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Hi Steve, I'm in Droitwich too!

His bass lines were great in Free. Amazing that so few musicians could create such a sound. Heavy Load is an incredible song, particularly as the guitar solo is about 5 notes yet so moving. I saw him at Marshall's Fifty Years of Loud the other year but his playing there wasn't so well received - not sure if anyone knew who he was? They were busy trying to work out who Glenn Hughes was. Apparently whilst in Free, Andy made sure that they didn't owe the record company anything; he even got a receipt from the taxi driver when they turned up to Island in the first place (if I remember the story correctly). They resisted being renamed "The Heavy Metal Kids" and stuck with Free; glad they did!

I'd agree with bagsieblue on the old 90s guitar magazines. I have a few (Guitar Player I think) and they have pages and pages of transcriptions, as well as interviews. There is an interesting interview with Eddie Van Halen and Nuno Bettencourt at the same time; also I think one has the Star Trek theme transcribed from Stu Hamm, plus I recall an interesting interview with Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith. Some real insights in all of them, as they were free interviews not questionnaires. I have a bunch of old Bassist magazines (yes I have the 1994 edition with the CD, there's some dreadful tracks on there interesting though it is) and all the early BGM issues that I am working my way through. There are some interesting articles in there but even though that old and perhaps in the "golden" years of the magazine it doesn't feel like Sound on Sound or some of the Bassist articles. Transcriptions are always interesting. Reviews of gear is fairly interesting but it isn't my main concern, as I'd have to spend more money! It looks like a balance is to be had (some people complain they don't like all the expensive boutique basses reviewed) yet some want to be informed of gear they don't know about (which would include all the boutique basses, right?). Tricky!

I stand corrected! My lack of knowledge trips me up again. But an entirely different tone and style nonetheless :-)

Hi I just noticed this on the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-31912601 It looks interesting but odd to see Mark King on the roster, given that his playing is radically different to Jack Bruce's? Anyone else think that or is it just me?

Pablo bought a strap from me, speedy payment and friendly too. Great!

I wonder how useful it'll be in the long run for us if we use just one cabinet for most of the time. For PAs it might make sense as they may be hooked up to different speakers on different gigs or may be rented out by companies for use with different speakers and speaker configurations in different sized venues on different nights of the same tour etc. But I am not sure how useful it'd be in a bass amp. If it has got different EQ settings for different cabinets and different crossover points etc then it'll require each speaker manufacturer giving these out and sharing them. They are really really unlikely to do this, and particularly to give Berg the settings if they're competitors; the speaker presets effectively highlight all the deficiencies in a speaker cabinet! For this reason they will likely struggle to get these settings I believe, which would make this product dead in the water, unless there are different plans? Out of interest, Funktion One do not use any speaker presets or eq to correct deficiencies in their cabinets, as far as I know. Good bit of kit, obviously.