AndyTravis

No sign of current band going wrong. unnervingly agreeable

So many…so so many.

Oooft. Following with interest 😯

The bass in action a few weeks ago

Have just seen its brother…

@Chris2112 I think Mark has since shoved the sims in his Ibanez too 😳😆

New T-Shirt design @ped?

It’ll either be UNBELIEVABLY GOOD or pure poop. it will not sit in the middle…

Dayglo nipple clamps?

That’s the one…MAGIC

I’m there doing the Debbie McGee to Walshy’s Paul Daniels. Driving down on the friday. Staying 2 nights

Enfield (Sims) have ceased building basses…also stopped refinishing works. They just do pickups and LED installation now.

https://on.soundcloud.com/Woyo7ACf5Yub1FKr6 meh, holding… november rain pt3, will see if I’ve got time to do something better. it was the idea of an 80’s soundtrack. tried a bit of Pino magic here and there, but the kids are in the house bored and noisy…so I think I can do better.

So it is…del…😏

@WalMan what stand are you using for the acoustic? I was debating having my ABG on one for the 2 songs I’ll use it for.

Righto…

I’m working on band stuff at the moment, really want to get something in for this… is it not del preston then? if it’s withnail and I I have no reference as I only watched it once - well, it was on when I was absolutely off my knackers about 20 years ago.

Every time the queen came to Cheshire, he would tell her who’s hand she was shaking etc… Honestly though, he made a huge impression on my life - I joined his company as a 19 year old boy and left him as a 30 year old married father of two with a mortgage and a wealth of knowledge and experience. i owe him a beer. Or a Sherry or something.

@jimmyb625 I recall towards the end, the Manchester shop cost £1200 or so a day to run, it was a very, very expensive building to be in… I did 11 years there. We were never “cool” like PMT were perceived to be, or Johnny Roadhouse…it was a weird company. I never fully understood much of the decision making process - I never felt any iteration of the senior management had a full grasp on what to do next. Some of us had a clue - I ran the social media for a bit, at the birth of facebook/twitter/instagram as a sales platform…they took it off me and killed it in months… Such is life. Met loads of good folk who I still speak to… The old Manchester team met at the shop last year when it reopened as a bijou pizza restaurant 😆

David was a lovely man, he’d ran the company successfully since the mid 70’s, he took more of a back seat as he was married to the queens cousin/niece (someone royal) and took a role as some sort of consort to the royal family. Yes…it was a bizarre thing. He originally ran it as an organ/piano business…and as time progressed, guitars/drums/hi tech stuff. They took on a guy who had no clue about music at all - and it started failing. The online business should’ve been grown rather than trying to beat it with more shops. Your online game has to be strong these days, they fumbled that in the mid 00’s and it went belly up from there on in. I will always stand by David though - an imposing, old school guy - if he liked you, you were golden. My bosses in 2014 couldn’t be bothered passing a reference on. I messaged him to ask him to prod them into sending it and within an hour, a glowing reference full of detail from him. He messaged soon after that saying “best wishes, thanks for everything you’ve done for my company - sorry for the short reference, I’m on holiday at the moment, if they need anything else - have them call me next week”. I later heard how he was very upset when selling 40 years worth of hard work. He was in his 70’s then…