ricksterphil

Welcome Bob!

I believe I have a solution........it might hurt a bit tho One of the best threads in ages!

Welcome Ian As this is a UK forum you are required to pass a test on knowledge of tea, biscuits, cricket, haggis, welsh cakes, warm beer and moaning about the weather! I see you are in Seattle, the home of my favourite luthier Mike Lull. Having said that the Marco basses look interesting - any UK stockists?

Welcome, this is a fantastic forum. Keep away from the Basses for Sale section unless you want to end up thinking about selling a kidney to fund something you're GASSING over!

6 pages of chat....Daltrey's PR people know their stuff! Quadraphenia is a work of genius imo...........discuss!

And I've now bought the same pedal from Dave. Smooth easy transaction with no drama!

+1 for the Fretboard and Facebook groups - there are some specific acoustic gear ones

Vote cast - good luck I liked your stuff although it's not really 'me' Keep up the good work

Best I could find...wall of speaker cabs? Summer of '75 - I'm the one in the pink shirt at the front

Rowan at Keld Ampworks just fixed my EBS Head - the bass tone control was faulty. He did it on the spot while I waited. Very thorough and a great depth of knowledge

Welcome! I have no experience of Peavey basses at all, but all the TC Electronics gear I have / had is/has been top notch There are open mics springing up everywhere with backline where you can drop in and just jam, which is a pretty good place to start playing again. A survey of your local FB music groups and pub pages should find them

Yeah...if they start killing kittens, then defo tell 'em to do one!

Not in your area but Richtone Music in Sheffield are pretty good when it comes to PX You can email them pics of your stuff and ask for a valuation https://www.richtonemusic.co.uk/

Leave and don't lend them your PA.......they are royally taking the p*ss

It's the way things are going certainly and round our way there are a LOT of acoustic om nights. A lot of the bedroom warriors need to learn how to project a song and entertain an audience, but I've seen some stand out performances from singer/guitarists or on one occasion a ukulele duo! If it keeps live music in places that would otherwise not bother, I think it's a good thing as long as the quality is there

Aladdin Sane and also the Dave Matthews band 'Everyday'

Our drummer has an electric kit which goes straight into the PA which is a Yamaha 400w affair with 2x12 full range speakers and handles 3 x vocals and an acoustic and it works great. Really handy for small venues and a total doddle to set up. He has his own monitor which runs off the PA so he can hear himself

I'm in a Bowie Tribute band, but we're a bit different as our lead singer is female. Jane (for that is her name) does a bit of dressing up and uses the jagged metal tie on 'Man Who Sold the World. The rest of us just wear mostly normal clobber as you can see....that's me in the hat btw! We don't replicate the music note for note and have written an original tribute to Bowie song. Best part is we all take it seriously but also have a laugh, work hard on performances and audiences seem to like us. http://www.facebook.com/missbowieband

. My nearly made it story relates to an outdoor festival we opened up for in 1976 in Wales. Alexis Korner was the guest of honour(?) at this gig and said we were rubbish! The drummer from that band (my first band while at school) went on to be in the Lazers which as all you pop cogniscenti will know was led by Carol Decker and morphed into T'Pau. Trouble is my mate had decided NOT to go with them down to that London and ended up watching them on TOTP 6 months later. He did redeem himself later on by playing in a band in which Robert Plant would turn up and sit in on as he (Planty) knew the band leader very well.