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[attachment=107057:BIG RIG.jpg] The "family". It's loud.

Fraid not. Supposedly hard to come by I think. Amp has now been fully serviced and ready to be picked up . Will post pictures soon

Great record, and partly why I wanted the amp so badly!

[attachment=98276:Protube.jpg] Omnomnom. Waiting on this at the moment. Its the head on the bottom . Have used it a couple of times for gigs (was borrowed from the drummer) and it sounded quite incredible! Cant wait to have it in my possession permanently by this weekend! Happy chap indeed.

Nice one Oli! looks bloody lovely!

i love some of these posts, they have struck a chord with me, thanks guys i really appreciate it. I dont write music with expereinces in mind, i just poop music. Some of it is pretty rubbish, some of it is great (in my opinion). many people have suggested writing from personal experiences but i dont know how to translate that into music, my songs just come naturally from me and alot of it is inspired from artists i regard as great players, such as larry graham and stanley clarke. I'd like my music to be like a comic book, animated and abstract but i want it to, tell a story in a way. apologies for the sh*te grammar.

[quote name='Hamster' post='1081518' date='Jan 7 2011, 08:51 PM']Wot? - even forest hippy bass players?? [/quote] Ill take your forest hipies and raise you, death metal forest hippies

cheers for the replies so far!! I played him some of my material, and he suggested i needed to play it with more "feel". I just don't understand. The first person i thought of when it came to feel was dave gilmour actually! To me, my songs are great and im proud of what i have achieved. Ive worked extremely hard to obtain the skills i have and it was rather unsettling to hear the things he said!

Right, very recently I visited my father who hasn't really taken an interest in my bass playing exploits. Infact, he saw me play for the first time EVER literally weeks ago, and I've been playing for nearly 8 years. I don't see my father much and tbf, he was shocked and also very impressed. He said to me i was "wasted" doing what i am doing (I am a simple store operative at marks and spencer) which is fair enough. I don't doubt my playing abilities, I know for a fact i can make something of them. He said it himself, he even said i was more talented than Ellie (wtf?!). Now, I look up to this guy, even though he has never had a big input in my life. He has never encouraged me to do anything, never acknowleged me for anything i have done, but i look up to him because he has been there and done it. He's a great guitar player and has been playing longer than i have been on this planet. So it's only natural that I still listen to him, right (point aside he is my dad, but i see him as much as rick waller sees salad)? My point is, upon seeing me play, he said i could get very far with my playing and I should pursue it as a career. This really, really inspired me and I am currently working on material. Something struck me though, I didn't really like what he said, he said my music lacked feel. So Im asking you guys, what is feel? surely if you have written something and it means something to you, that is feel, and that is all that matters right? do others need to see the meaning or purpose behind your music?? sure, some people may be able to se it/hear it, but youre the only one that knows deep inside what its all about? Aaaaaand one mooooreee thing. Have you ever experienced anything that has really given you the drive and inspiration to "go for it"? and what inspires you more than anything??

he's a bit good mind

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='1067597' date='Dec 23 2010, 11:07 AM']I was at the perching at the bar at the back with Matt - bass player for Sunday Girl. If anybody saw us, he's the good looking one, I'm the ugly one! There was a young girl who had obviously had a "pass out" from the parents and had taken advantage of the bar. She was in a bad way. The audience for Ellie was a lot, lot younger than I thought it would be. Lots of teenie boppers around.[/quote] ha nice. It could have been one of my other sisters! ha, probobally not. we were all sober. That was until greg james passed me a bottle of glenlivet backstage...

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='1053446' date='Dec 9 2010, 10:17 PM']Ellie is going to be/has writing songs for Cheryl Cole according to the internet bumpf. There's my connection with Ellie to X Factor. Have to say, went to Ellie's concert in Brum and thoroughly enjoyed it [/quote] I was also. Sat next to the blubbing mother. Pft. Cool gig mind

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1052490' date='Dec 9 2010, 10:16 AM']Because it's their song. She says so herself. [/quote] Thanks for clearing that up

So where's the evidence "your song" was made for John lewis? I'd like to know. Could we forget about that for one minute and talk about the music, which is what matters? "your song" is featured on the re-release of Ellies album. Wether people like it or not is up to them, tbh I dont like any of my sisters stuff, pop music gets on my dairy pillows. Im trying defend music as a whole, as it is an art and a form of expression which is exploited by douchebags behind big desks and slugs hanging of their penises. Would you walk around an art studio or gallery saying "thats sh*t, thats sh*t"? Sure, i could post this on any forum debating about any artist, I would say the same without a doubt. Apperently i cant take cricisim, how am i getting criticism? I dont think at anypoint I've said I'm going to find you all and beat you up because you've been nasty to my sister! Who knows what the situation behind "your song" was/is (i suppose i could ask her but thats cheating), my opinion on it is, that it's a nice bloody song! 'bout time she left out some of that tedious synth wobble!