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I suspect many South Wales audiences have different preferences. The real answer is 'know your audience'.

Ditto, without it I'd be happy to have one. With the bonus that it can be used to skewer naysayers.

My brother had a Squier Katana guitar. Was actualy quite nice. That pickguard is an embarrasment.

Bugger, playing a Greene King tomorrow. Thankfully I can let someone rlse sort it.

There's a Uriah Heep album where about five minutes is spent by Dave Byron to get the audiencd to shout "sweet lorraine". After the excruciatingly drawn out proceedings he says "now for the hour of truth". Many a true word...

Disagree. My brother's band is very successful, and their defining character (which is always brought up by punters) is that dvery song they do sounds like them. Equally the band I am in will be doing House of the Rising Sun and Summertime tomorrow. The former will bear some resemblance to Frijiid Pink but I don't think Nina Simone would be expecting our verdion of the latter...

I took part in a Battle of the Bands. The winning band werd death metal. Their music didn't win, although theycwerr very able it was the way their frontman treated a couple of hundred students like 25,000 people in a stadium and gave 100%

https://www.pjbworld.com/cms/index.php/2020/04/15/pjb-compact-2-c2-refines-bass-cabinet-size/

PJB C2. I have a red one (hopefully) arriving in November. Black ones in stock I think. I have high hopes from what I have heard of other PJB gear. Hope to use it for practice and teeny gigs with an Elf.

Ok, it's a guitar but...

Same is true of most Fenders. Doesn't stop the explosion in a chrome dildo factory winning the fugly stick prize several times over...

Right key might be the best place to start...

Sorry to dissilusion, but you can't stuff fish (well only in a culinary sense). Taxidermied fish are usually plaster or fibreglass casts, painted.

I don't know - spray it silver sparkle and I reckon Bootsy Collins would love it 🙂

I think it's fair to say boring isn't the same as ugly and one person's boring is another's classic design. You can argue most of the 'ugly' guitars are the adventurous designs or those trying to be different. And that the 'boring' ones are boring simply because they are popular, so you see many of them. The basses that get the widest appreciation seem to be those that take one of the 'classic' designs and tweak it slightly, so it is at once familiar but distinctive. A good test is to look at a bass of opposite hand to what you are used to. The asymmetry of a jazz bass really stands out this way, for example, and it seems quite radical. But it's foolish to think ugly can be anything other than subjective. The Hagstrom above is an 'ugly' I'd be happy to live with, as it is characterful. Other people have Bongos or Alembics I think look absurd, yet others delight in them. There's no right or wrong. It's like tortoiseshell versus plain scratchplates, natural wood versus painted. Neither makes any practical difference but some people get deeply offended by one or the other.

Proves that Ugly + Ugly = 2 x Ugly...

2019 Midlands Bass Bash 🙂 No idea who this guy is though 🤣

Curios, that's the first G&L I've ever seen that I like the look of.

FWIW the Fender Performer has 17mm string spacing. May explain why the happy slappers it was aimed at didn't take to it.

I would say most people new to playing blues could probably do with understanding some of the conventions. For a start the 12 bar isn't a rigid structure always to be followed. Cover some of the popular variations in length and chord sequence. Note that many songs will change to a 'more standard' 12 bar for a solo. Understand the difference between major and minor keys, things that rapidly give away the key and how this influences how and what fits. Things to play until you suss the key if jamming... Different turnarounds

Rubbish! A few bottles of Jack and that's dead easy 😉

Dang forgot Bursting Out.

Hawkwind - The Space Ritual Live in London and Liverpool Hawkwind - Live Chronicles Neil Young - Live Rust Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous Various - Woodstock Various - Live and Heavy Barclay James Harvest - Berlin a Concert for the People Yes - Yessongs Ten Years After - Live at reading '83 Over-rated: The Who - Live at Leeds Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive Another topic could be "What live albums feature u=you in the audience?"