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Bass Player required for band 'The Ralities' - Newport / Cardiff (ex Mind of Zebra) Due to a change in my personal circumstances, basically deciding to emigrate - I'm looking for a replacement for me, in a band I'm in. This is a great established band of really good, open minded musicians & lovely people, doing original material in many genres including motown to folk, to funk to cinematic, to soul songs and more.... The emphasis is to do catchy tunes that make listeners dance & enjoy themselves. It's great band for a bass player IMHO 🙂 The band is a five piece lineup with vocals,acoustic guitar/ guitar BV's / keyboards, saxophone, BV's / bass / drums The band has got a good local loyal following that is steadily building up. Regular gigs & some festivals around South Wales are being planned. ...We just played Le Pub in Newport last Thursday, went down well & were well received. Links here to some demos here: The Ralities Demos Facebook & Instagram pages: The Ralities FB page The Ralities - Instagram page If you're interested or would like any further info, please DM me. Thanks

My '78 Mustang, currently strung with Chromes, though I do go back & forth with Labellas on it. I prefer the chunkier neck on this and the late 70's Mustangs to the MIJ one I had before, and the older Mustangs I've tried.

Will DM you Luke 👍

I've had this (self built) Ziebek / Electronix Submarine clone, which in itself is a stripped down clone of the 'Albert Kruezer preamp', on every version of my pedal boards for the last twenty years. It's got pretty varied tone shaping abilities & quite versatile for such a simple circuit, but I use it quite subtly to just add a bit of low mid 'thump' - really lends itself well to flats.... It's also quite handy as a clean boost for when I swap between my Mustang & Stingray. I should really get round to building another one, when I get the time.

He also used a couple of Eldritch's WAL Customs, one being a MIDI version, during his time in the Sisters.

Over the years, I've done a couple.... John Hollis 'Flatline' on veroboard. Which was an easy build, and a nice sounding optical compressor on bass. Similarly, also built something based on the Demeter Compulator. Which has been on my board for years as a staple, as it's pretty transparent & easy to dial up something sounding natural. Next build will be a 'Pumpernickle'. Bought the kit ages ago, but have only just found the time to start on it. Looking forward to finally finishing it. Totally agree with you Bigwan on the enclosure. Also, I think the designer stopped selling the pre-drilled enclosures a while ago.... I've got a drill press, and I'm not bad at drilling enclosures, but took the the easy option on this & got Tayda to do the 125B for me. Price was not bad (IMO) at $4.50 drilling service + $6 for the powder coated enclosure. Delivery time was pretty good, within two weeks.

I have a pair of '83 Ibanez Roadstar II RB920's

I got one of the sonic blue ones back in the day. To be fair, I modded & pimped it up quite substantially.... Mighty Mite neck, pearloid pickguard, EMG's. I guess the only original thing left was the body 🙂

Paul was a lovely, humble guy... Gutted to hear about his passing yesterday. Played some Mondays tunes last night & got his old Ibanez out. RIP mate