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I have a Roksak one that is decent quality, with neck support and was around the £40 mark iirc.

Only one place. Great venue with good set up but the owner insists on doing the sound check himself and then sets your levels for you. Nothing that unusual as many places have a sound guy. Except this guy can’t get a decent sound for us for love nor money. He also won’t listen to what we know will make a difference. I know other bands who now leave it well alone for the same reason. I have been there as a punter a few times and some people seem to get a good sound and other bands I know to be good sound very poor, so not sure if it’s just luck or whether some bands are just more forceful than others.

Direct through his website? Or via his YouTube channel perhaps?

$3k! Wow

I have been disappointed with the TC BH250 heads I have tried. The sound seems a little ‘thin’ to me. No idea why as I am big fan of Tc stuff and have a few of their pedals. The 250 just didn’t do it for me.

Thanks! I bought a special 20 to start with but am now awaiting a Thunderbird rocket in low C (bass player influence showing through). I have been learning a few songs for our new set so haven’t had much time for it in the last week or so but getting the handpg of single notes and bending. Learning the solo for long train running at the mo.

I have a full set of plans and instructions to build an Eagle 1 hovercraft from ply and fibreglass. Engine options include a lot of single cylinder ones and even a 2 cv. I made one myself about 15 years back and they comfortably take 2 but are more fun with one. Easy build for anyone with decent DIY skills. Free to collect or cover post and they are yours.

Cheese and pineapples have fallen in popularity?

Beyond 6 feet it doesn’t make much difference............

Looking at it from the other side slightly, it’s always easy to see your own view as the one that makes sense and feel that your thoughts were the ones that everyone shares. It could be that the others in the band are happy with not gigging and thought this was the status quo. And as the band has not gigged in twenty years it’s probably reasonable to assume that all parties have gone along with this to at least some degree. The chances of getting a few people together who all have the same ideals and work ethic are pretty slim so any group of friends is likely to have different desires. It may be that the guitarist has terrible nerves and just can’t cope with gigging. Our band is four workmates, two of us would be happy gigging every week, the other two probably every couple of months. So we compromise and play roughly once a month. It works for all of us. There have been times when I have been frustrated but it has to work for everyone or it doesn’t work at all.

Pearl Jam Ten as well, nothing else comes close for me,

Depends when you go, I thought that before we did our first, we will be on our third this year and another booked for next year. In the summer holidays the average age is 30s-40s with kids on the ones we have been on. There are some older people but a lot of them are part of larger family groups. I would imagine ones in May and October are more like what you suggest though.

Get it back to GK, you have consumer rights under EU law that extend beyond the 12 months most suppliers would lead you to believe. I would imagine with a little arm twisting they will sort it.

This one keeps popping up on Facebook http://www.tvsck.com/ Usual stupidly cheap prices.

I have a Precision set up BEAD and it’s the worst of the lot. Luckily I only use it for a couple of songs so easily left out.

Not sure myself, but nice to see something different anyway.

What I have found is that a very slight amount of fret buzz on the Thunderbird at home equates to perfect in a hot and sweaty pub, of course if any on the upcoming ones turn out to be air conditioned I could be stuffed! I have been amazed how much difference there has been and am pleased to see it’s not just me.

I love my 1000w Orange TB, I tried a few and it was the one for me. If you like it then keep an eye out for one and try a few others if you can. Nothing else I tried mixed the clean sound I wanted with the perfect growl the TB gives. I did change the valves for AT7s just to tweak the sound a little to suit my taste even better.

I could pick loads (though not Nevermind for me, still love it) but two,of my favourites in my early teens were pyromania and hysteria, boy do they sound poor now but could just be my taste moving on. Stanley road seemed to be a return to a bit of post Jam form but feels very lightweight now (Did I really buy it?) and any Iron Maiden post Paul Dianno, Brucey just hasn’t got it for me.

I religiously practice every night but the combination of a later time back from work than normal and the footy starting 10 minutes later meant that last nights practice was missed. Normally I can always find at least half an hour a day without fail.

Hmmm, not even close I don’t think. Some amazing music being made and I have seen some fantastic ‘new bands’ in the last year. The stand out ones being The Marmozets (been going a few years now), sweet little machine (don’t even have a full album yet- check out we used to,own these playgrounds or monsters) and The Touts (amazing Irish Punk band), and most of my favourite albums are from the early to mid 90s. All a matter of taste I suppose but plenty of life in rock in all its wonderful forms.

In utero, Bleach blew my mind, Nevemind was very polished but a true game changer, then In Utero was meh, tried over and over again and it’s still the same. Odd bits are ok but I would never choose to listen to it whereas Bleach, bits of Nevermind and Incesticide are listened to at least once a month.

As it’s my first one I have gone down the diatonic route too, gone for a Hohner Special 20 in C, it seemed a decent bit of kit for sensible money and gets good reviews.

Just ordered one to have a play with as it’s nice and portable. Any tips from any players on here?