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[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355495192' post='1899221'] John Berry - there's tall and there's taking the piss. His boom stand goes straight up ! I was using my own mic in a stand prepared for him and I had to pull it down about a foot. The Slade roadies set the hired-in Ampeg vol really low and I was using that too. I figured not to fcuk with it so I couldn't hear it at all..... but the sidefills !!!!!! Dear God , I think my ears are still whistling. You can just about make out the sidefills in one of these pics.Can't remember but I assume the Marshall was for Malc , sure Dave Hill brought his own.[/quote] John's about the same size as me , so we've swapped notes on what you can play without it looking like a ukelele, his predecessor Dave Glover was the same. Because of that, that was when he asked me to bring my JB bass in to try it at the soundcheck & maybe gig it. At the time Tim the tech said to him "You know what that is don't you?" "Yeah, it's a John Birch" "No, it's THE John Birch, the last one, it's worth four and a half grand", John went pale, put it back in the case & refused to touch it, to much slagging off the whole band. John's alright, he wouldn't have bothered if you'd cranked it a bit; there's only H that can get a bit precious in the wrong mood, but he's the face of the band now so is under a fair bit of pressure.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355490747' post='1899102'] I stood behind him as he tuned and adjusted (what I assume was) a supplied Peal kit at the glam fest thing I did with them at the 'Bootfest' at Nostell Priory , near Wakey. He can't half get his head down , that lad. Wears a mouth guard too - I expect to stop him grinding them down ![/quote] Yeah, he stopped the gum chewing he was known for in the 70's cos it was giving him grief, presumably the gumshield is to stop the habit of grinding. He's a grand bloke; doesn't drink but happy to get his round in .......... so that'll be 3 lagers, 2 bitters and a cup of tea please. .... or sparkling water. I took my son to see him in Glasgow a few years ago, they swapped notes on their respective Pearl kits for quite a while & Don always asks after him which considering the memory issues he still has after all these years is - to me - quite a compliment. Don's also in the process of publishing his auto-biography; which unlike "others" is - supposedly - the full story. John Berry - now playing bass - for "Slade" is the world's longest working Big Issue seller as his day job ...................... on Eastenders.

[quote name='urban Bassman' timestamp='1355491944' post='1899134'] The bloke in the cape is Steve Priest....he's put a few pounds on since 1977.[/quote] Yeah, sorry - I should have written "some bloke" in inv commas, to point as - as you say - that he's hard to recognise now. Nice enough guy in the few emails I'm exchanged with him a few years ago, but seems to have the daggers out for Andy Scott. Andy has tried to make inroads towards a reconciliation he says just to get a slagging in return.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355487953' post='1899019'] which of us wouldn;t want to work with an 'on the money' drummer like that ?[/quote] He's in the process of working out a deal with Natal drums, via Marshall, right now, AFAIK he's using Pearl mostly though some venues just get told to provide a kit to a spec. In their heavy rock days he had a custom built, chrome Ludwig kit that he paid £14k for. It was sold via Bonhams to a fan in Germany a few years ago.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355475746' post='1898754']I thought about contacting the guy and giving him some more money...... but only for a few seconds when I was pissed ![/quote] See, now you just lost your angel's wings there; you'd only just sewn them on when you have to take them off again.

[quote name='YouMa' timestamp='1355424014' post='1898344'] Slade in flame is brilliant and very crude[/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UMtlX6B2w4&NR=1&feature=endscreen

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1355430004' post='1898425'] Lol. But here's question. Assuming that you prefer vinyl over CD (please correct me if I'm wrong, or take this as hypothetical), would you sacrifice quality (assuming again that you perceive digital to be a lower quality than analogue) for the chance of being able to instantly find and listen to a self-published artist that you found out you really loved listening to? Or in other words, would you still prefer vinyl over the fantastic experience of finding music by unsigned artists on Soundcloud and the like? [/quote] Hmm, depends what mood I'm in; whether I've just taken a notion to wanting to hear a particular song or album or just want a bit of background noise & then what formats I have it in. I've found some CDs (which will normally depend on age) that are worse sound quality to vinyl I've got so it's not a quality thing, though I do find a lot of vinyl can sound warmer....... like being trapped in a corner of a pub by a stoner who wants to tell me his life-story I tend to glaze over at people who feel they have to incessantly convince folk of the perfection of their science ..... I find it ......... soul-less.............. there will of course be a nostalgia element to it too; but here's a tale........ Last year I went to see Steve Cropper on tour (not so much a hero, but he is a legend) & he mentioned briefly that he had an album coming out, a tribute to the band that inspired him to pick up a guitar. I later found out that you could get the LP for £10 which came with a CD version too, so I got one ordered up. Then "Crop" juggled some of his later tour dates & was soon back not far from me. We drove to the gig & sat watching the sound-check, when he saw us he shouted over "Hey kids!" & I waved the LP at him to get it signed........ "Is that a record?" he shouted, "I didn't even know they were doing that". The sound-check was abandoned & he came over for a good look, signed it & then told me all about almost every track. We were then invited to join them for dinner, with more stories & then invited to the end-of-tour party, where we were regaled with even more stories (he likes his red wine) about Otis Redding, "Wicked Pickett", Duck etc, at the end of which we swapped email addresses - so hopefully there'll be more of the same next Jan/Feb. Some how I don't think we'd have got chatting as much if I'd just waved the CD at him. Nothing whatsoever to do with quality comparisons, but it was a lot of fun. Oh - and I don't go looking all that much for "new" music. I'm mighty glad of Nige putting up the Kit Richardson links on here & want my name to bagsy a copy of future stuff - and my son is a drummer in an "industrial" band so that's close enough to the edge for me.

IIRC at the time of that headstock shape they were made at the same factory as Squiers, ie were virtually identical & were therefore getting good/great revues; though I found the pickups on a Fenix guitar I had incredibly microphonic & were the first things I switched out on it.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1355421464' post='1898292'] It's dropped onto page 2 !!! Noooooooooo , I won't have that !! Cosmo wants to -- I plan to and have done in the past - anybody else actually playing Slade stuff at the mo ?? [/quote] In looking for a certain something to add to the freebie thread I did find my sheet-music to MXE ............. but it wasn't that.

Definitely a very Fenix looking headstock.

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1355412217' post='1898095'] Fantastic! Scrooge don't live here![/quote]

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1355407182' post='1897987'] where's all the innuendo gone? [/quote] Well she already asked for one .......... so I gave her one.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1355328056' post='1896999']Is this one still going? It must be a record![/quote] ...... and so it should be; vinyl is always best - it's been proven in another thread!

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1355398749' post='1897805'] I'll get me to a nunnery right away... [/quote] We'll 'ave nun o' that - I'll tell thee right now!

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1355398568' post='1897798'] Another innuendo [/quote] Ssssh, don't tell, it looks like I got away with it

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1355397949' post='1897777'] And this time little innocent me hadn't thought of the innuendo there... [/quote] Pull the other one, it's got Christmas bells on it!

It's a Mexican stand-off - who's eyeballing who??? Cue Moriconi music .................

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1355395580' post='1897718'] I literally went out this morning to replenish my cable supplies The tension is unbearable![/quote] Can't have that, they'll come unplugged too easily!

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1355395933' post='1897728'] Coffee -> keyboard.... [/quote] ........................

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1355355027' post='1897448'] the Kit Richardson tracks. So just wanted to say that the bass on You Always Did sounds just perfect to me. I'd love to get my bass sounding like that![/quote] Yeah, but ............................................... it would have sounded better on vinyl, hence this thread!

[quote name='Steve G' timestamp='1355238625' post='1895788'] They're yours are they........dirty boy [/quote] Steaming the pages open over the kettle didn't work then huh? [quote name='paulconnolly' timestamp='1355253677' post='1896036'] Bit of a typo there shirley? [/quote] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5t5_O8hdA[/media]

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1355335379' post='1897153'] Are you talking about me? [/quote] Well I couldn't be arsed to go back thru the last 9 pages, so based on your last post I could find which included this [quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1355233449' post='1895678']You are an audiophile Si, because you know the difference between 320 and 128 kbps, while most people couldn't care less. You are an audiophile because [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]issues with the reproduction prevent you from enjoying music and I find that a little bit sad.[/font][/color][/quote] ....... then I'd say "No, I wasn't". I wouldn't go so far as to say that "issues with reproduction prevent Si from enjoying music" unless he's said so somewhere; I'd be horrified if that was the case........ but Si did a cracking job on the Kit Richardson EP* - I'm, still playing it months after getting it - (which is rare for me). What concerns me now - after listening to it, is whether Si did his stuff thru ice cold calculation, playing by all the rules and with all his text books & web-sites open beside him to refer to, rather than by purely listening to it & by intuition knowing what it needed. * assuming I've got the right person without trawling back thru page after page?

If I'd bought that from the shop I've bought most of my gear off I'd be asking - and I know I'd get - at least a 10% discount........ and the missing candy, especially the spanner is just not on, it kinda proves your suspicions. If it was sold at less than RRP (as was) then they still have to make it clear that it's been used/ex-display up front.

I'm convinced that there are some users of this forum who couldn't see the wood in this pic.....

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1355327920' post='1896996'] Fixed for you[/quote]