Paul S

In a covers band I'll play songs I am ambivalent about, will play songs I don't like but refuse to play songs I hate - that crosses a line as far as I am concerned. Don't care if the rest of the band, the punters, the Queen or the Pope love it - if I hate it I won't play it. I play for fun, because I enjoy it, and for me it isn't fun to play a song I loathe with a passion. There are quite literally thousands of songs to choose from and it seems completely unreasonable for a band to try to pressurise a member into doing something they hate when there is so much choice. It is something I feel pretty strongly about, actually.

Indeed, just trying to pad it out now.

Sorry, these are not grounds for a decent pun.

All good advice. Especially the pre-set/eq in out buttons - notoriously the soldering fails and can be noisy to operate and even distort.

I thought it may have finished by now but clearly the puns have long legs.

Can't see when the listing is over?

Its the 'learn' bit I seem to struggle with sometimes

I think that would be a probpem for me as I did have a nice Gibson T Bird - a lightweight one as well - so one of these would be very much a backward step. Of course I sold it, the reason why escapes me just for now.

Thank you! Rig was supplied, think it was an Ashdown ABM but not sure which, I went straight into it for stage monitor and then DI'd through the desk. The bass has a little story - it is a mid-70s Antoria P bass that I bought on eBay for (I think) £250. It transpires that at some point someone fitted a '75 Fender pickup in it. Punchy tone! A rare occasion when I ended up 'ahead of the game'

Another one from my blues rock trio Tore Down at Ipswich Summertime gig back in August. The old Howlin' Wolf tune 'Evil' in the style of Cactus. https://www.facebook.com/djangostrat/videos/440078267352801

It means 'something like a Gibson'. I had a Thunderbird for a while (just the one, mind), still have a Les Paul Jr DC, and both sound 'something like a Gibson' to me. Whilst not sounding exactly the same as each other they sounded more like each other than anything else I have.

Memories of Maggie.

David, thank you. Yes, that would be exactly the look I am after. Oh dear.

That tele bass!! Black/maple, short scale, under 8lbs. Be still my beating heart 😍 Is there routing under the plate or would it come off to give a clean body?

That'll be that then. Muchas gracias, saved me wondering any further 😊

Thanks for that. Do you recall what it sounded like - vaguely Gibson-esque?

I was wondering about these. One of the more recent Tokais as opposed to the excellent 80s ones. Is it even remotely like a Gibson? Passive, set neck, double humbuckers. Sensible bridge But what is the build quality? They aren't dear.

Pretty much exact thing happened to me several bands ago. Leigh Conservative Club. Conservative was bang on. We weren't even playing anything heavy, just middle of the road dad rock and some 80s pop. The 'MC' came up to us half way through the first set and asked if we could play stuff people knew. Seriously, actually used those words. Then gave us some advice about how the lights works - perhaps we could consider some slow changes between colour washes instead of flashing to the music. We ended up playing an unrehearsed interminable rock and roll medley then left after more advice received about song choices.

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Not pun thyme again, surely?

This chap on eBay will make any pickguard you want. Send him off the original so he can use it as a template then within a week he'll return it with whatever you want. Not expensive, either. https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/earlpilanz

Apply a blow torch to the heads of the screws until they glow red hot. Then, once extinguished, simply locate the screws in the molten, charred mess. Or, maybe less drastic, touch the tip of a hot soldering iron carefully onto the screw to make the metal expand. Possibly. Never tried it, don't know if it would expand enough.