.