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I'm currently trying to figure out a polite way to tell the rest of the band that I'd rather sandpaper my nipples than play Wayward Son.

An audience member once asked if I wanted to go horizontal jogging with his missus whilst he watched; does that count?

I knew someone would mention that one! No, it was usually for stuff like Yellow Submarine, oddly.

I used to roadie for a Stones tribute band, and the amount of times we were asked for Beatles songs was ridiculous.

I played a five-string today for the first time since 1999 and didn't enjoy the experience one bit.

Yes, that's what I meant. Effectively two speakers, each in their own enclosure, a baffle between them and a port in each enclosure, only the wiring being common. Sorry for the brevity of my question above - I posted it on the sly whilst in work.

Weirdly, I read this myself only last night in Schilling's "Me and a guy Named Elvis".

Could this be done with a rectangular box with an internal baffle and two ports of the original size?

"Don't tell Oi, Tell Ee", presumably.

Or they just don't fancy it? I find slap a bit like jazz - it takes a lot of skill to do it properly and while I'm impressed with the dedication and persistence it takes to learn the skills, the end result doesn't float my boat.

Series II?

Water here, too. Maybe Lucozade if I'm feeling especially louche.

I wear mine all the time and am constantly having to adjust them on my face whilst playing, which is annoying, but I can't see much without them. I could also stay still, I suppose, but I enjoy bouncing around a bit.

MCR are (were?) shite, but that colour is superb.

Yes, she was basically stuffed by Stiff records, but Lilywhite got her on more or less anything he worked on that needed a female backing.

As truly awful as that song is, anything with Kirsty on it is good to see. So sad that she was killed in such a horrible way and that justice has been perverted. Love you, Kirsty.

Yeah, I suppose I asked for that!

This one is ancient; it doesn't have padding on the legs for the bass to sit against, it has a wee fold-out rest that supports the back of the body and holds it away from the rest of the stand. I can't remember exactly how old we're talking about but it must be at least 20 years - it's long ago enough that the rubber on the trigger part is going gummy. That's it at maximum extension; it does keep the bass off the floor but it's not hugely stable.

It's nice to see the Hercules stands getting some love here. The reason mine doesn't work very well is that it's for guitar rather than bass, so only just has the necessary length when hanging the bass by the headstock and isn't as stable as I'd like. I'll investigate their bass stands; the one in your pic looks good, @Cat Burrito.

Hi all, just wondering what you all use stand-wise when onstage or at rehearsals. I've been using an old Hercules guitar stand but it's really not big (tall) enough for my Precisions. Cheap, expensive, improvised - I'm not bothered, I just need an idea of some decent stands that are available. Any advice*, comments or pictures gratefully received, Cheers, JRK * - apart, that is, from "Give up bass and take up golf instead"....

I'd be fighting in seconds, crying in minutes and puking for days!

Just use nature's own hammer, a Telecaster.

You can go off people, Waddo, you can go off people...!

Last night saw the first gig of my new band, the (Dave) Jackson Five. It was at a party in a shed, so we're not on the same level as some of you guys above just yet, but it was fun and we went down well. Only our drummer has been a regular gigging stiff recently; the singer - Mr D. Jackson himself - has done the odd one here and there, but one guitarist and myself hadn't been onstage in fifteen years. The other guitarist had never played live at all.... All in all it had the potential to go bad, but nothing like that happened, we had fun, went down well and got another booking out of it. Oh yes, it was hot. Mustn't forget that. Before we went on there was the obligatory Ramones-esque line-up photoshoot: And here's me looking like I'm not enjoying myself at all, although I really was!:

Well, thanks for all your support, folks. It went pretty well; I made a couple of errors but no howlers, the punters seemed to enjoy it and we had a lot of fun. We got another booking out of it, so it can't have been that bad! Apparently there are some decent picture floating around, so I'll post one when they land. As it is, here's us before we went on, looking proper special: