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Saw Cheap Trick in the tiny Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambride years ago - Dave Edmunds came on as a guest player. Blood brilliant.

Ask the bass player - he will usually be the one who makes it clear!

Embarrassed by the sheer number of those that have passed through my hands and how few I still have. Nice project!

One word: Thomastik.

Did a charity do last night and one of the volunteer players was an old mate from the sixties. He is seventy five this year (older than me!) but is still tearing it up on tenor as he proved last night. He also teaches part time in a shcool up in darkest Lincolnshire and has cut down for 2018 from 3 days a week to one. But he said he was already getting bored sitting at home and planning on upping that next term. YAY! for him. We did the Peter Gunn Theme and Yakkety Sax last night as his 2 feature numbers and he really hasnt lost a thing.

Ha Ha! The Working Stiff's happy ending to a gig: We. Got. Paid. But isnt it scary that even on MYE there is that spectre hanging over all of us that, for some reason, the pearls we have ben casting all night might not result in The Readies at the end of the evening. Maybe I should start a thread if there hasn't already been one.

Two names: Robert Randolph and the Family Band Buddy Emmonds. Will change your mind about pedal steel guitarists. Especially if you get Emmonds doing cowboy jazz. I would like to say I jammed with him but a friend(who introduced me to Buddy) and I basically sat in a room with him, holding our instruments with our jaws dropped. Stunning.

So true, Andy. I kissed a LOT of vintage frogs before I found my reissue.

I bought a AVRI 62 Precision a year or so back. Compared to my original one the neck was not quite as wide and shallow but still a surprisingly close copy. Plays and sounds just like the old one did back in 1964 when I sold it. (Idiot!!) One big benefit with the reissues is that this time around I got a case with it! The original was sold to me in its original cardboard box! One further thought: The japanese reissue 62 I bought first and dumped very quickly was not even close. The American one is.

Its Nile. No, really. P.S. I liked Trombone Shorty on the other side but most of the rest of it was pretty naff. I nodded off during the tap-dancing Ed Sheeran set... And even with a soundbar etc., the iffy audio on Nile Rogers and the absence of Bernard kinda took the shine off it for me.

T`es bete, ou quoi? Mind you I do like their carpets..... I didnt leave the house at all last night but the night before I had an interesting one. Radio personality Nick Barraclough is an old mate from way back & should have been playing a smallish pub in Cambridge with his band The Pillars of Creation. Mindful of his recent escapades with throat cancer, when he got a cough/cold/man flu I got volunteered to cover for him. It was interesting mostly because two of the band had never ever played any of my stuff and I had never played any of theirs. Scary sort of public rehearsal, but we all had fun until a rather over-lubricated lady in the audience fell over backwards into my mic stand. Fortunately no teeth were hurt in the playing of that particular song.

Funny really - they are BOTH really good bass players!

Sad when you think back to what JF did in his heyday... Hope I know when to hang it up when the time comes.

Coincidence - I jut got given an old Zenta SG-shaped bass! Has a broken nut but still playable. About a 31 inch scale, bolt on neck 2 pickups. needs a little fettling but I have played and heard worse.

Florida round to the east Texas panhandle. It winds up being a sort of porridge of old soul and R n B mixed up with some Tex-Mex, New Orleans jazz and a slight influence from country music. Hence I don't usually get a bunch of people who show up knowing what to expect. I suppose I should pot some stuff on here or at least links.

(grin) I was always a bit suspicious of him right from that first appearance on Jools. All seemed a bit like he was imitating old blues players he may have seen years ago and (as is usually the way) not quite getting it right. A$$hole, but at least he has actually produced fairly decent music with his own abilities, unlike folks like Milli Vanilli....

Its a contract nbetween a willing seller and a willing buyer so not they dont have to honour the price. Before incompetent staff and crap computers got involved I think there was a sort of unwritten rule in retail that people would honour erroneous prices but that was also in the days of keystone pricing, 2.5 time markup over cost! There is a lot less fat to play with these days.

I almost hesitate to post this. Yet another gig in a tiny pub for very little money but another great audience and the band were on fire. I think peopla are beginning to realise I am telling the truth when I say over the PA that we are doing songs the rest of the guys have never played and often never heard before. This is more fun than ayone has a right to have. Next one should be interesting - 2 acoustic guitars and double bass, no drummer on thursday the 28th! And I am still bloody amazed that I actually have an audience for gulf shore music after all the years of never being able to get an audience for it! I will shut up and stop gushing now, sorry.

Just saw something online that referred to this film and said Phil Chen was featured. Biggest Jamerson freak on the planet and a great player upright and electric. I may have to actually pay to watch this!

Funny - I am MD`ing a charity gig in Cambridge on 6th January (Roger "Syd" Barrett`s birthday) to help fund a garden in Syd`s name at the local hospital. Nobody under 60 performing and precious few under 70! Best part is Decca Recording Artist Dean Parker, complete with throat and prostate cancer survivor badges, will be singing and playing his late fifties Stratocaster! What a guy.

Glad I bought my USA G&L when I did!

Euro vs pound has dropped from a typical mid-1.40 euro to 1 gbp down as low as 1.08 at one time. And that is the interbank rate, not what businesses and credit/debit card companies charge.

Russian Dragon.....

Looks very like the old TLA fatman!

I was born on D-Day 6th June 1944. First paid gig 1954 Last paid gig in so far is a festival in July of 2018 but I am hoping to book more. 3 left between now and New Years, starting Saturday.