Big_Stu

Since they're absent after 4 pages is it safe to assume Kiss are a "given"?

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1505196065' post='3370045'] Gosh I hadn't thought of that. (Reaches for little black book) I do have [i]Soul Fingers[/i] though. I also have lots of material to read through thanks to the kindness of a fellow member. It seems that producers allowed significant creative input from their studio players. Is that the same as musical input as asked in the OP? I'd say there is a fine line between the two and you'd see that fine line differently depending on whether you were a producer or a musician. [/quote] It's my understanding, from someone who was there, that with Booker T & The MGs "Green Onions" as an example was a jam started by Booker, which the others went into and Jim Stewart recorded on the sly. Though obviously for that particular track Duck wasn't there at the time. The band were four colleagues/mates who just worked things out together; as the main backing band for Stax at it's peak Cropper was frequently the writer and/or producer too so it was very much a less rigid session.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1504870484' post='3367887'] Where would you get that sort of information from anyway? I'd love to know too. [/quote] In Duck's case, ask someone who knew him almost his entire life and was his best friend as well as a bandmate for decades.

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1504468467' post='3365119'] ..................And why do they play Green Onions at that speed these days? [/quote] Under the circumstances I thought "Time Is Tight" would have been more in keeping.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1504378339' post='3364535']Always had a soft spot for the Moody Blues, they released some excellent music. [/quote] Me too, I only saw them live once, luckily it was on Ray Thomas's last tour before he retired. Awesome live show.

There'd been 5 days of rehearsals (between interviews) for the JH guys and the Stax originals. That's not a hell of a lot between guys who hadn't met before, and considering their ages. Cropper and Booker are such seasoned veterans and session men that they can pretty much drop in with most bands, but the vocalists I thought did really well considering. I was three rows back almost directly behind JH and the sound was pretty good from there, once Cropper's amp got fired up properly.

Not long back from the show. Many in the crowd were sat on their hands to the "rappers" duo. Applause was only out of politeness. It was a BBC Proms production, hence Jools Holland, which also means hence Beverley Knight & Ruby Turner, the latter I thought did OK. As pointed out all of the originals from the first tour are now in their 70s and 80s so I thought they all did amazingly well considering. Cropper's amp blew a tube literally minutes before curtain time, so he was a bit quiet in the mix, I'm guessing until the new one warmed up. But it's always great to catch up for a "small sherry" with an old friend.

I'll be there, a mate is playing on the night - quite a lot

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1503921178' post='3361527'] You didn't! [/quote] 'Fraid so - though in mitigation it wasn't my bass. It was at the close of a VIP tour at Marshall and it was their "house bass".

I played through Lemmy's Signature Marshall stacks a few days before he first did. And with a Fender bass too

Fifty years this year since Duck first came to the UK with the Stax Volt Tour. There's a celebratory concert at the Royal Albert Hall to commemorate it on Sept 1st.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1501077775' post='3342305'] I couldn't condone robbery with violins... [/quote] Bravo sir!! I lol'd - and I don't often lol.

Cropper, Booker T, Sam Moore, Tom Jones , Eddie Floyd, & Jools Holland Orchestra at the RAH as part of the Proms. It's to celebrate/commemorate 50 years since the Stax Volt tour came to Europe. Jim "Hags" Haggerty, current bassist with The Blues Brothers Band will be there too, not sure if he's playing though.

Liam Gallagher seems to have nicked most of his stage act, stance, style off Ian Brown. Maybe he should try the tribute market?

Cropper; with the Blues Brothers Band in August, then again as a Stax/Volt 50th anniversary gig with Jools Holland Orchestra at the Albert Hall in Sept.

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1493876870' post='3291410'] I initially thought this thread was about Aaron Rieseberg, which would make the YOB bass a Rickenbacker or EGC [/quote] I was thinking along other lines too from the thread title, would a bass version of this work?

[quote name='Steve Browning' timestamp='1493124296' post='3285794'] I wonder what sort of packaging would be required to withstand the knock that did that to a piece of wood? [/quote] I packed a Hiwatt 200 (ex-Slade) head for shipping to the USA a few years ago. It was in a new Hiwatt box made for that particular amp, was then bubble wrapped and put into a box about the size of a small coffin, with about a foot of polystyrene Cheezy Wotsits on all sides and a whole roll of gaffer tape to seal it. When it arrived the damage was - one smashed mains light!?! How the hell they managed that I don't know. Similarly a one-time BCer I knew who shipped a Hiwatt 400 head (mint condition, original KT88s - rare as rockin horse doodah) to the USA, packed in a similar fashion. When it arrived the chassis was literally bent with some of the casing smashed. Due to the way the (huge) mains transformer was bent on it's fixings it was deemed to have been dropped from a very great height in transit. The inertia of the heavy transformer when the package hit the ground bent the whole chassis. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar thing had happened with the speaker(s) in the OP had done a similar thing which broke the cab casing.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1492015873' post='3277244'] B side to Hell Raiser anyone ? Cracking ! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0hG3Gib-Is[/media] [/quote] Often medlied with "Someone else will" [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidiEjQxKx8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidiEjQxKx8[/url] ......... the lyrics to which were why the cosy glam rock band of guys in make up playing to mostly teenage girls were banned from the Mecca ballroom chain in the early 70s. [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1492016145' post='3277246'] IIRC it wasn't so much an effects pedal as some circuitry designed to produce a siren sound housed in an effect pedal shaped case. There was a foot switch to activate it, a volume control and an output jack socket. It didn't actually process anything so there wasn't an audio input. [/quote] From what Andy Scott said it wasn't so much a deliberate siren effect as a pedal that when they messed around with the settings and then used the wah pedal they accidentally found that it made a siren effect. They were later sold as such, but he reckons he was one of the first to find it.

I declined the offer of a very rare bass in Denmark a few years ago but put a USA collector onto it. The bass went missing in transit too and I was asked a lot of awkward questions.Thankfully the USA collector got his money back though like the OP he would have much preferred owning the bass. Now I keep my nose out of doing favours that cost a lot.

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1491992746' post='3276978'] Just an update. I spoke to Dennis this morning about my Ampeg SVT and he is no longer doing bass amps as they are a bit too heavy. Shame as he seemed to be getting some great feedback on his work. Any other recommended repair shops. I used Glasgow Studio Electronics to replace the 110V transformer with 230V and they did a great job but was just wondering who else is out there. [/quote] That's a shame but understandable. He has a lot of other gear related projects on the go too, and he's of an age where he wouldn't want to be shifting heavy amps about. You weren't by any chance the punter in Live Music Edinburgh asking about getting an Ampeg looked at about a month ago were you?

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1491978936' post='3276831'] I used to do it in a previous band, I had the American siren looped so it would play for about five minutes on my phone[/quote] It was an effects pedal from what Andy told me years ago. An early 70's budget one - possibly Rose Morris but multi branded. It had a white-noise/surf effect and a siren.

Whisper it quietly; Slade were once so desperate to have a hit that they released (more than once) a version of the "Okey Cokey". I'm not even going to post the Youtube link to it.

50 years ago today almost the entire cast of Stax artists arrived in London; Booket T & The MGs, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave (there's footage from the Norwegian leg of the tour on YT) Standing outside the airport they had no inkling of the impact they'd already made here. That impression changed fairly quickly when up rolled four Rolls Royce limos belonging to the Beatles to take them wherever they wanted to go. They'd rarely played to a mixed race, non-segregated audience before and witnessed the joy that the crowd as collective music lovers had together. They seen many times eateries and hotels that wouldn't let them stay in the same location, but as Cropper says "At Stax colour was never an issue". The UK and Europe was an eye opener for them and they went back home different people. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3MWu6LhWQ8[/media]

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1485190877' post='3221946'] Jim Lea released an album late last year, with the single being played a fair bit on Radio 2. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR28HcoznX8"]https://www.youtube....h?v=rR28HcoznX8[/url] According to The Daily Mail (!!!), Jim Lea & Noddy Holder each receive around £250,000 a year from the Christmas hit. [url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3374311/Poisonous-feud-merriest-Christmas-hit-earns-fortune-two-Slade-s-stars-ZILCH.html"]http://www.dailymail...tars-ZILCH.html[/url] [/quote] Last I heard - last year - it was £800k each. As already said Jimmy's new single was "Record of the week" on Radio 2's Ken Bruce show - he's a bit of a fan. A few years ago Jim studied psychotherapy (hence the album name) to make sense of his thoughts on the music industry and his life in general. Apparently the reason he got sick of MXE was because of Nod making the song all about him in annual interviews, so he set the record straight on a recent Johnnie Walker show on Radio 2 (it's still on iPlayer if you're interested). Jim has a two page interview in the March edition of Mojo, he certainly sounds perkier than he has of late. In a German magazine about 18 months ago he said he'd been battling the C.

[quote name='HazBeen' timestamp='1483972653' post='3211549'] He is an absolute plonker regardless of his musical taste, it is of course just an opinion, but I have always found him and Oasis to be overrated vomit worthy. But I am sure plenty of people would say the same of my heroes. Taste..... a fickle mistress. [/quote] Nothing wrong with a bit of "Taste" - or Rory G in any form. They even did the odd jazz festival............ [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fz6Qzzba0E[/media]