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[quote name='budget bassist' post='266746' date='Aug 21 2008, 01:07 AM']Haha awesome, I KNEW that was going to be download festival before i even saw the stage![/quote] All the camo and black t-shirts is a dead giveaway!!

[quote name='bassman2790' post='266535' date='Aug 20 2008, 06:56 PM']The second coming? [/quote] Nope, this was. ^ And just so you can all see another of my many facets..... Couldn't let Benwhiteuk get ahead in the cross-dressing stakes, could I!

Well if Dood is going to break out the professional looking pics..........

Here's a couple I'm quite fond of: They were taken from the final set played at the Ferryboat in Norwich on the closing night.

I take more care with my playing now than I ever used to, but you've still got to give it the big'un!! Just pick your moments for the jumping around and gurn for the rest of the time so people think what you're doing is really hard! It's far more forgivable to make mistakes when you're thrashing around like there's a ferret in your kecks than if you're staring holes through your fretboard anyway. +1 for the eye contact too, do you remember that gig you went to when you were younger and your idol looked you right in the eye in your favorite song? Someone doesn't have to be your hero to give you that buzz either, it's a minor thing but it could help make someone in the crowds night!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='262546' date='Aug 14 2008, 04:32 PM']show us your neck![/quote] Are you coming on to me?

[quote name='Sibob' post='262208' date='Aug 14 2008, 10:04 AM']To be honest, If I've got a gig, I might just take my rig and go straight there after![/quote] [quote name='Merton' post='262213' date='Aug 14 2008, 10:10 AM']I'm going straight to a gig after too, should be fun [/quote] I'm also considering doing that, but it'll be quite a trek for me. Could anyone spare me trawling through the thread to find out what sort of times the bash is likely to be starting and finishing? Cheers if you can off the top of your heads, tell me to go jump and stop being lazy if you can't! I think my gig that night is in Cambridge so it's not as far back as home...

I start a rotating shift pattern on Monday and I'm not happy about it, but I'm sure as hell not letting the bands down for work! We're going to have an official shift exchange scheme with forms to fill in and everything, and I might have just landed myself a job in a much smaller department - leaving about ONE person who I can actually ask to switch with me. I reckon it's going to be a chore, but I'm looking at it like this: It's only every other week, I still have every Saturday night free and I should be able to take holiday if I can't shift-swap. It wouldn't be such a bitter pill to swallow if we were getting a decent premium for working a rotating pattern, but we're getting stiffed with an extra 20% on any hours worked after 6pm (24 out of 78 hours). It's fkkking balls. *off topic rant over* It'll be alright Charic, as you've only just started gigging the band wont know it any other way so it shouldn't cause too much friction. Take the job, make all the time for the band that you can, and enjoy it! Good luck with it.

[quote name='Alemboid' post='244905' date='Jul 21 2008, 10:50 PM'](have had two Zons, four Mods, three Stati, one Steiny, four Alembics, + the rest)[/quote] And judging by your avatar, a very cute kitten! awwwww........

Unfortunaly I must be removed from the list, it seems I have a gig that day. Horse c*cks.

I had a thought about this..... When setting up my MIM Jazz 5 I can take all the height adjustment grub screws out of the bridge and it still has a higher action than I'd like. I don't think I've got the neck scooped to any great degree, although I might well buy a 24" steel rule to use as a straight-edge for setting up to soon. It seems almost as if the neck is set too far into the body. I've played around with trying to angle the neck by putting shim between it and the body at the join, but I think I've only ever tried that to raise the action (with the neck set straight) in the past. I did take it to a music shop (which has closed now) and ask to have the frets dressed, only to be told "Nah, probably just needs a bit more relief on the neck" then charged £15 to put on a set of strings I supplied. So what I'm thinking is: 1. Make sure I've got the neck pretty damn straight (using a straight edge) and check for un-even frets. 2. Put packing under the neck/body join, not to angle the neck but just to raise it up into the strings and more in line with the bridge saddles. Any thoughts/suggestions/recommendations?

I've got a box in my loft you can have if you're coming this way anytime soon Pete, 'cos you're a mate you can have it for a fiver.

I usually only break my low B or E strings, but thats because the E gets all the use and I rest my fingers on the B! Like Waynepunkdude said, I doubt the public will know so try not to let it bother you.

Oh yeah, and: [quote name='Sarah5string' post='233841' date='Jul 6 2008, 11:04 PM']like it clean and meaty [/quote] [size=6]MATRON!![/size] sorry. :blush: