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12 hours ago, rwillett said:

 

Dunno what school you went to, my school day consisted of trying to avoid getting beaten up by 5th years, sixth former,s 4th years, actually just about everybody now I think about it, trying to be super cool and chat girls up (failing miserably), copying homework out in the line before it's due in class in around 30 secs, wearing crappy clothes, discovering deoderant, talking about TOTP the day after, blagging NME and Melody Maker from whoever could afford to buy it, failing to chat girls up, not spending your dinner money on school dinner, but heading down to the local chippy for a bag of chips and saving what was probably 8p and so on.

 

I'm struggling to remember any talk of Fender basses and identifying the particular year of manufacture to be honest. Perhaps my school was 'special'...

What subject were you teaching? 😂

1 minute ago, asingardenof said:

The bible is strangely quiet on the love of basses, so I think we're probably safe!

Is there not something about thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his bass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's?

3 minutes ago, asingardenof said:

The love of money is the root of all evil. Money isn't inherently evil, but what people choose to do with it certainly can be.

I got rid of some Jehovah's Witnesses once by correcting this when they quoted it at me. They must have thought that i possibly knew more about the bible than they did. 😄

Welcome Gibson Guy

Why does she have a tuning fork painted on her forehead?

Have you ever considered paying a woman to whip you, like normal masochists do? 😄 

Good job on the bass!

Welcome!

Any song by the Smiths, though if your guitarist is really poor he might struggle with Johnny Marr guitar lines.

If you are going to go down the trailer route, I would make sure it's one of the four-wheeled ones. I have a two wheeled one for shopping and it's not the most stable, especially when empty (it can tip over if I hit a bum ). Maybe put some thick foam in the bottom to act as a shock absorber.

23 hours ago, asingardenof said:

Or just use a 4-string and conventional music paper but ignore the bottom staff line.

You have to ignore the top line or it will sound wrong. 😂

1 hour ago, Japhet said:

I think it's more genres of music that I can't stand. For instance, the pseudo operatic wailing of Bruce Dickinson just instantly boils my pi55. I don't mind a bit of heavy music but don't go all 'Pavarotti' on me, please.

Heathen!

Headless basses. No matter what the body shape.

The Threadlock should do the trick, but I was wondering if plumber's tape (PTFE tape) would work.

I never took music classes in school very seriously, though I was in the school choir and ended up playing the lead in the school musical, in sixth form. I probably never looked at it as a serious academic subject, compared to the likes of Maths, English or the sciences. I think quite a few people in the class were of a similar mindset and it was only the ones who went on to choose the subject for GCSE who took it seriously.

A Fleetwood Mac tribute band called Big Love. They weren't bad, though some of their intros were interesting - one song started and we thought it was going to be "Common People" by Pulp. The drummer looked like he could have been Mick Fleetwood's dad. It was a fun night.

I've been learning guitar (sue me), so I've been watching channels like Anyone Can Play Guitar - really good tutorials and covers a range of styles, like jazz, blues, indie, punk, rockabilly, reggae... Justin Guitar is very good too. he covers a lot of theory as well as songs.

I'm very sorry to hear it @Gasman My deepest condolences to you and your family.

8 hours ago, tauzero said:

Back to studio etiquette, and I would say that asking the engineer-cum-producer ( @cheddatom - how do you refer to yourself?) to give an opinion of your band is bad form. If the opinion is offered, fair enough (after all, they're not going to say you're shit so if they give an opinion, it's going to be good).

Sorry, the engineer what now? 😳

17 minutes ago, MrCrane said:

Yes, but according to Adams, the '69 isn't referring to 1969

At 9 years old, that just makes it worse! 😲😳

Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams Bryan, you were 9 years old in the summer of '69. There's no way you played until your fingers bled.

6 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Well that looks like it was a solution looking for a problem.

 

Apart from looking ridiculous, I bet going for a slash between sets would be a bit tricky.

That's probably how he kept getting shocked

I love the wedjat pendant... very "The World's End". I got the one from the cover of "Vision Thing" as a tattoo (only it turned out a bit shit)

Pretty much anything by Robbie Williams, but especially "Angels"

Most REM stuff

Most Alannis Morrisette stuff

Another shout for "What's Up" by 4 Non Blondes

4 hours ago, Staggering on said:

 

Steady now, there are some banjo players on here, I'm one of them.....😊

Burn the heretic 😄

13 minutes ago, rmorris said:

I think you can get insurance against saxophonists turning up ?

It's impossible to get cover against banjo or accordion players, though.