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For sale , 2 months old BFR 77 of 105 worldwide , stunning bass, ash body 8.7lbs comes with Hipshot de tuner inc uk delivery , or collection welcome , sale only cheers WITHDRAWN20 points -
Update (22 April) : Price dropped from £2950 to £2750. Ok, I've hummed and hawed about selling this for a while but decided now to move it on. Was my main gigging bass for a few years but now the (lighter) Deakey P bass is getting all the action. Ash body with a really vibrant sunburst, nice dark rosewood fingerboard. Strung with Ernie Ball flats (medium/high tension allowing you to dig in) and the foam strip is fitted under the bridge ashtray. Lovely low action with no buzz. It really plays a dream. There's a small repair to the scratchplate at the jack end - it had cracked at the end, professionally done using a small black washer for a discrete fix. Has Schaller straplocks fitted, the originals are included. The bridge pickup cover is a genuine Fender replacement part. B width neck. 10lbs on the bathroom scales. Non original Fender case included. Happy to field any questions.9 points -
I’ve not written a new bass day post before but if I don’t do it for this bass I’ll never do it. I sold my flat at the end of 2022 and my partner and I are now renting somewhere together (i.e. a home that could house two people and bass gear) while we save for a new place together. I figured that this is probably the only time I’m likely to have the cash balance to justify acquiring my dream bass (even if only for a while) so I went for it. Shortly before Christmas, I was lucky enough to have my prayers/wanted ad answered by a kind member of this forum and acquired my holy grail bass: Please meet the newest member of the family, a beautiful Wal Mk III 5-string with shedua facings. It’s absolutely thunderous and everything I hoped it would be: the preamp is a dream, the B string has the smoothness of my Warwick Streamer’s mixed with the raw aggression of a Stingray, and the gorgeous tiger-esque facings seem to move in the light. I’m sure like many folks on here, I’m a big fan of Justin Chancellor’s playing with Tool (I tried quite hard to avoid saying I am a big Tool fan/fan of Tool there) and the preamp gets me in the tonal ballpark (my playing is miles away from his though, sadly). While not really on topic for the NBD post, I was lucky enough to bump into Justin Chancellor when Tool were in London last year. I was entirely starstruck and stunned into incapacitation for a short while before recovering my senses enough to ask him if he wouldn’t mind signing a wedding card I was carrying for my brother and his now wife as they met owing to a mutual Iove of the band. He was very gracious and my partner and I seem to take it in turns to wear my/her hoodie that he gave to me at the show. Anyway, back to the post… If you happen to see me posting basses and pedals in the classifieds over the next few months, this is the reason why. A big thanks to those that helped make this happen, particularly @dyerseve and @TrevorR. May you all get your holy grails in 2023!8 points
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Sometimes you just need to play more than one instrument! Thanks to Ableton Live here's piano, bass violin and Chapman Stick in one seamless, unedited live performance. Enjoy! Kevin8 points
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Now SOLD thanks everyone for your interest. My SB14 is up for sale - in a nutshell a slightly downsized/more compact Stingray, lighter weight and with a slimmer 'jazz' neck. I've owned this from new and it's in great condition. Candy apple red on a basswood body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, 22 frets and 38mm nut, 34 inch scale. Truss rod adjustment with spoked wheel at heel end. Ceramic MM pickup, three way switch giving series, parallel and single coil operation with hum cancelling phantom coil. Active pre amp with volume, treble, middle and bass controls – centre notched with boost and cut. Single 9v battery compartment. All the controls are noiseless and work as they should. The bass weighs 8.6 lbs and is fitted with Marvel straplocks. The bass is in great condition with no dings, dents or scratches. The only mark is a small chip just in the lacquer top coat by the jack socket which I have tried to photograph. The maple neck has matured to a nice honey colour. There is a small amount of fret wear but it's worn flats most of its life so it's fairly minimal. The pickguard has faded a little from white to an off white. It's strung with a very mature set of TI flats, you'll either relish their tone or immediately want to bin them for something new. Comes with it's correct gig bag which is also in great condition. Collection only from Horsham I'm afraid where you are welcome to try out of course. I have no case or packing so please don't ask if I can post. Sorry no trades either as I'm downsizing my collection. Thanks for looking.8 points -
Fantastic gig for us. The bands first trip to Aylesbury - home town of our guitarist, so very well attended. Venue (I believe) is fairly new. Called The Petri Dish, It's a rennovated shop on the high street, but done really well. We play originals, but to pad out to the requested 60min set, we added a few covers. One of them being Staring at the Rude Boys. We found out a couple of hours before doors open Ruts DC guitarist Leigh Haggarty would be in attendence. Cue squeaky bum. I played my Nate Mendel P bass through and Orange Bass Butler through my Little Bass Thing effect return through Orange 2x10 & 2x12. Great venue, great sound, great crows, great night.6 points
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Not one but two shows over the weekend. My little 80s goth duo loaded up the car with our surprisingly large amount of equipment for a duo and headed back out to The Barge in Honeystreet... I was pleased because I had also decided to dust down my Thunderbird and bring it back out of retirement. In addition, my Blackstar amp would be getting its first outing in a live setting. The Honeystreet set was a lot of fun. We took the slightly ambitious punt on doing the Jim Steinman produced Sisters of Mercy classic "This Corrosion" as a duo. Against all odds, I think the audience picked up on us meaning business so it went down well. Saturday was an old school friend's 50th and having cleared half the pub with the loudest intro music ever (must check the levels next time!) - from the Lost Boys soundtrack's Cry Little Sister, we set about playing a load of original stuff from our forthcoming debut. Playing to the few people who were really getting into it, we then slowly won the crowd over with a few well chosen covers. We then dropped the kit back home, went for a curry and drank our own bodyweight in lager. The highlight of my night was being approached by a guy off his head on cocaine who told me I "dressed like a pimp". Apparently now if I have any problems in Devizes, he will sort them out for me. To be honest, I wasn't anticipating any problems but it's great to have that one in reserve.6 points
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Now withdrawn 😎 Letting go my immaculate Sadowsky NYC Modern 4 as I am finding I am using my Will Lee 5 and Fodera New Standard Monarch 4 more frequently due to the requirements of my Steely Dan covers band. It is a 2014 build and will come with the Sadowsky ProPortaBag, new pics attached, static dust a nightmare😉no dings or knocks or buckle rash this is the spec: BODY | Macassar Ebony on Chambered Okoume Mahogany NECK | Maple with Thin Matte Nitro Finish FINGERBOARD | Ebony, 12" Radius, 1 1/2" Nut Width, Vintage Tint PICKGUARD | HARDWARE | Black PICKUPS | Sadowsky Soapbars WEIGHT | 7.59 lbs. PREAMP | Sadowsky Preamp with Vintage Tone Control | STRINGS | SBS45 • Blue (Stainless Steel 45-105) Available to try near York and courier is possible at buyers discretion. Will consider offers around £3500 or possibly Vanderkley cabs in px or Will Lee 4 🤔or how about a Fodera Monarch 5 v Hit me up guys 😎5 points -
Ideally I am looking for a specific trade. I would like to get a lightweight 4 string Sandberg California ii VS4 or VT4 (That's Sandberg's P and PJ models, 4 string). They do turn up with weights as low as 7lb (3.17kg) but I would consider anything under 7.5lb (3.4kg). I'm not looking for anything heavier and because of my injuries I will have to bring scales with me for any meet up / trade. The lighter the better. I'm quite flexible about colour / fretboard / active or passive etc. The weight is the most important thing. The bass I am offering in trade is a Sandberg California ii TT5 Superlight. It's 5 string, 34 scale, 45mm nut Adjustable bridge string spacing between 18mm to 19.5mm. I have weighed it on my Kitchen Scales and it is 3.03kg which is 6lb 11 oz There is no neck dive. Electronics: It has the Sandberg Black Label stacked J pickups so there is zero hum, but instead of the usual preamp it has an East J-Retro Deluxe - specs are here: https://www.east-uk.com/product/j-retro-01-deluxe/?v=79cba1185463 It does Bass boost, mid cut and boost with a mid freq control, Treble cut and boost, passive tone, bypass in case the battery dies, a push-pull to get an even higher presence boost, and another switch with a set mid blend. The pickups currently have black tape over them as I like that look! Too many years of playing EMGs only I think. Body and Neck: Cedar wood with a Norwegian Maple neck. The black dots on the 'board are stickers. I added them because I needed them! They are non-residue removable webcam cover stickers. Took me ages to get them lined up with a ruler and tweezers! Hardware: Sandberg's own super lightweight tuners and massively adjustable bridge. The strap buttons take a normal strap but are also Schaller strap lock compatible. It comes with Sandberg's nice gigbag too. Strings: It is currently strung with a brand new set of D'addario Pro Steels. 45-65-85-105-135 (I added the slightly heavier B string) Photos: So if you have a suitably light weight Sandberg VS4 or VT4 then please let me know. I'm not interested in other basses (I don't think Sandberg have made any Superlight Spec Central models yet). I'm in Northants, sort of between J15A and J16 on the M1. Happy to meet halfway for the right trade. If someone wants to buy then £1300 ono, collected or meet up. thanks5 points -
Here for sale is a Licensed by fender Mighty Mite neck with excellent Gotoh reverse tuners. Postage is possible. 41mm nut5 points -
The First Coat is the Deepest - Rod Stewart5 points
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I Second That Emulsion ～ Japan5 points
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I refer you to the clothes sizing thread, from which they’ve clearly taken inspiration!5 points
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Our return to The Coach House, Paignton on Saturday night was well received, although it could have been just a bit busier. Still, those there were very complimentary. Second outing for the Stealth Bongo, and absolutely loving it. Also, second assault on my headstock by the guitarist’s Pete Townsend windmill impression during Won’t Get Fooled Again (as per last week, and first Bongo outing), and still no dink.5 points
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Just acquired this beautiful pre-loved Panther Special from our own cattytown.4 points
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First outing with new (to me) prog Jazz rock band - all originals. A good evening out with a small but appreciative audience. The usual game of keeping the blunders as well hidden as possible, which for the first time out in this line up we did well. You can just see how we contained our drummer :), the eagle eyed will spot the Barefaced cab - Dubster being used with a fretless Warwick I had forgotten the joys of loading kit into the car, have an early meal, leave home at 5, drive for an hour, setup, play 2hrs +, pack kit up, drive home and sleep..... How did I ever do this when I had to work for a living as well.4 points
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Sold Up for sale is my favourite rig. I'm open to offers for a small cab along the lines of a 1x12 or 1x10 but happy to discuss. I will split or sell as a whole as I'm no longer gigging so this is fair to much rig for home use. This is a great amp I purchased in 2021 from PMT and is registered with Ashdown so had most of its 5year limited warranty left. Been gigged a handful of times so is in great condition. The cab is a 4ohm 4x10 rated at 1200watts RMS made by Mike Walsh of Zoot when he used to make amps and cabs (Purple Chilli) it's neodymium drivers so is in the low 20kgs easy to lift on your own dimensions 620mmx660mmx440mm. Please feel free to ask questions your more than welcome to come try it out but due to size/weight and the usual collection would be the best bet for this. Will consider offers on smaller cabs such as 1x10/1x12/2x104 points -
Top night at the Bowling Green, Horwich. Busy all night with a decent dancefloor from the first song, moving to packed from about halfway through the first set. By the middle of the second set we were moving mic stands backwards and I had to give a few dancers a gentle nudge to prevent them from joining us onstage. Punters were very well oiled and right on the edge of crashing into us, but it was all out of enthusiasm. With such restricted room, the Ibanez SMS 1005 came into its own. Our singist, who has become used to avoiding the bass headstock on cramped stages was most grateful for the headless. I've mentioned before that this is our last year, and we're all milking every ounce of fun from it. Combine that with a great crowd and we found that extra 5% you get sometimes. Best we've played in quite a while. I still can't take a decent selfie though!4 points
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Ok, time passes. Still many barriers to overcome, but with the aid of a 4-wheel walker, have managed a 1.5 mile circuit of Tavistock town centre and park. There is still pain, and unexpected instability to deal with, quite apart from needing personal care for some things. Still uncertain as to regaining the superpower of putting on my own shoes and socks!4 points
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Stonking gig last night at my local club. We usually get a few friends turn up when we play this place so we asked the proprietor to open 15 minutes early at 6:45 so we could load in and get a bit of a sound check. Alas the punters had other ideas and it was standing room only by 7:15. Amazingly we did manage to get a decent sound - suspect I was slightly on the loud side as I was using my Fallout bass which is a bit hotter than my Mustangs. A guy and his wife traveled from Dewsbury (about 40 miles) to see us and brought a big bag of party wigs which he dumped near the stage - wasn’t sure what this was about...then on the second number he got up and danced his heart out and got all the punters going, distributing wigs for them to wear. It was like having a 70’s glam Bez 😂😂😂 All in all another great night, next week we venture into the dark lands on the other side of the Pennines so we’ll see if our run of great gigs continues.4 points
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Watching the "for sale" ads I can see that there are many of us who are downsizing or clearing out gear which we aren't using. I, for one, have far too much gear but that doesn't stop me from acquiring more. I also note that at the moment many members are selling to fund other purchases because seemingly money is tight. Between us all we must have enough parts for several builds which would be more cost effective if we could trade x for y in the marketplace. I'm looking for a gold bridge and gold tuners but have a chrome high mass Fender bridge and numerous chrome tuners that I would trade and others might want. Same with pedals which I'm sure are on peoples GAS list. I know that money is tight - the news tells me so - why can't we go back to the good old days where we could barter two fish for half a sheep? I'm putting this out there to gauge whether there would be any interest in adding a "Swap/Trade" option to the Marketplace.3 points
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This is off the new album Ziggy Stardub they’re dropping tracks slowly3 points
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2022 Fender Strat , probably needs no introduction at all. This is the player plus version, with noiseless pickups and locking tuners (very handy). Acres of tone and fun with the humbucker on board, just needs a new home. Couple of nicks on body just from being used - can’t really photo them well. Will post in UK3 points -
My L2500 Tribute3 points
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The poster had a typo, said it ws a Corvid safe environment.3 points
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My rig from last night , photo from home. Lightweight , a ton of headroom , and thick warm tone. Berg HDN 210, Forte amp and Monique preamp.3 points
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RIP Gary.3 points
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Knights In White Satin - Procul Harem3 points
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Played a large music bar in town last night which is a regular gig. I thought we were sounding pretty good and the guitarist had a great sound (he's changed from a Les Paul to a Telecaster and the sound is now much clearer than before). He was playing through the venues Orange Valve head and a 4x12. In fact after the second song I actually shouted over to him what a great sound he had. That was probably the wrong thing to do, as it fueled his egotistical guitar brain and he went straight for the master volume! At the break the sound engineer came up to us and said that one of the barmaids (it's a big bar with a capacity of 900, over two levels, and she was working at least 50 feet away) had complained that she couldn't continue working as the guitar was so loud. He said the guitar sounded fantastic but it was the loudest he had ever heard a guitar being played at that venue and the guitarist had to turn down before he sent the bar staff deaf. For the second half the guitarist turned way down and I had to listen to him through the monitors (which sounded, in comparison, like a ukulele played through a cheap transistor radio). Next time he plays I've told him to bring his 15 watt Fender pro junior, which is what he usually plays through, and he'll not be able to make anybody's ears bleed.3 points
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This has recently come into my posession, a lovely old MK4 GP11 preamp - judging by the numbers inside, it was made in May 1985. It needs some rehabilitation and a gallon of contact cleaner before being put to use but it's super cool! The build quality is fantastic. 😃3 points
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Excellent condition and working order. Very powerful with plenty of versatility. Valve pre etc. See link for full spec: https://ashdownmusic.com/products/abm-600-evo-iv-head. Welcome to test here in WV14 before potential purchase- you wouldn’t be disappointed. Cheers. Geoff2 points -
I'm 60 on Tuesday, so wifey gave permission: I've already got a metallic blue Charvel PJ4 and its my favourite bass. The neck is just perfect and it looks and sounds great too. I wanted a back up bass that had the same string spacing and nut width, and as I hadn't got any metallic lime green basses in my collection, I thought, why not buy another Charvel. I had to spend two afternoons working on it to get it playable: fret sprout filing, removal of supplied pre amp, shielding, installation of John East pre amp, replacement of strings and then set up. Worth the time spent, it feels great. And I love the colour; this will probably be my first choice over the metallic blue.2 points
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Dot Dash - Wire2 points
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TBH a lot of other retailers could learn a lesson from Thomann. Admittedly I ordered a few items, but the bass was in its box, which was packed in a larger box with more paper packing than you can shake a stick at. I had to go digging to find the bass box. You mentioned over in the SS thread about noticing more accentuated tonal differences on your modded Mustang than on an equivalent long scale. This is my first 2 p/up shorty and I must agree that the different tonal differences are certainly more pronounced than on my J type 33” scale with a balance pot.2 points
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Sometimes it’s little adjustments and fettling which makes a bass feel ‘yours’ and in a weird way, even more satisfying than one that’s perfect out of the box (or does the HB come in a carrier bag!)2 points
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Especially that type. I made the mistake of wearing a pair of shorts for an outdoor, lockdown, streamed gig. They received as many comments as the actual content of the livestream. I should've known better.2 points
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Definitely the mutts, so glad it's not a 5 string....2 points
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IME, you don't actually need a demo, just a good idea of your target audience and a lot of front. It also helps if you have either a manger or a member of the band who can assume the alter-ego of your manager for the purposes of talking to venues, promoters and other bands. Find bands who you like that are playing a similar style of music, who are playing within travelling distance, and then get in touch with the venue, the promotor and the band themselves and ask for a support. Keep doing this until someone says yes. Then build it from there. Have you or any of your band mates get contacts from previous bands that owe you a favour? Both The Terrortones and Hurtsfall got our first few gigs off the back of the bands the various members had been in previously and, having acquitted ourselves both sonically and visually, we had no problems getting repeat bookings for support slots. With both bands we were gigging long before we had any kind of "demo" recording, and in the case of The Terrortones our first gig was less than two months from our first rehearsal. It was useful that Mr Venom's "normal" persona that he used as our manager to get us the gigs was so far removed from how he appeared with the band that only people who knew him well, were aware that they were one and the same. I lost count fairly quickly of the number of promotors and venues who would ask if our manager was going to be at the gig! There is always an element of luck, although IME the harder you work the "luckier" you get. The Terrortones' 5th gig was a late afternoon slot an all-day psychobilly festival with The Meteors headlining. Once we'd done that and gone down well the gigs just kept coming in. Also in the early days be prepared to play anywhere at short notice. If you are serious about gigging, there little point of having band members who need weeks of notice in order to be able to do gigs. We ended up sacking one drummer and guitarist after they turned down the opportunity to play at The Met during Whitby Goth Weekend because we had less than a week's notice of the gig.2 points
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Robbie was so the man. However, even the coolest of the cool can't pull off shorts on stage. Just say no.2 points
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Hello, JP here. You guys usually know me for my work with JPBasses from 1995 to 2006 (okay that sounds vintage haha). I am in the process of launching a new brand, called KISSBASS (you can check kiss bass.rocks and related social media). This new concept keeps some good things from JPBasses specs but with a much simpler result / instrument hence the Keep It Stupid Simple acronym use. I just stared the idea of a KISSBASS tour, for which I would send a bass to test out during 1 to 3 week by player in exchange of some photo/video/sound content for me to share/publish. I was wondering if some of my UK mate would be interested and If I should try to organise a UK detour for the bass (this will depend on number of UK bassists interested and cost of shipping to UK). You can register your interest here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-shwWbu4HEuvGkpEyZiR-X_qxxqjTyo5t0XBMZDWbe22VjQ/viewform2 points
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My function band had recently changed from RCF set up to a new smaller footprint and lighter PA rig. We’ve only done 2 gigs with it but seems to work great and sound fantastic. It’s not cheap though. We have 2 x Electro-voice evolve 30M with the 8 channel mixer. It comes with 2 small wedge monitors too. All packs away really small. Not used it much yet but this is it set up. We were using our old RCFs as monitors as the wedge monitors were in back order but we have them now. Anyway if space is an issue and you have the budget..2 points
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Running this in front of an SVT 2 Pro for the time being.2 points
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Proper bass and proper case 👍2 points
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Ashdown Studio 15 is great for my 72 year old back and legs!2 points
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Careful son, that one's under copyright ©2 points
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How about just getting another van?2 points
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Our 2nd gig of the weekend was last night in a pub in Essex. They've banned hazers and smoke so we travelled light and just used the couple of par bars the pub has installed - it was a nice quick load in and out without all our usual lights and lasers. When we arrived it all felt a bit quiet and we were fearing a dead duck evening. There was only about 15 people in there as we kicked off the first song but after about 20 minutes it had filled up and was packed out at the start of the second set. You play nose to nose with the crowd in here and it can get a bit lively. Last time here we had to stop at 11.45 as there was a fight kicking off mid crowd with a couple of cokey chavs being idiots. The security team here aren't as good as they used to be and have become a bit slow on the uptake. You can smell when it's likely to get a bit silly but they can't seem to pick up on it. No fights tonight but we had a youngish girl sneaking round the side and trying to hit the cymbals and getting too close to mains leads and stuff - we had to stop mid Sandman to tell her to hop it or we wouldn't start again. Drinks were going everywhere due to some pretty frantic dancing front of house later on. Another drunk woman was going on at me to give her the singers tambourine to play with - I kept saying no but the singist gave in, said yes and she immediately hopped up next to us and proceeded to do some odd booty wriggling routine and knocking the drum screen rather precariously. I booted her back to the crowd side of the monitors with her precious tambourine. We have a few more there later this year and we're definitely asking for some barriers at the front or a security guy for the second set.2 points
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Sitting in the corner... the black headstock kept getting at me... out with the sander, now much much better... And to think, Ibanez cover this up on almost every SR with a facing?2 points
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