Steve Browning

[quote name='julesb' timestamp='1494455692' post='3296233'] Sex on fire etc. Well documented in several threads here. I'm sure you wouldn't call be a f***ing prick if you were stood next to me. That's the internet for you eh? [/quote] Some of your responses are suggesting people well might. I can only see some gentle leg pulling going on.

Thought it looked familiar. I guess they're hoping Macca will be in MPL and sign them up.

I'm sure they won't be worrying their pretty little heads about it. I'll get my coat.......................

Is that Soho Square in the background? I used to see a group of those guys regularly in that area.

I tune up before the gig or when changing basses during the gig. Only check tuning on the bass I'm playing during the gig if I feel the bass has moved. Have to say, it almost never happens.

Dunk your fingertips in the hottest water you can stand. Works a treat. Apparently, the blood vessels get crushed when you play and the hot water opens them out again.

Mate of mine (Rumblefish on here) has a Berg 2x12 which is a brilliant cab.

Got to be a Fender Logo'd JV Squier. Not too many about and not the stupid price of the 1958 Precision I'd need.

Unless you're Mike Love!

The best £3.50 I ever spent was on a cheap kitchen wall clock that goes discreetly by the side of the stage so it can be clearly seen on stage and no-one is having to take a sly peek at a watch.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1493904633' post='3291696'] Got drunk and snogged the intended bride on the dance floor. To be fair she instigated it but that was that. [/quote] Curse that being a bass player and the coolest guy in the room eh?

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1493829938' post='3291094'] Incidentally, it was the first and only time that I saw someone (Joel...) actually turn green in colour. A rough trip for all, but that poor lad really did suffer. [/quote] I was in a plane once and witnesed this. I had always thought it was just a saying but the guy was there and a definite shade of green.

Don't discount a Japanese Fender. The US derivations have alder bodies and US pickups. Probably less than the MIM and a bit cheaper too.

I played in a swing band, similar to Brian Setzer's band. I had been asked to join and questioned whether they really wanted a guy playing electric bass but they were perfectly happy. Me and the drummer clashed a little (he was an utter prat, to be fair) but the music was good and we were mainly playing arrangements. We had a band meeting at a pub one evening and I was told by the drummer that I was a great guy, awesome bass player, but he couldn't work with me. The rest of the band were a bit stunned and a great friend of mine (on keys) found himself binned because 'it was assumed he'd go as well'. What made it worse was the fact that I had arranged with the drummer to be the house band drummer at a blues weekend in 3 days time and he said he couldn't do it. I think it was his wife who had clashed with mine a couple of weeks earlier. Naturally enough, it turned out they had been rehearsing with an acoustic bass just prior to the meeting.