Woodinblack

1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

bout £110 for shipping from the USA for a bass. That's pretty cheap.

It really isn't. £110 to ship 1 bass to the UK, that would be pretty good. 11000 to ship 100 basses? not so good. 

£335, seems like a good deal. £520, nothing special there then.

I like the minimalist look, and the joe dart tag means nothing either way to me.

You should be dancing by the BeeGees and The heat is on by Glen Frey. THe bass on that last one is a bit of a killer, just because it is relentless. The bass on dancing is easy, but made more complicated as I am singing it too!

4 hours ago, Rich said:

Help to clear up my confusion...

 

...is it pronunced 'hot one' or 'ho tone'..?

Litterally what I came her to ask. I always say Hoe Tone, but not sure that is right.

would it kill him to get a red guitar to match?

I was ready to buy one - put it in the basket and then.. £193 for shipping? I think not.

1 hour ago, Gasman said:

I have taken screenshots of the problem, but for the life of me cannot find where the iPad has stored them despite asking Uncle Google.

in your photos

5 hours ago, spinynorman said:

Looks like I'm having to disappoint quite a few people, but this is now sold. Thanks everyone for the interest.

Can you mark the post as sold then please? Edit your first post and put the word sold in the title

Trust me, you might describe yourself negatively as competent, but you will be surprised at how many people in bands don't reach that level!

So go out and find something, or find a replacement for him

19 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

It looks as though they'd moved on the embrace new technology in the two years since the first one where the contact details were just a house address and landline phone number!

I know this because I have a friend who is involved with the Whitby Museum archive and is in the process of putting together material from the very first WGW.

I think I still have my ticket somewhere - I was going through a box recently and found it. Not sure where it is now, probably find it going through boxes again. I was probably got by asking someone who actually phoned or knew them (probably countb at the time) as I didn't do much phoning (I still dont!).

PS: Thanks Dad for your valuable contribution to the conversation.

I have the 1x10 which is a great little cab with the bam200 for noodling around in my room. Not very helpful I know as you are after a bigger one

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

Unfortunately I think the era of cheap Gus Guitars is long past, especially since the Prince connection. I was lucky enough to get my G1 guitar and the G3 black 5-string bass back when the new prices were a fraction of what they are now.

Yep, that is what I assumed.

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

If you were going to go back in 1996 that would have been in the very early days, as this October is the 30th anniversary of the original weekend in 1994.

It was, the ticket was on black paper hand written in gold ink, and you contacted them by email or through uk.people.gothic on usenet to sort tickets out.

51 minutes ago, prowla said:

'cept some of the sellers post pics of real Rics.

I'm confident I can spot a faker, but others, maybe relatives buying presents or just newbies

Again, what i said, that is just a fake ric, or fraud. That is different to something that is clearly not a ric but ric shape. If you advertise something as a rickenbacker, and it isn't, that is clear fraud. If you advertise something as a ric shaped bass, that isnt fraud.

I think there is quite a difference between a fake ric, which I don't think any agrees with, and a ric styled bass. It is pretty obvious that none of those chickenbackers are rics or trying that hard to be like them.

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

For some reason there are a distinct lack of photos from our set on Facebook and this one of me was the only one I could find.

 

 

Love the Gus basses - still keep wishing that one would turn up at some price I could afford at the time, but I suspect it won't.

Also shame I never got to the WGW. I was due to go in 1996, had the ticket for me and my girlfriend and everything but then me and my girlfriend had one of those not being together any more issues that stopped us going, then I moved to the states, so by the time I came back I was very out of the scene.

I got the ZARs tonight, they sound nice, but honestly not too much removed from the ZS10s, they have a more defined middle, and a tighter top. Happy to have them (apart from the cable not being the same, so I need a new headphone lead as the ones they come with are the auto-tangle ones) and they are more comfortable in the ears. I think they will help love with a reduction of cymbal noise! 

19 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

I suspect that the cases we've seen are just the tip of the iceberg and as time goes on we'll have more and more cases of Rock Star abuse cases coming into the public eye.

Certainly there is a lot more, a lot we already know about that are the rock stars of the day who had admitted to somethings but that was somehow acceptable back then. I mean if GG hadn't taken his PC to pc world with tons of child porn on it, why would anything have come out? That was all he was done for originally.

6 hours ago, casapete said:

It was a near sell out gig which made it great for my last one, as well as being my 800th appearance

with the band.

That must feel odd leaving after that long!

Yeh, I think one of the main problems there is not knowing. If you all know that most people are getting x and one is getting y, that is at least up front.

47 minutes ago, stewblack said:

So now I know the total and how much we all got. 

I'll be looking for another job.

Yeh, I think I would be a bit miffed by that, all the groups I have been in have just been a wad of cash split n ways. Unless you have been employed by some organisation as a hired help, not sure why it would be different.

25 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Playing with an awful head cold is never fun and discovering that the guitarist took home twice as much money as the rest of us was a pretty depressing finale to the night.

I know the cold thing, that messed my singing up - but why does the guitarist get twice as much as anyone else?

How old is the iPad? I have a Air2 which is now out of update support (my music one) and one of the first pros (my day to day one). can you do a screenshot of what you are seeing? Also maybe can you try changing the theme (using the drop down that is down there V somewhere)

19 hours ago, Clarky said:

Controversial, as so many BCers seem to adore them, but ELO's Mister Blue Sky

I must admit I never liked that 

19 hours ago, tauzero said:

We're going to do "Live forever" by Oasis at some future point. That means I've got to listen to that scratchy whiney Mancunian voice several times while I play along to it. 

I have the advantage of having a blanket ban on oasis.

Up close and personal kind of gig, a bit too up close because someone hit the end of my microphone stand hitting my microphone into my teeth, and a bit too personal as a rather drunk young lady forgot to not keep herself clothed in public!

So this was the first gig with no bass amp, and as my dwarf is off being fixed I was playing with the zoom. It was the first time with 2 Evox8 speakers.  It takes a bit of getting used to it, and for some reason the mixer was working weirdly, and as the keyboard player has a huge monitor speaker hard to get the sound right. It sounded quite good at the start but people complained the vocals weren't loud enough although this might be positioning, as the guitarist has now put his amp up high and point out to the crowd, if you are on that side that is all you can hear.

But as I pointed out, sound through their monitor is their issue, it causes feedback sometimes and unbalances things, and the guitarist looks to me to sort it out, but I point out it is their monitor.

I was getting over my cold, my first songs sounded ok, but then I do the high bit in crazy horses and my voice just said, nah, not doing those notes, would you like another note just a bit lower? So I cancelled doing any of my songs (which is only a few after that, although one of our encores). my voice even for backup vocals started getting bad after that. Glad my main songs were at the beginning!

I recorded it, but unfortunately as it was  on the guitarists side, it is basically just his guitar.

Still, hugely interactive crowd (possibly too interactive at times), and not a bad gig at all.

Did this start happening last week, as we had an update, it could be that your iPad had cached the old styles and the new style is breaking it - when we do an update it often does that with no button and menus not working untill we rebuild the pages on the cache, then it is fine. Really sounds like you need to clear your iPad if it is working on your windows machine, assuminng noone else is having this on their iPad (I know im not on two ipads but that is a small sample size!)