Rich

This is my office for ska gigs. For gigs with the other bands, I also take my Line 6 Bass Pod XT Live which connects to/from the rig via a homebrewed cable snake. EDIT: in the background is my spare bass, which has been finished entirely in grey with grey hardware, frets and strings. It's not a shadow. Honest.

I hear ya. My ex-wife got me into Fish-rillion, but I've tried Ho-rillion a number of times, and it just doesn't light that fire for me. It's very good stuff, but ultimately not for me. Clutching At Straws, on the other hand, is a blinder from start to finish and one of my favourite albums ever. Some of Mr. Di ck's solo stuff is very good too.

I once went into Sound Control looking for strings, and left with a Yamaha RBX765A and a Bass Pod Pro. Whoops.

Because it's the equivalent of saying 'ni' to an old woman?

Primus, 'Sailing The Seas Of Cheese'. I bought it to see what all the fuss was about, what with Les being this supposed bass demi-god and all. Listened to it. Hated it, I mean utterly. Disjointed tuneless bilge with horrid nasal 'vocals'. Stuck the CD in a drawer and tried to forget that I'd actually spent money on it. Found it about 18 months later, stuck it on again to see if time had mellowed my opinion... No. It's still caterwauling nonsense and I still hate it utterly. Gave the CD away.

My favourite on-board bass gadget is the Hipshot d-tuner, or extender key or whatever they call it now. Yes, drop tuning isn't a lengthy process, but just flicking a lever is even quicker. I found it ideal for drop tuning in tiny gaps between songs, or even on the fly in the middle of one.

And £89? I think he's missing a decimal point in there.

I'd actually find it quite handy, but at £106 posted I think I'll pass. I don't want it that much.

I'm fairly lost for words really. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F283024783698

I expect he went off on one as usual, without thinking through what he was saying or how it might pss a lot of people off. He has form.

Well let's hope not 😕 Certainly looks like it's got SCAM written all over it.

Looks pukka to me. He's just a bloke who's got this items for sales,email.

Yes, we supported them at the Thekla in Brizzle a couple of months back. They were fantastic. (Playing at the Thekla was a tick off the bucket list too ) EDIT: here's a dreadful pic I took from our privileged AAA position.

Aww c'mon, you can't leave it hanging like this. What happened then? What did the bride tell her and did it involve the word 'off'? We need to know.

Sgt Pepper's Only Dart Board Band have apparently retired. But some of them are reforming as the Unravelling Wilburys.

I reckon our MD could come up with a brilliant horns-heavy arrangement for Dancing Queen. I'd love to do it, it has a fabulous bassline. And talk about a guaranteed floor filler..!

Here's another '59 Jazz...

Judging by the other comments here, that's £54 too much

Punter came up and handed me a slip of paper once, with a request on it. At the end of the song, I announced "We've had a request from one of you lovely people, it's for a song called...", I unfolded the paper and read, "...'youre crap, pack up and fk off'..." Nah, not really. But it's only a matter of time till it does happen.

Disruptor weapons, photon torpedoes, plasma torpedoes, cloaking technology, artificial singularities, holotechnology and telepresence?

The best one I ever had was during a gig with my old jazz-fusion trio at a jazz venue in Bristol. We had just finished a John Scofield tune and were about to launch into another instrumental epic when this I've-had-one-alcopop-too-many student-type came up to me. "Do you do Iron Man by Black Sabbath?" he asked. I looked at him incredulously. "Do we sound like the sort of band that does Iron Man by Black Sabbath?" I replied with a laugh. We launched into the aforementioned instrumental epic, at the end of which there he was again. "Do you know Iron Man by Black Sabbath?" he asked. "No we bloody don't", I replied somewhat testily. I wandered away from him to try to signal that the exchange was definitely ended and we dived into another lengthy widdle. At the end, yup, there he was again. "Why won't you play Iron Man?" he demanded. I gave him my very best Paddington Bear Hard Stare. "Oh come on, you must know it!" he said. "Look pal," I said in a firm this-conversation-is-over tone, "just f*** off eh?". Thankfully, he got the message and f***ed off. I'm pretty sure he was only doing it for a laugh anyway. Perhaps his poncy mates put him up to it. (I wouldn't normally tell a punter to sex-&-travel, but this gimboid was seriously getting on my toot.)

You do realize that you may well have triggered a flood of demand for Klingon flag guitar straps, don't you? With me at the front of the queue

Rrright. So when he says "yorkshire band...", he really means "bloke...".