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Please tell me it's for a wedding? 😎

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1494450496' post='3296172'] I know this is a different performance: ... but as a member of the audience, would you feel cheated that the band clearly aren't playing live? [/quote] Don't think they are - but all that audience noise during the performance would really pi5s me off.

[quote name='gareth' timestamp='1494687932' post='3297882'] i'd love to post in off topic but have been banned, hence the post here [/quote] That's some achievement

The same way people post "off topic" posts in "general discussion"

If it is acoustic you are after, the short time I ran your local(ish) Guitar Shop I was impressed by all the Aria 12s I had. So was one punter who did a straight swap with a Yamaha 12 that retailed at 3 times as much! Sandpiper (small body) if you can find one was a very sweet guitar.

[quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1494352224' post='3295286'] on the London underground, [/quote] You want to try a Friday lunchtime train from Liverpool to London - what a racket!

I know it's probably very un-hip to admit, but I loved the big production of the live footage. Yes, lovely sound with that foam block.

A nice little demo from him a bit later too. Thanks for posting.

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1494076491' post='3293054'] In fairness, the Crusaders (previously the Jazz Crusaders) were a world renowned band long before they started having guest artists "fronting" them. It is not as though they (the Crusaders) needed the exposure that such artists bring. [/quote] I was really making the point that the relationship between them and their guests was symbiotic, and that they were as lucky working with Randy Crawford and she was working with them. Oh, and thanks for the history lesson, but I thought you may have realised from the mention of Hugh Masekela (who the Jazz Crusaders backed on his US number 1 Grazing in the Grass) that I would have known who this "world renowned band was.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1494075099' post='3293040'] . . . . plus the great Bobby Womack [/quote] I knew there was another important one missing - thanks Chris!

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1494070664' post='3293007'] Randy Crawford was lucky to have The Crusaders as her band for that - doesn't get much better! [/quote] Crusaders where quite lucky to have the guest artists they did fronting them - Randy Crawford, Bill Withers, BB King, Joe Cocker, Hugh Masekela. Wouldn't kick any of those out of my band!

What do you want/need from a producer?

Wilson Keppel and Betty?

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1493491687' post='3288779'] This one of favourite places in Amsterdam. [url="http://www.amsterdam.info/music/cafe-alto/"]http://www.amsterdam...usic/cafe-alto/[/url] It can be a bit hit and miss to be honest, one night I turned up and it was about 3 hours of free form jazz improv, but it's normally pretty good. [/quote] I just did a search for the bar where Hans Dulfer, father of Candy Dulfer (Lily Was Here and Prince sax player for a while) regularly plays, and it turns out to be the same place Cato recommends. Well worth a visit.

These strap and lighter bass suggestions may just mask the problem. I've just taken up Pilates to sort out my hunched shoulders and have been shocked by how badly out a lot of my posture is. I'd say get yourself checked out rather than buying a quick fix.

Thanks to Paul and Harry for making this happen. Now the happy owner of a Traynor YBA200, a bit of a project to get it back from poor health.

Is this a follow on from the Pick Yes or No question that often appears on here?

Did a party in an L shaped room. Only way we knew something was going on was from the stink of the chocolate fountain. Still, it paid quite well.

[quote name='MisterT' timestamp='1492809645' post='3283474'] Became a bit 'black' for my liking - always revolving around opression and such. I've never judged funk (or people for that matter) on colour, but the program did and I feel sorry for whoever thinks it's a colour thing. Hope that's not too controversial but it's weird being white and being conditioned into thinking you like 'black music'. WTF? [/quote] Just watched this and am very saddened by your comment. To me the political context in the documentary was incredibly important, and to see Fred Wesley getting so genuinely choked so many years later recalling the audience chanting "I'm Black & Proud" really sums up how important the music was to the civil rights movement and vice versa. Fabulous music too.

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1492610441' post='3281612'] Not sure where you are in West Sussex but Stewart Ward (Mr Session) is in Basingstoke so not the longest drive. He will (as stated) give you excellent service but DO NOT ask him about valves - even as a joke!! [/quote] I'm at the most easterly point of West Sussex!! The amp sounds fantastic. Not really interested in the upgrade at the moment, a footswitch is the next step. And yes, love his whole attitude on the website regarding valves.

...that is all.

Great news!

Average White Band Let's Go Round Again

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1492435011' post='3280189'] Sorry about that. I'm not blessed with good taste, so can't really judge whether stuff will please or not, although I do try, honest..! Thanks for commenting, of course. [/quote] Hey, I don't like Stockhausen or the Doors, and some of the stuff I do like, well... So nothing to do with your good taste

Very well constructed - would not have worked out the secret. Sorry, despite it being both clever and artistically sound I didn't enjoy it at all