Dr.Dave

That's the principled response. I took the ' get the cash and do one to Lanzarote for a fortnight with it' approach.

I had this embuggerance with a flight cased acoustic I'd taken as a trade. Strictly collection only including meet up option. No shipping under any circs , do not bid unless you'll collect etc etc. Bloke from London bought it - straight away he paid and asked when I would be posting it. I said not happening , you should have read the description correctly etc etc. Now it gets good..... Bloke called me a racist. Said I was only being horrible to him because he was Asian ( as if I can tell his background from a username - plus how does he know my heritage isn't the same as his ) and that he wasn't able to read the description properly because he didn't properly understand English - and that I should have taken that into account. At this point I googled his name as ebay had sent me his details - turns out he was a consultant at a London hospital. A Doc working in London that can't understand English but can communicate perfectly well enough to accuse me of all sorts ??!!! Anyway - I wanted his money and he was the only bidder at my slightly inflated starting price so I just sent it to him , leaving me a few quid down. Plus I was rattled with the racist thing. Hopefully it arrived in little pieces and his wedding veg has since dropped off.

He's well known for playing Precisions but clearly , judging by the other comment , you were joking anyway.

The stack knob arrived on Friday and got used in anger last night. Well pleased. It cuts through two Gibson/marshall set ups better than the Precision's which is why I got it. It's a CIJ re-ish. As are the heavily fettled 54 blue flower and the Daphne blue 50s Strat. The sunburst Precision is 50 years old this year , I've had it for 45 of them. The Dimension is a tarted up Squier made in... wherever they make Squiers.

Just come in - 62 stack knob CIJ re-ish c2002 with pre-CBS terrier ! Sounds growly when pushed... and so does the Jazz !

Just bought a pedal from Patrick - arrived quickly and well packed and I'm very happy. Thanks , mate.

Some good suggestions on here. I'd say avoid anybody soloing away and showing what can be done rather than what should be done. It's just not useful at this stage. I'd also say treat yourself to Donald Fagens ' the nightfly '. The cream of US session bassists all at the top of their game enhancing -but supporting - the song. Lastly - learn by copying , sure , but learn enough to be able to stop copying. You've been a player for a long time so you probably understand that

Just bought a pedal from Tim that arrived so fast I thought I was in a time warp. About 16 hours. Many thanks my friend - I wouldn't hesitate to do deals with you again and I hope we do so.

Start big - slow stuff 4 songs in - novelty after that - filler - end big. Basically I write the set list slightly wrong , ask everyone else for comments , ignore those comments but rewrite the set list as I wanted it in the first place - tell everyone it's now much better for their input and accept their grateful thanks.

We once arrived at a pub called the Smawthorne Arms as a last minute replacement band where , it turned out , the last thing anybody wanted was a power trio. We had a chat and did three things. Reduced the volume , reduced the tempo and reduced the energy. We actually enjoyed it and so did the williams. Though we never went back (our choice - they did ask us to) we did purposely find another two or three gigs that became regulars where we applied the same thinking and that type of gig became known as a ' Smawthorne job'.

In the Gypsy Kings cover of 'My Way' the bloke sings 'I'm not a mouse' My fave though is a misunderstood rather than a misheard. When I was a nipper I honestly thought that Israel had a King called King Born because they made us sing 'born is the king of Israel' at the primary school carol concert.

I chucked mine away to represent me throwing away my ridiculous old fashioned concepts such as being able to have an opinion that's different to somebody elses , short sightedly not wanting to see talented young women put off sport because they'll get beaten by blokes and my ludicrous expectation that the police that I pay for should investigate an armed robbery instead of arresting an old lady for innocently giving her rescue kitten an unfortunate name. Be gone , you string ends , and take the evil thoughts of this vile throwback with you !

Apologies if I'm repeating stuff from in the thread but I couldn't be rrrrzd to look through 9 pages to check ! I'm not interested at all in somebody shredding or soloing away and when you've seen Alana Alberg showing her legs once you've seen it all but I did enjoy the playing bits of Guy Pratts lockdown licks. Not so much his high volume waffle and incorrect assumption that he's funny in some way. I had a load of classic rock covers to get my head round for the new band and I found watching this bloke saved me a shed load of time.

Oh yes. 50 years old now. Different pick guards , bridge and knobs in the two pics but the same bass. Overall we're both showing similar signs of wear at the mo but I'm now 61 and , sadly , I expect I'll change in the coming years quicker than the bass ! Just looked again - you can't see the knobs anyway ! And it's the same low G I'm playing !

The drive was a bit hairy - having to wind the windows down to see at junctions etc - but the gig was great and surprisingly well attended given it's January and the weather was so poor.. Someone took this pic of me. I looked in my files and found one from 25 years ago for comparison purposes. Other than a minor follicular pigmentational degradation issue nothing seems to have changed much !

Yes I do know but I'm a gigging musician rather than an instrument collector so I don't care about such things.

Default mode tells me to pick something from Made in Japan but my thinking head says Perfect Strangers

Since when did losing an audience bother the BBC ?

BB King was practically one foot in the grave when I went to see him so I suppose I shouldn't have expected much. His support act - guest rather - was Gary Moore and he and his under rehearsed band had no age related excuse at all for being plain awful.

Pretty much word for word why I never bother with it. The producers must think it's some sort of national treasure type show but the reality is it's a woefully tired , repetitive format that everyone grew tired of years ago.

I always go back to something Pat Travers said in an interview decades ago - buy the guitar that feels best in your hands. Anything else can be put right with a screwdriver , a soldering iron and a spray gun.

RS 66s. When a man is tired of Rotosounds he's tired of life ! Though I don't recommend putting them on after 5 glasses of French 75 which is what I just did !!

If you get a chance to play Jim Lea's great bassline once a year - why would you not ?

All I can say is that when I walk into a pub or club with a gig bag on my back I feel like I belong there but if I walk in without I feel like a stranger. I definitely belong on the stage. I'm not comfortable in an audience. Don't know how else to put it.