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I delivered an amp to Mr. Foxen a while back and one of the knobs had been knocked clean off by the previous owner... I carried the amp, and gave Mrs. D the knob to look after for no better reason than being able to announce that she was holding Mr. Foxen's knob.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1323952010' post='1469033'] Translation: there's point in EQ-ing my amp, because once the signal's gone through my giant digital effects board it'll be f***ed up beyond repair. [/quote] I tell you what... I regretted forgetting my earplugs that day, a guitarist who likes to do pinch harmonics with an EQ that's only a few notches away from ultra sonic...

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1323950190' post='1468986'] He wasn't mocking, he was straight up. [/quote] Fair dos. He was straight up with the guy on the day, and that's what counts I guess.

And actually relevant to the thread: "I don't need to EQ my amp, my giant digital effects board will sort all that out for me" (paraphrased from a guitarist I jammed with).

Well yes, better to ask a question and be a fool for a minute than not ask and be a fool for a lifetime and all that. Not really a bad day, I just believe that education need not come with a side order of mockery.

RE: Fivers. Do you actually know for sure that they're "running their lives" badly? Because if you're actually broke even getting a fiver together is bloody difficult. RE: Advances. It's not actually that unreasonable an assumption. Until, ooh, about 30 seconds ago, it's pretty much how I thought advances worked. [Stupid petty comment removed]

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1323389613' post='1462958'] If nothing crap has happened to me or falling out on me from it happening to someone close to me, music doesn't really happen for me.[/quote] If it'll help you get in a creative mood I can come and steal a load of your gear... Turns out I'm equally uncreative no matter what's going on in my life. Right now things are awesome but the only difference between how I play now and how I play when things are crap (the fact I'm taking lessons notwithstanding) is that I use a bit less fuzz.

The closest I've ever come to this is some chav shouting "give us a choon, mate!" at me from across the road while walking along with instrument in gigbag.

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1320658978' post='1429386'] play along to Stacy's Mom.[/quote] Yeah, I can imagine how embarassing that must've been...

I don't see what the problem is... the bassist is just there to follow the root notes of the guitar as any fule kno.

Band I used to play guitar in had two songs that had very similar intros... one evening we decided to put them back to back in the set. And so I started playing the wrong one, and didn't realise that I was until I realised our vocalist was pissing himself laughing instead of singing. And the time I broke the D string, spent ages trying to tune up my crappy spare guitar while the crowd got ever more restless and then had it pointed out that we only had one song left and that didn't require me to use the D string at all. Fail.

This stuff is entirely subjective anyway, it just represents a coincidental convergance of the opinions of what is probably a very small group. I'd be prepared to bet folding money that if you asked exactly the same people exactly the same question five years from now you'd get different results.

Rickenbacker Announce Range of Far East Manufactured Budget Instruments.

Best get rid of the nodule then... I know how much you hate mud.

All gear goes in the hall the night before I need to take it anywhere... even back when I was playing guitar badly at hardcore punk gigs I was this organised. Actually it's a much better system these days as constantly stubbing my toe on my amp while negotiating the narrowest bit of the hallway means I never forget the stuff is there. Only thing I've ever forgotten was my extension lead but the rehearsal space had some so no big deal there.

Oh yes, these posts remind me... I'm taking lessons now at my Mrs D's encouragement and she's been Taking An Interest lately and asking me about different bits of gear and whatnot, which is great. My wife is awesome.

Mrs. D actively encourages me to play and on one memorable occasion actually [i]told [/i]me to buy a bass (the Retrovibe RV4 in blue). She takes rather a dim view of being called my all-in-one groupie and roadie though.

During my one and only mic check I shouted the firemen's roll call from Trumpton. Everyone look at me like I was mental.

[quote name='WheresMyJumper' timestamp='1318605207' post='1404283'] My more knowledgable friend (mind he does play lead guitar) said it would cost more to fix than its worth, [/quote] I would dispute that as a reason for not fixing an instrument... I did it to a guitar I own, spending a considerable amount more on the repair than the value of the instrument alone, and went from having something I barely even looked at to a new favourite guitar. It's worth it even if only for the learning experience.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1318546928' post='1403723'] 'We don't do toilets'. [/quote] What if you need a wee? Do you have a bucket behind the cabs?

[quote name='vsmith1' timestamp='1318576377' post='1403827'] Maybe they think you're coming to move around the stage like Peter Gabriel does on a Segway. [/quote] I already did that joke.

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1318517891' post='1403225'] People that write "segway" on set lists. [/quote] You mean Peter Gabriel?

The distinction between 'concert' and 'gig' is only really important to teenagers... "Oh dad, you're so uncool! It's a [i]gig[/i] not a [i]concert[/i]!"

Yeah, 'kettle lead' is a legitimate colloquialism and I think was borrowed from IT. The single most irritating thing a non-music type can ever say to me is "give us a tune mate!" as I'm walking down the road with instrument firmly in gigbag and nary an amplifier in sight.

Maybe I just spend too much time on the internet... my experience is that people online blow things massively out of proportion and treat one off occurences as the final straw. If I'm wrongly applying that logic to this place I apologise.