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Enjoyed it Paul. Well played sir and lovely thunderbird. I didn’t notice any mistakes and I’m certain the regular punters wouldn’t! Not with their ears bleeding like that. He does like to play loud your guitarist!

I’m planning to look in after the game.

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Funk Shed are at Coda in Colchester this Saturday if anyone fancies a night of soul and funk covers. It’s a great bar that solely exists as a live music venue. Coda, 63 High street CO1 1DN Colchester

Got a very last minute gig on Sunday night for an end of season party for staff at a PGL centre (they run residential activity holidays for school kids) near Woodbridge in Suffolk. Amazing Manor House but when we arrived, realised that the crowd were pretty much all in their early 20's so a bit concerned about how they'd like our 60's/70's/80's funk and soul set. Needn't have worried. This audience, lubricated by some cheap sparkly, were determined to dance all night and loved the music. What a great night and no more assumptions from me about what people might or might not like! 8e5242bd-98c0-47a4-9234-ce3a4b4b074a.mov

Oops, almost forgot. Autumn and everything after by Counting Crows

Quadrophenia +1 what’s going on +1 also Power in the darkness - Tom Robinson Band the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars - Bowie the Joshua tree - U2

Just bought Frank's stunning ACG - which he delivered personally and provided a money back guarantee for. Frank is a real gent and a pleasure to deal with. Thoroughly recommended, a true legend of this forum.

I’ve given it away now. The magic circle ain’t gonna be happy!

Using these babies: Woodie's WH-001 Hanger for Guitars with 2 Strap Buttons on the Side https://amzn.eu/d/7xvzuWq basically L-shape transparent Perspex brackets that use the strap buttons to locate the guitar. You can also hang at angles. If you are hanging a headless status though you need two sets to hang vertically as I found out cos the strap buttons at the bottom are obviously off centre and so the bass wants to pivot. So there’s two at the bottom and one at the top. They seem at least as secure as the headstock hangers. to get the bass down you bend the top one up a couple of mm.

Finally found something for the status!

This bloke currently for me. This vid reminds me of a modern take on John Entwistle of Jack Bruce where he’s all over the place but NEVER playing anything that doesn’t serve the song. I think gospel music is supplying some of the best musicians at the mo in general.

Played a party at the weekend and was introduced to one of the guests. “She’s Jack Bruce’s daughter” the host tells me..thankfully after we finished or it would have been a very nervous performance indeed!

So I've just bought a stomp with a view to ditch the pedal board and also it will allow me to plug straight in to a pa. First gig at the weekend so we'll see...Plan to run it into the return of my LM3. Will take the board as backup but so far very impressed with the sounds in the stomp - both amp/cab sims and effects. Will take a bit of learning but it seems pretty logical and the HX edit software is really simple to use. As others have said, realistically I play most of the time without any effects so its been easy to set up 'presets' for the effects that I do use and a decent 'clean' sound and then just use that for almost everything, setting the effects to buttons to change on the fly. I've also got a ME-50B which has great sounds BUT the reason I wanted the stomp (or something more versatile) is that you're slightly limited about what effects you can run together e.g I don't think you can use the octave and the autowah together as they're on the same bank.

Saw Roachford on Sunday at the waterfront in Norwich. Excellent gig and great venue. Definitely intimate!

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I too love it. Having also had a 20 odd year hiatus I’ll take every gig I can get now! And delighted to be in a great local band where we all get on (mostly!)

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Fantastic gig on Saturday night at our favourite venue, Coda in Colchester. This bar is owned by two youngish blokes who run it purely as a live music venue and they’re doing well with it. They have jam and open mic nights every week and acoustic sets weekend afternoons. Well worth a look in if you’re ever in Colchester. we had a busy night but finally getting back into our stride after the lockdown took its toll. a compilation from Saturday

Quadrophenia. IMO JE’s finest hour.

Used to use one in a studio in Hackney in the late eighties. It had a lovely warm tone but all I wanted at the time was a Trace!

I have the Boss WL 50 which is the WL20 receiver plus a pedal size transmitter which will charge the receiver and also has a cable emulator switch which helps with active basses. Really impressed with it for the price. Never had any issues.

That has to be one of the most beautiful basses I’ve seen! Massive congratulations. Love to hear what it sounds like.

Paul Weller next Friday in Norwich. They get some good acts at the UEA and it’s a great venue.

This! I'm more of a one band, 4 different basses bloke, but going from a Jazz to a Stingray to a headless Status to a 5 string Lakland causes all sorts of embarrassment!