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Agreed, and I would go even tighter if I could get a GVB36 locally.

Keep an eye out for Stillmarillion if you're into the Fish-era stuff. Have seen them a couple of times at our local music venue (Yardbirds in Grimsby), and they were brilliant! 🤘

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I try and put the Rotosound RS775LD flats on all my basses (except my Washburn semi-acoustic, for which I have some Rotosound RS885LD Black Nylons). I absolutely love the sound and feel of the Rotosound Monel flats. I do have a Vox AC50 amp head, but even just using my Vox amPlug and headphones, or straight into my DAW, I wouldn't be without the Monel flats. Mark

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Just home from another near 400 mile round trip to Felixstowe today, with the Live Tribute Show at the Spa Pavillion Theatre. Fantastic gig with a full house. Maybe the nice weather/Easter holiday brings them all out? Used the American Performer Mustang for the first set tonight. It punches well above it's diminutive weight. Consider me impressed. The start of the second act saw the Buddy Holly tribute's guitar cable die, but luckily I had a spare cheap lead plugged into a Pitch Black Tuner on a table in the wings, so he only ended up missing half of the Everly's "Cathy's Clown". Thursday was the Lowther Pavillion Studio in Lytham St.Annes near Liverpool. Another full house and another 2am return home. Thankfully some down time now for a couple of weeks, while I wait for my 85 year old Father to be discharged from hospital after a Stoma operation early last week.

Had a dep gig in a tiny ale house in Chorley, was going through an amp for a change which I've not done in years, enjoyed it even though I made a couple of mistakes (they play every song in a wildly different key from the original) and the TC BH800 and PJB C8L sounded great on stage. Was thinking about swapping out the preamp in my Cort GB Modern 5 but after tonight I'll leave it in and tweak my Fishman DI a bit more for IEM gigs.

Cool. How would you describe the tone compared to basses made of mahogany, walnut, ash, maple, etc. ? Just curious what your experience has been

I went to see Girl at the Marquee. Marillion were Support and bought a coach load of fans in from Aylesbury. They played a blinder - then went to see them at Reading which was their big break really, I think they’d just parted ways either way originally drummer Mick Pointer which was the subject matter for the song Assasing. The misses and I are briefly visible in one of their Hammersmith Odeon Videos!

Christ, this has jogged a memory. Had to learn "3 boats down from the candy" for one of the first bands I was in. Bit out of the norm for me, Anti-Nowhere League's So What being more my style 🤣

I've always thought that the Devil played far better than the plodding pedestrian redneck Johnny.

Hmmm. 27 pages of results for a search on Marillion everywhere in the forum. I've posted a few times about them, or at least about a tribute band I was in for a while, and about the Cort GB4 Custom I bought because Pete Trewavas played one. Pete Trewavas is an excellent bassist - the whole band is great, and I prefer the 36 years of the h era to the eight years of the Fish era.

I've shifted quite a few basses in the last couple of years but only to make room for stuff that I've wanted more . Honestly thought I'd be more upset shifting some of them but as time goes on, I find myself feeling less attached, sentimentally anyways. Definitely thinking more logically, at least that's what I tell myself. Quality and value seem to be more important in my reckonings on curatong my collection these days. Most recently, the Thunderbird Studio. Had it for about 16 yrs. Never thought I'd be ok to sell it as it looked brilliant and sounded great. Only Gibson I've owned that O've actually gotten on with but given I've hardly used it at all, I found it relatively easy to sell it on last week, to make way for something else. Ditto for my Stingray 4H, both Jags, Dean Cabbie, 79 Precision, 90's Dano DC, Jackson Minion, Squier CV 50's and my 2011 Am Std Jazz (probaly a couple of more too) But they've all gone away in the last 18-24 months and made way for some stuff I have really been enjoying: EBMMDarkray, Am PRO2 Jazz, 03 Am Dlx QMT Jazz, Victor Bailey Jazz, EBMM Stingray 4HH, a 75 Musicmaster (inbound, as of yesterday) and hopefully another Am PRO 2 Jazz in the coming weeks There are always a couple that I will regret but time and GAS heals all... To quote Mr Burns: "I'd trade it all for a little more" That being said, I genuinely don't know if there is anything I now own that I'd be happy to sell 🤣🤣🤣

I saw them in portsmouth guildhall in 1983. I had no idea who they were, I just went to this house of some students that a friend knew, and they said did we want to go to see marillion. Said I had no idea who they were and they said 'oh they are sort of like genesis', so we went. They were great, nothing like genesis obviously, but it was a good gig. Liked them since then.

Love that first album, She Said She Said is a fantastic cover.

Great band, Steve Rothery is such an underrated and distinctive guitar player and Pete Trewavas has great tone, touch and note choice.

I cannot believe a search of Marillion on the forum turns up nothing other than Word Ascociation and possibly a post by @Marillionred about a gig at the Albert Hall. Currently sitting in a Café in Paris having a beer. Just spent two nights at the Paris Marillion weekender. By luck I'm in Paris for the marathon tomorrow and managed to get tickets via facebook a month ago after they'd sold out. What an awesome show. Three weeks ago I managed to see Mr Punch at Camden Underword, again Facebook fed me something on the morning of the gig. For Fish era Marillion, comoelte with theatrics, they're amazing. Seen them twice now. I turned down tickets to see Marillion in 1984! And this is the first time I've seen them. Absolutely phenomenal gig. Anyway Pete Trewavas, doesn't get a lot of mentions. Ever. And is a big influence on me. Am I the only one, or am I rubbish at the search.

Bass player Pete Hurley was in Lone Star 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿