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I hoped some people would like it. But, never mind the sound, I really liked the look of them together.

Just got given it by son, very good.

Yes, I like them a lot.

Yes, kind of cowpoke without the scratchplate.

http://youtu.be/TAIwGw1paIc

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1418943191' post='2635182'] I don't know either, but more importantly I don't care. [/quote] ... and nor should you.

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway > the MKT > the KT > the Katy

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1418877746' post='2634352'] I know a 19 year old guitarist singer like that. Heard him nail [i]She Caught The Katie and Left Me a Mule To Ride[/i]. However he has no idea who Taj Mahal is or what he's singing about. So for me, not impressed. But that's just me. Blue [/quote] Why on earth would you expect a 19 year old to know what 'the Katy' was, or who Henry Saint Clair Fredericks is, and why he uses the stage name Taj Mahal, strangely after a building in Agra in India? I bet most people who ever heard that song have no idea what the Katy was. There are people on this website who don't know. Surely you'd be better educating the boy rather than being not impressed.

I'm 62 ... but some of you are sounding a little like my parents' generation did when they were talking about young people in 1962.

It's an active Fender Prodigy Precision Bass, 1991. The listing seems to be mixed up with a Stratocaster listing. There were also Prodigy Stratocasters.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1418852577' post='2634172'] All the gig booking is done by Mr Venom so I don't know the exact details, only that we don't play gigs where we are expected to sell tickets in order to play. IIRC this gig has been organised by Bad To The Bone And The Faming Pumas who are fans of the band and we are "special guests". [/quote] Checked with son and he says they have never been required to sell tickets. He's back in Brighton but he's told his Liverpool mates to pop down the Zanzibar tomorrow night - I don't know if they will. Have a good one.

I can't speak for BRX but my son's band have played the Zanzibar more than once and had no requirement to sell any tickets. They are Liverpool based though - music students at the university.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1418845208' post='2634064'] [i]Schrodinger's Cat[/i] is a good name for a band. I bet it's been done already. Edit: Yep, at least two bands with that name. Bullplop! [/quote] [i]Schrodinger's Hat[/i] would be better. Or even [i]Schrodinger's Hatstand[/i].

Wow, how did it stay in that condition?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1418770385' post='2633293'] Able to play 'Rhythm Stick' without farting or sweating. [/quote] That's Norman Watt-Roy excluded then.

What is this imaginary but certain standard?

A musician who makes all their money from composition and none from playing fails the most obvious test for 'pro player' but, it seems to me, easily passes a test for 'pro musician'. The so-called 'pro player' also passes the 'pro musician' test but may fail the 'pro composer' test. So, being a 'professional musician' is not restricted to 'players', nor restricted to 'composers' Or is the OP only asking about 'pro players'? The thread is entitled simply BTW .. What is a Pro..??

Higher action is normal on an acoustic. Makes it ring out more because the strings have space to vibrate.

So that's when people say to themselves: 'Ah proper musicians with music stands, I think I'll stay.'

Does the piano player need two pianos?

I don't really get this 'it doesn't resonate because I am too old'. The earliest hiphop dates from the 1970s and even before that you could find similar elements in, for example, Caribbean toasting and in talking blues - so it seems to me more a case of what you were listening to than whether you are the right age. I am 62 but I was 27 when 'Rapper's Delight' was released.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1418586601' post='2631495'] Or the car park maybe ? [/quote] ... or at home.

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1418587734' post='2631508'] The question is; why don't they come with flats on? [/quote] They did until the late 1970s.