Rich

[quote name='maxrossell' post='973512' date='Oct 1 2010, 07:40 AM']Whenever any of us get offered a gig we make damn sure the others can do the date before we commit to it. Apart from anything, that's the only logical way to go about it.[/quote] Absolutely +1. It's their huge cock-up, let them chase down a dep for the gig. It'll be their fault alone if they can't do it. Keep your ears open to make sure you don't start getting slagged behind your back for 'commitment issues' or refusing to do a gig.

Hold On I'm Coming, with slow gradually building piano intro.

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='971863' date='Sep 29 2010, 04:59 PM']And I'm thinking a MuppetMan Sh!tray decal ought to finish it off.[/quote] Yup. This, we like

I reckon 3+1 is the way to go.

Jamiroquai, KTT and Ray LaMontagne on the same show? Will deffo be watching that one on Friday.

Lucky escape Joe Back in 1987, my band played a Thursday night gig at the old Majestic club in Reading. After the gig, everything -- drums, backline, instruments, the lot -- got loaded into the van to go back to the lockup ready for our Saturday night at the Red Lion in Brentford (RIP). Saturday night... the van arrives at the Lion, and we start piling everything out. Drums, backline, keys, guitar, ba... hold on... where's my Wal? Not in the van. Frantic phone calls... it's not in the lockup... it's not at home... not even at my mate's house... In desperation I call a mate who I knew was coming to the gig, and asked him to go to the Majestic and see if it was there. In the mean time, I rushed over to Tempo Soundhouse in Hanwell, where resident diamond geezer Lawrie Keys was kind enough to lend me a bass after I gave him my sob story. Rushed back to the Lion... call from Simon... relax, the bass is at the Majestic. The club's manager found it in its case, left behind after the Thursday gig, and locked it away safely. Simon screams down the M4, arrives with smoking tyres 5 mins before we go on, and reunites me with my baby. From then on, it always came home with me. Coincidentally, that was the night I met my ex-wife.

Pounce on it immediately. I'd say that even if i wasn't an overjoyed Shuker owner.

'Ida Funkhauser'? Yes, I would have too. [size=1]I hereby apologise for the gratuitously sexist nature of that comment. Couldn't resist though [/size]

If I needed a gig, and a tribute band came along, and it was music I enjoyed playing, and they were good, I'd join in a heartbeat (as long as I didn't have to go wearing a wig or spending thousands on 'authentic' gear). Toyed with joining an Eagles trib a while back, until I heard them... If I needed a gig, and an originals band came along, and it was music I enjoyed playing, and they were good, I'd join in a heartbeat. If I needed a gig, and a covers band came along... oh, you know the rest. A gig's a gig. As long as I'm playing and having a good time, what the feck.

It Bites -- The Old Man & The Angel Love that Zon

[quote name='Golchen' post='587185' date='Sep 2 2009, 09:16 AM']Some 80's music is still enjoyable, but I don't think that most of it could be described as cool. [b]Probably the worst period in music history[/b].[/quote] For me, that's the 90s. Dire, awful, horrid decade. Almost totally uninspiring musically. Just MHO, of course.

This morning a mate sent me a rough mp3 of a tune he'd like me to play bass on. I've listened to it a couple of times and had wondered about going fretless for it... having read this thread, I reckon I definitely will now

It's biffed out [i]again[/i]? After only 14 months? Blige. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, even if the first failure was, or may have been, lager-induced. I had one of those old Arion Stage Tuners many years ago, it was utterly great and performed faultlessly despite being gigged to hell and back, survived sweat and beer and crap, and only bombed out after having a 4x10 dropped on it. Was a darned sight cheaper than the Pitchblack.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='963054' date='Sep 21 2010, 10:17 AM']Its a good crowd pleaser and gets people up dancing so no reason it shouldn't be on their play list IME. Same with Brown eyed girl.[/quote] Oh I agree, they are popular. And I didn't mean they shouldn't play them. Just that I, personally, wouldn't. And that presumably the new bassist wasn't such an awkward picky git as me. EDIT: all this said, I will happily play M*st*ng S*lly. Which I guess makes me a stupidly fickle awkward picky git.

I'll play pretty much anything I'm asked TBH (assuming I [i]can[/i] play it, of course ) but I do play the occasional veto card. The last ones I did this for were Dance The Night Away and Brown Eyed Girl. I nearly had a nose-nose argument with the singer over that first one. I didn't stay in that band much longer. Last time I checked, Dance The Night Away was on their repertoire...

Can you add a poll option of "oh god i would LOVE to see this... but it's the other end of the smegging country. Curse you, geography"..?

Interesting array of basses on display tonight, and only one Fender among them (and then only for one song). I liked Queen Emily's stuff, great voice, good band, nice Kubicki Factor the Mark Ronson stuff was, how to put it politely? different... and the Klaxons? how am I supposed to respect a band that plainly can't even be arsed to tune up properly?

Thought of trying the Seymour Duncan 1/4-Pounders or Hot Stacks?

[quote name='silddx' post='951788' date='Sep 10 2010, 01:24 PM']For sheer, unbridled ugliness, can you beat the Parker Fly Bass?[/quote] Oh blige, I forgot that one. A classic case of a fabulous prototype transforming into a complete gumby of a production model. How did they make such an ugly bass, when the guitar it's shaped after is so pretty?

I believe Marcus Miller uses UltraJazzes in his original bass.

[quote name='M-Bass-M' post='951748' date='Sep 10 2010, 12:52 PM']I'm also not a very big fan at all of symmetrical basses, and the pariticular offenders I can think of are any of Stanley Clarke's or Mark King's basses. In this month's BGM there's a photo of SC in front a load of his Alembic basses, and quite frankly they are hideous - particularly the flying V! I think what really turns me off are the stupid tails that these basses have - either pointy out tails or just where somebody has taken a Batman-size bite out of the bass.[/quote] In fairness, some of those 'Alembics' are actually the Löwenherz things I posted the link to. Although his actual 'Bics aren't terribly pretty either.

My pass-the-bucket list of shame: - That stupid Warwick Reverso abomination. - Alembic Dragon's Wing. - Big AL - Bongo - Everything made by [url="http://www.loewenherzbass.com/english/models.html"]these people[/url] and [url="http://www.dipintoguitars.com/category.php?id=2"]these people[/url]. - Much of BC Rich's output. - Sparkly Italias etc. Rich (refusing to 'justify' my 'coffee table' bass to anyone)

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='948646' date='Sep 7 2010, 07:09 PM']Mine wasn't pants, I wish I still had it.[/quote] Still got mine, it's still pants paid £25 for it. It's worth at least that.

I have [color="#FF8C00"]orange[/color] side LEDs on my Shuker... the colour goes nicely with the baccy sunburst body, I think. The gorgeous walnut Sei Flamboyant I used to own had [color="#0000FF"]blue[/color] ones. They were nice too. I find the side LEDs a godsend on dark stages, but I wouldn't have front LEDs if you paid me. Well yeah, I would. I just wouldn't switch them on.