Twigman

I fly often with my bass. We often use easyJet in Europe. We have all our gear flightcased and stick it in the hold. Flying back from Pisa to Gatwick last week, at check in in Pisa we were charged an EXTRA €42 per cased instrument despite having a 185kg allowance already pre-booked and paid for! The woman on the check in counter stated it was due to the fact we were carrying musical instruments and they were classed as 'special items'. We've been flying all over Europe for years with easyJet and have never come across this before. On every previous flight the instruments have just been booked in as any other luggage albeit we have to take them to the oversize conveyor but have NEVER been surcharged. Has anyone else experienced this? We suspect we were being ripped off - or is this a new easyJet policy? We've written to easyjet for an explanation (and refund?) but have yet to hear back.

congrats

Fender CE300 T bucket bass can't go wrong with one of them

ha - WGT v WGW - just one typo different........just been looking at Haus Leipzig....it looks like a proper venue. and the steampunk chicks at WGT might actually go to the shows!

June 10th http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/ro/go4it.php?id=115&loc=en If you go this year please do say hello

I remain to be convinced about the greatness of any festival as a performer. IME with only a brief line check and no proper sound check, the on stage sound always makes life difficult...generally due to the set having to be shorter than usual it all seems like a lot of effort for not a lot of return...at the level we're at we find that the financials often don't make it worthwhile. We played SXSW in 2016 and got paid nothing - a long way to go for a 45 minute set....it would have been an expensive gig if we hadn't been able to tag a couple of weeks touring US on the back of it. Played a few indoor 'festivals' over the years - they just seem like an excuse for the promoter to pay less than at a usual gig. We're playing WGT this year only because we're intrigued by the clientele and the pics of exotic steampunk chicks we've seen online. Oh we might be playing some strange outdoor festival in the mountains of Hungary in August....but the promoter seems to have gone a little quiet on that one.

On Saturday, playing a dairy farm in the middle of the plains of Emilia Romagna in northern Italy, during the soundcheck we lost all power...we went outside to see bits of tree flying around - we'd been hit by a tornado!!

Could be a quote from our tech rider for glasto........not been booked yet...LOL The only festival we're playing this year is Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig - civilised by comparison

Let's see your collection. One of mine was missing for this shot as is receiving a pickup transplant.... L-R 2017 EBMM Sterling 4HH Status Jazz Necked Warmoth Dinky-P Warmoth Jazz necked lined fretless PJ 1983 Squier JV Precision 2016 Fender T-Bucket CE300 acoustic bass 2015 Epiphone Sheraton2 guitar 2016 Fender T-Bucket CE300 acoustic guitar

close the curtains?

Amy Winehouse if only because the firm I was working for were due to supply video on her tour and that job went tits up

So three years on from buying it and having toured USA and flown backwards and forwards to mainland europe a dozen or so times with it I can recommend whole heartedly the SKB iSeries cases - the 5014-44 for my precisions : https://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=&id=647&o=&offset=&c=84&s=75 I now have a 5014-OP open cavity too https://www.skbcases.com/music/products/proddetail.php?f=&id=655&o=&offset=&c=84&s=75 In my opinion there is nothing better that you could put your bass in for flying. And it's got wheels so you can drag it around without putting your back out. Just be prepared, particularly in USA, to be stopped by customs - they're convinced it's a firearm.

Our next three: Traffic, Rome, Italy May10 Associazone Cultrale Caseificio La Rosa, Poviglio, Italy May11 Wave Gotik Treffen festival, Leipzig, Germany June 10

I just, by coincidence, posted on the EBMM forums asking about just such a thing! http://forums.ernieball.com/ernie-ball-music-man-basses/68923-roasted-neck-finish.html

It's OK I re-uploaded it - still curious what happened to it, mind.

What happened to my Twigman avater? It's been replaced with a T in a blue circle.

7 or 8 for us in 45min Our sets generally 1 3/4 - 2 hrs 16-20 songs

At my last couple of gigs I kept the set list folded in my back pocket (totally forgot about it) and just read somebody else's during the set. I can normally see both the singer's and the keyboard player's.

I have not bought a single bass related item this year! That is a first in a very long time. My EBMM Sterling 4HH (2017 purchase) seems to have cured my GAS

All I want for christmas is the cancellation of brexit

All i want for christmas is the cancellation of brexit. That would be the best christmas present.

I learned last night that we will be playing in Lille and Paris but not until next October!

For Amsterdam I've booked a 9seater (luxury) splitter from vansforbands.co.uk Not much dearer than the cowboys above Hope to have a much better experience.

Sorry Our promoters seem to have done that already.... and I just got a shock looking at our website....it says we're playing Wave-Gothik-Treffen in Leipzig on June 10....errrr nobody told me about that!!

We have a shop which sells vinyl and CDs but you know I wasn't sure if I could promote that via this site - the rules about commerciality etc You can access the shop via our website sadloversandgiants.co.uk We are in talks with a French promoter but suspect we'll only play Paris - brexit permitting - sometime next year. We all have busy lives (Tony especially so) and getting together to gig is difficult - currently: melkweg, Amsterdam 15thDec / A2Club Athens 1st&2nd march / O2 Islington 16th March / Traffic rome 5th april (brexit permitting) and Parma 6th April (brexit permitting) are all the shows booked - we're talking to Spain, France and Germany and USA (again:)) too....