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What floats my boat? - Beyoncé. No, hang on, .... I mean bouyancy.

God, I bet you move the dishes aside before taking a leak as well.

Gave into the GAS... Bought myself a V7 Sire.

Here's a pic of my J Type (left), my Retro B (centre) and some other thing (right) if that helps.

Ah I’m afraid there are 😀

Yes indeed, your ticket will give you access to both shows!

I've had two speeding fines in France listening to the same album. Tony MacAlpine's Maximum security. I've been in touch with him regarding compensation but as yet, have had no reply.

I’m contemplating taking a jig saw to mine.

Mine arrived yesterday! Beautiful book...... and one that's gonna take me a LONG time to get through, carefully turning the pages and reading every description and interview as well as taking in every picture.... Best get a few nice bottles of red wine ready to keep me hydrated 😉

My wife's Taylor Swift, the Feeling, the Script and One Direction albums sound best in her car. In the driveway. Engine off. Radio off. CD's in cases in the glovebox. Car frozen shut. Car blocked in by mine.

Anything by Oasis would sound better in Marc Bolan's car.

I got a second copy today as i thought it would make a good raffle prize at one of the upcoming bass bashes!

Son of a preacher man by Dusty. Not easy to hear what's happening and when you do hear it, it's bloody mind-blowing how many notes are being played yet, they all sort of sound necessary.

@jebroad Looks like I am having a shift change at work so I should be able to come, will confirm next week once I've confirmed it with work then I'll let you know 👍 I have a Sire V7 bass I can bring along, and maybe some carrot cake 😎

I like music with cojones, so long as they're not just wrinkly, but also groovy and pumpy. And preferably much more rhythmic than tuneful. Even better if that rhythm is crazy, daddy-o. And if everybody is playing far too many notes, I'm even happier. For full nirvana, any singist has to be part of the music, as opposed to backed by musicians in order to bolster the warbler's ego, unless it meets the groovy pumpy cojones condition. So Screaming Headless Torsos, yes. Coldplay, no. Kenny G, no. Ornette Coleman, yes. P Funk, yes, yes, yes. Van Morrison, no. Metal, usually no, but: Suicidal Tendencies, yes. Etc.

Yeah, death to all butt metal

Meths in a wine glass? Snob!

Soaking your manky strings in meths spoils the taste of it when you fancy a drink later. Just in case anyone thinks drinking meths is a good idea - it isn't!! Not at all.

Naaa, you see I prefer his earlier stuff before he sold out and went all commercial.

I'm pretty sure that Bernie will fit anything that you ask him to. I owned a most beautifully built GB Rumour which lacked nothing in any department - build quality which (at the very least) rivals anything else out there - why don't I still have it? I was far too precious about actually using it so let it go to somebody who now has that choice (Stratty). If you have the money in your budget (and you do) why not consider the SimS pick up system or the Enfields they're normally fitted to...now there's a cat amongst the pigeons.

Ok, everything has voting buttons now and the timeline is all over the place. Fleabag seems to have unwittingly altered the fabric of time. Or at least, watched it fall down the stairs

Oh man, this changing the post order thing is totally stupid.

Dammit!

I 'borrowed' Charic, but don't tell Fleabag!

Damn! How did you become so powerful??

Now after I have had the Bugera BVV 3000 four years and eight months of heavy giging, the first two tubes have been reported fail by the Infinium-Circuit. The lights for tube Nr. 1 and 3 are on, which does mean that they run out of specs and have to be replaced. I ordered two Sovtek 6550 WE, and will replace the failed ones as soon as possible. As I found a source with tubes on an absolute reasonable price, the other four tubes will be replaced during the next 1 or 2 weeks, as the shop ran out of this model of 6550. They'll ship the other four tubes as soon as they have them in stock again. As the Infinium circuit is able to handle different tubes, I am fine with throwing in two new tubes to the old ones, as they advertised that you only have to change the tubes that are reported. Lets see if this takes influence on the tone, quite curious about that. I will post again when I have replaced the first two tubes, and again, when all tubes are replaced.

Ivan is perfectly normal if he's a Russian camel? What's with the new voting arrows on the LHS?

It wasn't me. I swear on my pet Camel, Ivan

No, apparently he 'fell down some stairs'. It's a mystery... 🤔

Maybe he tried but couldn't catch you

Hi Alan, I hadn't previously looked at your RetroB model, it looks slightly different to the J Type I had seen in ACG archives (is that correct?). Anyway I came across this image earlier; I really like the more elegant shaping of the cutaways compared to a standard Jazz shape!

I make my own music in my car, I don't need anyone else's soundtrack, my car has one of its own

Keyboardist in a big jazz group - up to 14 of us depending on lineup. Blinding soloist; sensitive piano accompanist; brilliant mind for theory and arrangement; total and utter asswipe. Virulently racist, sexist, and many of the the other available 'ists' or 'phobes' in the dictionary; Everyone he had ever been in a band with was an idiot (ignoring the common denominator as per); regularly belittled his long-suffering business partner because of her religion; unseemly penchant for girls a third his age; demeaning comments about the relative 'phwoar' factor of his teenage students; total lack of situational awareness after three pints; delusions of grandeur etc etc etc. The list was fairly endless and compounded by his constant inability to hit cues or not screw up simple parts - he was brilliant you see, so he didn't need to practice or engage brain for anything less than a Metheny tune. Regularly turned up for weddings and photo shoots in scrubby t-shirts and bright orange trainers but luckily was so hidden behind stacks of vintage keyboards that often entire shows could pass without anyone realising he was back there. It ended fairly acrimoniously when three members approached me separately within a few days of each other to tell me that either he went or they did. One of them told me in no uncertain terms that, although he was a brilliant arranger and a massive asset to the group, if they had to bunk with him again on a tour he would be preparing a lively and engaging original composition arranged for his fists and the keyboardist's face. A day after that he turned up on another member's doorstep late at night panicking about band finances and how we would be dividing royalties when we got on Jools Holland, totally ignoring the fact that due to the huge running costs required to keep us on the road we weren't actually making any significant amount of money at any time in the near future and not to mention that Jools rarely books wedding bands regardless of the quality of their interstitial jazz-fusion widdlings. The whole thing collapsed pretty quickly after that and lo and behold he suddenly had another set of 'idiots' to complain about. Real shame because there were some great moments but can't say I miss it much.

It's here! And... Wow!!! 🤪

No - I get Mrs. Teebs to do that! (if she finds out I said that, I'm toast! )

Death to all but metal. 😉

Quite. I have found that through my musical journey/ life, the music that I have been into at the time is still relevant to me. I don’t go off it. I just widen my taste.

Depends what value you put on your time really. Taking strings off a bass, going to the shops to buy meths, soaking strings overnight, drying them off, restringing, washing the meths off your pots and pans, being moaned at by your significant other for using the kitchen as your own personal bass laboratory, doing it all again when your strings sound dead after a couple of hours............. There's being on a tight budget and then there's just being tight! A pack of Warwick Red labels is £9.68...........

For just over £100 you can afford a tin of green spray paint!

Save money on expensive plectrums by learning to pluck with your fingers

Hi All the shapes I have ever done are still available. The Recurve and Finn still front and centre have been about from pretty much the start. However I don’t get asked to build most of them very often. What you currently see as the main models Recurve,Finn,Krell, Salace and RetroB are the models people actually order. ACG has now been about for 14 years so I am no longer in anyway a new upstart. Cheers Alan.

Yes, I recently was studying Chuck Rainey's line on the Aretha version of 'Until You Come Back To Me'. There is so much to learn from these great recordings.

Just get Charic a 6 pack of Tennents Super and he'll be all over it like a tramp on a bag of chips 🤩

How aboot this? It's an 80's Fender Performer, not many made.

Same here, and in my case there's a pattern I don't understand fully: - No trouble ever with classical musicians, who are famous for being difficult people. I'm one and I hate us. - No trouble ever with jazz musicians. - No trouble ever with ad hoc ensembles for many types of projects. - Only slight trouble in a multi-style "double band" (just some people not turning up for rehearsal) - Trouble in a few rock covers bands, and it was always just one person who should've been kicked out but wasn't because people were being way too nice and including and tolerating. Worst band mate ever: a three tone solo guitar player in a pop&rock covers band. Our soloist mainly because he could hardly play a chord. This was in a five or six person band with democracy and veto rights for some songs. Planning on entering originals as we were developing as band, with the goal of playing 50% originals. So far so good. Guitar Star kept nagging about that we should exclusively play The Shadows covers, and that, as he was the guitar solo star, we others all had to indulge. After all, when five or six people get together, Guitar Star automatically is the owner leader of the band, right? No reasoning with him had any effect, ever. People lost the will to live, but still were way too nice, and tried to keep him in the band when he threatened to leave. My head exploded. BTW, today, 35 years later, when I meet one of the band members, there is no chance they will not talk about Guitar Star's antics. When people on a bass forum ask about the worst band mate ever, there's no chance I can resist the urge to relay the story. Made an impression, he did.

That might actually be worse looking than a Bongo.