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[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1490744216' post='3267676'] Yes, the album certainly hasn't aged well... he said being charitable... in the extreme... it hadn't aged well by about 1989! [/quote] It had aged badly by the time I got it home from the shop.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1490800822' post='3268167'] My favourite is the Cielo De Terra book. I can only play one track all of the way through (Enigma of Desire) but the bits I can execute are getting longer and smoother. I guess it is about realising that you don't have to be able to do the whole thing for it to be a valuable learning experience. I also have some of my own transcriptions of his stuff that I revisit occasionally. [/quote] Have you got the Al Dimeola guide to chords, scales & arpeggios book?

I don't think the description "Turd on a stick" has every been more appropriate.

[quote name='jacko' timestamp='1490795993' post='3268099'] Would that have been around 1996? I saw him at a clinic at the Bass Centre in Birmingham around then and came away a bit disappointed. He spent most of the time playing with loops and noodling - nothing like his Living Colour playing (which was why I went). [/quote] Probably earlier than that, around 1990-91.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1490789982' post='3267978'] I already have several [/quote] Hope you've had better luck with them than I have.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1490733610' post='3267570'] Custom Legend. It's chuffing lush.... [/quote] Very nice indeed. Would you like to borrow my Al Dimeola guitar tuition book?

Always preferred Muzz Skillings, lost interest in Living Colour after he left. I only really liked the first two albums anyway. I had an "interesting" encounter with Doug at a clinic he was doing many years ago which left me in no doubt that the guy was a total dick.

Never had a tutor, nobody did when I started playing in the late 70s unless you were learning classical guitar, violin or piano. I wouldn't have been able to afford lessons even if the option had been available to me. I did what everybody else I knew did, learnt by playing along to records. It hasn't stopped me doing anything I've wanted to do musically & I don't feel I've missed out by not having lessons. (Didn't vote in the poll as there isn't an option that fits how I feel about it. A "No, but I can see why it would be useful for other people" type option would have been good).

I've used & can recommend nickel roundwounds by LaBella, GHS & Newtone over the years.

Custom Balladeer?

Very nice, that sycamore top is lovely.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1490728296' post='3267488'] Nice vid. Going off (my own) topic, I remember being very excited about GTR having enjoyed both the Steve's stuff up 'til then. Looking back though it was a bit of a disaster - MOR American tinged rock - eugh. And the singer had a mullet. [/quote] I was a big fan of both Steve Hackett & Steve Howe & like you thought a band with both of them in would be great. How very wrong I was. Absolutely bloody awful.

Might be worth you reading this thread on the Eden forum: http://www.edenampsforum.com/index.php?topic=20804.0

Do you use the enhance control set high on the amp? Apparently that can cause Eden amps to clip at relatively low volume levels because of the low frequency boost.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1490718833' post='3267366'] Fixed for you...I know that you probably wrote this quickly and didn't check - I do it all the time. Guitarists = 10 a penny, a good drummer = priceless. [/quote] No, absolutely not.

He was in The Original Mirrors with Ian Broudie in the late 70s too.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1490711272' post='3267280'] It sure is! And what a wonderful noise it is, too :-) [/quote] Yeah, it's superb. Must be fun for you playing all those great bass parts on those wonderful old songs.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1490709618' post='3267253'] ...one of the bands I'm in recreates an album with a very distinctive fretless P tone. So while we're doing that, I'll keep it. [/quote] Would that be the fretless P tone of Rod Clements by any chance?

I've got a couple of spares - if you want them PM me your address & I'll stick them in the post for you.

[quote name='ba55i5t' timestamp='1490702457' post='3267157'] I played fretless back in high school for the jazz band. Took it to a classic rock gig and got chastised for "bad intonation", even though it was a lined fretless. [/quote] Lines on a fretless won't necessarily stop you having bad intonation.

A Precision should be fine. Maybe use roundwounds instead of flats (if you don't already).

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1490657444' post='3266874'] Saw him live with both Toyah (Changeling tour - a very young Simon Phillips on drums too!) [/quote] That was a great band she had on that tour. They were superb when I saw them in Bristol.

Great player, loved his playing with Toyah in the 80s.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1490634232' post='3266659'] At least in my neck of the woods an indie band would be attractive to those who don't really care for gigging. Blue [/quote] That really doesn't make any sense - no band of any genre is going to be attractive to those who don't really care for gigging, is it?

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1490621468' post='3266505'] I'd probably rather see Earth Wind and Fire or Miles these days.. [/quote] I wouldn't want to see Miles these days, he must look f***ing horrifying by now. [quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1490621468' post='3266505'] You could argue that Indie bands [i]are[/i] engaging with their audience by providing the aloof, too-cool-for-school performance the punters are after. [/quote] No argument about it, the fact that they have an audience means that they are engaging with them.