Woodinblack

The guitarist in my band recently messaged to say he had found a practice room we could rent and leave our stuff there. I was very puzzled why anyone would want to leave their stuff anywhere? I would lend stuff (that I didn't care that much about) to certain people for individual gigs. Assuming they had never helped themselves to it before.

As does mine. Just a shame that to have the that tarnish to the image. Luckily I had a friend who knew how to get the broken screw out otherwise I would have had to pay someone to do it. It was a little disappointing on a €1500 bass. It wouldn't stop me ordering another, even if I would probably replace the strap screws straight away (carefully)!

No, Anderson / Squire and any other combination of people were Yes.

Went to see Steve Wilson in Cardiff last wednesday. Was very surprised (as I hadn't checked the ticked) that I was in the front row in front of the stage, about 8 foot from the stage (all seated). Was a very good gig, and the first time I have been there (I am quite a way from cardiff, but closer and cheaper than london). I was on the guitar side rather than on the bass side, which if I had picked I would have changed, but as it was it was pretty good. The 'new guy' Alex Hutchins is great, hadn't seen his youtube stuff before, but very good. Obviously Nick Beggs was fantastic as normal, with his spectors and with his Chapman Stick (still want to try one of those). Was also very impressed with the sound quality as a few recently have been not great. Will definitely go back and see the next one.

To me it is a tribute act, but I am sure they are very good, as many tribute acts are. I briefly considered the ARW gig until I saw the prices!

Unfortunately you can be very unlucky with ebay, but in several hundred trades I have only had a couple that went bad. I would imagine if the one that goes bad is your first, it is going to colour it badly! Not sure if it is the only way, but I actually couldn't understand what he was saying, but I have been on the internet long enough to know that if I can't understand something, it is just easier for me to move on to the next thing. Does that mean that is now yours (for a short time obviously!)?

Ooh - do we get to guess which one?

I like that. Even though I don't actually like using a bigsby, they do look good on somethings (I have one on a Peerless gigmaster).

I can bring a TC RS112 if you dont have one of those, in fact i was bringing one anyway

Yes, I posted a few months ago, I went to change the strap locks and the screw just sheared off. I was pretty dissapointed with that., they didn't seem that interested when I told them, I have no complaints with the woodwork, pickups, machineheads etc but it seems like a false economy to use screws made of cheese.

I think there were those benifits, in that there are a couple of places that call us first when there is a cancelation (which always surprised me as we are not that good), but as the rest of the group (who are all younger than me) are now into that baby thing, it is a bit cancelled out.

We get £50 more than in my last group that barely scraped 2 hours, so as there are 4 of us in this and 3 of us in the last band, I guess not!

The weird bit about that is that the back bit of the bigbsby isn't really needed, it is just a decoration, and without that it would have actually looked quite good! Anyway, I will have a fireman soon, as soon as I can decide if I could genuinely build a bass

Pubs. The drummer is convinced all bands need to do 3 hours because <big local band> do.

Its pretty rare that we do a set that is noticeably less than 3 hours

A C120?? Are you crazy?

We drive our own cars. The guitarist and singer share a car as they live just round the corner from each other. But our gigs are rarely more than a couple of miles.

Oh no, nothing on order at the moment, the 8 weeks was bad for me for my last one, I haven't got anywhere near the justfication required for the frog. And having just come back from a Steve WIlson gig I am wondering if I should even bother

Be careful - Yew is a very poisonous tree, make sure you don't let your kids near it

I think he is a complete and utter *wouldbefiltered* but he is a great frontman and vocalist. I never combine my opinion on a person with their music, or there would be loads of people I didn't listen to

I have a basswood bodied iceman, which dives quite a bit. Obviously the bass neck just makes it worse. It is actually very light. But the reverse sounds like it would be a plan, moving the front strap button way forward. There is a bass body on ebay, but a lot of shipping, so there is just some part of me thinking 'well, I will make a new body, how hard can it be?'

So noone had ever told me about the Fireman shape that Ibanez do, or the reverse iceman. Someone on my facebook linked to a Paul Gilbert video and he was demonstrating his fireman, well, he wasn't but it is his signature guitar and he was demonstrating how easy it was to play like Paul Gilbert if you happen to be Paul Gilbert. Which he is, so it is pretty easy. Anyway, ignoring how good he is, that guitar shape is brilliant - litterally an upside down iceman with a bit chopped out of the (now) bottom part of the lower horn for access, thus getting rid of the neck dive problem of the iceman straight away. Well, it turns out that ibanez don't make a fireman bass. Looking on the net, there is one place in the states that makes reverse iceman bodies for a bass, but it it obviously quite expensive shipping. And it is for a fender neck, would be nice with an iceman neck. So I really really want a fireman bass, a 5 string one. Anyone any idea where I can get a body for one (or the whole thing)?

Yes it is. It is a crazy length of time

Nah, it is just beautiful Makes me want to get one and play it in a function group.

I did the same journey. Always hated them but now love the bass lines and by a side product, like the tracks too.