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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1484592721' post='3216636'] ^^^ Viennese Waltz, now that's what you call a real 'One'. [/quote] Total sledgehammer..... same for mazurka and polka! (Yes, I have had a somewhat varied musical career, Cynthia.)

Are you anywhere near Cambridgeshire? I rcycle old laptops & give the resultant good ones to local charitable things like mencap and the RNIB, both of whom have free software to give to people but generally no computers. Doesnt really matter if the computers are old so long as I can get a few working ones out of the donated ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davis Blimey! Didnt know she had died... and in 2004. Not long after that gig. How sad.

Butlitz..... Played several of their camps and indeed quite a few that became Warner leisure Hotels after the fact. sh*te. Funniest one was playing a HUGE holiday camp ballroom place in Bournemouth - the event was billed as The World Line Dancing Championships. How we laughed! Headline act was one Skeeter Davis. Her and us were the only two acts all weekend smart enough to ask if we could hook a feed to the (huge) house PA system. Everyone else including some with about 2kwatts sounded like a cockroach fart....

Depends if you are trying for thud or ding. Or (gulp) the Dub wall of whoomf! (C)1973

(grin) Same school different classroom! Played E-bass with a sitar player and a tabla player and one of those wardrobe door accordion thingies in the UK and then had the cheek to get up and jam with some guys from the Balkans on another occasion when I was living in France. What fun! Bit challenging though.

Just sayin', but most of what I hate about Bebop and post bebop-era jazz is that the solos ALWAYS start on the "and" of one, not the one. Most unfunky bunch a mofos evah! P.S. No obviously defined ONE in that delightful rendition of the Jacksons tune???? Really???? Listen to some Argentine tango music.

Agadont!

A Well-Known Superstar Guitarist Mate of mine was always moaning about how he could no longer just get out and play a pub with mates any more.... Havent seen him in at least five years but I suspect he is still of the same mind. No pressure gigs ARE more fun.

FWIW I had m 1962 sunburst/rosewood board P bass refinished white to match Rick Will's telecaster and Bubs White's Strat in 1963. Today I have white strat white tee and sunburst 62 reissue Precision, Go figure. Maybe get one of those guitar fablon stickons that Quo came up with? D

In my current band every single one of us has a PA. All of them perfectly capable of doing the job. From choice we are currently using the powered mixer and speakers owned by the guitar player but the lights ARE owned collectively by the band. And before you ask if anyone leaves they walk away from their "share" of the lights. It works for us.

Just Wiki'd the story. Truly sad.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1483794043' post='3210150'] Must be a tablet stand then.... [/quote] My classic Cash story - 1980`s in Hendersonville, Tn.. saw him on The Letterman Show with Waylon on Saturday night, both saying how they had been "clean and sober" for over year. Sunday afternoon they both came in the jewellery store where I was working. The boss having been Cash`s next door neighbour for years & he & his wife used to baby sit the kids. Cash was carrying a large clear plastic sack full of assorted pills, from which he and Waylon helped themselves the whole time they were in the store! Er - clean and sober my ass? Who needs a rock and roll lifestyle when you can have a C&W one?!

My first bass was a used 1962 Precision, bought in 1963. Played with a pick & with the foam mute under the rear ashtray still in place. Tape wound strings. GREAT recorded sound when played wityh a pick. Played with a pick for decades until I finally gave way to peer pressure from the younger set who at the time regarded us old fogeys who played with picks as "not cool". And now I have come full circle - back to playing more and more with a pick. Jusrt recorded a couple of bass parts for a friend using a US 62 reissue with half rounds and a pick! So much thud!

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1389991950' post='2340434'] I always wanted to try his Peavey Palladium. Apparently it was a great bass and a steal at circa £300 at the time? Anyone got one? P.S. The Cort looks ridiculous... [/quote] Yep - I made the mistake of NOT buying a Palaedium when I could have gotten the "artist deal" price in Nashville when they lunched. A great alternative to a Precision at the time and seriously cheap. Only Peavey bass I ever played and actually liked.

If you had consumed the sheer number and variety of "pain killers" that he - and Waylon - got through in a day, you would need a music stand just to support the notes reminding you who you were and where you were and why.. Sex and drugs and country had sex and drugs and rock and roll beat by a mile.

like Flea's answer: "I used to be the big bad bassopotamus"

Still plenty of paying gigs out there for us old phartes. I am in my seventies & still working regularly, although I "retired" from full time pro stuff in 2006.. I've been in a long-term band for 6 or 7 years and counting and get a bunch of dep work and "guest appearances" (grin) An awful lot of it seems to depend on how old you are in your head and if you shuffle around like a coffin dodger or not. Helps that I sing and can also do guitar. Thankfully I can still fake it with the best of 'em...

Flying Vee migration one is funnier still though.... Well spotted!

Radio is the biggest culprit when it comes to restricted repertoire. If all you listen to is radio, Chuck Berry only had 2 hits, Hall and Oates 1. etc etc etc.

I love going to new jam nights and being told "You are pretty good - have you ever thought of doing it for a living?" At 72, I take this as a compliment. Sadly there are an awful lot of bands out there that wont look at you unless you are under thirty.

Sad that he didnt recover any more of his instruments right away though. My 1962 Precision bass went walkies in 1964 and never resurfaced.

FWIW half the local gigs in my area dont show up. Hows it go? You have to be in it to win it?

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1483379198' post='3206701'] The link for that is already in post #1 [/quote] I am an old luddite and seldom actually click links! (grin) Sorry!

And there you have the best answer. Just wish more guitarists and left-hand obsessed keyboard thrashers would do the same. Happy 2017, bassopotami!