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  1. NancyJohnson
    Well, Gary, you know where I live...I've got to come out to West End to pick someone up and then we're supposed to schlepping up to Hatton Cross to Tube it in on Saturday morning. This morning it took me an hour plus to get into Wokingham to drop Sue at work and get back home. Eight mile round trip, people crawling along at 5mph. It's mental. The roads really weren't covered in snow either.
  2. NancyJohnson
    I don't get the feeling these 'kids' are actually as young as we think they are...that bass player is playing bars in Cincinnati.
  3. NancyJohnson
    Just for the record, she's called Caroline Joseph and she also did this:
  4. NancyJohnson
    Man alive, that was hard going. Inaccuracies, poor to bad grammar, greengrocer apostrophes and more inverted commas than I care to mention.
  5. NancyJohnson
    If anyone is interested, here's a short article that covers everything you need to know. http://www.guitarattack.com/destroyer/lawsuit.htm There's dozens of similar pieces on the interwebs. Now, let's move things along and help the OP sell his bass.
  6. NancyJohnson
    It's a nice looking bass but just to be clear (as it's a particular bugbear of mine), please refrain from using 'lawsuit' or 'lawsuit era', because it's not. Ibanez were the only manufacturer subject to any litigation and that came from Gibson, not Fender. Fernandes were no more subject to a lawsuit than Aria (Precise/Primary series) or Tokai (Jazz Sound or Hard Puncher basses)
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  8. NancyJohnson
    There is hope.
  9. NancyJohnson
    Tuner provisionally sold. Come on lads, buy up. You can sound like me*. What's not to like? *Not strictly true.
  10. NancyJohnson
    I'll be there on Saturday. It's unboxed.
  11. NancyJohnson
    I watched a video yesterday, three blokes discussing Gibson. There were a lot of great comments and an interesting commentary about woodstocks used in 1980s Gibsons, but most of all this came down to a handful of things; Gibson need(ed) to stick to ten guitars, make them well and make them cheaper. One of the guys commented that although the custom shop do great things, they are selling models that only lawyers and doctors can afford and that Gibson had lost the real musicians when prices went north of $1,500.
  12. NancyJohnson
    OK, GT2 is sold, board is on hold. PSU, the Boss stuff and the ABY are still available.
  13. NancyJohnson
    I'll be there Saturday. Come say hello.
  14. NancyJohnson
    Same here.
  15. NancyJohnson
    I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I read a cracker of a quote recently. It went along the lines that while Gibson's official numbers cite that they made something like 500 Les Paul Customs during 1958/59, there's apparently more than three times that in circulation. I doubt they really know what left the plant to be honest. Ridiculous serial numbering/poor record keeping etc.
  16. NancyJohnson
    I hadn't realised that they stopped making them, but now I think about it, I never really questioned why I'd never seen a 1965 Les Paul advertised. Give Gibson enough time and they'll probably find some blueprints somewhere detailing the spec for the never made mystery '63 Les Paul and charge £10K for it.
  17. NancyJohnson
    I just did a little bit of jizz.
  18. NancyJohnson
    Hmmm. Do you have the stand for this?
  19. NancyJohnson
    I know there's probably not a right or wrong way to use BDDIs or VTBASS type stompboxes, but personally I've never had the desire to simply lump one into the front of any head. I played with a guitarist one time who got a pretty acceptable tone by playing a Les Paul into a Fender Twin Reverb. For some insane reason he started building this huuuuge pedalboard with several distortion/fuzz pedals on it...he just couldn't grasp the concept of how coloured his tone became when he piled output from a distortion pedal on top of an already distorted amp tone; he'd look at you like a lost puppy. 'Clean? Wny would I want to have my amp running clean?' He threw thousands at gear and eventually wised up that the Les Paul/Twin Reverb was the best tone he'd ever had. Sigh.
  20. NancyJohnson
    I just read a thread elsewhere that Ibanez are rumoured to be buying Gibson. Brilliant.
  21. NancyJohnson
    GT2 on hold now.
  22. NancyJohnson
    Up.
  23. NancyJohnson
    I'm a little late to this thread, but last November I quit a band I started about seven years ago now. We were gigging too much, rehearsing too much, travelling hundreds of miles playing to 10 unappreciative people, arguing, the singer was a control freak and asshat (I think Andy/Wolverine sussed him out reasonably quickly when he travelled with us to a gig in Kent). The link to the thread is here if you're interested. [HERE] Notwithstanding the fact that we were a really decent band (sometimes great) band...on point, acerbic, clever at times...ultimately it came down to a few things; was it still fun (no), did you like the people you were playing with (honestly, no, not really), do you like what you're playing (at the end, not so much), does it affect your band/work/home lives (yes, totally), so I walked. I enjoy reading the singers ridiculous posts on Facebook big-upping their recent activities and took an immense amount of pleasure at calling the replacements in my band 'The Imposters' and hearing that the singer, rattled, nearly popped a vein at one gig, barking out, 'We are not the imposters!' between songs. Interestingly, don't be too qualmed about being a man of a certain age and not being able to get a band. Three months on, while still harbouring a tang of bitterness, I have three new projects going on, but they're all sensibly planned and unpressurised. I'm done with plans for musical world domination. It's just not worth it.
  24. NancyJohnson
    No, no it didn't.
  25. NancyJohnson
    The ivory one with the tortie guard looks dreamy.
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