ricksterphil

So it's stopped doing it now.....must have been a mouse 😂

I did a recording session for a singer/songwriter with an Italian drummer. He was a student so in his early twenties. Man he was good. This is the track

No, played another bass through the same amp and it was fine

I don't think so, but I didn't try that test

I have a Mike Lull passive P bass. It's developed an odd fault in that a couple of minutes after starting playing there is a rattling sound when I play open A (it's a 4-string) and the notes played below that on the E string sound muffled and lower in volume. I've check my leads and played another bass through the same set up as I thought it might be the pre-amp valves in the amp. Is one of the capacitors in the wiring loom giving up?

...from Rolling Stone The music to “The Jean Genie” was inspired by Bo Diddley’s “I’m a Man”; Bowie wrote the song’s lyrics in the New York City apartment of model-actress Cyrinda Foxe, then a publicist for his management company and later married to David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. But the actual subject of the song was Iggy Pop, or at least a fictionalized version of him, Bowie said. The lyrics were about somebody who “sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile.” The title of the song was an homage to French novelist/dramatist Jean Genet – Bowie has told different stories over the years whether the reference was unconscious or deliberate – while the line “He’s so simple-minded, he can’t drive his module” would, in turn, inspire the name of the band Simple Minds. as you say, probably written while out of his box on some recreational chemical or other

Played The Water Rats in Kings Cross. Decent crowd in for what is our last gig for a while. Emile the sound guy is fantastic and really knows his stuff. We played really well and the crowd loved it.

I'm sure I read somewhere a long while ago that when shopping for a precision (in London I assume) he tried out about 30 odd to find 'the one'

Yes, I remember his posts on Facebook. You played a gig in Stamford, which is nearish to Nottingham so I was intent on going until my band got offered a gig on the same night. Great guy and great drummer

lie like a Persian rug😃

That would be one Malcolm 'Harry' Wragg no doubt Went to school with Malcolm and we were in our first band together at school....small world eh

Halloo! Interesting bass, not seen or heard of the Hooker bass before

That way madness lies!! Welcome to BC!

Me too, born in Ludlow....now living in Nottingham

Your OP was very amusingly written @fleabag Foxtrot Oscar is now embedded in my vocab😊 I use either UPS direct when I had an account at work or TransglobalExpress https://www.transglobalexpress.co.uk/ Used to use them for sending stuff to Shanghai (ooh, get me) but they're just as good for UK stuff. Best thing is they have excellent phone support and their insurance looks good too (although untested by me)

Cool playing dude! Two too many strings for my abilities and stubby fingers so kudos.