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[quote name='charic' timestamp='1346758715' post='1792694'] [/quote] From when the band was so bad the audience threw painstripper at them.

I've always thought the Northern Guitar Shows were some of the best, my first was in the Station Hotel in Newcastle, dead easy, go there - buy something - nip next door to get the train home. In those days there were a few stalls that had masses of old parts, single machine-heads, bridge parts, old pickups (it's where I found an old Gibson EB type mudbucker). You don't see that kind of stall anywhere much these days, Ebay must have that cornered, but still always a great show for a Sunday pre-pint time (or Saturday). Though I have to wonder, no matter how good a guiatrist, a 14 year old blues player? "I woke up this morning, plugged my Wii into the wall, I say I woke up this morning ............. etc." Sponsored by Fret-King? Will Jerry be there? Did a cracking session at a Mojo one not so long ago.

[quote name='bassninja' timestamp='1346785543' post='1793278'] This feels like a bit of a rant, for which apols in advance...[/quote] You're right - it was - but kudos for naming & shaming.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1346771174' post='1792971'] How many sit at the back going 'FFS, not Mustang Sally AGAIN'!!' [/quote] How many go up and request "White Wedding" at their best mates wedding, without having listened to the words that closely before, and are still waiting for his wife to speak to them?

There's quite a few bands or names been mentioned that aren't exactly "in there" image wise, but thinking of the bands I saw while working for a CD factory I remember thinking when seeing Elbow's pics for the first time, not exactly teeny image faves ......... and they seem to be doing OK lately; the list(s) could well be endless depending on your favourite genre.

[quote name='Smythe' timestamp='1346705974' post='1792286'] yea, after some research i think i will have to drill out some new holes with the hipshot b style for my bass, i'll have to fill in the old holes with a wood filler/epoxy.[/quote] Depending on the size of the hole you're filling I'd suggest instead either cocktail sticks or wooden kebab sticks. In either case the very point clipped off & glued in with wood glue. If you ever end up wanting to drill again in future wood-filler tends to be crumbly and doesn't hold screws well, epoxy always has a tiny bit of fluidity left in it.

Not sure if this aspect has been covered so far; in my locale this Saturday there will at least two pubs with kareoke, one club with an Elvis tribute, one pub with a very good & popular local covers blues-band and a live gig by a semi-name act in a small theatre. There is also a real-ale pub, a boozers pub, a couple of wine-bars & three or four social clubs with "a turn on". The whole town's population is only 30,000; maybe there just aren't enough punters to go around sometimes?

[quote name='The Legoheads' timestamp='1345515053' post='1778426']Hopefully, it won't take 20 coats to do that... :hmm:[/quote] Many years ago when I was contemplating having an EB3 refinished I read that Gibson do 25 coats of colour & 15 coats of clear on a cherry finish. It may be that such info is available on line - I haven't looked. Just to say that this project is incredible - I can only watch in awe at skills such as these, I'm pretty handy at woodwork etc but wouldn't dream of trying such a thing. If I had a hat, consider it doffed in your direction sir.

[quote name='The Admiral' timestamp='1346623905' post='1791409'] Et si quidem musica semper vincere (No credit to me - just Mr Google and his translator) [/quote] Bugger! It'd have to be a damn big scroll under the BC coat of arms then.

[quote name='BassHavoc' timestamp='1346482413' post='1789675'] Thanks guys, for all your support and input, I was already in the process of losing the weight but now I have the added incentive to do it just to piss them off![/quote] Would never do it as an image thing, or to prove anything - but as a health issue it can only be good.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1346612914' post='1791245']If you do it for the music, you will always win.[/quote] Nomination for the BC site motto! (translated into Latin anyone?)

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1346572633' post='1790585']- was the gig promoted..........? [color=#0000cd]I think this is possibly it............We don't promote our own gigs. We work via an agent who books us far and wide. Mayge we should put our thinking caps one for that. I dunno though. Is it our job to do that? [/color][/quote] Wouldn't do any harm & if you try it out & it improves things then you know what it was - even if partly - & maybe have a word with your agent about how he plugs you. It doesn't cost that much to get some professional A3 blanks done which you could overprint a dozen or so of with the gig details at you local Asda's copier a fortnight before the gig. The venue local to me has a few up permanenetly from local bands, school bands up to professional acts........ grammar school jazz band one week, Nazareth the next, most of the local pubs do similar too, though many of them tend to be busy at month end when the salaries are paid & more quiet in the other three weeks.

[quote name='mcgraham' timestamp='1346521167' post='1790244'] ...............backing tracks on a shiny floor at the end of a wedding, just beside the kitchen.[/quote] .........maybe that's how Australian Pink Floyd started out? Or maybe it just pays his beer money & he's happy with it.......... depends on who you think should or would do the cringing.......... I'd still prefer that to kareoke...... though I suppose it's only a couple of steps removed.

[quote name='ChrisB' timestamp='1346514411' post='1790150'] oh cool, I can post this in this thread too: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8sNoodIDk[/media] [/quote] I'll see your *posting that link again* seen almost as many times as the "wrong drummer" link .............. ................ and I'll raise you............. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0[/media]

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1346518124' post='1790195'] ..................speaking to the singer and main songwrighter, he agreed that when I left he should have told them to go and f*** themselves, as they lost everything, most of their instruments, (Boogie amps, my Ampeg, 60's Fender Jaguar, Custom Les Paul, all sold be the manager behind the bands back to pay for years worth of rehearsal space that should have been getting paid for from the advance. You may have had a very lucky escape. [/quote] ^This! Heard of this happening so many times........... in most cases an advance is an advance (hence the name), not a "welcome in" present as so many bands think. You owe as soon as you start doing stuff for labels.

As part of a marketing event a few months ago we went to a awards ceremony. Part of the entertainment was a Michael Jackson tribute, but the guy, tho' he had a brilliant voice had not long had a major road accident (compund femur fracture etc), so all of his spins, jumps had an element of Robert Newton's best Long John Silver limp to it, & it could be the Jackson type noises were screams of pain. It would have helped if he hadn't constantly asked us to make allowances for his injuries & tell us how great he [b][i]used[/i][/b] to be. I don't mind tribute acts, they are what they are; usually a gang of like-minded fans who know how to copy their idols. I can't think where you'd draw the line, isn't any covers band just a tribute act of each artist they do a cover of? One minute you're a tribute to Thin Lizzy, five minutes later you're atribute to Van Morrison?

Email Fender USA; they're usually pretty good at help & advice, not so much the UK people IME. Maybe ask them from the direction of "how easy is it to keep the finish matt?", rather than "I want to gloss one up". Nitro is obv a lot more temperamental than poly - and can take a long time before a reaction shows; though Gibson do a polishing kit specially for nitro finishes, getting harder to find but it's good stuff.

He needs a three way drum battle with these two....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiTEwtJ_ak

[quote name='pobrien_ie' timestamp='1346508448' post='1790046'] Hi all. Does anybody have experience with a factory finish matte black? Can it be brought up to look like a "normal" finish? Eyeing a nice bass online and just can't make my mind up and the clock is ticking! [/quote] Depends what made the finish, normal poly finish would be harder to keep matt than go gloss thru' use. On poly necks & gun stocks I've found daily polishing with WD40 can give a high gloss finish, but it takes a fair few goes at it.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1346498041' post='1789887'] Just heard this on the radio, a mix of Smells like teen spirit and Final countdown. Could it get any more smart@arsed and plain wrong than this? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr06IyWMf4Y[/media] [/quote] Heard it on R2 earlier; thought it was interesting & not that shabby; thought I heard a snatch of GnR in it too but could be wrong. Didn't get the political speech type thing that was in there on the radio one (haven't clicked the link yet) & thought that idea nicked off Simon & Garfunkel's Silent Night/7 O'Clock News.

Lot of talk about weight issues, some comparisons with hair issues. One of the best bands I ever saw live - only the once thru lack of chance afterwards - was Gillan; with the mighty John McCoy on bass. Knowing how superficial the music biz has always been & even more so since so many shysters want to latch onto Cowell's working method I imagine there is more to it than that - & even without that proviso of weight/hair/whatever the chances of them achieving anything from such a low profile label that makes it worth dumping on a mate are thankfully F'all or slim............. and Slim just left for the day.

Never having owned a foamed cab; is the whole of the inside covered, including rear baffle & around the speaker cones? They sell the stuff GregBass linked to on our local market off a roll - presumably for duvets/cushions, though I'm inclined to the egg-box foam.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1346364152' post='1788515'] That's where I saw the 'Crowes. It's a bit of a hole isn't it! [/quote] That's the place that Lemmy told me he remembered why they hadn't played there in years as soon as they started playing. Horrible acoustics.

Slade in the summer of '73 at Blackburn King George's .....................though a few weeks previously the prefects at school who had a band did a gig in the hall, mostly Purple covers IIRC - but I thought their name was brilliant, "Grympen Myre" - a mis-spelling of the bog in "Hound Of The Baskervilles"

My first bass was a Gibson EB3, neck profiles can vary with age & the tone of the big mudbucker neck pickup is a Marmite thing. The Epiphone EB0 goes for peanuts at most shops leaving enough change to do a pickup change if that's what you want. They also do a reissue of a 60's profile white one which Dawsons were doing cheap last I saw.