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On 24/03/2024 at 19:10, Jackroadkill said:

 

If only I had - that would have been the world's longest toilet break, wouldn't it?!

Then walk in and say "I'd leave that for ten minutes"

On 19/03/2024 at 22:25, Dan Dare said:

I enjoy some of the AI descriptions that are appearing on eBay recently, For example, "whether you're a beginner or a seasoned professional, this bass is sure to tick all the boxes" (a genuine word-for-word quote from one particularly desperate listing). 

= bog standard Squier

I can't give any advice as to the best place for selling gear (though I have bought an item on Basschat with no problems), but I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis and would like to wish you the best.

5 minutes ago, SamIAm said:

Retro Rewind

Neon Nostalga

Sam x

Sam x is a great name for a band. 😁

22 hours ago, badger said:

you reminded me of this:

I wonder if that did actually come from Lucy Worsley. 😆 Viz do actually print genuine letters from readers. I know someone who's had a few printed.

One of the shops local to me, Matchetts, is actually quite competitive with the other online retailers when it comes to price (they do have online shopping too, which can be handy for click and collect). but they do offer a lot of other services too. They have instructional sessions, where you can book in and they will show you basic set-up techniques, for example; how to change strings, tune up, check the action and so on. They had a guy in from D'Addario a while back to demonstrate the new Xpand pedal board. I got a free t-shirt and won a tuning pedal. I had a guitar lesson last week and my tutor had bought a new PRS guitar and asked if I wanted to try it. I gave him my Ibanez and he was raving about the set up on it. I'd done nothing to the set-up; that was all down to the guys in the shop. He liked it so much that he wants to borrow it to make some videos for his business social media accounts. 

That sounds great!

😁Deep Purple's guitarist, Simon McBride lived at the bottom of my street. I don’t think I ever met him as he's about 5 years younger than me, but I do remember when he won the Young Guitarist of the Year competition. Does that count? 

I think I've seen James Hetfield use one for songs where he switches between electric and acoustic. 

18 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

 

I was in that ballpark before I retired.  Unless I'm stupid, I've got enough to keep me in reasonable comfort until I drop off my perch without having to mime to my latest release on This Morning, or cut the ribbon at a new branch of HMV.

 

Have it been in my twenties then it would have been a tempting dream, but now I'm in the Victor Meldrew phase of my life it'd be a blooming nightmare. I'd tell them to do what they want with the recording and give the royalties to charity.

A new branch of HMV? You really must think it's still 1987. 😄

9 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

Back in the early 90s I was playing geetar in a band doing primarily originals but going through that difficult period of realising that our original material wasn't going down well with the venues we played. We decided to add more appropriate covers (which meant the more accessible proggy stuff) and to find a dedicated singer, as out keyboard player was currently singing. The drummer and I were in a night club (a rare event but it played mainly the rock end of pop music) and I got talking to this young girl who, when she found out I was in a band looking for a singer, proclaimed that she could sing and wanted to be out new front person. Her first audition was outside the nightclub, where she performed 'Wuthering Heights', complete with rather enticing dance moves. She wasn't bad and both the drummer and I thought she deserved a decent audition with the rest of the band. 

 

A couple of weeks later we picked her up from the corner of her street in the band van and headed off to the rehearsal studio where we went through a few covers and while she could keep a tune, her voice wasn't versatile enough. Had we been a Kate Bush tribute act, she may just have scraped through with some work but as it was her voice was quite thin and she didn't seem to have the self confidence needed for a front person. We dropped her back off on the corner of her street with the intention of having a second go with some originals.

 

Imagine my surprise when, on the way to work a couple of days later, I saw our potential singer in her school uniform looking every bit the 14 or 15 year old she actually was. Many things went through my head, mostly involving irate parents, irate policemen and relief that nothing ungentlemanly had happened. Needless to say, we didn't keep in contact.   

That's very Diane and Rent Boy in "Trainspotting" 😄

17 hours ago, Skybone said:

 

You'll have to be VERY careful with your costume choices if you go for the latter.  

Could end up looking a right tit... or was it the left one?

15 hours ago, lozkerr said:

So have I 

I'm Guitarticus and so's my wife

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21 hours ago, Nice Guy Rich said:

You have to frame it 😁

 

I'm a worship leader at a Baptist Church and I love METAL !! 🤘🏼

 

Counter their scribble with Psalm 33:1-3....

 

Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;
    it is fitting for the upright to praise him.
Praise the Lord with the harp;
    make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
Sing to him a new song;
    play skillfully, and shout for joy.

I've just had a look on Lyrechat.co.uk and they say that 10 stringed lyres are an abomination; that 8 strings are more than enough.

Welcome Rolf. Those are two lovely looking basses.

Leave the chip on your bass and not on your shoulder.

4 hours ago, acidbass said:

I've used freelancers on Fiverr lately for band promo stuff and they have been great.  You can see previous portfolios and the contact/proofing etc is great.  Some examples of work:

Looks like your trussrods could use a spot of adjustment...

11 minutes ago, Paul S said:

I have  the onset of OA in the fingers of both hands and have found fingerless compression gloves help when it starts to flare up.  Can still play with them on.  I do find the ladle gets in the way sometimes.     

 

Could you use the ladle to play some sort of slap bass style?

I don't think I'd fancy being in a functions/wedding band. Session musician I might be able to do. If I were to be a pro it would have to be in an originals band.

14 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

With you on any and all of the above. Both T-Birds and RDs need to be slung low - nothing 'weird' then.

 

Here's some of what you mention to prove I'm with you. 😁

That's not low-slung. Come on man, get it down round your knees a la Simon Gallup or Peter Hook! 😄

The London Bar. We were in it about 18 years ago. There was a band playing and in the local accent, they sang Moostahng Sallee. It's a cracking bar, though.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6SozxDXmXbDNGrti6

Bombay Bicycle Club in the Telegraph Building, Belfast. They were fantastic. Great sound, good light show and a brilliant performance.

It's under the bed

Stiff Little Fingers have the best walk on music of all time - one of their own songs - Go For It. Those drums...!!!