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Kent Armstrong Hot Vintage. Does it for me!

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1352451863' post='1863130'] Bob, you forgot the 2 U.S. Masters EP42 that you sold me! I got a lined fretless neck for the Lacewood one, which is my main gigging bass.The blue one now has the Pao Ferro/birdseye off the lacewood one. [/quote] Your'e absolutely right! I will add them to the list now. How are you Jules? Cheers, Bob

Here we go. Pedulla Rapture (x2) Pedulla Thunderbolt (x2) Pedulla Buzz (x2) Another Pedulla, I cant remember what its called. PRS Bass (x3) Yamaha 2024x (x2) Nordy VJ Dingwall Super J Dingwall AB I Dingwall ABZ Sei Flamboyant headless Sei Flamboyant 5 string Sei Original Alembic Excel Alembic Elan (x2) Modulus Flea (x2) Modulus Quantum Modulus Quantum fretless Modulus VJ Lightwave Sabre (x2) Overwater (various, about 5) Hofner Club Bass Beatle Bass copy Matt Pulcinella (x2) Carruthers Bass Kydd Carry-On Signature Jazz (x2) Warwicks (various, about 10) Lakland Joe Osborne Marmite (wish I'd never sold this) Lakland Jerry Scheff Lakland Hollowbody Lakland 5 string something or other Lakland Bob Glaub Lakland Duck Dunn Lakland Darryl Jones Jazz (x2) Pat Wilkins Jazz Fender Precisions (USA, 60th Anniversary, Roger Waters etc. About 6) Fender Jazzes (all sorts, about 10) Maruszczyk Ellwood US Masters EP42 (x2) (very underrated basses.. Deserve consideration) US Masters single (Sadowski) pick up MTD Grendel MTD Growler (x2) Manson Custom (x2) ACG (6 at last count) Westone Thunder 1-A Kala U Bass Kala Sub U Bass Wal MK 2 Status S2 (x2). Status Energy Status Groove Peavey something or other Warwick Infinity Stingray (x3) Bongo Roscoe (x3) Mayones BE4 Skjold (x2) Various hand built American basses from small companies Birdsong Cortobass Spector (x3) Gretsch Thundersomethingorother (awful bass, but the best looking I ever had) Gretsch Broadkaster (x2) Gretsch Electromatic cheapy short scale (great bass!) Shuker (x5) Goodfellow Nightingale (?) KSD jazz Zon Sonus (x4) TBC (x3, 2 of which were firewood projects) Rickenbacker Fake Rickenbacker (better than the real thing) Fender Aerodyne (x2. Great basses) Gibson Money (x2) Gibson EB 3 Guild 301F Yamaha BEX Semi hollow G&L SB1 G&L 2000 And loads of others I cant remember at this moment in time. Not got many left, but I'll never sell my gigging Pedulla Thunderbolt and Yamaha 2024x.

Kent Armstrong Hot Vintage? Sounds brilliant in my P.

I've had one for a while now, and its really good fun! Had to replace the strings quickly to the alternative make Mark sells (forget the name, sorry), and this made a huge difference. They dont go out of tune as much (they still do though to a certain extent) and sound better. The build quality isnt the best, although perfectly ok for the price, but the sound is ubelievable! I think they look cool, but friends assume its a toy, which only helps the illusion when they hear what it can do.....................

Weddings are very disciplined affairs, where you generally have to get set up early and leave, so there are two journeys to and from the venue, you have to dress well and put on a very professional, well rehearsed show, probably play stuff you dont really like/want to, but is the stuff the guests respond to and enjoy, and you have to stay sober and play to strict time parameters. Nothing like a pub gig, so the pay has to reflect that. How can your guy be taking wedding bookings for the same charge that a local dj would make to set up his cd player and ancient Peavey rig for a few hours of almost doing nothing and mubling into a £10mike? I think a serious band meeting is called for Stu. FWIW, we charge £1250 for weddings, plus travel costs and hotels if we have to stay away for the night, and £850 for parties. I would guess from speaking to local wedding bands that £1250 is possibly even below average?

Last night was a wedding party with 225 guests, in a large ballroom at a local hotel. Great stage, reasonable acoustics, got set up early morning so we were nice and relaxed for the 8.45 start. Our last few wedding gigs have all been brilliant, so the signs were that this one should be no different. Wrong! For the whole of the first set (1 hour 10 mins), the dance floor was full of screaming 5 year olds, without a grown up or a parent in sight. Our guitarist nearly walked off the stage at one point, and wanted to make an announcement along the lines of "wont you please control your damn screaming kids or we are off", but just about stopped himself. It can only get better in the second set we thought, once the falling down water had a chance to work. Wrong again!! Not a single person got up to dance until about the 30th song we played (Jailhouse Rock), and they didnt last long. By the end, we were just going through the motions, so for a bit of fun, just to try one last desperate thing to liven the place up, our singer suddenly started doing "Just wanna dance the night away" by the Mavericks, which we havent played or rehearsed for at least 5 years, and blow me, 20 people got up to dance! To continue the theme, he carried on with stuff from our back catalogue, some of which we hadnt done for 10 years (Shangalang, Hi Ho Silver Lining, Lady in Red, etc.,), all of which we just about muddled through, and the floor was packed at the end. Surreal!! Got an email sent to all band members this morning from a member of the bride's family apologising for the poor night, although she said that everyone there had enjoyed sitting listening to the music very much. Many more nights like this and I think some of us would pack in the wedding thing............

Just sold one of my ACGs to Pete, and what a super guy to deal with. Immediate payment, very friendly and a total pleasure from beginning to end. Hope you enjoy Roerta/Bob or whatever you end up calling him/her!!! Cheers, Bob (dont ask....)

Hard to tell really, as its in my conservatory wired to a TC 112 cab, but it does seem loud, and certainly more powerful than the GK MB200 it replaced.

Got one delivered a couple of days ago to use at home, and it certainly sounds very nice. Makes a few odd noises at start up that I will have to keep an eye on, has a couple of cheap wobbly switches on the front and although the shop insisted it was brand new and taken straight from their warehouse, its certainly been used at some time and had the power cable missing from the box. The shop said this happens some times with TC equipment........

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1349337143' post='1824766'] They're reusable, just give 'em a wee rinse/wipe and they usually come in a wee pouch. [/quote] I tend to find that rinsing them in water works better than urine. Might just be me, but I have always thought that having your ears smell of wee was a bit uncool? Mind you, if you rinse them in water and then put them in a pouch full of urine that would defeat the object......................