RhysP

Not a big fan of Strats (the volume control is in the wrong place for me, I keep knocking them) but both Strats & Teles have to have maple boards for me. Rosewood just looks wrong on Fenders to me. Nice looking guitar, lovely bit of birdseye on the neck.

I can't drive & I've been been in a few gigging bands over the years with no problems. Well, there were shitloads of problems but transport wasn't one of them...

In my experience the MIJ & CIJ Fenders are by far the most consistent of all Fenders.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1452190201' post='2947481'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/22897-mark-david-phillips/"]http://basschat.co.u...david-phillips/[/url] [/quote] "Mark David Phillips hasn't added any friends yet"

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1488503734' post='3249588'] Interests... microlite design. That's a worry. [/quote]

I had one of their 335 copies & it was a lovely guitar, finish & build quality was easily as good, if not better, than any Gibson I've seen in the last few years. Can't go wrong for the money.

http://www.edgeguitarservices.co.uk

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1489773924' post='3259793'] I saw the Maria Schnieder Orchestra, last year. World leading Jazz Orchestra. £15 a ticket. I wouldn't pay £90 to see ANYONE. [/quote] I'm off to see The Tim Garland Electric Band in Cardiff next week - £12.00 a ticket. Bargain.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1489774340' post='3259798'] I'd pay 90 for Hendrix [/quote] That would be a f***ing stupid thing to do, he's been dead for ages.

Flartchy.

Station to Station to Lodger for me.

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1489647445' post='3258558'] I so agree about Geddy's Wal sound... on the other hand, I agree with the poster who said when they played one themselves it sounded incredible. I think maybe a different producer could have got more balls out of Geddy's Wal.. [/quote] I thought his Wal sounded like sh*te live too. Having said that I've never liked Geddy's jazz bass sound much either.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1489509814' post='3257546'] From Rush.com's "rig rundown" section, 1989: The colour-coding apparently helped him when he was breaking in a new ARP synthesiser and bass pedal arrangement. [/quote]

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1489419818' post='3256752'] For the record, the tone Geddy got from his Wal represents my least favourite chapter of Rush's history.... [/quote] Geddy's Wal tone is one of the worst bass sounds I'ver ever heard. Bloody awful, sounds like rubber bands stretched over a shoe box.

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1489429499' post='3256852'] Teles are more expensive because there's more wood. Manufacturers generally don't slice big chunks of the wood away like on a Strat, all those comfort contours mean less wood. I got wise to all this and ended up with a Richie Kotzen Telecaster with comfort contours and it was an absolute bargain, mainly because it has less wood. It's still a Tele but less wood means cheap, right? Check them out. It's like a loophole in the whole "Teles are dearer than Strats" rule. [/quote] Really? The Richie Kotzen signature model is one of the most expensive non custom shop Telecasters available, about £1,800 last time I looked.

"Pink Moon" - Nick Drake.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1489316971' post='3255925'] The only time I saw Bowie live was at Slane Castle on the Glass Spider tour in 1987. [/quote] I hope he was better than he was in Cardiff on the same tour. One of the worst gigs I've ever been to.

Oh dear.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1489137347' post='3254590'] As someone who plays at acoustic nights and open mics with my "original" songs on a regular basis I can indeed say that house cajon players, bass players etc are incredibly off-putting when they're trying to accompany you on a song they've never heard before. [/quote] This. Nothing more annoying than somebody trying to force bass & drums onto a song that was never intended to have them.

[quote name='Mickeyboro' timestamp='1489010988' post='3253790'] Ed Sheeran is the new Nick Heyward, then! [/quote] Yeah, I can't stand Nick Heyward either.

I definitely find playing guitar & singing easier than playing bass & singing. I've been singing as long as I've been playing. I've done lead & backing vocals while playing bass for a long time. My introduction to singing & playing bass live was a bit of a baptism of fire. My old band had their (and my) first ever gig playing at a festival in West Sussex, playing just before China Crisis who were the headline act. A couple of days before the gig our vocalist/rhythm guitarist quit. We were so angry at him doing this to us that we decided we'd do the gig regardless. I ended up taking over lead vocal duties without a rehearsal &, fuelled by a combination of bloodymindedness & adrenalin, got through the gig without any problems.

I wondered what Uncle Fester was doing now.

What did they finish it with, a muck spreader?