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10 years today. Times flies but memories remain. Still much missed, you big daft softy. 💙
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2022 holiday booked... 10-day rail odyssey across France & Switzerland. Counting the days.
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A moment's lapse of concentration + car-park bollard =
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And so, after 10 years as a covers-only unit, we're reinventing ourselves as an originals band. God help us.
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I play in several bands, from tributes, to covers, to originals. There is always room for both, but perhaps less room for the original stuff, sadly.....
Though in fairness, I've played quite a few venues where they either like, want or tolerate original material - and those venues and crowds ARE out there. Trick is, finding them, together with appealing to the masses who want covers..... and winning them over.
A few covers, to get people singing & humming along, and tapping their feet or dancing, is no bad thing and handy to have in your repertoire.
Perhaps what you're really tired of, is the same covers or the same genres of covers? Seek out interesting / different covers and try a few
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Another gig bites the dust, and this one hurts... the One Love Festival in Kent, in August. Absolutely gutted. I was really looking forward to this one.
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Another lockdown tweak done... added a HF tweeter and crossover to my wee Behringer 60w 1x12 rehearsal combo. Mud, begone!
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Anybody ever had difficulty getting a reply from DR Strings? Sent them three emails so far and not heard a dickybird. Not tremendously impressed.
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Story has a happy ending; I emailed Lord Of The Strings earlier, from whom I bought the strings, and they have just replied to say that they've put a replacement string in the post. A 90 minute turnaround, now that's proper customer service, and the reason why I shall be buying from them again in the future. But I've bought my last set of DRs.
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Cheap'n'cheerful Thunderbird copy project incoming
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The mahogany one that is on ebay?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284296611289?hash=item42316605d9:g:cFkAAOSwts1gqDgO
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Confirmed late-notice support slot at the Thekla on Friday... been there several times but never on the stage
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Continuity announcer on C5 has just described Home Alone as "the greatest Xmas movie ever made". I can't decide if that's complete boIIocks or complete and utter boIIocks.
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DR Black Beauties have arrived and are now on the SkaJazz. OHMYGODTHEYLOOKAMAZING. Pics later. 😎
As an aside... superb service from Lord Of The Strings. I'll definitely be using them again.
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Ever had one of those days when it's only mid-morning, and already you just want to climb into bed, pull the duvet over your head and pretend it never f***ing happened?
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F**k.
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Feeling like a complete idiot for not having made my move earlier. Bang goes my hoped-for NAD.
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First hangover in about 10 years.
Now I know why I hardly drink these days. Please just kill me. -
Fresh set of batteries in the Shuker, because (I can barely believe I'm saying this) I've actually got a full band rehearsal tomorrow
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Furloughed with immediate effect.
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Great gig on Saturday night, only tempered by the fact that by the time I got home my favourite kebab emporium was closed. Gutted, I really fancied one of their large chicken/doner combos. Went to bed with a rumbly tumbly and thoughts of what might have been. Cue the nano-violins.
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Great quote this morning from Mark Hamill:
"That debate was the worst thing I've ever seen, and I was in the Star Wars Holiday Special." -
Here's a tip from your Uncle Rich. When you're beta-testing a design package and you think the auto-save is set, make sure it is. That way, you won't lose the last 5 hours' hard graft when it crashes.
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Hidden gems on BBC Sounds #1: 'J Kingston Platt', a series of monologues by the brilliant Peter Jones. Gently hilarious.
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I paid £20 for mine in 1982...
https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/hofner-artist-185
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I owned a Fender Musicmaster bass years ago and got rid of it after about 3 years, I got it for £75 which admittedly was a bargain but the bass itself was dreadful, it must have weighed about 14ibs, had one of those dreadful two saddle bridges, the cheapest pickguard and the only way i can think of describing the tone is "murky" it had very little high end and strangely not much low end but it seemed to have a lot of the muddier mid frequencies, the tone control did almost nothing. Now on Ebay there are Musicmasters going for nearly 1.5k !!! Insane amount of money when you can get a Mexican Mustang bass which is a much better bass for under £600
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Just think, you could have this lovely P bass neck, yours for only £1297.00 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1972-FENDER-PRECISION-BASS-NECK-made-in-USA/174297048267?_trkparms=aid%3D1110002%26algo%3DSPLICE.SOI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225076%26meid%3D14ffd87c1c824b61b07b1d9df4838bc4%26pid%3D100047%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D174285765143%26itm%3D174297048267%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSellersOtherItemsV2&_trksid=p2047675.c100047.m2108