Twigman

We've got a gig this weekend in Brussels. We're a 5piece and we have a merch stall. So at the beginning of October I book a 6 seater LWB crew cab van for 8/11-12/11. The hire company confirm the booking and take my moolah on 2nd October. Yesterday afternoon I get a phone call from the hire company telling me that they don't have any 6 seater crew cabs available, would I have a 5 seater SWB instead? WTAF? - they've had 5 weeks to tell me this - why wait until now? No - i wouldn't like a 5 seater SWB instead - I ordered a 6 seater LWB crew van for a reason - if I'd wanted a 5 seater SWB that's what i would have ordered! I tried to source a 6seater LWB from another source but it being so close to the booking I found nothing available. After much heated telephone action and some emails with their customer service I ended up accepting the 5 seater (I have no clue if all our kit+merch will fit in it) and putting one of our party on the Eurostar (at an additional cost of £308).....the hire company are 'considering' my claim for the cost of the Eurostar ticket. I won't be using that bunch of clowns again. I have another requirement for a 6 seater LWB crew cab or 6 seater splitter van for a gig in Amsterdam in December. Can anyone recommend a firm that won't let me down like this bunch of crooks. Thanks

Somewhere to comfortably anchor one's right thumb. Having played Precisions for years I'd got used to the blocky thumb rest of the pickup cover....when I got my EBMM USA Sterling I found the sloping profile of the pickup cover wasn't as useful as an anchor point...I've got used to it now though.

We're driving to that one - 6 seat crew cab transit so we can take our own backline and kit etc for a change

At 53 I'm not quite the youngest in the band but band life is good. We've just released a new single We've got a new album coming out at the end of the month. We're playing the Lexington on halloween Magasin4 in Brussels on Nov10 Melkweg in Amsterdam on Dec15 AN Club Athens March 2 O2 Islington Academy on March 16 50s band life is good

I tire of Americans thinking they can spell

The Squier JV-P fiesta red - pic requested

I own 6:- EBMM USA Sterling4 HH black with green pearl plate Squier JV-P fiesta red Warmoth P with J neck and East pre Yellow Warmoth PJ fretlessJneck -Green Warmoth dinkyP - black with Status J neck Fender 300CE acoustic I have no interest in getting any more I have no desire to sell any

We're in our 50s and managed a 9 date tour of the west coast of USA albeit in our own hotel rooms

what's the point of having kit that you won't use?

Am I bothered if I ding my relic’d bass? It's not 'relic'd' it's just dinged. HTH

In my band everyone understands the words Quiet, Slow, Space, Atmosphere and Tension - all words that seem to draw blank expressions on many.....

I can play quietly and often do so....... I suspect it IS you

If they were covering Eagles songs and the like then it was them

It was

Sounds fun

My mate had a band which has now disbanded I think which had a great name for a bunch of codgers getting together to play: 'Old Country Union' That name always tickled me.

Plectrum generally gives sharper attack. There are some songs in my set that I recorded with a plectrum but, since suffering a neck injury that has caused a permanent numbness in my right hand and arm I find I no longer have the grip strength to hold a plectrum. Many of the ding-diggadigga-ding rhythms that lend themselves so well to pick playing can be tricky to play with fingers, not so much for the speed (although once you get to 140ish bpm ding-diggadigga-ding gets tricky) but the attack. Getting such a short sharp attack with fingers is nigh on impossible.

Either you've got a time machine or you're posting from a different dimension or I've been in a coma for the last 2 years. Which is it?

CDs last - they're plastic aren't they? thousands of years to degrade isn't it? All my 80s CDs still play fine.

You limit yourself to major record labels? Hpw sad

That very much depends on the music you're buying. Not all CDs are licensed to Rip through Amazon

Get the funk out of here

robin

Could one tune a cello in 4ths ? say C F Bb Eb or D G C F ?

My current tuner isn't a Boss