NancyJohnson

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1465832266' post='3071387'] Spotify Playlist coming up ha ha!! [/quote] While a few people here have suggested their favoured albums, I'd advocate putting a playlist together of everything in release order and just listen to the band evolve. You'll find your favourite period. I'm a member of a closed member online blog...the guy who runs it is a huge XTC fan and he's been posting some rare stuff (ie the BBC/Transistor Blast 4CD and a bunch of great live shows). If anything, it all makes me wish it was 1980 again. Why did I waste so much time following Kiss in my teens and not homegrown stuff? Sigh.

Watched the program, after every performance there was an inevitable barrage of questions from my wife as to how good they were in my opinion. There were some good players, but I found the whole acoustic/percussive playing a but tedious. For me, the standout performances were the young kid playing Bohemian Rhapsody and the guy playing the jazzy stuff (with the brown guitar). Find it a little difficult to understand how that 'street musician' Dave actually made it on to the show.

[quote name='cetera' timestamp='1465243618' post='3066484'] I'll be there! I actually have a free Saturday! [/quote] Gary - Can you bring one of your MV-65NS basses? I'm still on the hunt, would just like to try one out! Cheers Paul

Unsure whether anyone's seen this yet. It's a bit Living Colour, it's a bit metal. They seem like genuinely nice kids and they're not even 15 yet, so there's immense potential. They also have a documentary film coming out! P [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ZdI2YxZxI[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYH7BkV1BPQ[/media]

I was watching the Rockpalast show on YouTube last night...suprised to see how many of my preferred tracks were sung by Colin Moulding.

My mate plays drums for Tesseract. They did a promotion thing for Jagermeister and played on top of a mahoosive igloo thing in the Artic.

[quote name='iloveturtles' timestamp='1464988002' post='3064539'] Ahaaa, you can still slide the saddles? I see it on the D and G-saddles now.. [/quote] I'm assuming you're answering the question you put to me above!

Just picked up one of these from the sale pages of this esteemed forum. Honestly, is dead good. For certain situations I'm running a stereo board and trying to emulate dUg Pinnick's tone, so the plan is to have a Sansamp BDDI handling the low frequency stuff and the GT2 the dirty highs. Gotta say it sounds f***ing epic. Well pleased.

Nooooooooooooooooo!

Nice.

I concur with Neeph on the Babicz. I've got them fitted to my last two Gibsons. Didn't need the blanking plate, so I'd assume you'd be able to get the action right down. Also one thing to consider is to make your final decision after you've got the neck on. Plus it looks right. P

Weird. I just wiggled the bridge pickup around and it's fully restored. Good you might think. No, not good. This harks back to an issue I had when I got the bass initially. Hmmm.

One of my basses has developed a problem...it's a two pickup model, volume/volume/tone pot configuration (like a Jazz). The neck pickup appears fine in isolation, but when I increase the bridge pickup pot, when the pot hits 8/10 the output disappears and the whole bass goes quiet. There's output, but it's very, very quiet. If I tap the neck pickup the tapping is audible, the bridge pickup there's nothing. The issue seems to have come on pretty quickly...the bass has been in the case for a little over a week. Any idea? Cheers P

I've no issues personally, but every guitarist I know seems to carry too much peripheral gear in a mix of carrier bags and Tupperware boxes.

[size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]From TeamRock.com. Sad.[/font][/size] [b] [size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]Scott Weiland's widow Jamie says she's unlikely to get money from singer's estate.[/font][/size][/b] [size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]Scott Weiland left behind "an enormous amount of debt" when he died, according to his widow Jamie Wachtel Weiland. [/font][/size][size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]The photographer married the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman in 2013 and says she doesn't expect to be given any money from his estate, said to be worth at least $2million. [/font][/size][size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]Wachtel Weiland tells the Joe Howard Show (via [url="http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/scott-weilands-widow-discusses-his-death-audio/"]Blabbermouth[/url]): "I think there's this preconceived notion that Scott, being a rock star, must have just had millions in the bank, and that I'm probably just sitting pretty and just collecting money, and it's the antithesis of the truth.[/font][/size] [size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]"He, unfortunately, passed away with an enormous amount of debt. There were a lot of loose ends that were never dealt with.[/font][/size] [size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]"I could have fought a lot more to be involved in the mess that was left behind, but the truth is, for a long time, I was completely paralysed. I was incapable of doing anything. It was hard for me to just get through the day, much less lawyer up and deal with all the legalities of an estate and probate. And the other thing, too, is that I really just want to move on with my positive memories of my husband. I want to move on as an artist. I am fortunate that I do have a career. I had a career when I met him. It was somewhat shelved for a while there, because I toured with and I was involved in his business."[/font][/size] [size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]"But I am lucky that I can go back to that now and get that going again, and I don't really need to cling to his coattails and try to wring money out of his estate."[/font][/size] [size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]Wachtel Weiland has made a claim for just $64,000 from the estate, money that he owed her. [/font][/size][size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]She adds: "As far as the claim that I made, it was just very perfunctory. We had a prenuptial agreement, he was supposed to pay a certain amount of money. [/font][/size][size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]He only paid it twice. It's just a formality. To be honest, I'll probably never see that money, and anyone that understands how prenuptial agreements actually work and how his estate was left gets that."[/font][/size] [size=4][font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif]Weiland died in December 2015 aged 48. He was found dead on his tour bus, where he was on the road with his band The Wildabouts. Hennepin County Medical Examiner in Minneapolis confirmed that he died after taking cocaine, ethanol and methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA).[/font][/size]

I know this thread is about five years old, but the restored version of the Live/Studio double 'Strung Up' dropped through my letterbox at the weekend and I've been playing that along with Sweet Fanny Adams and Desolution Boulevard almost exclusively for the last few days. Some 40 years on, I'm still knocked out by how good they were, or more to the point, what a great product they bought to the market. I can still remember the excitement I felt when, as a ten year old kid, I read in Disco 45 that the next single would be called Ballroom Blitz (whatever that actually meant). These three albums (along with a handful of Sparks and Mott The Hoople albums), formed the backbone of what consituted my record collection as a pre-teenage kid and I've come to accept that it was probably Steve Priest who initially made me want to play the bass in the first place. Great stuff.

I'm using Hartke Hydrives, have been for years. I have a 4x10 and a 2x10 and can pick and choose dependent on the situation. These weigh far less than the equivalent Ashdown enclosures I used to run. Recently I bought a Matrix poweramp; this weighs about a third of the Ashdown EVOIII it replaced, so my rack weight has halved. I'm made up to be honest; my tone is great for me and I don't have any issues with load out after a four hour session.

Angled at both ends here.